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  • Kenneth White

    Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies, Departmental Faculty Advisor of Visual Studies

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    whiteka@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    B - 65 West 11th Street

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    Kenneth White

    Degrees Held

    PhD Art History-Film and Media Studies, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 2015

    Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), Studio, 2014-15

    Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Critical Studies, 2013-14

    Princeton–Weimar Summer School for Media Studies, Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Bauhaus-Universität, 2013

    MA Art History-Film and Media Studies, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 2010

    BFA Film, Syracuse University Department of Art Media Studies, 2005

     


    Recent Publications

    “Hello, Darkness: A Story of Collage and War.” Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Lotte Johnson and Chris Bayley, eds. London: Barbican Centre and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

    Eye/Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera. Carolee Schneemann, 1963.” The Lacanian Review 11 (Fall 2021).

    "Dossier: Carolee Schneemann." Kenneth White and Tess Takahashi, eds. Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 107 (Fall 2021).

    Michael Snow (October File). Kenneth White and Annette Michelson, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.

    “Accumulator.” Rotterdam: Garage Rotterdam, 2019.

    Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable. Kenneth White, ed. London: Black Dog, 2015.

    “Meat System in Cologne.” Art Journal vol. 74, no. 1 (Spring 2015).

    “Strangeloves: From/De la région centrale, Air Defense Radar Station Moisie, and Media Cultures of the Cold War.” Grey Room 58 (Winter 2015).

    “Absolute Feedback: Notes on the Discursive Spaces of Video Art circa 1976.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly 13 (May-July 2013).

    “Until You Get to Know Me: Tony Oursler’s Aetiology of Television.” Millennium Film Journal 57 (Spring 2013).

    “Muybridge’s Enthalpy.” Public 47. “3D Cinema and Beyond” (Spring 2013).

    “Urban unknown: Chantal Akerman in New York City.” Screen vol. 51 no. 4 (Winter 2010).


    Performances and Appearances

    2023 e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, New York: Discussant, Fluid Forms: Films by Philip Cartelli

    2022 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), New York: “Hello, Darkness: A Story of Collage and War”

    2022 Barbican Centre, London: Introduction to Interrogating the Image film program, curated by Tamara Anderson, presented in coordination with the exhibition Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, curated by Lotte Johnson

    2022 Barbican Centre, London: Exhibition Tour of Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, curated by Lotte Johnson

    2022 University of Groningen, Netherlands: Hacking the Brain?: Histories of Technology and Mind Control: “Hyperventilation Syndrome: Media Cultures, Control Societies—circa 1970”

    2021 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), New York: ISP Talks: Laura Mulvey and Kenneth White In Conversation; sixth in a series of nine one-on-one dialogues between ISP Faculty and Seminar Leaders


    Current Courses

    Arts Sr. Seminar: Creative
    LINA 4901, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    LVIS 3950, Fall 2024

    Walter Benjamin and the Arts
    LVIS 3034, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Atrocity Exhibitions
    LVIS 3029, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LVIS 3950, Spring 2025

    Intro ArtHist & Visual Studies
    LVIS 2001, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Arts Sr. Seminar: Creative
    LINA 4901, Spring 2024

    Independent Study
    LVIS 3950, Spring 2024

    Methods of Art History
    LVIS 3001, Spring 2024

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