ABOUT ME
I am an independent digital and cultural strategist who works with museums, cultural organizations, artists, and designers to shore up their digital, communications, and operational strategies. My advising practice is rooted in strong vision and practical experience — a keen sense of both possibility and probability.
I’ve worked in and with a variety of institutions including:
I’ve worked in and with a variety of institutions including:
Pratt Institute
where I was the founding Director of Digital Communications.Whitney Museum of American Art
where I was the founding Director of Digital Media. New York University’s Steinhardt School, Department of Art and Art Professions
where I taught graduate students about the intersection of technology and cultural organizations.My expansive methods of thinking and working are informed by American art school pedagogy: I studied at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California (MA in Visual and Critical Studies) and the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland (BFA in Fine Arts and Art History and Theory) where I focused on critical museum studies and exhibition development while writing, teaching, curating, and collaborating with local communities.
I have lectured and critiqued at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York University, Independent Curators International, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design, SUNY Buffalo, Museum Computer Network, Museums and the Web, We Are Museums and other conferences and organizations. I have collaborated with countless artists, designers, writers, and other cultural producers.
I currently write and publish Soft Labor, a newsletter about trends in visual culture. My writing on and around art, visual culture, and design has been published in Hyperallergic, Frieze, Art in America, Mousse, Rhizome, and elsewhere in print and on the Internet; it has also been supported by an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
I am based in New York City.