Creative Writing

Susan Moffat

Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative

Susan Moffat is a curator, urban planner and writer who works at the intersection of culture, nature and place, with a special interest in race, parks, and public space. As Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, she leads the development of community partnerships, courses, and workshops and teaches humanities studios. A former journalist, she has a deep belief in the power of stories to make change. She worked in affordable housing, environmental advocacy and shoreline planning. Moffat is the...

Gavin Kroeber

Freelance producer and co-founder of Experience Economies.

Gavin Kroeber's projects and writings poach from visual art, urban theory, and performance. He produces curatorial projects, artistic research platforms, and performance events that interrogate the cultural dynamics of power and their expression in the poetics of place. He is a frequent contributor to Art in America...

Andrew Weiner

Associate Professor of Art Theory and Criticism at NYU

Andrew Weiner is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work aims to theorize and historicize relations between aesthetics, politics, and media. His dissertation tracked the increasing convergence of these spheres in West Germany and Austria during the 1960s, focusing on "events"—new modes of public action that combined experimental art with radical demonstration. It considers the practices of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Jörg Immendorff, VALIE EXPORT, and Peter Weibel alongside those of activists on the emergent New Left. The project argues that this "aesthetico-political...

Linda Haverty Rugg

Author and Professor at the Scandinavian Department at UC Berkeley

As a professor, Linda Haverty Rugg's research has long focused on issues related to self-construction and self-representation, particularly in textual autobiography and visual media. Authorship is another strong allied research interest, with special attention to the authorships and authorial personae of August Strindberg, Mark Twain, Ingmar Bergman, and a range of art cinema directors who perform as authors. In addition to her interest in autobiographical studies, Rugg has drawn inspiration for her research from two of the courses she teaches: “Ecology and Culture in...

Scott Tsuchitani

Artist and Scholar

Scott Tsuchitani (he/they) is a San Francisco-based visual and media artist and feminist cultural studies scholar. Scott’s art practice-as-research explores how tactical public and online art intervention can transform racial common sense, with a focus on the public museum. His interventions have impacted racial discourse through the generation of dialogue and debate in social and mainstream media, as well as academic press. Scott’s work has been shown in museums and galleries in 12 states, presented in Europe and Asia, and published in academic books and journals in...

Suzanne Lacy

Artist and Professor at USC Roski School of Art and Design

Suzanne Lacy is renowned as a pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labor and aging. Lacy’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the U.S.

In 2019 she had a career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at Yerba Buena Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in major periodicals and books and she exhibits in museums across the world. Also known for her writing, Lacy edited ...

Judith Rodenbeck

Professor at University of California, Riverside and Art Historian

Judith Rodenbeck received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in 2003. She has taught at UCR since 2014; before joining MCS she was on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, NY. Her first book Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (MIT, 2011) explores the emergence of performance and intermedia in the American fine arts of the 1950s. She is currently working on several book-length projects: a longitudinal study of the intersections between what Marcel Mauss called “techniques of the body”...

Nizan Shaked

Professor at California State University, Long Beach and Art Historian

Nizan Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum and Curatorial Studies at CSULB. Her book The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) is a winner of the 2019 Smithsonian American Art Museum Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art; a 2015 Wyeth Foundation for American Art College Art Association Publication Award, and was supported by a DAAD grant for research at the Adrian Piper Foundation, Berlin, in 2012. Her manuscript...

Jennifer Doyle

Professor of English at University of California, Riverside

Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English and Cooperating Faculty in Art. She is the author of Shadow of My Shadow (2024), Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015),Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013) and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2007). She is co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996).

She and Jeanne Vaccaro (University of Kansas) are the co-curators of Scientia Sexualis, an exhibition for ICA LA which will run from early...

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...