Education
Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California – Berkeley, May 2009 (expected). 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.
Dissertation: "Real Time over Real Space: Television, Telepresence, and Contemporary Art.” Committee: Kaja Silverman (chair), Anne Wagner, Ken Goldberg, David Bates.
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.
Awards & Honors
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
"Photography and After,” Instructor, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, Spring 2008.
"Questioning New Media: Art, Technology and Culture” Instructor, The Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley. Fall 2006 - Spring 2008.
“Video Art,” Instructor, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, Fall 2007.
“Technological Man,” Instructor, Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Spring 2006.
“Epistemology and Passion,” Instructor, Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley, Summer 2004.
“What is an Object?” Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric Department (with Prof. Kaja Silverman), Spring 2004.
“Conceptual Art,” Instructor, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, Fall 2003.
“Theories of the Detective,” Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric Department (with Mark Feldman),Spring 2003.
“Reason and Argument from Plato to AI,” Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric Department (with Prof. David Bates), Fall 2003.
Professional and Research Appointments
Research Assistant, Prof. Ken Goldberg, Berkeley, CA. 2006-2007
Curatorial Intern, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. 2005-2006
Assisted Constance Lewallen on “A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s.”
Assistant to the Curator, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY. Assisted Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on “Animations.” 2000-2001.
Video Producer and Editor, Eyecandytv.com, Wainscott, NY. 2000.
Editor in Chief, Clerestory: The Brown/RISD Journal of the Arts. 1998-2000. (Art and Design Editor, 1996-1998.)
Archivist, Philip Aarons (independent art collector) New York, NY. Conceptual Art and ephemera collection. Summer 1998.
Assistant to the Curator and Archivist, Pollock/Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY. Summer 1997.
Assistant to the Curator and Gallery Manager, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY. Summer 1997.
Professional Service
Chair, Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age. Berkeley Center for New Media Symposium. 2008.
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.
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