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Kelly Donahey is a researcher and artist, currently teaching in digital arts at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D. (2024) and M.A. (2020) in Visual Studies, and an M.F.A. in Art (2017), from UC Irvine. A scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American media art and visual culture, her research examines the political economies of art, with particular attention to the legacies of avant-gardism in art and technology and the role of labor ideologies within aesthetic and cultural practices. Her 2024 dissertation, Negative Freedom: The Late American Avant-Garde and Its Labor Aesthetics, 1965–1993, historicizes and theorizes the work of Lillian Schwartz, Noah Purifoy, and Henry Wessel, tracing a distinctly American trajectory of historical avant-gardism, and challenging dominant narratives of dematerialization and postmodernity. Through the lens of the public artworld sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, it articulates a dialectical concept of aesthetic negativity, shaped by the liberationist struggles of the Feminist Occupational Safety, Black Freedom, Environmental, and Consumer Rights movements. She recently delivered a keynote for the intensive No solo de Cinética y Desplazamiento, hosted by the Centro Universitario de Arte at the Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico, and has presented at the College Art Association, the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. She also serves as Assistant Editor of the peer-reviewed international journal Critical Theory and Guest Editor of the forthcoming special issue “Media Literacy of the American Alt-Right” for Media Fields Journal.

Erin Gordon is a PhD Candidate and curator currently based at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Art and Art History. Her research concerns the social and cultural history of media-based art and technology through the work of Barbara T. Smith, Gretchen Bender, and Laurie Anderson. Erin received her MFA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of California, Irvine in 2018, where she curated the exhibition Do You Want to Quit? Intimacy, Site, Self. Along with her collaborators Yon Natalie Mik and Virginia Arce, Erin co-edits The Invisible Archive, a creative research journal that investigates “the unique experiences and knowledge produced by cultural workers and artists who primarily work through performance, time-based strategies.”

Consulting Editor:

Helena Shaskevich, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of art history at Kennesaw State University, with a specialization in experimental media art from the 1960s to the present. Her scholarly writing has been published in numerous journals, including Feminist Media Histories, Camera Obscura, Art Journal, Woman’s Art Journal, and the Millennium Film Journal, among others.

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