The goal of this thesis is to illustrate the importance of video art through a spatial and aesthetic phenomenological framework, revealing the critical nature of aesthetic experiences for forming meaning between art-objects and viewers facilitated through acts of curation. Video…
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This dissertation focuses on four artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who decades before the emergence of bioart explored and critiqued the cultural and social implications of biotech’s foundational logic. Between the years 1965 and 1985, they neither worked with its materials…
This dissertation explores how American television portrayed canonical European classical music in the Cold War era. I analyze televisual negotiations of music-cultural hierarchies to complicate common narratives about the postwar decades as a peak moment of polarity between “hi…
The country of Georgia and I are of the same age. Both of us grew up together, went through the agony of teenage years, and the search of our identities in the midst of the chaos and uncertainty. We witnessed a civil war, a transition from the Soviet atheism into a predominantly…
The early performance, film and video works of Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley evolved from relatively unadorned presentations of the artists executing programmatic actions to costumed and disguised narratives with increasingly distinct personae. They structure thems…
The COVID-19 pandemic, police violence, an expanding surveillance state and contested museum practices constitute a confluence of contemporary crises. As each impacts Black people and intersects with visuality in differing but significant ways, what might be a valuable entry poi…
"What Comes After the Blues" is an art installation by Matt Kurtz that uses found objects, video and performance art to reclaim identity in the ruins of industry and faith. The videos and projections exhibit dualities though site-specificity and personal narrative. Spiritual obj…