CV
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