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

Evan Calder Williams is 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 2025, Inhuman Resources. He is a Contributing Editor to e-flux journal and is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli’s Towards a Gay Communism. His first novel is forthcoming with Riverhead Books.

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.

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan author, editor, and curator. He is the editor or co-editor of Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World (Valiz, 2021) and Reza Aramesh: Action By Number (SKIRA, 2024), and the After Okwui series at e-flux journal. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the Center for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster, London. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, the National Museum of African Art, and the Hessel Museum.

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.