The Evergreen State College
Jasper Bernes is author of a scholarly book, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford, 2017), and two books of poetry, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). Essays, poems and other writings can be found in Critical Inquiry, Modern Language Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Endnotes, Lana Turner, The American Reader, and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover, he edits Commune Editions. He lives in Berkeley with his family.
Gregg Horowitz is Professor of Philosophy at Pratt. He writes on aesthetics, the philosophy of art, theories of art history, psychoanalysis, and political theory. His publications include the books Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Stanford, 2001) and The Wake of Art: Philosophy, Criticism and the Ends of Taste (Routledge, 1998, with Arthur C. Danto and Tom Huhn) and articles on “Robert Pippin’s After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism” (Platypus Review, 2014).“Tradition” (Art Bulletin, 2013), “A Made-to-Order Witness: Women’s Knowledge in Vertigo” in Katalin Makkai, ed., Vertigo: Philosophers on Film (Routledge, January 2013), and “The Homeopathic Image, or, Trauma, Intimacy and Poetry,” (Critical Horizons, 2010). He is also a past Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
Amanda Davidson writes, draws, and makes performances in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Her prose chapbooks include Arcanagrams: A Reckoning (Little Red Leaves 2014), The Space (Belladonna 2014), and Apprenticeship (New Herring Press 2013), and she is the founding editor of Occasional Remarks: Prose Chaps and Audio Tracks. Davidson’s fiction, reviews, and comics appear in the Brooklyn Rail, the Believer, and Weird Sister, where she’s serializing a graphic novel called The Conditions of Our Togetherness. She’s been a writer-in-residence at MacDowell, Art Farm Nebraska, Millay, and I-Park, and received a 2014-2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, and a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in poetry.
Historian and philosopher of art, Thierry de Duve, is Professor emeritus from the University of Lille 3, and was Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, for the fall semester of 2013. His English publications include Pictorial Nominalism (1991), Kant after Duchamp (1996), Clement Greenberg Between the Lines (1996, 2010), Look—100 Years of Contemporary Art (2001), and Sewn In the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp (2012). He is presently finishing a book of essays on aesthetics, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, especially at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 11 years.
Fionn Meade is Curator at SculptureCenter, NY, where recent group
exhibitions include Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New
York, and Leopards in the Temple, with Lothar Baumgarten, Das
Institut, Patrick Hill, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer,
and Kathrin Sonntag, among others. Recent curatorial projects also
include Nachleben, co-organized with Lucy Raven at Goethe Institut,
NY, which engaged Aby Warburg’s thinking and included works by Matthew
Buckingham, Patricia Esquivias, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki,
Rachel Harrison, John Miller, Stan VanDerBeek, James Welling,
Christopher Wool, and Akram Zaatari, among others, and Entr’acte at
Catherine Bastide with Tom Burr, James Coleman, David Noonan, William
Pope.L, Catherine Sullivan, and Rosemarie Trockel. His writing appears
in Artforum, Bomb, Bidoun, The Fillip Review, Mousse, and Parkett,
among other publications, and he received a 2009 Arts Writer Grant
from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Recently
released catalog writing includes essays on Elad Lassry for the
Kunsthalle Zurich (JRP/Ringier), and Mark Morrisroe for the Fotomuseum
Winterthur (JRP/Ringier). He holds an MA from the Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and MFA in Creative Writing from
Columbia University
A native of New York City. Susan Noyes Platt is a freelance art historian and art critic, as well as a political activist, based in Seattle, Washington. She has published articles, essays and reviews on the intersections of art and politics. Her primary concern is to alter the critical discourse to embrace the many different ways in which artists explore this intersection. Over the course of her career she has shifted from a focus on American Art to an exploration of art in the Middle East, particularly in Turkey. She has also published reviews of contemporary art from China, Latin America, and Europe.
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