Kris Paulsen is an art historian and media theorist. She is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies Program at The Ohio State University. She teaches contemporary art history with a focus on time-based media. Her research and writing addresses the intersections of art and technology from the 1960s to the present. She is the author of Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface.
If you want to know more, you can contact her or see her CV.
Papers & Publications
- “It Is Decidedly So: Icosahedron’s Oracular Intelligence,” Zach Blas: The Unknown Ideal (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022)
- “In the Beginning… There Was the Electron,”, Transmissions from the Pleroma (New York: Blank Forms, 2022) excerpt reprint.
- “Gretchen Bender’s Aggressive Witnessing” Wexarts.org (November 2020)
- “Open Window: On Isca Greenfield-Sanders’s Grids”, Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Shade My Eyes (New York: Miles McEnery Gallery, 2020)
- “Flesh in the Machine”, OPEN! Platform for Art Culture and the Public Domain (Spring 2020)
- “Shitty Automation”, Media-N, Vol. 16, no 1 (Spring 2020)
- “Reading, Writing, Publishing,” in An American City: FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (Vol. 1) (Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018)
- “The Neither Nor: A Conversation with Kris Paulsen and Lane Relyea,” in An American City: FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (Vol. 2) (Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018)
- “Rogue Pixels: Indexicality and Algorithmic Camouflage,” Signs and Society, Vol. 6.2 (Spring 2018), 412-434.
- “Mary Lucier interviewed by Kris Paulsen,” Aperture.org, January, 2018
- Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface. (MIT Press, 2017).
- “To the Control Tower: WGBH and the Reprogramming of Television,” Early Video and Experimental Film Networks, François Bovier (ed.) (Dijon: Presses du reél, 2017).
- “Steal This Station: Videofreex and the Radical Banality of Pirate Broadcasting,” Media-N Vol. 12, no. 3 (2017).
- “Exposures”, Ann Hamilton: ONEEVERYONE (Austin: Landmarks in Public Art Program, University of Texas at Austin, 2017).
- “Black Hole Sun,” Into the Light (Columbus: The Columbus Museum of Art, 2017).
- “Debate: Is There a Divide Between Curatorial Practice and Curatorial Education that Cannot Be Crossed? Proposition 1: Kris Paulsen.” Great Expectations: Prospects for the Future of Curatorial Education. (London and San Francisco: Koenig Books/The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2016).
- “On Things: A Conversation with Kris Paulsen,” SUR, Shana Lutker. ed. Laurie Furstenberg. (Los Angeles: LAX ART), 20-81. 2016.
- “The Space Between: Carmen Winant’s Collage,” How to Remain Human (Cleveland: MOCA Cleveland, 2015).
- “Ill Communication: Anxiety and Identity in 1990s Net Art,” Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, ed. Alexandra Schwartz (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2014).
- “By Land, By Sea, By Air: The Physical Structures of Networked Art,” Media-N (Spring 2014).
- “Interview with Julia Christensen,” BOMBblog. March, 2014.
- “Half-Inch Revolution: The Guerrilla Television Tape Exchange Network,” Amodern 2 (Fall 2013): np.
- “My Crippled Friend,” Artforum.com. December, 2013.
- “I Work from Home: Interview with Michelle Grabner,” Mousse 41 (November 2013): 134 -137.
- “On! Handcrafted Digital Playgrounds,” Design and Culture 5.3 (Winter, 2013): 413-415.
- “The Index and the Interface,” Representations, Vol. 122 (Spring, 2013): 83-109.
- “Image as Place: The Phenomenal Screen in Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz’s Satellite Arts 1977,” Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 19, no. 2 (April, 2013): 98-111.
- “Light of Day,” Artforum.com. May 4, 2013.
- “The Collector,” in Christian Marclay: The Clock. (Columbus: The Wexner Center for the Arts, 2013). (pdf ↓)
- “Light Club,” “Model for a Film Set,” “Screens for Observing Abstractions,” and “Crystalline Landscape” in Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club, ed. Bill Horrigan. (Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag & The Wexner Center for the Arts, 2013).
- “Direct to Video: Stephen Beck’s Cameraless Television,” Leonardo Electronic Almanac Volume 18, Issue 4 (2012). (Forthcoming)
- “In the Beginning There was the Electron,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 15, Number 2 (Winter 2012): 56-73.
- “Omer Fast and Kris Paulsen: A Conversation,” WexBlog, Wexner Center for the Arts. July 9, 2012.
- “Latifa Echakhch”, Artforum.com. February 10, 2012.
- “Magic Bus: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Volume 14, Number 3 (Spring 2012): 46-53.
- “Erwin Redl: Electric Grid” in Erwin Redl: Fetch. Exhibition Catalogue. (Columbus: The Wexner Center for the Arts, 2010). (pdf ↓)
- “Participation in the Arts: 1950 to Now.” Art Practical. January 2009.
- “California Video.” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Volume 11, Issue 1 (September 2008).
- “Confusion, Collateral, and Pain: The Grand Tour 2007.” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Volume 10, Issue 2 (November 2007). With Shana Lutker.
Contact
I can be reached via or at this address:
Kris Paulsen
OSU History of Art
5036 Smith Laboratory
174 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210