Expertise

Subject Area:

  • Conceptual Art, Public Art, Social Practice, Terminal Degree in Art USA, Photography, Stereo Photography, Linguistics, Continental Philosophy.

Research interests:

  • Photography Theory, Photographic Rhetorical Forms, Lacanian Psychoanalysis (non-clinical), Social Practice Photography, wet collodion printing, public art in New York, the role of the artist in society, the Ph.D. for the visual arts, art education, pre-cinematic optical machines, alternative photographic processes

Research Focus:

  • Pre Cinematic optical devices of the 19th century, Public Art, Social Practice, Photography History, Stereo Photography, Photography Theory, Photographic Rhetorical Forms, Art Education, Photograms, Alternative Processes in Photography,  The role of the artist in society, Wet Plate Collodion / Tintypes, Polaroid / Instant Photography, The PhD for artists in the USA, Thingstaetten
Past Affiliations

Professor, Graduate Faculty, Visual Artist, Researcher, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences, Kansas State University

Lecturer, Art Practice Program, Department of Art and Art History, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (past)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design, College of Arts and Humanities, Minnesota State University - Moorhead (past)

Assistant Professor, Communication Arts Department, Wartburg College (past)

Communities
Arts
Degrees
PhD, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom, Critical Practice in Art, 2019
MFA, Stanford University, Studio Art Practice, 1996
BA, University of Westminster, United Kingdom, Film, Video and Photographic Arts, 1994
Keywords
photography conceptual art modernism post-modernism photography theory frankfurt school linguistics public art social practice art at as research stereoscopy
Languages
Basic French, Narive German, Native English
Associations
College Art Associaiton
Fractured Atlas
Society for Photographic Education
Association for the PhD in the Visual Arts
RSA Royal Society for the Arts London