About me
Nilson Carroll is the Assistant Curator and Preservation Specialist at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. At VSW, Nilson manages the Media Transfer Lab and specializes in the preservation of videotapes. Nilson has worked to preserve and make accessible large portions of the VSW Video Collection, including tapes from the Portable Channel (1970s) and TV Dinner (1980s-90s) collections, both of which cover prescient topics including racial justice, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, the AIDS epidemic, and others. Nilson is also an artist, game designer, curator, and educator working at the intersection of experimental film/video, video games, and queer theory/embodiment. Nilson is committed to accessibility of information and art making, and believes in working toward a future of shared resources, community participation, and lowered barriers to education. Nilson is the co-founder of the DIY mutual aid project the Queer Games Bundle, which directly supports hundreds of LGBTQIA2S+ artists from around the world annually.
