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  • Christiane Paul

    Emeritus Professor

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    paulc@newschool.edu

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    Christiane Paul

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    Christiane Paul has written extensively on new media arts, lectured internationally on art and technology and is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. Her recent books are A Companion to Digital Art (Wiley Blackwell, 2016); Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 3rd revised edition, 2015) Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012), co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna; and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008). As Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated several exhibitions—including Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011), Profiling (2007), Data Dynamics (2001) and the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial—and is responsible for artport, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art. Other recent curatorial work includes Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (Whitney Museum, 2018-19), Little Sister (is watching you, too) (Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, 2015); What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015); The Public Private (Kellen Gallery, The New School, Feb. 7 - April 17, 2013), Eduardo Kac: Biotopes, Lagoglyphs and Transgenic Works (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009). 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

    • A companion to Digital Art, (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)

    Research Interests

    • History and Aesthetics of Digital Art
    • Curating Digital Art
    • Data Visualization
    • Digital Storytelling 

    Awards And Honors

    2016 Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art, Thoma Art Foundation

    Current Courses

    Thesis Supervision
    NMDS 5960, Fall 2023

    Past Courses

    Media Theory
    NMDS 5006, Spring 2023

    Thesis Proposal Lab
    NMDS 5952, Spring 2023

    Thesis Supervision
    NMDS 5960, Spring 2023

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