Art Tech and Media Curation: From the “Never-Was” to American Medium

Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman is a Belarusian-American curator, writer, and publisher. She is Curator at the Riga Technoculture Research Unit and Curator-at-Large at Kim? Contemporary Art Center (Riga, Latvia). Shneyderman’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the history and philosophy of media materialities and the techniques that emerge from them, including their influence on contemporary art. Her essays on contemporary art and visual culture have been published in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyundai Artlab, PIN-UP Magazine, Rhizome, and White Cube, among others. Shneyderman has previously held curatorial positions and contributed research to exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, EMPAC, PARTICIPANT INC, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, KAJE, Kunsthalle.Ost, and Mana Contemporary, among others. She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and is Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a psychoanalyst in formation at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics.

Travis Fitzgerald is an artist, curator, and former gallerist based in Brooklyn. He is the co-founder of American Medium, which operated from 2012-2019 in Bed-Stuy and Chelsea. Before opening American Medium, he served as co-director of Appendix Project Space, a short-term residency and exhibition space in Portland, Oregon from 2010 until its closing in 2014. His work has been shown at Interstate Projects, Ditch Projects, 12128 Boatspace, Portland State University, and the 2014 Portland Biennial. Press for his work and the galleries can be found in The New York Times, ArtForum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and VICE.

Evan Calder Williams is an associate professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies for Bard College, where he also teaches in the Human Rights program. He is the author of the books Combined and Uneven Apocalypse; Roman Letters; Shard Cinema; and, forthcoming with Sternberg Press in 2024, Inhuman Resources. He is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli’s Towards a Gay Communism and is a Contributing Editor to e-flux journal, as well as a former member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine.

Serubiri Moses is a curator and author based in New York City. He currently serves as adjunct faculty in art history at Hunter College, and is a member of the editorial team of e-flux journal. He is the author of a poetry book THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK (Pântano Books, 2023) and the lead curator of an upcoming mid-career retrospective of Taryn Simon.