{"id":3797,"date":"2016-04-20T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:02:40","slug":"jessica-backus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/jessica-backus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Backus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_907\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3797-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/jessicabackus.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/jessicabackus.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/jessicabackus.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3799 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2015-10-jessica-backus\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-10-jessica-backus.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Jessica Backus is the Director of Learning and The Art Genome Project at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsy.net\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Artsy<\/span><\/a>. The Art Genome Project is an ongoing study mapping the characteristics that connect the world\u2019s artists and artworks. There are over 1,000 of these characteristics, including art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities. The Art Genome Project is used by collectors, art advisors, curators, writers, students, teachers and the general public to learn about, discover and collect art. Artsy makes these categories available via an open access <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/artsy\/the-art-genome-project\"><span class=\"s2\">github repository<\/span><\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsy.net\/categories\"><span class=\"s2\">www.artsy.net\/categories<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to joining Artsy in 2011, Jessica worked in special projects and client services at Phillips in New York, a boutique auction house specializing in modern and contemporary art. From 2006 to 2010 she served as associate director of the gallery Peres Projects in Berlin. Jessica holds a B.A in comparative literature and society from Columbia University and an M.A. in art history from Hunter College, where her research focused on post-war German art. She has written, translated or edited publications for the Neue Galerie, the Fondation Beyeler, Steidl Verlag, <i>The New German Review <\/i>(forthcoming), and many others. Recent talks include \u201c\u2018Real Modern Art\u2019: Werner T\u00fcbke and the Question of Modernism,\u201d Reassessing East German Art: 25 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Iowa State University, Ames IA, September 2014; and \u201cPostmodernism, Allegory and <i>Vergangenheitsbew\u00e4ltigung<\/i> in Werner T\u00fcbke\u2019s <i>Life Memories of Dr. of Law Schulze<\/i>,\u201d College Arts Association 102nd Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3800\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3800 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-categories.png?resize=625%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"artsy-categories\" width=\"625\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-categories.png?resize=1024%2C851&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-categories.png?resize=300%2C249&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-categories.png?resize=768%2C638&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-categories.png?resize=624%2C518&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-categories.png?w=1305&amp;ssl=1 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of categories in The Art Genome Project on Artsy.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3801\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3801 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-gestural-gene-page.png?resize=625%2C574&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"artsy-gestural-gene-page\" width=\"625\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-gestural-gene-page.png?resize=1024%2C940&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-gestural-gene-page.png?resize=300%2C275&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-gestural-gene-page.png?resize=768%2C705&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-gestural-gene-page.png?resize=624%2C573&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/artsy-gestural-gene-page.png?w=1279&amp;ssl=1 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page for gestural art on Artsy.net, generated by The Art Genome Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/jessicabackus.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listJessica Backus is the Director of Learning and The Art Genome Project at Artsy. The Art Genome Project is an ongoing study mapping the characteristics that connect the world\u2019s artists and artworks. 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