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Charlotte Kent

Associate Professor, Art and Design

Email:
kentc@montclair.edu
Phone:
973-655-4260
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CHARLOTTE KENT, PhD is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of the book, Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (forthcoming, Intellect Books) and an Editor at Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology, contributing to many arts magazines and academic journals about contemporary art and digital culture. She is a Google Artist and Machine Intelligence Grant award winner, for research exploring notions of agency as relates to art and automation. In 2023, she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum, where she co-curated with Jesse Damiani the 2023 RealTime exhibit, Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems. She is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center, St. John’s College, and Philips Academy, Andover. She currently lives in New York City.


Some recent activities can be found here: https://www.montclair.edu/art-and-design/2023/11/27/dr-charlotte-kent-wins-an-unrestricted-grant-from-googles-artists-and-machine-intelligence-section-for-arts-agency-and-automation-and-delivers-more-engaging-talks-at-several-events/

Specialization

Visual culture, media studies, digital culture, emergent technologies, contemporary art, history of aesthetics, ekphrasis, narrative theory, deconstruction, critical theory, surrealism, and the absurd.