Corinna Kirsch
curator.
Corinna Kirsch is a historian of post-war and contemporary art and design focused on conceptual and intermedia practices of the 1960s and ’70s and their afterlives in present-day forms of digital media. She holds a PhD in Art History from Stony Brook University, where she completed a dissertation on the conceptual artist Les Levine and how communications media helped shape art’s engagement with socio-political concerns around 1970. Her writing has appeared in both popular and academic publications ranging from VICE to the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing . As the O’Brien Curatorial Fellow, she curated exhibitions for the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. She is also a recipient of the C Magazine New Critics Award.
From Pattern Anarchy and the Promise of Old Media, May 2023