Shontina Vernon

Shontina Vernon is a theatre artist/filmmaker/ musician/creative facilitator/ and educator. Her work champions the necessity of arts and culture to catalyze social change. As such, it has been recognized nationally and internationally for both its artistic merit and risk taking. Drawing from her belief that “If you can’t tell your own story honestly, then you […]

Carol Becker

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She was interviewed twice for this series, the second interview about her book, Losing Helen, can be heard here. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change […]

Carol Becker

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change (Prentice Hall & IBD, 1987); The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility (Routledge,1994); Zones of Contention: Essays on […]

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Verena Johannsmann currently works and lives in Berlin and feels home in research activities in international libraries (including the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts), artists` archives and private collections. She worked in several museum environments like the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As a Trainee she assisted Klaus Biesenbach in the Media […]

Verena Johannsmann

While thinking about advancement of her theses and post doc research in Avantgarde Performance-Art Dr. Verena Johannsmann worked for Marc Spiegler and Noah Horowitz on a Curatorial Design within the context of Art Basel (between Miami Beach and Hong Kong) the last months. In parallel she started writing Essays on contemporary works of art in every […]

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David Ross is now working as chair of the interdisciplinary low-residency MFA: Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He also plays guitar and sings with the band Breakneck Ridge Revue, traveling and lecturing at art schools and museums, and is president of the board of the American Center for Folk […]

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Lydia Matthews is a Brooklyn and Athens-based curator, writer, cultural activist and professor in the Fine Arts program at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 2010 she founded Parsons’ Curatorial Design Research Lab, which spans various university divisions across The New School. Trained in contemporary and modern art history at University of California, […]

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Tom Leeser is a media artist, educator, curator, and writer. He is Program Director of the Art and Technology Program and Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).  Tom received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). His film, video, online work, interactive […]

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Eben Kirksey studies the political dimensions of imagination as well as the interplay of natural and cultural history.  Duke University Press has published his two books—Freedom in Entangled Worlds (2012) and Emergent Ecologies (2015)—as well as one edited collection: The Multispecies Salon (2014). Dr. Kirksey is perhaps best known for his work in multispecies ethnography—a field that mixes ethnographic, historical, […]

Laurie Palmer

Laurie Palmer is an artist, writer, and teacher currently employed in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work, which takes form as sculpture, installation, writing, and public art, is concerned with material explorations of matter’s active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds, and with […]