TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
➢ Affiliated Professor, Creative Technologies, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 2026.
➢ Professor, History and Theory, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA, 2025. Taught long-running self-designed course, Criticism in the Age of AI, a seminar on developing collective, experimental criticism of technology.
➢ Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2024-2025. Prestigious appointment in graduate program focused on moving image, media art, and critical applications of technology and AI in artistic practice. Taught Criticism in the Age of AI, collaborative curatorial practice, and thesis development.
➢ Professor, Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2018-2021. Nominated for John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2021.
NOTABLE AWARDS
2018-2019 Crossed Purposes Foundation, Art Criticism Grant, School of Visual Arts and Brooklyn Rail .
2016-2017 Digital Arts Writing Fellowship for an Emerging Arts Writer, Thoma Foundation.
2006-2007 Iowa Arts Fellowship, supporting first year as an Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA student in Fiction.
2005 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for “outstanding scholarly work or research”, Harvard University.
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2025 Providenza, Corsica.
2021 La Becque Residency, Lausanne, Switzerland .
2019 Fogo Island Arts Writing Residency, The Islands Writing Residency, Fogo Island Arts + Art Metropole, Fogo Island and Toronto Island.
2017 The Recalibrated Institution, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, Florida.
2016 Eyebeam Fellowship and Research Residency, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY.
CRITIC & JUDGE ROLES
2024 -2027 Judge, La Becque Principal Residency Program
2024 Judge, Hotel Generation Art Prize, Arebyte Gallery
2024 Nominator, Evens Art Prize
2023 Jury, Prix Ars Electronica, Artificial Intelligence and Life Art
2022 LACE, Lightning Fund Artist Grant
2021 Early Round Reader/Reviewer, Creative Capital Award
2018 – 2021 Invited Guest Critic in Final Critiques of Rhode Island School of Design in BFA, Graphic Design (Paul Soulellis), Sonic Practices (Digital + Media), Computational Media (Clement Valla), Sculpture MFA , MFA in Graphic Design.
2020 Jury, Eyebeam Rapid Response Open Call.
2019 Guest Critic, CORE Residency, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
2019 Carnegie Mellon: MFA Capstone Critic, CMU School of Art. Guest with Carin Kuoni of Vera List Center, New School.
2018 Judge, The Shed Open Call Commissioning Program, to elect winners for a showcase for local and emerging artists at the beginning of their careers.
2018 “Refiguring The Future,” NetGain Partnership Conference, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Invited to work as the critical respondent to an internal session on Transfeminist AI, run by Sasha Constanza-Chock (MIT) and Joana Varon (Code Liberation).
2017 Invited graduate thesis defense critic by Guvenc Ozel, professor at UCLA, principal of Ozel Office, and Technology Director of IDEAS Campus. Critiqued the MFA Design Students’ final show, a masters design studio. Students presented their plans for hypothetical 3D-printed, sustainable habitats on Mars. Discussed potential of simulations, imagined alternative design for better social and mental health.
2017 Visiting Critic at the Chanorth Artist Residency in Pine Plains, New York.
2016 Visiting Critic, Mason Gross School of the Arts, for the MFA in Visual Art Students’ Final Review and Reveal of Thesis Projects.
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