Emily Verla Bovino – PhD (awarded 2017), Art History, Theory and Criticism, University of California, San Diego
MOBILE IRONY VALVE (MIV) is an anagram of artist and art historian Emily Verla Bovino. The life-long project of EVB is the epic ethnographic fiction RK-LOG, which follows incidents in the afterlife of a fictional biological specimen labeled ‘RK’ (www.rk-log.net). MIV artistic research uses interchanges with people in conversation and gesture, encounters with objects, experimental replications of objects, art historiography, fiction, and experiments with materials. MIV projects engage with the theory of objects as ‘organ projection’ and with claims in the study of human evolution that object-aggregations were critical to the evolution of human consciousness. MIV projects have been produced in the US-Mexico borderlands between Texas and California since 2010. Recent works include PERP (Gulf Labor Artists Coalition); Makro-Scripts (Robert Walser Zentrum, Bern); and RK-LOG: On Promissory Futures and Speculative Pasts (Viafarini, Milan). Writings have been published in academic journals, small presses and international art magazines; exhibitions, residencies and fellowships have been hosted by Fieldwork: Marfa (Texas), Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern) and SOMA (Mexico City). EVB recently completed a doctoral dissertation in Art History, Theory and Criticism on the concept of the ‘plastic’ in art history and artist writings at UC San Diego.
Janine DeFeo – PhD student, Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Janine DeFeo is a doctoral student in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in modern and contemporary art. Her research focuses on the use of food as an artistic material in American art of the 1960s and 1970s, looking at how the particular materiality of food opens up issues of gender, labor and the body in postwar art. Janine holds a BA in History from the University of Oxford and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. She teaches at Baruch College, CUNY.
Delanie Linden – MA student, Art History, Southern Methodist University
Delanie Linden is a second-year M.A student at Southern Methodist University, researching eighteenth-century French art under the advisory of Dr. Amy Freund. She received her AB in Neuroscience and Art History from the University of Michigan in 2014. Linden’s methodologies draw from her background in oil-painting, psychology, and art history. Her current research explores a multitude of questions she has regarding global, cross-cultural imagery produced in France from 1700-1820. She is interested in materiality and artistic technologies, and the formation of identity, especially in cross-cultural environments. She intends to investigate these interests for her thesis on Franco-American art.
Nikki Moore – PhD candidate, Art History, Rice University
Nikki Moore is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Rice University. Her current research focuses on the industrialization of food-based commodities and concurrent development practices in modern Latin America, focusing on their symbiotic relationship to art and architectural practice. Moore is a fellow with the University Based Institute for Advanced Studies’ Intercontinental Academia. Her research is supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Wagoner Foundation, Rice University and the Society of Architectural Historians. Her work has been published in Europe, Brazil, Australia and the United States.
Lacy Murphy – MA student, Art History and Archeology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Lacy Murphy is an MA/PhD student in the Department of Art history and Archaeology at Washington University in Saint Louis. She is currently pursuing a specialization in 19th and 20th century French art with a minor concentration in American Modernism. Lacy is broadly interested in image studies, female agency, orientalism, and primitivism. Prior to Wash U, Lacy completed her BA in French at Truman State University.
Christina Novakov-Ritchey – PhD student, Culture and Performance, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles
Christina Novakov-Ritchey is an interdisciplinary performance artist and scholar based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Belgrade, Serbia. Novakov-Ritchey holds a B.A. with honors in Comparative Literature and is currently a doctoral student in UCLA’s Culture and Performance program, where she articulates ethnography with dramaturgy to produce collaborative performances with traditional healers in the former Yugoslavia. Her areas of interest include social aesthetics, rural temporalities, post-socialist ritual, and anarchist anthropology.
Victoria Bugge Øye – PhD candidate, History and Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Victoria Bugge Øye is a PhD candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. Her field of research includes American and European architecture post-1945 and its intersections with discourses of science, medicine and psychology. She is a graduate from M.S. Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices in Architecture at Columbia University, where she was awarded the prize for best thesis. Her writing has been featured in Domus and Los Angeles Review of Books, and she has participated in curatorial projects for the Buell Center, Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and the Canadian Center for Architecture.
Hanna Washburn – MFA student, School of Visual Arts, New York
Hanna Washburn is a visual artist living and working in New York City. She graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College with a BA in English and Fine Art. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her fiber-based practice investigates the changing notions of the body, intimacy, and space and in the current political and social climate.
Christian P. Whitworth – PhD student, Art History, Stanford University
Christian Whitworth is a Ph.D. student in art history at Stanford University, where he studies late modern and contemporary photography, film, and video. He received his M.A. in art history from Tufts University in May of this year. Christian has held positions with various art institutions, including Magnum Photos, David Zwirner Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland, and his writing has appeared in Arthopper, Afterimage, and Millennium Film Journal.