Joan Braderman

Joan Braderman
Video Artist and Professor Emerita of Film & Video, Joan Brderman
Born	Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality	American
Known for	Video artist, writer
Notable work	The Heretics, Joan Does Dynasty/Joan Sees Stars

Joan Braderman is an American writer, performer, director and video artist. Braderman's video works are considered to have created her signature style known as "stand up theory," in which she deconstructs and anlyzes popular media by inserting her body into appropriated mass media images, where she interrogates ideas of representation and U.S. culture through performative embodiment.

Joan Braderman was born in Washington, DC, to parents Betty and Eugene Braderman.

Braderman attended Harvard University, graduating in 1970 with a BA cum laude where she recalls being the only woman in her filmmaking class. In 1971, she entered graduate school at New York University. Braderman’s studies focused on 16mm filmmaking, while she learned video art production by self-teaching at free Media Access Centres in New York. Throughout the 1970s, Braderman was an anti-war, feminist and civil rights activist, involved in political organizations. She received her MA from New York University in 1973, and a Masters of Philosophy in 1976.

Braderman married Robert Reckman in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1996, choosing to keep her maiden name.

Braderman is a Professor Emerita of Video, Film and Media Studies at Hampshire College. Braderman has educated internationally, having taught at institutions such as The School of Visual Arts in New York City, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Hartford University Art School, The Media School at The University of the Arts, London, and the Universidad catolica portuguesa in Porto, Portugal.