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  • Rachael Rakes

    Part-Time Faculty

    Email
    rakesr@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Rachael Rakes

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    Rachael Rakes is a writer, curator, educator, and organizer. Rakes is currently Interim Curator for Jan Van Eyck Academy, NL. She has organized several dozen exhibitions, performances, seminars, and programs internationally. Recently, she was the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2023, THIS, TOO, IS A MAP. From 2019-2022 she was Curator of Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Until 2019, she was the Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Rakes is an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICAl. With artists Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe, she organizes the research initiative on alternative ethnographies Counter-Encounters, which has been presented at Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Film at Lincoln Center. In addition to being faculty for the Parsons MFA in Transdiscliplinary Design,  she has taught at Zine Eskola, HKU, KASK, The New School, Harvard University, and Sandberg Instituut. She is editor of the publications Toward the Not-Yet (2022, BAK/MIT Press) and Practice Space (2020, NAME/De Appel) and frequently publishes criticism and essays on art and technology.

    Degrees Held

    B.A. CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, Middle East Studies, 2008

    M.A. BARD COLLEGE OF CURATORIAL STUDIES, 2016

    Recent Publications

    https://artlab.hyundai.com/editorial/pattern-recognitions

    https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/633432/jo-baer

    https://menoavilys.org/en/time-left-over-from-time-amelia-groom-and-rachael-rakes/

    https://www.nationalgallery.sg/sg/en/learn-about-art/magazine/bumi-antara-east-big-bird-retro-mapping-art.html

    https://bakonline.org/en/research+publications/prospections/practical+futurism+and+the+local+otherwise/

    Current Courses

    Professional Communication
    PGTD 5230, Fall 2025

    Transdisciplinary Seminar
    PGTD 5000, Fall 2025

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