LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series:

Alex Rivera is a New York-based digital media artist and filmmaker whose work has explored issues of labor, migration, and other cross-border exchanges. His first feature film, a science-fiction set in Tijuana, Mexico, Sleep Dealer premiered at Sundance 2008, and won two awards there, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, Creative Capital Grantee and USA Artist Fellow. Rivera is the Fall 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence.