Curriculum Vitae
Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Film, Video & New Media History of Art Department & the Program in Film Studies, The Ohio State University, 2009 -
- Affiliated Faculty, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, 2009 -
Education
- Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California – Berkeley, 2009. With a Designated Emphasis in New Media.
- M.A. Rhetoric, University of California – Berkeley, 2003.
- B.A. History of Art & Architecture and Art-Semiotics, Brown University, 2000. With high honor, and magna cum laude.
Teaching and Research Interests
20th & 21st Century Art; New Media Art and Theory; Video Art; History and Theory of Photography; Film and Television Theory; History of Technology; Cybernetics; Post-Structural and Psychoanalytic Theory; Semiotics; Intellectual Property and Copyright Law.
Publications
Awards & Honors
- The John Paul Getty Foundation Library Research Grant, 2011.
- Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2007-2008.
- New Media Teaching Grant, The Berkeley Center for New Media, 2007.
- Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Summer 2007.
- Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006-2007.
- Exchange Scholar, Department of History of Art and Archeology, Columbia University, 2005.
- Block Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 2005.
- Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2004-2005.
- Wollenberg Grant, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, Spring 2002.
- School of Letters & Sciences Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2001-2002.
- Albert Arnold Benett Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, 2000.
- Roberta Joslyn Award for Artistic Excellence, Brown University, 2000.
Teaching Experience
Professional Service
- Editor, Journal of Short Film. Volume 18 (Winter 2010) — Present.
- Co-Chair, “Arabesque, Mandala, Algorithm: A Long History of Generative Art” Presented at ISEA (Inter-Society for Electronic Arts) Annual Conference, to Inter-Society for Electronic Arts. Sabanci University. Istanbul, Turkey. September, 2011.
- Wexner Center Gen-Wex Advisory Board, 2010 — Present.
- Co-Chair, Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age. Berkeley Center for New Media Symposium. 2008. (With Tara McDowell and Erica Levin)
- Graduate Student Representative, Berkeley Center for New Media Executive Committee. 2007 -
- Co-Chair, Nauman in Context. Art History symposium in conjunction with BAM’s survey of Bruce Nauman’s early work, “A Rose Has No Teeth,” 2007. (With Sarah Hamill)
- Graduate Student Representative, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive Program Committee. 2006-
- Alumni Admissions Interviewer, Brown University. 2006-
- Berkeley Center for New Media Faculty Search and Hiring Committee. 2006.
- Discovery Fellows Graduate Mentor. 2006.
- Graduate Student Representative to the Consortium for the Arts Executive Committee, U.C. Berkeley. 2005-2007.
- Planning Committee for UnBlinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century Symposium. With Prof. Ken Goldberg and Deirdre Mulligan. 2006.
- ASUC Undergraduate/Graduate Mentoring Program. 2005-2006.
Professional Affiliations
- College Art Association
- Modern Language Association
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Advanced Science and Technology)
- Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
- ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present)