I’m a media theorist, researcher, and writer focused on the relationships between art, philosophy, and technologies. I study media objects as systems of language, creativity, and persuasive power and think about how they shape/reshape visuality, geographies, publics, and ways of being. Overall, I am interested in how we understand the world — phenomenologically and through our tools and practices — and the ways individual, collective, social, and political identities and behaviors are imagined, performed, and perceived through creative systems.
My writing and criticism have appeared in numerous periodicals, edited volumes, and artist catalogues, including Millennium Film Journal, Dissect Journal, First Person Scholar, Interartive, Journal of Pervasive Media (formerly Metaverse Creativity Journal), IMPULSE Magazine, and others. I’ve written two books. Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography (Intellect Books, 2025) examines various artistic practices that extend the definition of post-photography through remediations of the camera, the image, and the subject in artworks that range in media types; and Vanishing Points: Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects (Intellect Books, 2015) uses a media studies and visual studies approach to explore the creative use of presence and absence to imagine and encounter inexpressible experiences across film, photography, video games, and interactive art.
My curatorial practice spans solo and group exhibitions presented both in person and online, in the United States and internationally. My research has been supported by Rhizome, the Visual Arts Foundation, The Strong National Museum of Play, and Signal Culture. I hold a PhD in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought, an MA in Media Studies, and a BA in Cinema Studies. I teach courses in the areas of film, photography, video game studies, media art, art history, and media theory at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons. I’m currently Visiting Professor of Art History at Bennington College.
Hecho en Mexico. Raised in the U.S.. Based in New York City. She/her pronouns. Chuk rhymes with duke.
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