Bio
Kera MacKenzie is an artist, educator, and activist working in film, video, live broadcast, and installation. She has screened and exhibited her work worldwide, including at festivals (The International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Montreal International Documentary Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival), museums (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Block Museum of Art), film centers (Anthology Film Archives, UnionDocs, Light Work, Echo Park Film Center, Gene Siskel Film Center), and artist-run spaces (La lumière collective, the Nightingale, Threewalls).
In 2018 and 2024, she was named as one of Newcity Magazine’s Film 50, which recognizes “50 individuals or collaborators that have helped shape Chicago’s film scene”. Kera’s film Make a Distinction, a hybrid non-fiction feature length 16mm film, won the Best of the Festival (Jury Award) at both the 2021 Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival and the 2021 Chicago Underground Film Festival. Her work has been written about in publications including Art Forum, Art in America, Bomb Magazine, Bad at Sports, and The Chicago Reader. Kera is also a Founding Co-Director of ACRE TV, an artist-made live-streaming television network that was active from 2014 to 2021 and showcased broadcast and video works by hundreds of artists.
Current Positions
- 2020-Present
- Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
courses: Media Practices: The Moving Image (Fall 2024; Fall 2023) Post-Production (Spring & Fall 2024; Spring & Fall 2023; Spring & Fall 2022); Form and Meaning (Spring 2023; Spring 2020) - 2020-Present
- Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago IL
courses: Editing I (Spring 2023); Cinema and Television Production (Fall 2023; 3 sections Fall 2022; 2 sections Fall 2021; Fall 2020) - 2018-Present
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
courses: (Spring 2021) Topics in Video: Camera Bodies; Introduction to Filmmaking (Spring 2024; Spring & Fall semesters 2018-2020)
Exhibitions, Screenings, Broadcasts, Performances
- 2023
- Nightingale Projects: The root and the harvest/La raiz y la cosecha, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL
- The root and the harvest/La raiz y la cosecha, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI
- Murmuration, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA
- Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney: Stones for Thunder, online screening, VISIONS CINÉMA
- 2022
- International Competition 3: Dari Luar, ke Dalam, dan Sebaliknya (From the Outside In, and Vice Versa, ARKIPEL Catch -22 - Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Screening + Q&A: Make a Distinction, Light Work and Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
- Make a Distinction with Village, Silenced, The Duluth Superior Film Festival (DSFF), Duluth MN
- Spectral Microcinema Presents: Make a Distinction, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at The Idea Center, Stevens Point WI
- Make a Distinction with Hey, I Heard You Like HIV: The Diagnosis, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC
- Make a Distinction/Q+A with filmmakers, Anarchist Media Fest and Skill Share, PO Box Collective, Chicago IL
- Make a Distinction, la lumière collective, co-presented by VISIONS and the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), Montréal QC, Canada
- Make a Distinction with We Had Each Other, Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro VT
- Make a Distinction with FROM ALLY TO ACCOMPLICE, The Lucy Parsons Center, Boston MA
- Make a Distinction with Under the paving stones, the beach, UnionDocs, Brooklyn NY
- Make a Distinction with On the Border of What is Formless and Monstrous, Visible Records, Charlottesville VA
- Make a Distinction with Hail Mary, Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta GA
- Make a Distinction and Field Resistance, The Block Museum of Art, Evanston IL
- 5X5 Video Screening, Programmed by Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Xanadu, Berlin, Germany
- Experimental Tuesdays: Make a Distinction, Union Cinema, Milwaukee WI
- City on the Make, Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tampa FL
- amexperimental attic #12: boundarymind, performance and installation, ame (art music experiment), Dai Hall, Huddersfield UK
- boundarymind, 6018|North, Chicago IL
- 2021
- Video Playlist: Water or Escape, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ferguson Theater, Chicago IL
- Opening Night Film: Make a Distinction, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater, Chicago IL
- The Stories Left Out, Now! A Journal of Urgent Praxis, Online
- UWM Film Department Faculty & Staff Screening, Union Cinema, Milwaukee WI
- Liquid Crystal, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder CO
- Centerpiece Screening: Make a Distinction, Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago IL
- The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2021 National Conference, livestreamed broadcast
- CompFest 2021: Co-Authorship in Electro-Acoustic Music, co-produced by the Emory Music Department and Experimental Sound Studio's "Quarantine Concert" series, livestreamed broadcast
- Flickering Frequencies, live broadcast and screening, Ep. 6 of Movies on the Radio on WGXC-90.7 and wavefarm.org with simultaneous screening at the Sidewalk Cinema, Philmont NY
- boundarymind, installation, Roman Susan, Chicago IL
- 2020
- Film Block 5: V_RT_C_L V_RT_G_V, screening, The Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles CA
- Life in a Tin Can, screening, Nightingale Cinema, streaming on Twitch
- Competitive Program #7, screening, That One Film Festival, Muncie IN
- Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, trailer for screenings, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago IL
- Analog Zombies, live broadcast, Ep. 3 of Media Monsters, twitch.tv/media_monsters
- 2019
- In the Body's Tow: short works by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, screening, La lumière collective, Montréal QC
- In the Body's Tow: short works by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, screening, Cellular Cinema, the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis MN
- Corporeal Considerations, screening, NOFLASH Video Show, New Brunswick NJ
- Competitive Program Seven: I’m Still On My Way, screening, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), Iowa City IA
- Program 3: Intercommunication, screening, Spectral Film Festival, Stevens Point WI
- The Tension Here, screening, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago IL
- LA Filmforum presents And Magics: The films of Josh B Mabe, and his Chicago favorites, screening, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA
- 2018
- No Chill, exhibition, Great Space, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
- Virginia Film Festival, screening, Vinegar Hill Theatre, Charlottesville VA
- Late Night: Program 1, exhibition, Screen Share Video Gallery at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago IL
- In the Body's Tow: short works by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, screening, Microlights, Milwaukee WI
- Imagining Minutes, screening, Another Experiment by Women Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives, New York NY
- Shorts 5: Revealed Manifestation, screening, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL
- PLANTS & ANIMALS: On Monsters, Cyborgs and Other Hybrid Creatures, exhibition, In/habit roving art series at The Learning Machine, Chicago IL
- Sleepover with Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, screening, The Nightingale, Chicago IL
- Nightingale 10!: Tele-Thon, live broadcast and performance, The Nightingale, Chicago IL
- L'expérimental est déjà commencé?, screening, Traverse Vidéo at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
- 2017
- Visions, 11th Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC), Opening Night screening, Cinéma Les Variétés, Marseille, France
- When stranger things happen, projection design, Composed by Katherine Young for Ensemble Dal Niente's Piece Her Together, The Edge Theater, Chicago IL
- Thinging Bodies, screening, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
- POSSIBLE FUTURES, screening, SIMULTAN FESTIVAL XII, Timisoara, Romania
- ORBIT, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill MA
- Mantle, screening, Her Environment, The Nightingale, Chicago IL
- Competitive Program #6, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), Iowa City IA
- 2016
- Assembled Environs, screening, aDifferent festival, Milwaukee WI
- Past Lives, screening and performance, UnionDocs, Brooklyn NY
- Year Zero (0), screening, The Transversal Project, Forest Park, St. Louis MO
- Lucciche (shimmering): A Video Art Symposium, screening, Ponte di Ferro, Carrara, Italy
- Video! Video!: Breaking the Fifth Wall, videovideozine.com and screening at The Dojo, Chicago IL
- Blueprints, exhibition, Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center, Chicago IL
- MCA LIVE: ACRE TV, live broadcast, ACRETV.org and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
- After Dinner Before Dancing: An Evening with ACRE, screening, Chicago Filmmakers and Columbia College, Chicago IL
- Document V, exhibition featuring ACRE TV archive, The Luminary, St. Louis MO
- The Being of Seeing, screening, UNEXPOSED Microcinema, Durham NC
- The Set Speaks, live broadcast, ACRETV.org and Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL
- Video Library P'Silo 15, Videodrome, Marseille, France
- Reality is Negotiable, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2015
- Edinburgh Artists' Moving Image Festival (EAMIF), screening, Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh, UK
- RIPE LEEKS: dismantling hollywood, screening, Filmfront, Chicago IL
- Following Nonhuman Kinds: The Plant Symposium, screening, Sector 2337, Chicago IL
- Altered States, screening, Coastal Currents Arts Festival at Electro Studios, St Leonards, UK
- Video! Video! Zine 1, online at videovideozine.com and screening at Giron Books, Chicago IL
- havoc and tumbled, multi-channel installation, Roman Susan, Chicago IL
- STROBE Network, live broadcast, STROBEnetwork.tv and Flux Factory, Long Island City NY
- Space Pursues Them, performance for the Live To Tape: Artist Television Festival at Links Hall, Chicago IL
- SHORTS 12: Of Ever-Ever Land I speak, screening, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL
- Once More For The Very First Time, screening, Comfort Station, Chicago IL
- Notes for a Vivisection, live performance broadcast, P.3+ at the Hammond Regional Arts Center, Hammond LA
- 2014
- Half Suffocated, screening, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
- Extremely Shorts Film Festival, screening, Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX
- Conjuring, installation, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Champaign IL
- Accompanied by Image, screening, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago IL
- Reworking Reality, episode 653 of Artgrease, public access cable show co-produced by Squeaky Wheel and Hallwalls, Buffalo NY
- Shorts Program 3: Negate Sin, screening, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL
- Ready, screening, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
- Please Stand By, broadcast for launch of ACRE TV, ACRETV.org and Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL
- WACH, exhibition, College Art Association Conference, Chicago IL
- Reverse Shot: Rehydrating the Randolph Street Gallery's Experimental Film Coalition, screening, the Extinct Entities Festival at Links Hall, Chicago IL
- 2013
- VIDEO/STILL, online exhibition, curated by Karen Y. Chan
- Salon Lounge, screening, Dixon Place, NYC
- MUCK MUCK \/ MONICA PANZARINO, live broadcast in conjunction with Slow Gallery, Chicago IL
- Video Playlist: Gravitational Pull, screening, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL
- Wonder Machine: Belen Mirage, event and installation, High Desert Test Sites, Belen NM
- Burden of Proof, two-person exhibition, ACRE Projects, Chicago IL
- Body Doubles, thesis exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
- 2nd to None, screening, MassArt Film Society, Boston MA and University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
- Direct Action 2013, performance based screening, Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin, Germany
- Digital Prosthetic, online performance and exhibition, 700MB Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2012
- UIC MFA, group exhibition, MDW Fair, Chicago IL
- 2011
- Breaking Point, screening, Überflug, Berlin, Germany
- Noises in the Void, online exhibition, Stuffinablank
- EXHIBITION TWO: Color Talk, group exhibition, Chashama Gallery, NYC
- 2010
- Culturia Winter Show, group exhibition, Juno Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Everything is Just Wonderful!, group exhibition, Blissland, Berlin, Germany
- The Tiniest Artspace Ever, group exhibition, Online and Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
- I Fall, I Flow, I Melt, group exhibition, BETA Spaces, Brooklyn NY
- EXHIBITION ONE: Zero Gravity, group exhibition and screening, Lolita, NYC
- The Edge, group exhibition, Artworks, New Bedford MA
- 2009
- Live Video/Dead Video Festival, screening, Boston Cyberarts Festival at MassArt, Boston MA
- H₂O: Film on Water, group exhibition, Spheris Gallery, Hanover NH
Awards
- 2023
- Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
- Part-Time Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College, Chicago IL
- 2021
- Jury Award, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL
- Best of the Festival (Jury Award), Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival, Chicago IL
- 2020
- Jurors' Award, That One Film Festival, Muncie IN
- Individual Artist Support Grant, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago IL
- 2019
- City of Big Shoulders Award, Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival, Chicago IL
- 2018
- Film 50 Screen Gem, Newcity Magazine, Chicago IL
- Individual Artist Program Grant, The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), Chicago IL
- 2016
- The Creative Schools Fund Grant, Ingenuity, Inc., Chicago IL
- 2015-16
- Field Trip/Field Guide/Field Notes Consortium Fellow, SAIC, UChicago, and UIC, Chicago IL
- 2014
- Propeller Fund Grant, Gallery 400 and Threewalls, Chicago IL
- 2011-12
- Edlis-Neeson Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Residencies
- 2019
- Researcher in Residence, Signal Culture, Owego NY
- 2016
- Artist in Residence, The Luminary, St. Louis MO
- 2015-16
- Production Space Resident, Propeller Fund Studios at Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL
- 2014
- Artist in Residence, ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben WI
- 2012
- Artist in Residence, ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben WI
- 2010
- Artist in Residence, Culturia, Berlin, Germany
Teaching
- 2021-2022
- Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI
course: (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022) Editing and Post-Production - 2016-2022
- Visual Arts Instructor, Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago IL
courses: (Fall & Spring semesters 2016-2022) Digital Media; (Fall & Spring semesters 2020-2022) Experimental Animation; (Fall & Spring semesters 2019-2020) Contemporary Practices: Performance and Installation; (Fall & Spring semesters 2018-2019) Senior Seminar: Professional Development - 2018-2021
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
courses: (Spring 2021) Topics in Video: Camera Bodies; (Spring & Fall semesters 2018-2020) Introduction to Filmmaking - 2016-2019
- Teaching Artist, Chicago Public School's Advanced Arts Program at Gallery 37, Chicago IL
courses: (Fall & Spring semesters) Honors Video Production I & II - Spring 2016
- Teaching Artist, William Jones College Preparatory High School, Chicago IL
course: Digital Imaging I - Video Overnight Mentor, Re:Imagine24 at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
- Spring 2015
- Teaching Artist, ElevArte Community Studio, Chicago IL
course: Art of Change: PSA's - 2013-2016
- Teaching Artist, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL
courses: (Fall, Spring, & Summer semesters 2013-2015) Picture Me: Photography at Senn High School; (Spring 2016 & Summer 2016) Picture Me: Photography at Sullivan High School - 2014-2016
- Teaching Artist, CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education), Chicago IL
courses: The Baiano Experience, Recycling in Art, and Annie Takes to the Waterways - 2013-14
- Adjunct Faculty, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago IL
course: (Summer 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, & Fall 2014) Computers for the Arts - 2012-13
- Instructor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
course: (Fall & Spring semesters) Introduction to Time-Based Arts - Spring 2012
- Teaching Assistant to Julia Fish, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
course: Topics in Drawing: Rebus - Fall 2011
- Teaching Assistant to Silvia Malagrino, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
course: Advanced Projects in Digital Media
Lectures, Talks, Workshops
- 2023
- Panelist, Behind Enemy Lines at School of Many Questions, Chicago IL
panel: Who Do You Serve? Anti-Imperialism and the Artist's Responsibility - 2022
- Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
course: Cinematic Modes of Production: Documentary/Experimental - 2019
- Visiting Artist, The Teen Creative Agency at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
workshop: ACRE TV and Liveness - 2018
- Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
course: Topics in Video: Language and Liveness - Visiting Artist, The 48203 Dance Show, Highland Park MI
workshop: TV Making Workshop with ACRE TV - 2017
- Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
workshop: Space-Time On and Off The Screen
course: Staging the Film Essay - Visiting Artist, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA
course: Intermediate Cinematography II - Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
course: Introduction to Moving Image - 2016
- Panelist, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
panel: Open Studios Salon: Making It - Presenter, The Propeller Fund Application Workshop at Gallery 400, Chicago IL
presentation: Producing Media Projects - 2015
- Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
lecture: Liveness
course: Contemporary Practices: Core Studio - Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
courses: Signifying Practices: Art and Visual Culture & Topics in Moving Image - Visiting Artist, DePaul University, Chicago IL
course: Cinema and Art - Visiting Artist, Ag47 Collective, Chicago IL
workshop: The Wilds of Videoland - 2014
- Visiting Artist, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Chicago IL
course: Independent Study Projects - Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
courses: Topics in Documentary Media & Introduction to Moving Image - Visiting Artist, Street Level Media, Chicago IL
workshop: Live[li]ness - 2013
- Gallery Talk, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
lecture: Metaphysical Detective Stories, Circularity, and Catching the Ephemeral Image - 2012
- Artist Talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
lecture: Jet, Circle, Caterpillar
course: Reflexive Cinema - Artist Talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
lecture: After The Flicker
course: Topics in Drawing: Rebus - 2010
- Visiting Artist, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Berlin, Germany
lecture: Digital Synesthesia
course: Visualizing Narratives
Curatorial, Professional, Technical
- 2020
- Screening Committee Member, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago IL
- 2019
- A/V Technician, ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben WI
- Juror, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL
- 2018-19
- Co-Curator, JumbleTron, ACRETV.org and Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola FL
- 2017
- Documentarian, ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben WI
- Co-Organizer, Staging the Film Essay, ACRETV.org and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
- 2016
- Co-Curator, RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE, ACRETV.org
- Juror, Animation Short Film Jury, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago IL
- Co-Curator, The Set Speaks, ACRETV.org and Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL
- Drone Operator/Production Assistant, Movie: Delphi Falls, Director: Mary Helena Clark, Santee SC
- Production Assistant, Movie: Moving, Director: Lori Felker, Chicago IL
- 2015
- Co-Curator, After the Revolution, ACRETV.org and Rebuild Foundation, Chicago IL
- Co-Curator, ACRE TV Takeover, ACRETV.org
- Co-Curator, Direct Object/Direct Action and Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE, ACRETV.org and Threewalls, Chicago IL
- 2014-18
- Videographer/Livestream Producer, Mainstream Media, LLC, Chicago IL
- 2014-15
- Curator, ACRE TV video installation, P.3+ at the Hammond Regional Arts Center, Hammond LA
- 2014
- Co-Curator, AutomataBahn, ACRETV.org
- Co-Curator, Psychedelicatessen, ACRETV.org
- Co-Curator, These Streams, ACRETV.org
- Co-Curator, Please Stand By, ACRETV.org
- 2013
- Producer, Studio Audience (WEATHER PATTERNS), Director: Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Johalla Projects, Chicago IL
- 2012
- Audiovisual Technician, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
- 2011
- Installation Assistant, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston MA
- 2008-11
- Curatorial Assistant, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH
Press, Publications
- 2023
- Olivier Dorais, "Relearn/unlearn. About Stones for Thunder by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney.", VISIONS CINÉMA, January 19
- 2022
- "From the Outside In, and Vice Versa." ARKIPEL, November 22
- "Episode 797: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney." Bad at Sports, April 21
- 2021
- Michael Metzger, "Cine-List: Friday, June 11 - Thursday, June 17: Program 5: Make a Distinction (Centerpiece)." CINE-FILE, June 11
- 2020
- Lori Waxman, "60wrd/min COVID Edition: Kera MacKenzie, Yangbin Park, Linda Laino, Roland Santana." Newcity Magazine and at 60 Wrd/Min Art Critic, November 13
- 2019
- Ben Sachs, "The Onion City Film Festival conveys the disorientation of living in an era of great change." Chicago Reader, March 20
- 2018
- Ray Pride, "Film 50 2018: Chicago’s Screen Gems." Newcity Magazine, September 27
- Kathleen Sachs, "Cine-List: Friday, June 8 - Thursday June 14: Crucial Viewing: Chicago Underground Film Festival: Shorts 5: Revealed Manifestation." CINE-FILE, June 8
- Patrick Friel, "Cine-List: Friday, April 6 - Thursday April 12: Crucial Viewing: Sleepover With Channels." CINE-FILE, April 6
- 2016
- Alejandro T. Acierto, Satya Basu, Nicole Bitler, Mallory James, Kera MacKenzie, Troy Douglas Pieper, Nicoletta Rousseva, Tina Tahir, and Richard Williamson. Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide Vol. 1.
- Allie Shyer, "On “Local Ads from Faraway Places” by Kera MacKenzie Andrew Mausert-Mooney'" Video! Video! Zine, June
- Michael Workman, "IN DEPTH// Living in the Cinematic Moment: Kera MacKenzie and Drew Mausert-Mooney’s 'MCA LIVE: ACRE TV.'" Occasional Inquiries, April 15
- Anne Brooks Ranallo, "Collaboration aims to keep artists in Chicago." UIC News, February 2
- 2015
- Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, "Cultivate Your Queue: Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney." Facets Features Blog, December 8
- Paul Smith, "Review: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney/Roman Susan Gallery." Newcity Magazine, July 27
- Dana Bassett, "What's the T?: Edition #43." Bad at Sports, May 26
- Michelle Grabner, "Atlas Chicago: Stability and Flux." Art in America, April
- Josh B. Mabe, "2014 World Poll - Part 4." Senses of Cinema, January
- 2014
- Kian Bergstrom "Cine-List: Friday, Oct. 3 - Thursday, Oct. 9: Crucial Viewing: Half Suffocated." CINE-FILE, October 3
- Matt Morris, "New Season of ACRE TV Launches Today." Newcity Magazine, September 1
- Peter Lucas, "Shorts Shorts: Aurora Picture Show's Festival of Mini-Cinema." Glasstire, June 5
- Erin Nixon, Thea Liberty Nichols, Jason Foumberg, Caroline Picard and Steve Ruiz. Extinct Entities book in conjunction with Extinct Entities Festival, March
- Raven Munsell, "ACRE TV." Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar, February 16
- "Episode 442: CAA with Michael Rakowitz, Jenna Frye, Jesse Malmed, Matthew Smith." Bad at Sports, Jesse Malmed on WACH and artists making TV, February 17
- 2013
- Eden Solas, "Friday, Oct. 18: Belen, NM." HDTS 2013 Blog, October 28
- Leah Weinstein, "High Desert Test Sites, A Diary." MutualArt, October 23
- "Reader Photo of the Day." UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING), Kera MacKenzie as Daniel Shea, newspaper project by Jesse Malmed debuting at Reading Room, Julius Caeser, Chicago IL
- Nathan Worcester, "An ACRE of Glass." Chicago Weekly, April 25
- Paul Germanos, "Chicago Art in Pictures: March-April 2013." Bad At Sports, April 15
- Rachel Thompson, "An Interview with MFA Student Kera MacKenzie." Gallery 400 Blog, March 19
- Stefanie Burke, "Top 5 Weekend Picks! (3/22-3/24)." Bad At Sports, March 22
- 2012
- Michael Workman, "Self-Reflection in Chicago: A Photo Essay." Blouin ARTINFO, November 11
- 2011
- Video on Paper, issue no. 1, zine project by Karen Y. Chan, NYC
Education
- 2013
- MFA Moving Image, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
- 2009
- Certificate in New Media, Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany
- 2007
- BS Human Services specializing in Expressive Arts Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge MA;
Visual Studies Minor, Art Institute of Boston, Boston MA - 2006
- Study Abroad Program, Prescott College, Varanasi and Dharamsala, India
- 2005
- Coursework in Psychology, State University of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- 2003-04
- Coursework in Visual Arts and Social Sciences, Bennington College, Bennington VT