The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Kris Paulsen—Assistant Professor

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Kris Paulsen

Kris Paulsen studies contemporary art with a specialization in time-based media. In particular, her work traces the history of technology in the arts and the rhetoric of "new media" from photography to computational art. Her current research addresses artistic engagements with television and experiments with telepresence. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, film theory, and semiotics, she examines the phenomenological and epistemological effects of technologies on space, time and bodily presence. Additionally, Professor Paulsen is interested in the legal and philosophical stakes of forgery, reenactment, appropriation, and copyright in the digital age.


Education

  • Ph.D., Department of Rhetoric, University of California - Berkeley, 2009. Designated Emphasis in New Media.
  • M.A., Department of Rhetoric, University of California - Berkeley, 2003.
  • A.B., with high honor, and magna cum laude. History of Art & Architecture and Art-Semiotics, Brown University, 2000.

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Participation in the Arts: 1950 to Now." Shotgun Review. January 2009.
  • "Continuous Coverage," in Events and Event Structures. Ken Freidman and Owen Smith (eds.). Copenhagen: Royal Danish Design School Press, 2009.
  • "Bruce Nauman, Television, and Doing It Again." State of the Arts 2. Santa Barbara: University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, 2008.

    • Reviews

  • "Participation in the Arts: 1950 to Now." Shotgun Review. January 2009.
  • "California Video." X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Volume 11, Issue 1 (September 2008).
  • "Confusion, Collateral, and Pain: The Grand Tour 2007." X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Volume 10, Issue 2 (November 2007).

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "Now Again: Reenacting the Media Event." History of Art Department, The Ohio State University. December 2008.
  • "Back to You: Audience Participation in Performance Art, On- and Off-Line." Performing the Body Electric Panel, Berkeley Big Bang 08 New Media Symposium and Festival. June 2008.
  • "Participation TV." LASER (Leonardo Journals), May 2008.
  • "Bruce Nauman, Television, and Doing It Again." The Body and Performativity: Issues of Performance Across Disciplines panel, State of the Arts 2: University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Conference. May 2007.
  • "Nauman in the 60s." Nauman in Context. BAM/PFA and University of California, Berkeley. February 2007.
  • "Surveillance as Medium," UnBlinking: Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century, University of California, Berkeley. November 2006.
  • "Chris Burden and the Legal Limits of Imitation." University of California Performance Studies,. Spring 2003.

    • Presentations

  • "Courting Contingency: Soliciting the Live Television Event." Events and Event Structures, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & Architecture, Copenhagen. May 2007.
  • "Abducting the Index." "Cyphernetics" Panel, MLA 2006. Philadelphia, December 2006.
  • "The New Narcissus (Dan Graham's Performer, Audience, Mirror)." Lessons on Love: The UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. October 2006.
  • Panelist, "Information Dynamics: Affordances and Implications of New Media on Scholarly Publishing." University of California, Berkeley. June 2006.
  • "The Telecrowd." Emergent Spaces, Cognitive Environments, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago. November 2005.
  • "Abducting the Index." The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality, CongressCATH, University of Leeds at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. July 2005.
  • Respondent, "Visual Politics of Morality and Decadence." The Berkeley Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representation. February 2002.

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2008–2009.
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2007–2008.
  • New Media Teaching Grant, The Berkeley Center for New Media, 2007.
  • Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006–2007.
  • Exchange Scholar, Department of History of Art and Archeology, Columbia University, 2005.
  • Roberta Joslyn Award for Artistic Excellence, Brown University, 2000.
  • Albert Arnold Benett Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, 2000.

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