Since the mid-70s, Charles Atlas has been working as a film and video artist in various mediums: multichannel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video artworks for television, live electronic performances, and pioneering media/dance works. He has collaborated with such choreographers/dancers as Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham, and Douglas Dunn, and with such performers as Marina Abramovic, Leigh Bowery, and Diamanda Galás. In 2006, Hail the New Puritan, a selection of film and video works was screened in a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London. In 2009, he collaborated with Mika Tajima/New Humans and Judith Butler on Today Is Not a Dress Rehearsal at SFMOMA. Venues at which his work has been exhibited include the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA in New York City; and the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Atlas has received three Bessie Awards and was the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s biennial John Cage Award in 2006.