Fairbanks is a wrestler and filmmaker whose recent work focuses on Lucha Libre in Mexico, where the artist fights as the One-Eyed Cat (El Gato Tuerto) with a camera built into his mask. Previously, he worked as a translator for the Festival Filmer à Tout Prix. Prior to that, Fairbanks was as programmer and producer at the Courtisane Festival, and visiting professor of VideoArte at Tuxtla’s UNICACH, in Chiapas, Mexico. A Guggenheim Fellow, his new work is emerging through collaboration with an indigenous Zoque community in rural Chiapas. Fairbanks holds a BA in art and science, technology and society from Stanford University, and an MFA from the University of Michigan.