Christiane Paul (curator)


Christiane Paul is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and professor emerita in the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is the author of the book Digital Art, which is part of the 'World of Art' series published by Thames & Hudson.

Education

Paul received both her MA and PhD from the University of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Career

In 2016, Paul was the recipient of the Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art for an established arts writer who has made significant contributions to the intersection of art and technology.
In 2018, Paul was a speaker at the Chicago New Media Symposium which was held as part of the Chicago New Media 1973–1992 Exhibition. The Exhibition was curated by. and her books are Digital Art ; A Companion to Digital Art ; Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts ; and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond.
At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Refigured, Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018, Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools and Profiling, and is responsible for, the museum's portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes Chain Reaction, DiMoDA 4.0 Dis/Location, The Question of Intelligence, and What Lies Beneath.
Paul has taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York ; the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design ; the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley.

Publications

Digital Art, World of Art series, Thames & Hudson, UK, A Companion to Digital Art, Wiley-Blackwell, April 2016, Hoboken, NJDie Antizipation der amerikanischen Postmoderne im Romanwerk Herman Melvilles / The Anticipation of Postmodern American Fiction in the Novels of Herman Melville, Idstein, Germany: Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, 1988Unreal City, A Hypertext Companion to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Storyspace hypertext software, Cambridge, MA: Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1995telematic landscape / Telematische Landschaft, editor, Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany, 1999New Media in the White Cube and Beyond – Curatorial Models for Digital Art, editor, UC California Press, 2008Context Providers — Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, co-editor with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna, Intellect Press, UK / University of Chicago Press, 2011
  • Chinese Edition: ''Context Providers — Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts''

Awards, fellowships and residencies

Exhibitions curated

2001
  • Net Art Selection for EVO1, Gallery L, Moscow, Russia Data Dynamics — Exhibition of Net Art, Whitney Museum
2002
  • CODeDOC – online exhibition at the Whitney's artport site
  • Mapping Transitions – a net art exhibition and forum at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Co-curator and organizer, with Mark Amerika
  • 2002 Whitney Biennial, Net Art Selection Re-Media — Net Art Selection for the 2002 Fotofest Biennial
2003
2004
  • The Passage of Mirage – Chelsea Art Museum; public program of Intelligent Agent; Co-curator Evident Traces – Ciberarts Festival, Bilbao, Spain eVolution – Art Interactive Gallery, Boston
2005-06Follow Through – A Mobile Media Project, Whitney Museum of American Art
2006Translations: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops – Selected Works by Students of the Design+Media Dept., RISD, Emergence at DUO Theater, NYC
2007
  • Profiling – Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Feedback – Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain; Co-curator
2008
  • SOS 4.8 Festival – Murcia, Spain; Co-curator
2009
  • Artistic Director, 3rd Biennale Quadrilaterale in Rijeka, Croatia FEEDFORWARD – The Angel of History, Laboral Art Center, Gijon, Spain; co-curated with Steve Dietz Incheon Digital Art Festival, Incheon, Korea; co-curated with Hye Kyung Shin and Gerfried Stocker
2013The Public Private, Sheila Johnson Design Center, Kellen Gallery, The New School
  • v\America's Got No Talent, Jonah Brucker Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, artport, Whitney Museum of American Art Light and Dark Networks, Ursula Endlicher, Sunset / Sunrise series, artport, Whitney Museum of American Art The Assignment Book: a project by Luis Camnitzer, co-curated with Trebor Scholz, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School
  • Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, Whitney Museum of American Art CLICKISTANv by Ubermorgen.com – online game, Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Eduardo Kac: Lagoglyphs, Biotopes and Transgenic Works, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018, The Whitney Museum of American Art
2024

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