News
Fall 2022
On October 13, I will deliver a live-streamed talk, “Altered States: Bruce Conner’s Border Crossings,” at e-flux Screening Room in Brooklyn, NYC.
A labor of love over two years in the making, the second New Media Caucus symposium, Future Bodies, will be held at Virginia Tech September 30-October 2. I co-authored the symposium theme and CFP with Chelsea Thompto, served on the symposium steering committee and was co-chair, with Chelsea, of the symposium selection committee.
Summer 2022
Published an article: “Altered States: Psychedelic Experimental Cinema as Border Crossing in Bruce Conner’s LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS,” in the open-access fifth issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (61.5, 2021-22).
Co-convened “Poor Relations and Intimate Antagonisms,”an interactive workshop with Dr. James Boaden (University of York) at Approaching Downtown: Avant-Garde Cultural Production in New York City, 1970s-1990s, a symposium organized by Dr. Fiona Anderson and Dr. Tom Day and hosted by the Centre for American Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Published “Nobody’s Perfect,” a short essay for a roundtable on Katherine Chandler’s Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers University Press, 2020), edited by Ned O’Gorman. In Critical Studies in Media Communication (26 May 2022)
Spring 2022
Awarded the 2022-2024 President’s Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award at the University of Idaho.
Published Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s (Duke University Press, 2022), co-edited with Timothy Stott (Trinity College, Dublin).
Became the Northwest regional coordinator for the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH). Email: scah.northwest@gmail.com
Co-chaired (with Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver) the two-session panel, “Signs o’ the Times: Music and Politics in Contemporary Art,” for the 2022 College Art Association Conference.
Presented in a symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, with Chrissie Iles, Jonathan Walley, and Ara Osterweil. [VIDEO]
Published a new special issue of Media-N, No Template: Art and the Technologies of Race, guest edited by Megan Driscoll (University of Richmond).
Named the inaugural Faculty Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning by the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) at the University of Idaho.
2021
Awarded the 2021 Paul J. Windley Faculty Excellence and Development Award from the College of Art & Architecture at the University of Idaho.
Served as moderator for Real Abstraction: In the Mind but not from There, a panel featuring Gean Moreno, Jaleh Mansoor, and Sven Lütticken, for Red May 2021. [VIDEO]
Participated in a roundtable discussion on Katherine Chandler's book Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers University Press, 2020), hosted by UC Santa Barbara Film & Media Studies. Read more.
Collaborated with Kevin Hamilton on a presentation, “Image Operations: Surplus Visibility in Oceanic Nuclear Testing,” which details our research project on the visual afterlives of Operation Crossroads, presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference and the Malcolm M. Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium series at the University of Idaho. [VIDEO]
Participated in “Agitators and Aggregators,” a roundtable discussion convened by the Society for Contemporary Art History (SCAH), College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2021.
Archived News
2021
Published special issue of Media-N: “Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices,” on contemporary approaches to remix. This issue is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a recurring point of reference in the development of media culture.
2020
Published “EASTER MORNING from Home,” in Millennium Film Journal 71/72, “Crisis” (Fall/Spring 2020), 18-19.
(VIDEO) Presented “Correspondences: On Ray Johnson and Ulises Carrión,” University of Florida Art & Art History Dept., Gainesville, FL, 10.28.20. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnyWUucR6JI
Organized and moderated Unsettled States: Art in and Against Crisis, a panel featuring Frye Art Museum Chief Curator Amanda Donnan, Professor Meredith Shimizu, and Professor Catherine Girard at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA. 2.27.20
Presented “Hecho en Mexico: Bruce Conner’s Border Crossings,” at the Modern Art Colloquium, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. 2.17.20.
Presented “Incommunicado: Ray Johnson and Nam June Paik.” Panel: Feedback and Feedforth: New Approaches to Nam June Paik. Chair: Gregory Zinman. College Art Association Conference, Chicago, 2.13.20.
Published my first special issue as Executive Editor of Media-N:
Humans are Underrated: Art & Labor After Amazon, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2020).
Published “Video Installation,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies, ed. Krin Gabbard (New York: Oxford University Press, February 2020).
2019
Presented “Imitation of Life: Ray Johnson and Mimetic Critique” at the History and Aesthetics of Media Working Group, convened by Erika Balsom, Bernard Geoghegan, and Seb Franklin. King’s College London. 12.12.19.
Published “Broken English: Allegories of Media Ruin in the Digital Age,” in Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989, Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, and Sarah Perks, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).
Presented “Ray Johnson’s Imitation Games.” Panel: No Safe Mode: Art Under Threat. Chair: Erica Levin. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference, University of Maryland, College Park. 10.12.19.
Organized and moderated two panels: Precarity Lab and Humans are Underrated: Art & Labor after the Internet, New Media Caucus Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 9.19-20.19.
Participated in a workshop on Art History and Media Studies at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, 3.17.19.
2018
Participated in a workshop on video art history convened by Dr. Miguel de Baca, LUX London, 6.18.18
Presented “Border Land Art: Social Practice as Transborder Legal Action in Postcommodity’s Repellent Fence.” Panel: Art and Law. Chairs: Kevin Lotery and Jack Hartnell. Association for Art History. Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College, London, 4.7.18.
Presented “American Sky: Aerial Surveillance in Contemporary Media Art,” Utah State University, Department of Art & Design, Logan, UT, 3.13.18.
Participated in “The Shape of Space: Anthony McCall’s Solid Light Works,” a panel discussion with Anthony McCall, Branden Joseph, Melissa Ragona, and Ed Halter, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, 2.27.18.
Presented “Nice Work (if you can get it): Ray Johnson and the Political Economy of Pop Art.” Panel: Pop Art and Class. Chairs: Kalliopi Minioudaki and Mona Hadler. College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, 2.23.18.
Interviewed Lynn Hershman Leeson, Committee on Women in the Arts Distinguished Feminist Awardee interview, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, 2.23.18.Presented “Imitation of Life: Ray Johnson and Mimetic Critique” at the Critical Arts Writing Group, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 1.21.18.
Published “Ways of Seeing After the Internet,” Millennium Film Journal 67 (April 2018), 70-83.
(VIDEO) Accompanied by a video essay directed by MFJ editor Grahame Weinbren. Watch: https://vimeo.com/307619229/723af5d692
Published “A Machine in the Garden,” a review of Gloria Sutton’s The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema, Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Winter 2018).
Published “Cut to Cute: Fact, Form, and Feeling in Digital Animation,” a conversation with artist Peggy Ahwesh, in Experimental and Expanded Animation, Nicholas Hamlyn and Vicky Smith, eds. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Published a review of Adair Rounthwaite’s Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017) in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art (May 2018).