This week’s contributing blogger, Joric Barber, is a fifth year undergraduate student at Northeastern University studying Architecture. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2019 Honors seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. This interdisciplinary course combines the powers of observation (formal… Read more »
Isabella Cura is a graduating senior at Northeastern University, majoring in marketing and graphic design. She has worked as a co-curator for spark, Northeastern’s contemporary art collective, and is currently working as a graphic designer for Northeastern’s Artistry Magazine while she pursues a full-time career in marketing analytics after graduation. She is passionate about bringing… Read more »
This week’s contributing blogger, Taylor Healy, is a second-year graduate student at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center. With a background in studio art and a proclivity for technology in the arts, she is pursuing a concentration in time-based media art conservation. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with the… Read more »
This week’s contributing author, Marshall Reese, is an artist working in new technologies, video, installations, artists books and limited editions. He has worked in collaboration with Nora Ligorano as LigoranoReese for over two decades. This blog post is part of periodic series from contributor Marshall Reese that focuses on “outsider archivists,” people who highlight the tensions between… Read more »
Returning contributing blogger Wided Khadraoui currently works with Art Processors, a experiential design consultancy specializing in museum spaces, in marketing and business strategy. She previously managed a commercial art space for four years. She holds a MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, and a MA from Central Saint Martins in Arts… Read more »
This week’s contributing blogger, Emmanuel Castillo, is a second year Masters of Fine Arts candidate at Pratt Institute, who experiments with hybrid mediums as part of his interdisciplinary practice. Currently, Emmanuel is investigating the role of materials in reimagining identity. The second talk of the 2018 Creating a Living Legacy (CALL)/VoCA Talks season covered… Read more »
This week’s contributing author, Michele Rushfeldt, is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her three-dimensional work focuses on materials associated with sexuality and kink, and depicts how observations of fringe eroticism feel and look. Originally from Minneapolis, MN, she obtained her BFA in painting from the Academy of Art University in San… Read more »
This week’s returning writer, Elena Girelli, is project manager at Studio Daniel González, NY & Verona, Italy. She oversees the project planning and development of large-scale public artworks, performances, and shows of the studio. She received a masters degree in arts management at University of Bologna, which was then followed by a four-year term collaboration with… Read more »
This week’s contributing author, Yiyang Wu, is an M.A. candidate in Museum Studies at New York University. She received a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Painting from China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China and a master’s degree in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK. She… Read more »
This week’s contributing blogger, Katherine Parks, is a third-year student at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center where she is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Library and Archive Conservation. She is particularly interested in conservation as a means of expanding access to rare books and archival materials. VoCA is pleased to present… Read more »
This week’s contributing author, Sasha Arden, is a student at The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, specializing in Time-Based Media. They previously worked with media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Oakland Museum of California, in addition to providing support for media works in private collections… Read more »
This week’s contributing writer, Jillian Zhong, is a graduate student at ITP, NYU Tisch and an alumni of NYU Courant. She has worked previously on software-based art conservation projects at the Guggenheim Museum while a computer science student at Courant as well as after graduating. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with the NYU/IFA… Read more »