Education

C.Phil., Rhetoric - Designated Emphasis in New Media. University of California, Berkeley. September, 2004.

Exam fields: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Art, New Media Art and Theory. Examiners: Kaja Silverman, Anne Wagner, Ken Goldberg, David Bates.

Dissertation: Real Time over Real Space: Artists in the Telecommunications Network. Expected date of PhD completion: May 2008. Dissertation Chairs: Kaja Silverman. Committee: Anne Wagner, David Bates, and Ken Goldberg.

Exchange Scholar, Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology Department, Spring 2005.

M.A., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, May 2003.

A.B., Art-Semiotics and History of Art and Architecture. Brown University, magna cum laude. May 2000. Honors Thesis: “Experiments in Staged and Captured Reality.” Advisors: Roger Mayer and Paul Badger. Senior Paper in History of Art: “Narcissistic Posturing.” Advisor: K. Dian Kriz.

Research Interests

20^th & 21^st Century Art, New Media Art and Theory, History of Technology, Photography and Photographic Theory, Video and Television, Film Theory, Performance Studies, Cinema Verité, Telerobotics, Telepresence, Phenomenology, Psychoanalytic Theory, Ancient and Modern Rhetorical Theory, Continental Philosophy, Semiotics, Artificial Intelligence.

Awards and Honors

Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009.

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2007-2008.

Berkeley Center for New Media Teaching Grant, The Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Summer 2007.

Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Spring 2007.

Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellowship for dissertations with a significant bearing on the humanities, 2006-2007.

Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Fall 2005.

Block Grant, Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Spring 2005.

Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Spring- Fall 2005.

Wollenberg Grant, UC Berkeley, Spring 2004.

Wollenberg Grant, UC Berkeley, Spring 2002.

Letters and 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

Academic Service

Chair, Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Digital Copyright Law. A two-day, interdisciplinary at UC Berkeley, Spring 2008.

Graduate Student Representative, The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Executive Committee. 2007 -

Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive Program Committee, 2006 –

Discovery Fellows Graduate Mentor, 2006-2007.

Cochair, Nauman in Context. Graduate conference, Spring 2007.

Planning Committee for Unblinking: Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century. Symposium, Fall 2006. With Prof. Ken Goldberg (IEOR) and Deirdre Mulligan (BOALT).

Berkeley Center for New Media Faculty Search and Hiring Committee, Spring 2006.

Alumni Admissions Interviewer, Brown University, 2006-.

ASUC Undergraduate/Graduate Mentoring Program, Spring 2006.

Student Representative, Consortium for the Arts Executive Committee, UC Berkeley. Fall 2005 - Spring 2007.

Papers & Publications

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Teaching Experience

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As an Instructor:

“Photography and After” (History of Art 1B). History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, Spring 2008.

“Art, Technology, and Culture” (New Media 201: Advanced Topics in New Media) Engineering Department and the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Spring 2008. With Prof. Kenneth Goldberg.

“Video Art” (History of Art 1B). History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, Fall 2007.  

“Art, Technology, and Culture” (New Media 201: Advanced Topics in New Media) Engineering Department and the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Fall 2007. With Prof. Kenneth Goldberg.

“Art, Technology, and Culture.” (New Media 201: Advanced Topics in New Media) Engineering Department and the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Spring 2007. With Prof. Kenneth Goldberg. Course website.

“Art, Technology, and Culture.” (New Media 201: Advanced Topics in New Media) Engineering Department and the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Fall 2006. With Prof. Kenneth Goldberg. Course website.

"Technological Man." (Rhetoric 1B: Reading and Interpretation)Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Spring 2006. Course website.

“Epistemology and Passion.” (Rhetoric 1B: Reading and Interpretation) Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Summer 2004.

“Conceptual Art and the Search for Truth.” (History of Art 1B: Reading and Interpretation) History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, Fall 2003.

As a Teaching Assistant:

“What is an Object?” (Rhetoric 20: Rhetorical Interpretation) Rhetoric Department, Prof. Kaja Silverman, Spring 2004.

“Theories of the Detective.” (Rhetoric 1A: Reading and Composition) Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Instructor: Mark Feldman, Spring 2003.

“Reason and Argument from Plato to A.I.”(Rhetoric 10: Reason and Argument)Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Prof. David Bates, Fall 2002.

Employment and Related Experience

Research Assistant, Prof. Ken Goldberg, Berkeley, CA. Created a website documenting UC Berkeley’s Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium. 6/2006 -

Intern. Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Assisting senior curator Constance Lewallen with preparations for A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman. 11/2005-

Tour Guide. A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 60s. 1/2007- 4/2007.

Tour Guide. Study After Untitled: Jeanne Dunning. 1/2006 – 4/2006

Assistant to the Curator. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY. . Duties included researching and organizing a major museum exhibition, Animations.2001.

Digital Video Editor and Producer. Eyecandytv.com, Wainscott, NY. 2000.

Editor-in-Chief. Clerestory: the Brown/RISD Journal of the Arts, Providence, RI. (1998-2000). Art Editor (1997), Design Editor (1996-97). Duties included the editing, budgeting, art direction and design of a full color biannual arts journal. 1996-2000.

Archivist. Philip Aarons (independent art collector), New York, NY. Archived collection and wrote a full catalogue of a collection based around Lucy Lippard’s“6 Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object...” 1998.

Gallery Manager and Assistant to the Curator. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., East Hampton, NY. Rare manuscript and art dealer specializing in Conceptual Art ephemera. 1997.

Intern and Assistant to the Director. The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY. Archived and produced a catalogue for the Hans Namuth photo collection. 1997.

Assistant Editor. HAMPTONS Magazine, Southampton, NY. 1996.

Intern. Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. Intern and “Student Curator,” Education Dept. Duties included curatorial work, writing and editing essays for exhibition catalogues, and administrative tasks. 1992-1996.