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.

Current Research:
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.

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

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