Programming
Conference and Workshops
Arfara K., G. Jose, S. Majithia, and D. Hudson (2022). “Elements of the Anthropocene,” a symposium on arts, scholarship on the Anthropocene, Division of Arts and Humanities, NYUAD (07 June)
Yunis, A. and D. Hudson (2018). Film and Visual Media in the Gulf: Images, Infrastructures, and Institutions Connecting Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the World, New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE (28–30 October) [link]
Exhibitions
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2022). Mapping Entanglements. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. [link] with panel discussion with artists Yi Cui, Leslie García, Topiary Landberg, Liz Miller, and Dorit Naaman at festival’s opening
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2021). Entangled Infiltrations. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. [link] with panel discussion with artists Derek Curry, Leslie García, Jennifer Gradecki, Adriana Knouf, Azalia Muchransyah, and Stephanie Rothenberg at festival’s opening
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2020). Radical Infiltrations. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. (2019). Cinema Island by Marysia Lewandowska, video compiled of archival footage
from British Petroleum films and Emirati home movies inside cinema pavilion by MMI Architects, in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism and NYUAD Art Gallery, Humanities Building and Conference Center Lobby, Abu Dhabi, UAE (06–24 November) [link]
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2019). Networked Disruptions. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. (2018). Ammar Al Attar’s Cinemas in the UAE | السينما في دولة الإمارات exhibition of photography of and artifacts from some of the earliest freestanding cinemas in the UAE, NYUAD Art Gallery’s Projects Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE (21 October–05 November) [link]
- press in Gulf Today, Elwatan News, Al Ittihad, Abu Dhabi World, Architectural Digest Middle East, Emarat Al Youm, Al Khaleej, Islamic Arts Magazine, Al Roeya, El Bashayar, Masress, Time Out Abu Dhabi, 24.ae, Gulf News, The National
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2018). Invisible Geographies. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2016). Interface/Landscape. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2015). Iterations as Habitats. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. with assistant curator C.C. Pederson (2014) and jury of B. Fakhamzadeh and E. Cachucho, FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. (2012) with jury of E. Aditjondro at EngageMedia, Jakarta, Indonesia. Distributed Microtopias. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. and S.L. Tay (2011). in association with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Bangkok, Thailand. Trafficked Identities. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. and S.L. Tay (2011) with jury of C. Motta and S. Daniel. Digital Checkpoints. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. and S.L. Tay (2010) with jury of B. Fakhamzadeh, I. Farouk, and C. McPhee. Map Open Space. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
Hudson, D. and S.L. Tay (2009). sticky-content. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Print catalogue: 18–21.
Hudson, D. and S.L. Tay (2008). ubuntu.kuqala. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Print catalogue: 18–21.
Hudson, D. and S.L. Tay (2007). Undisclosed Recipients. FLEFF: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Print catalogue: 17–20.
Festival Coordination
Films from the Gulf at the MESA Film Festival, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS), Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual meetings
2022 | Denver (Colorado), United States [link]
2021 | Montréal (Québec), Canada [link]
2020 | Washington (DC), United States [link]
2019 | New Orleans (Louisiana), United States [link]
2018 | San Antonio (Texas), United States [link]
2017 | Washington (DC), United States [link]