Christiane Paul- MA, Düsseldorf University, Germany
- PhD, Düsseldorf University, Germany
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Programs
Profile:Christiane Paul has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. An expanded edition of her book Digital Art (Thames& Hudson, UK, 2003) as well as her edited anthology New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press) were published in 2008. As Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated several exhibitions—including Profiling (2007), Data Dynamics (2001) and the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial—as well as artport, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art. Other recent curatorial work includes Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009); and Scalable Relations (Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA; as well as galleries at UCSD, UCLA and UCSB, 2008-09). Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).
Recent Publications: BOOKS
• New Media in the White Cube and Beyond - Curatorial Models for Digital Art (UC Press: Berkeley, CA, December 2008)
• Digital Art, revised and expanded edition (Thames & Hudson: London, UK, June 2008)
ARTICLES
2009
• Forthcoming: Information Arts, co-authored with Jack Toolin, in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, eds. Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, Taylor and Francis Group, NY
• Expanding Cinema: The Moving Image in Digital Art in Stuart Comer (ed.), Film and Video Art (Tate Publishing: London, UK, 2009)
2008
• Sustainable Art Practices, essay for the catalogue accompanying the SOS 4.8 festival, Murcia, Spain
• Digital Art / Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons in Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignoneau, Dorothee King (eds.), Interface Cultures - Artistic Aspects of Interaction (Springer Verlag, 2008)
• Not just Art — From Media art to Artware in Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignoneau, Dorothee King (eds.), Interface Cultures - Artistic Aspects of Interaction ([transcript] Kultur- und Medientheorie, 2008)
• The Medium of Response, catalogue essay for the exhibition Maquinas y Almas, June 26 - October 13, 2008, Reina Sofia, Madrid. Spain;
• Game Engineering the Image, MIT Technology Review, March / April 08
Office Location:2 W. 13th Street, Room 1211
Phone Number/Extension:212.229.8903
Email:PaulC@newschool.eduResearch Interests:• Digital Cinema
• Aesthetics of New Media
• Locative Media Art
• Database Aesthetics and Data Visualization
• Curating New Media
Professional Affiliations:• Scientific Committee Member, Laboral Art Center
• Editorial Board Member, Artifact Magazine
• Research Supervisor and Advisor, Planetary Collegium
• Advisory Board Member, Database of Virtual Art
Awards and Honors:• 2005-2007 Cassullo Fellowship, Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art