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Charlotte Kent
Associate Professor, Art and Design
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- kentc@montclair.edu
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- 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.
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- MSU Announcement of Fall 2023 activities
- Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (forthcoming 2024)
- Ckent.Art
- Brooklyn Rail monthly column on art & technology, reviews + more
- Nxt Museum Scholar-in Residence exhibition essay, Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems
- Wired Magazine contributions
- Creative Research Center, 2019-2020 Editor + essay, Waiting for the Absurd
- Chronicle of Higher Education article "To Solve the Skills Gap in Hiring, Establish Expectations in the Classroom"