Ardele Lister

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Ardele Lister is a Canada-born and New York-based video artist [1] working in time-based media.

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Early life

Lister was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, as the daughter of Rose (née Bercovice) and furrier Jack Lister. [2] She is Jewish.

Lister's degrees of B.A., M.A.A.B.D., British Columbia (Canada) are attested by Rutgers University. [3]

Art career

Lister began making films in the early 1970s. Her films include So Where's My Prince Already? (1976), Spilt (1980), Hello (1984), Behold the Promised Land, and Conditional Love (See Under: NationalismCanada) (1997). She also worked on avant-garde television projects such as Pee-wee's Playhouse (CBS) for which she produced the 'Connect the Dots' segments.

Lister's works have been shown internationally in festivals, galleries, museums, and on television, and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Academie der Kunst (Berlin), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). She also has written for and edited art and media publications and founded the magazines Criteria and The Independent.

Publishing career

Lister founded and edited the journal CRITERIA, a Quarterly Review of the Arts, in 1974 in Vancouver. It was initially published under the auspices of the Vancouver Art Gallery, where she produced a weekly television show on the gallery's events and exhibitions, but by 1977 had dis-affiliated. Volumes 1-4 were published until Fall 1978, Volume 4, Number 2. CRITERIA published art projects and writings by Lawrence Weiner, John Baldessari, Robin Blaser, and Ardele Lister; and interviews with Judy Chicago, Martha Wilson, and Dennis Wheeler.

In 1977, while working for the Associated of Independent Video and Film Makers, facilitating an innovative project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts entitled "Short Film Showcase," Ardele Lister created and edited "The Independent," the first magazine devoted to the needs of independent video and film makers. The magazine is still published by the Foundation for Independent Video and Film, in New York, today as a blog.

Academic career

From 1991 to the present, Lister has taught media production and critical studies at Rutgers University, where she is currently Graduate Director of Visual Arts. She has also taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey, School of the Visual Arts, and Center for Media Arts, both in New York City.

Additionally, Lister has written articles for AfterImage, Felix, Collapse, and Heresies.

Personal life

She is the mother of actress Zoe Lister-Jones and the former wife of the American photographer and media artist Bill Jones, who converted to Judaism upon their marriage. [4] [5]

She was president of a local Conservative egalitarian synagogue that the family attended every Saturday, and she also kept a kosher home. [6]

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References

  1. Baylen, Ashley (September 17, 2012). "Interview With 'Whitney' and 'Lola Versus' Actress Zoe Lister-Jones". ShalomLife.com. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  2. "Jack LISTER Obituary (2003) - Calgary Herald". Legacy.com .
  3. "New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2019; Mason Gross School of the Arts ; Department of Visual Arts Faculty". Catalog Navigator : catalogs.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  4. Williams Cole (14 December 2007). "Of Skin and Snoods". Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  5. Pfefferman, Naomi (31 May 2017). "Zoe Lister-Jones puts 'Band Aid' on wounds of relationships — Jewish Journal". Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  6. Fox, Michael (Jun 8, 2017). "Romantic comedy 'Band Aid' keeps writer-director-star's Jewishness intact". J. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2020.