Meghan is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture & Film and Media Studies. She studies the histories of art, technology, and postmodernism, with a particular interest in how digital and internet culture influence sociality and visual forms. She is interested in the sociotechnical aspects of technology, raising questions about how artists and creators adapt to the emergence of new technologies, which in turn influence the modes of representation, interaction, and exchange within the art and entertainment industries. With a particular interest in artists who straddle the two worlds, Meghan examines myths about cultural authority and cultural value embedded in modernist traditions of art and media theory. She is inspired by artists and creators who view the public as essential interlocutors and who believe in distributed forms of power that welcome the unruly reality of interactions in the Age of Information.
Meghan is happy to share her experiences and field questions about HAA or FMS!
Selected Presentations
“TV as Material: The GALA Committee Intervention in Melrose Space,” SECAC, 2024
“TV in the Art Room: Using Movies & TV to Teach Art, History, and Media Literacy,” National Association of Media Literacy Educators, 2022
Public Projects
Curator, Screen Education, Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, 2023
Co-Curator, Why Color? A Class Residency for Edu-Curation, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, 2022
- Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture and Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh, in progress
- M.A., Art and Visual Culture Education, concentration Museums and Community, University of Arizona, 2023
- B.A., History of Art and Architecture, minor Museum Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
