I study visual culture and media aesthetics, from lens-based through computational forms of art and image-making.
Comparing histories of “emerging media”—from telescopes and cameras to computers and AI—I explore how changing techniques of visual mediation reshape our views of the world and one another.
I teach in the Art Department at Stony Brook University, where I direct M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Art History and Criticism. I also direct an interdepartmental Certificate in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology, and am affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science.
I earned a doctorate from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric with Emphases in Film and in New Media, a hands-on master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) from NYU, and an undergraduate degree in English from Princeton.
I serve on the advisory boards for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Gallery and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook as well as on the board of the Journal of Visual Culture, where I enjoyed working as an editor for almost a decade.
(image: detail from Sherrie Levine, Equivalents: After Stieglitz 1-18, 2006)