Lise Swenson Lise Swenson is a media artist, activist and teacher. As a media artist she creates documentaries, experimental documentaries, fiction and short experimental video tapes. Swenson also creates multi-monitor video installations and performance work. Much of her work is collaborative and all of her themes use the human condition as a starting point. Swenson has been heavily involved in the Bay Area media arts since the early 80´s, helping to found ATA, Artist Television Access, a non-profit media arts access and education facility, and served for many years on both the Film Arts Foundation board and the ATA board as President. She is currently Director of the San Francisco Media Arts Consortium and is a member of the SF Art Institute Artists´ Committee. She also currently teaches at the Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco State University and has a Phyllis Wattis artist in residency at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As a natural trajectory from her teaching and media art making background she recently founded TILT, Teaching Inter-media Literacy Tools, a media literacy and movie making educational non-profit, presenting to and collaborating with youth in the Bay Area. Swenson also produces and directs educational and promotional video tapes for non-profit organizations throughout the Bay Area. Swenson received her BA in Broadcasting and her MA in Interdisciplinary Arts, both from San Francisco State University.