Research: 
1. History and theory of digital art, with special interest in cybernetics and art in the late 1950’s and 60’s, artificial life art, and the integration of media theory with post colonial and feminist theory.
2. Mexican art and architecture with emphasis on the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Teaching:
ARTH 3650 History and Theory of Digital Art
ARTH 3550 Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
ARTH 205 Introduction to Latin American Art
ARTH 4150/6150 Introduction to Critical Theory
ARTH 4152 Mimesis in Digital Visual Culture
ARTH 4674/6104 Feminism, Post-Feminism and Cyberfeminism
ARTH 4144/6144 Responsive Environments
SHUM 4821 Mobility and Invention
VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (University of Texas Press, forthcoming). Book-length project on cosmopolitanism in Mexican visual arts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century including a substantial discussion of the representation of national identity in Mexican architecture.

Book-length project on the British cybernetician Gordon Pask focusing on his contributions to theater, art and architecture and investigating parallels among his theories, artificial life and materialist philosophy (in progress).

Edited Books:

Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices a subRosa project edited by María Fernández, Faith Wilding and Michelle Wright (N.Y.: Autonomedia, 2002). A Spanish translation of the introductory essay to the book, “Situating Cyberfeminisms” by Fernández and Wilding was published in www.rimaweb.com.ar

Essays:

“Life-Like: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art,” Reprint of 2006 essay in The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology edited by Donald Preziosi (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009,) 458-487.

“Is Cyberfeminism Colorblind?” Reprint of 2002 essay in Art and Electronic Media edited by Edward Shanken (London: Blackwell 2009). 242-245.

“Aesthetically-Potent Environments” or How Pask Detourned Instrumental Cybernetics,” in White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980 edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert and Catherine Mason (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2009).

“Detached from History: Jasia Reichardt and Cybernetic Serendipity” Art Journal (Fall 2008) 6-23.

“Pamela Z: A Sound Argument Against the Autonomy of ‘The Visual’,” in Diaspora, Memory, Place: Three Artists/Three Projects, edited by Salah Hassan and Cheryl Finley (New York: Prestel, 2008).

“Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath,” Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology, Vol. 41, No, 2 (April 2008).

“Illuminating Embodiment: Rafael Lozano Hemmer’s Relational Architectures,” 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments guest edited by Lucy Bullivant. AD Architectural Design, (July/August 2007), 78-87.

“Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath,” a-minima, 18 (November 2006).

“Life-Like: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art,” in Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 edited by Amelia Jones (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006), 557-581.

“Estri-dentistas: Taking the Teeth Out of Futurism,” in At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark (MIT Press, 2005), 343-371.

“Crises of Representation,” ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) 2004, Proceedings.

“Huellas del pasado: revaluando el eclecticismo en la arquitectura mexicana del siglo XIX” (Traces of the Past: Reevaluating Eclecticism in Nineteenth-century Mexican Architecture), in Hacia otra historia del arte en México: la amplitud del modernismo y la modernidad (1861-1920) Coordinator, Stacie Widdifield (Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes 2004), 221-247.

“Is Cyberfeminism Colorblind?” February 2003.

“El Contexto de los Ciberfeminismos,” (in collaboration with Faith Wilding) Debats (Spring 2002), 92-99.

“Heart and Hearth: Enduring Domesticity and Memorial Display on the work of Leslie Hakim-Dowek,” in n.paradoxa; international feminist art journal, Vol. 9 (January 2002).

“Racism and Embodiment,” Zentrum for Kunst und Medien Technologie, ZKM Magazin, May 2001.

"Iluminación Postcolonial/Postcoloniality in the Spotlight” in Alzado Vectorial/Vectorial Elevation edited by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico City: Conaculta y Ediciones San Jorge, 2000). An essay on the work of Mexican artist Rafael Lozano Hemmer, winner of the Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica in interactive media for the year 2000.

“Postcolonial Media Theory,” Third Text, 47 (Summer 1999) and expanded version in Art Journal, 58, No. 3, (Fall 1999). An abbreviated version of this essay appears in Feminist Visual Culture edited by Amelia Jones (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Reviews and Short Publications:

“The Cyborg: Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Cloned” Reprint from Mute issue 20, 2001 in Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Anthology of Cultural Politics After the Net (London: Mute Publishing Ltd, 2009), 136-137.

“The Body is More than Flesh.” Review of Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation by Brian Massumi (Duke University 2002), Art Journal (Fall 2006).

Review: “Digital Culture by Charlie Gere” in The Art Book (London), Vol. 11, Issue 4 (September 2004), 47-48.

Review: Digital Art, (World of Art) by Christiane Paul. Digital Culture (Reaktion Books) by Charlie Gere in Aftermimage (July 2004), 16.

“A Critical Perspective,” Nka, No. 18 (Spring/Summer 2003), 48-55.”

“Documenta Dreaming,” Mute, No. 25 (Nov. 2002-May 2003), 34-41.

“Undercurrents: a dialogue by Maria Fernandez, Irina Aristarkhova and Coco Fusco,” Fine Art Forum, Vol. 16, Issue 08 (August 2002).

Invited contribution, ANTHOLOGY OF ART (May 15-31, 2002) a project initiated by Jochen Gerz and organized by the School of Visual Arts of Braunschweig, Germany and the University of Rennes, site http://www.anthology-of-art.net, France. ANTHOLOGY OF ART was presented at ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, Sept. 7 - 12, 2002 http://www.aec.at/festival2002 and ZKM Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe 4/7 to 8/7 2005.

Review: Race in Cyberspace. Ed. Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura and Gilbert B. Rodman. New York: Routledge, 2000, Callaloo, Volume 25, Number 2, 2002.
“Disconnections,” Reader, Very Cyberfeminist International, OBN Conference, Hamburg, December 13-16, 2001.

“The Cyborg-Sweet Sixteen (and never been cloned),” Mute (London), no.20, August 2001.


INVITED LECTURES:

2007: Visiting Scholar Lecture, Women, Art, Technology Lecture Series, University of North Texas, November 2.
“Strange Encounters: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s ‘Relational Architectures’,” First Annual Gloria Anzaldúa Memorial Lecture, The Texas Tech University College of Visual & Performing Arts, Lubbock, Texas, April 3.

2006: “How Can Love Mean,” in conjunction with subRosa’s performance, Love is Strong as Death, Brown University, September 15.

2005: “Historizing Cyberfeminism,” Ithaca College, April 21.
“The Mexican Muralists and the United States” Art, Law, and the Patriot Act Symposium, University of New York, Buffalo, April 13.

2004: “After Visual Studies,” Visualizing Race in American Photography: An Interdisciplinary Symposium in connection with the exhibition Only Skin Deep (International Center of Photography). February 7, Columbia University Law School.

2003: “Instability and Process in Kinetic and Early Electronic Media Art,” State University of New York at Buffalo, November 3.
“Corporalidad y juego en el arte electrónico,” Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, May 27.
“Instability and Process in Kinetic and Early Electronic Media Art,” Towards an Ecology of Practices Symposium, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Camberra, “August 2.

2002: “Globalization, Communication and Women's Networks: The example of Undercurrents,” Digitales, Belgium, December 5.
“Racial Politics in Cyberfeminist Collaborations,” Race in Digital Space, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, October 11.
“Rafael Lozano Hemmer,” AIM III SYMPOSIUM University of South California/ Museum of Contemporary Art, April 19 and 20.
“Cyberfeminism and Race,” Penbroke Center Roundtable, The Advent of “New” Media: Technology and Representation, Brown University, March 15-16.

2001: “Cyberfeminism, Racism, Embodiment,” Affective Encounters Conference, University of Turku, Finland, September 15.

2000: “Racism and Embodiment,” The Performative Sites Symposium 2000: Intersecting Art, Technology and the Body, October 24-28, 2000, Penn State University.
"Cyberfeminsm, Racism, Embodiment," Lux Centre, London, July 26, and Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October 30.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

2005: “Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath,” REFRESH conference, First
International Conference on the Media Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Banff Center, Banff, Canada, September 29- October 4, 2005.

2004: “Crises of Representation,” ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) 2004, Tallin, Estonia, August 18.

2003: “Slimy Code and Matrix Bitches: Framing Cyberfeminist Art,” ARTiculations, 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, London, April 11.

2001: “Disconnections” (in cyberfeminist collaborations), Very Cyberfeminist International, Hamburg, Germany, December 13.

CONFERENCES, WORSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA:

2008: Workshop, “Affective Circuits: Technology, Sex, Politics,” Cornell University, April 9.

2006: "Thinking the Surface: A Workshop on Screens, Mobilities, Environments in the Global Age" organized in collaboration with Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the School of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, October 27-28.

2005: “Symposium on Affect, Interaction and Technology” organized in collaboration with Phoebe Sengers, Assistant Professor, Information Science and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, April 23.

SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Session Chair, “Sighting Technology in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art” College Art Association, Dallas, Texas, February 22, 2008.

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