Contributors
Brian Quirk is a playwright who lives in New York City with his husband Diego Daniel Pardo.1 Articles
Cynthia Fowler is an art historian and Professor of Art at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA. Her publications on textiles include her book Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design (Ashgate, 2013) and "A Sign of the Times: Sheila Hicks, the Fiber Arts Movement, and the Language of Liberation," published in the Journal of Modern Craft (2014).1 Articles
An arts writer and editor, Kris Wilton has written about art and culture for Modern Painters, Art+Auction, ARTnews, Photo District News, Art New England, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice, and Artinfo.com, for which she was also Executive Editor. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.1 Articles
Chris Rusak is an artist and a Wasserman Foundation Scholar in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.1 Articles
Casey Curry is a Boston-based curator interested in community engaged creative practices. She holds a BA in English from Northeastern University, and has organized exhibitions, artist projects, and public programs at venues throughout the area including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gallery 263; New Art Center in Newton; Blanc Gallery and the Atlantic Wharf Gallery.1 Articles
As a Research Fellow for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Etienne Turpin’s research considers the consequences of climate change on urban settlements and develops potential design responses. Dr. Turpin is Principal Investigator, with Assistant Professor Meredith Miller, of the Architecture + Adaptation: Designing for Hypercomplexity research initiative, which explores architecture's potential response to inundation in Southeast Asian megacities. Etienne is currently editing Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (forthcoming from MAP Office/MAP Books Publishers, 2013). His monograph Stainlessness is also forthcoming from the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press in 2013. Etienne is a founding editor of the architecture, landscape, and political economy journal Scapegoat, and he is currently working with the design collective 1/X to launch a new experimental research platform, MTLO studio, through the Institute of Improbable Poromechanics in Detroit. His research, writing, and other public projects are collected online at www.ANEXACT.org.1 Articles
Thomas Stubblefield is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His book, 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster, will be published by Indiana University Press in the Fall of 2014.1 Articles
Emily Berçir Zimmerman is the Assistant Curator at EMPAC where she has spearheaded commissions, curated exhibitions and organized EMPAC’s film and lecture series, Observer Effects: Conversations in Art and Science. Prior to joining EMPAC in 2008, Zimmerman performed various roles for adventurous nonprofit arts organizations in New York City and Philadelphia, including Location One, Creative Time, Eyebeam, InLiquid, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. She holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Zimmerman was voted best emerging curator by Metroland in 2010, and was named a Loris Ledis Curatorial Fellow by BRIC Contemporary Arts. She blogs at Museum of Monday.1 Articles
Selby is an independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She has organized exhibitions independently, as well as in partnership with local institutions. Recent projects include Post-Net. Pre-Cyborg? with the Seton Gallery at the University of New Haven, and ArtSitesNewHaven.com with Site Projects Inc, a digital exhibition of outdoor art in New Haven. Selby received her MA with Honors in the History of Art from the University of St Andrews, Scotland in 2009.1 Articles
Ricardo De Lima is a visual artist, dj, hacker, accidental curator & arrogant panhandler in the suburbs of beauty.1 Articles