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Education


2020, PhD Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago


2007, BA Art History, Portland State University


2002, BA Studio Art, University of Maryland

 


Professional History


2023 - present

Portland State University

Course: Modern Art and Globalism


2021 - present

Pacific Northwest College of Art @ Willamette University

Courses: Exploring Visual Studies, World Art History, Art History 1960-2000


2022

Southern Oregon University

Courses: Art History Theory and Methodologies, Contemporary Art and Globalization


2021

Cleveland Institute of Art

Course: Survey of Modern Art History


2016

San Francisco Art Institute

Course: Art and technological Obsolescence


2012

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Course: Art Since 1860


2011-2012

Illinois State University

Courses: Paleolithic to Gothic Art History, Art and the Public Sphere


2011-2013

University of Illinois at Chicago

Course: Introduction to Art



Curatorial


2023 - present

Founder and Organizer, MFA:NW


2007-2009

Curatorial Assistant, Jane Addams Hull House


2001-2002

Art Coordinator, PosterGarden



Publications


“From Please Turn to ‘Please Don’t Touch:’ Finding the Embodied Viewer in Otto Piene’s Early Lichtballette,” in Moving Images, Mobile Bodies. The Poetics and Practice of (Techno-)Corporeality in Performing and Visual Arts, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018.


“The Consequences of the Apparatus: Technology and Otto Piene’s Lichtballette,” Acoustic Spaces13: Archiving, Fall 2015.


Co-author with Bahar Emgin, Matteo Serafini, Jytte Thorndahl “Conference Report: Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture,” ICON: The Journal of Record for ICOHTEC, Winter 2013.


“From Playground to Fetish: The Identity of (the) Mary Jane,” Mid America College Art Association Conference Proceedings, December 2012. http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/macaa2012scholarship/2/


“Fluorescent Paper Trail: Dan Flavin's Diagrams,” Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, peer reviewed journal, October 2012. http://shiftjournal.org/index.html



Presentations


“Artificial Empathy: Embodied Connections Between Viewers and Techno-Art,” at The New Media Caucus: Future Bodies Conference, Blacksburg, October 2022.


“Der Apparat: Brecht and Moholy-Nagy,” at The German Studies Association Annual Conference, Portland, October 2019.


“If the Lights Turn Themselves Out, Are We Still Here? Tracking the Embodied Viewer in Otto Piene’s Early Lichtballette,” at Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media, Cluj, May 2014.


“Performativity and Spatiality” Panel Chair, Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media, Cluj, May 2014.


“The Consequences of the Apparatus: Otto Piene's Lichtballette” at RENEW: Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology Conference, Riga, October 2013.


“The Consequences of the Apparatus: Otto Piene's Lichtballette” at the Art Institute of Chicago Mid-West Graduate Invitational Graduate Seminar, April 2013.


“The Consequences of the Apparatus: Otto Piene's Lichtballette” at the (Re)Activating the Object: Social Theory and Material Culture Conference, Western University, Ontario, March 2013.


University of Illinois at Chicago Art History PhD. Symposium, March 2013.


“Donald Judd: Credible Art” UIC Roundtable with Dr. David Raskin, 2 October 2012.


“From Playground to Fetish: The Identity of (the) Mary Jane” at the Mid America College Art Association Conference, Detroit, October 2012.


“Domestic Fluorescent: The Technological Illumination of the American Suburbs” at the International Conference on the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), Barcelona, July 2012.


Scholars Seminar Participant, Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1965-1977, AIC, 2011.


Roundtable Participant, Rebecca Solnit, “River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West,” The Terra Foundation, 2011.


Roundtable Participant, Elise Archias, “On Imitating As Precisely As Possible: Yvonne Rainer’s Spiraling Down and a Model of Art for the Present,” Gallery 400, 2011.


“Light Art: Environments of Perception,” University of Texas Conf. “1968: A Perspective,” 2009.



Fellowships and Grants


2014-2015

University of Illinois at Chicago Dean’s Scholar


2012 - 2014

German Academic Exchange Fellow (DAAD) associated with the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe


2013

Mellon Fellowship: Mellon Seminar in Technical Art History at NYU


2011

University of Illinois at Chicago, Art History Graduate Program Committee Travel Grant for dissertation research


2007

Jane Kristoff Scholarship, Portland State University



Professional Service and Affiliations


2023-2025

Board and Communications Committee Member, New Media Caucus


Society of Contemporary Art Historians


Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts


College Art Association


German Studies Association