Contributors

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CAConrad is a poet and the son of white-trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics, The Book of Frank, Advanced Elvis Course, Deviant Propulsion, and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined.  

Kevin Cadena is a Colombian-American graphic designer, web developer, and educator based in Queens, New York. Website

Juan Caloca is an artist living in Mexico City and a founding member of Cooperativa Cráter Invertido and the collective Grupo (de). His work often concerns Mexican history and the ways in which it is remembered. His work has been exhibited at the 2016 Gwangju Biennale; Parque Galería, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Bikini Wax, and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California; and Ivan Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada.  

Juan Caloca vive y trabaja en la ciudad de México. Es miembro fundador de la Cooperativa Cráter Invertido y del Colectivo Grupo (de). De manera frecuente utiliza la memoria y la historia de México como temática en su obra. Su obra se ha sido expuesta en Parque Galería, la Bienal de Gwanju 2016 (con Cráter Invertido), Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Bikini Wax, y el Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, en la Ciudad de México; así como en el Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; y la Ivan Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada.  

Maru Calva is a book designer living in Mexico City. Her work explores the boundaries and limits of the publication as a support for artistic practice. She is a founder of Aeromoto, a public library devoted to contemporary culture in Mexico City. Website

Jibz Cameron is a performance artist and actor living and working in NYC. Website

Natalie Campbell  

Duncan Campbell is an artist living in Glasgow. His films include Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2003), o, Joan, no … (2006), and Bernadette (2008). His work has been shown at the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), Tate Britain, Hotel (London), Tramway (Glasgow), Kunstverein Munich, and Artists Space (New York City).  

Canal Street Research Association is a fictional office founded in an empty storefront on Canal Street, New York City’s counterfeit epicenter, in fall 2020. Through research, re-stagings, shadow economies, and vacancies, they delve into the cultural and material ecologies of Canal Street and its long history probing the limits of ownership and authorship. Website

Macgregor Card is a poet, translator, and bibliographer living in Jackson Heights, NYC. His first collection, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, was the winner of the 2009 Fence Modern Poet Series. His chapbook, The Archers, was published by Song Cave. With Andrew Maxwell he was co-editor of The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research, from 1997-2005, and is currently a co-curator of Brooklyn’s Private Line Reading Series. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute and is an associate editor of the MLA International Bibliography.  

Austin Carder is a graduate student and translator based in Providence and Philadelphia. His research focuses on modernism, poetics, and critical theory.  

Chelsea Carey is a Chicago native who currently works as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Riverside. As a microbial ecologist, her research focuses on studying how microorganisms interact with each other and their environment.  

Gary Carrion-Murayari is an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; he co-curated 2010, the museum’s most recent biennial. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Flash Art, Domus, and The Huffington Post. Website

Anne Carson is a writer, classicist, and translator. Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; Glass, Irony and God; and most recently Red Doc>.  

Lauren Carter is a Chicago-based sculptor and installation artist. She works in sound, film, and video.  

Alison Cartwright is based in Brooklyn. She pursues fine-art photo projects while juggling her commercial business, a temperamental bike lock, and pickling experiments. Website

Francesco Cavaliere is an artist and composer based in Berlin. He works with sound, materials, and space to explore diverse forms of esotericism through digital and analog technologies. Website

Centennial Gardens is the duo of the New York City-based musicians Dreamcrusher and King Vision Ultra. The group’s debut, SPLIT (PTP), was released in 2021. Dreamcrusher is a moniker of the musician and artist Luwayne Glass, who began the project in 2003 while living in Kansas as a means of self-discovery and release—and of addressing the experience of being queer and Black through various forms and personas, none of them static or stable. King Vision Ultra is an alias of the musician and artist GENG PTP, founder of the collective Purple Tape Pedigree, which releases music and publications as well as organizing community gatherings and actions. Since 2017, King Vision Ultra has produced music that deals with the relationship between memory, archives, self-actualization, and trauma. Website

José León Cerrillo is an artist living and working in Mexico City, and a contributing editor of Triple Canopy. He is represented by Andréhn-Schiptjenko Stockholm and by joségarcía ,mx in Mexico City and exhibits worldwide. Recent venues include the Okayama Art Summit Tokyo (2017), the Gwangju Biennale (2016), the New Museum Triennial (New York, 2015), and MoMA PS1 (New York, 2013). Website

Alejandro Cesarco is an artist whose work explores, through different formats and strategies, repetition, narrative, and the practices of reading and translating. He has recently presented solo exhibitions at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin; Midway, Minneapolis; Parra Romero, Madrid; and Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris. He is the director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), a nonprofit organization committed to activating the key components of the printed book: publication, distribution, and spaces of reading. He is represented by Murray Guy in New York, where “Loyalties and Betrayals” was on view in 2015. Website

CF is an artist living and working in Providence. His work has been published in Bookforum and Kramer’s Ergot. His Powr Mastrs series of graphic novels is published in the US by PictureBox books, and he has exhibited internationally, including Switzerland, Sweden, and Japan. Website

CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) is a New York-based collective and fashion label founded in 2016. CFGNY began as a dialogue between Tin Nguyen and Daniel Chew on the intersection of fashion, race, identity, and sexuality. CFGNY continually returns to the term “vaguely Asian”: an understanding of racial identity as a specific cultural experience, combined with the experience of being perceived as other. Rather than represent what it means to be “Asian” in the singular, CFGNY encourages the visualization of the countless ways of being in the plural.  

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2022 Biennial (New York City), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Renaissance Society (Chicago), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), SITE Santa Fe, Ende Tymes Festival, and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.). As a member of the group Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created artworks that were presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, and, in the case of the two-mile-long installation Repellent Fence (2015), on the border of the United States and Mexico. Since 2004, he has mentored over three hundred Native high school composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2022 and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from United States Artists, Creative Capital, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the American Academy Berlin, the Bemis Center, and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Website

Colby Chamberlain is contributing editor at Triple Canopy and a Lecturer at Columbia University. His scholarship and criticism focuses on intersections of art and other fields of professional practice, in particular the law. The recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study Program, he contributes to publications including Art in America, Artforum, Cabinet, and Parkett. Website

Wo Chan is a queer poet and drag performer. They are the author of the chapbook ORDER THE WORLD, MOM (Belladonna) and have received honors from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, Lambda Literary, and the Asian American Writers Workshop. As a standing member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, they have performed at venues including MOMA PS1, Joe’s Pub, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, and BAM Fisher. Wo was born in Macau, China, and currently lives in New York, where they are an MFA Candidate in Poetry at New York University.  

Dawn Chan is a New York-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Bookforum, the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications. She frequently contributes to Artforum, where she was an editor from 2007 to 2018. She is the recipient of a 2018 Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a Thoma Foundation 2018 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art for an emerging arts writer. Chan has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement and visiting faculty at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. She recently co-curated the exhibition “Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future” at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong. In 2012, she co-edited “Common Minds,” a Triple Canopy series on the contemporary infatuation with the brain. Website

Paul Chan is an artist and the founder of Badlands Unlimited.  

Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist whose work—often playful and absurd—uses existing institutions and their systems as sites of social intervention and critique. Working across video, performance, installation, and social practice, she is dedicated to art that models counter-institutions, alternative spaces, and redistribution. She recently cofounded a socially engaged artwork at the RISD Museum called Look at Art. Get Paid, which will be installed at additional art institutions in 2018–19. Website

Maria Chavez is a sound artist who was born in Lima, Peru, and lives in New York. Her performances with turntables, sound sculptures, and installations are unified by her concern for accidents, coincidences, and failures. Her work combines the sounds etched in records with those produced by the interactions of needles and vinyl in various states of deterioration. Chavez has been a fellow at the Sound Practice Research Department at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and an artist in residence at CEC Artslink in St. Petersburg. She has presented and performed her work at numerous museums, universities, festivals, galleries, and clubs. Website

Howie Chen  

Ian Cheng is an artist based in New York. Website

Daria Chernysheva translates from Russian and French. Her projects have included children’s books, historical documents, and asylum dossiers. She completed her MA in Translation Studies at the University of Warwick and is currently a doctoral candidate in Creative Critical Writing at University College London. She received the 2019 French Voices Award for excellence in translation. Her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Comparative Drama, AzonaL, and Tether’s End.  

Ted Chiang is the author of Stories of Your Life and Others and The Lifecycle of Software Objects. He lives outside Seattle, Washington.  

Mel Chin has, for nearly five decades, created singular, idiosyncratic works that hinge on collaboration and manifest as actions, films, or objects, depending on the concept. Chin describes some works as “personal lamentations” and others as prototypes and experiments that engage “people in the process of being a ‘we.’” Turning toxic landfills, prime-time soap operas, and video games into venues for civic action, he has significantly expanded the bounds (and possibilities) of socially engaged art. Website

Bidita Choudhury is Triple Canopy’s production director. She is also an artist, musician, and the co-founder of B.A.N.C., a label and publication press based in New York and Washington, DC.  

Jesse Chun is a New York-based visual artist from Seoul, New York, Hong Kong, and Toronto.  

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her work on digital media. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006), and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011). She is the co-editor of a special issue of American Literature entitled New Media and American Literature; a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology; and the book New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2015). She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a Wriston Fellow at Brown. Her latest book, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, will be published by MIT Press in May 2016.  

Jacob Ciocci is an artist and a founding member of Paper Rad.  

Patrick Clark is a freelance writer living in Queens, New York. Website

Joseph Clarke is an architecture critic living in Manhattan. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati and worked at the architecture firms of Eisenman Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Website

Jace Clayton is an artist focused on the intersection of sound, the use of technology in low-income communities, and public space. As DJ /rupture, Clayton has released a number of acclaimed albums.  

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Eileen Cohen is an intrepid collector of early conceptual art and counts Printed Matter and the Dia Art Foundation among her past board appointments. She also founded the nonprofit Art For Arts Sake, which commissioned several ambitious projects during the late 90s. Eileen has played a critical role in the success of Triple Canopy’s past benefits as an event co-chair. Currently, she also sits on the board of White Columns.  

Adam Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments.  

Joshua Cohen was born in New Jersey in 1980. He is the author of seven books, including Book of Numbers: A Novel, forthcoming in June. Website

Christopher Cole is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and assistant editor of Straight to Hell. He divides his time between New York City and western Massachusetts.  

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has written articles on poetry, literary theory, queer theory, and contemporary culture. She is the editor of Extinction, published in 2012, as well as coeditor of the series “Critical Climate Change” and member of the advisory board of the Institute for Critical Climate Change. Website

Gene Coleman  

Gabriella Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism. She is the author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (2014) and Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (2012). Website

George Collins is currently setting thirty-three thousand years of environmental indicators to music. Website

Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Previously he was Curator: Film at Tate Modern, London where he oversaw film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays, was cocurator for the opening season of The Tanks at Tate Modern, and organized an extensive program of screenings, performances, and events.  

Common Room was established in 2006 as a space for collaboration with a focus on the built environment. Website

Luciano Concheiro is a Mexican theorist. His most recent books include Against Time: Practical Philosophy of the Instant, which was first finalist in the 2016 Anagrama Essay Prize, and Invent the Possible: Mexican Contemporary Manifestos, a collection of sixty manifestos written by young Mexican writers, artists, chefs, academics, and activists. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times and Nexos. He has an MPhil in sociology from Cambridge University and currently is a visiting fellow at the department of romance languages and literatures at Harvard University.  

Keith Connolly  

Matthew Connors is an artist based in Brooklyn. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Tokyo, Milan, Stockholm, and Madrid. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. He is an associate professor in the Photography Department at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston. Website

Matthew Coolidge  

Ben Coonley is an artist and an Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.  

Eli Coplan is an artist and curator based in Portland. Eli has shown with Surplus Space in Portland, Black Box Festival in Seattle, and Chin’s Push in Los Angeles. With Jade Novarino, he organizes exhibitions in Portland under the moniker Conduit. He is also a member of RECESS, a multiform curatorial project born in Portland, now organized by artists, writers, and curators across the United States. He received a BA from Reed College in 2015. In the daytime he teaches art to second graders. Website

Corina Copp is the author of the poetry pamphlet Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and is currently working on the three-part performance The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love—based on the work of Marguerite Duras—the first installment of which was presented in this year’s PRELUDE Festival. Website

Patrick Corcoran is a freelance writer living in Torreón, in northern Mexico. Website

Lauren Cornell is the curator of the 2015 triennial, digital projects, and Museum as Hub at the New Museum in New York. From 2005-2012, she served as adjunct curator at the New Museum and executive director of Rhizome, an organization dedicated to the creation, presentation and preservation of art engaged with technology.  

Lou Cornum is a writer, scholar, editor, and amateur mycologist living in New York and Connecticut. Currently, they are the Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Native American Studies at Wesleyan University. Their writing on Indigenous art, literature, and cultural politics has appeared in the New Inquiry, Real Life, Canadian Art, Frieze, and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism, among other publications. Born in Arizona, they are an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and come from a family of Diné and white settler backgrounds.  

Michael Corris Michael Corris began his career as a member of the collective Art & Language. He continues to pursue an integrated practice of writing, organizing exhibitions, making art and teaching. Recent exhibitions include The Dallas Biennale (April 2012) and The Heide Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia (August 2012); recent publications include Ad Reinhardt (2008) and Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction (Reaktion Books, 2010). Since November 2009, Corris has held the post of Professor of Art and Chair of the Division of Art at the Meadows School of the Arts/SMU. Website

Luba Cortés is a Latinx, queer youth organizer at Make the Road New York, one of the city’s largest immigrant-rights organizations. Cortés, who is formerly undocumented, has organized around immigrant rights for years, advocating to change policies that lead to the mass deportation and incarceration of undocumented communities of color. Using a social-justice and intersectional lens, they help young people build leadership through immigrant experiences. They also work with LGBTQ issues, including as a recruitment co-chair for the Latino Institute at Creating Change. In June 2016, Cortés published an op-ed in the New York Times highlighting their mother’s struggle as an immigrant.  

Paula Court is a photographer based in New York.  

Daniel Gustav Cramer is a visual artist based in Berlin. Recent projects include Trilogy, Tales, and The Infinite Library. Website

Jordan Crandall is a media artist and theorist based in Los Angeles and an associate professor in the visual arts department at University of California, San Diego. Website

Mike Crane is an artist based in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Documenta 14 (Athens), Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), the Berlinale Forum Expanded, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Bronx Museum of Art (New York) and the Center for Contemporary Art Derry (Northern Ireland). Crane has been an artist in residence at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada; Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn; the Rupert Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania; and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Crane was a 2014 apexart Franchise Exhibition winner for his artist screening series at Wattan TV. He was a 2016–2017 Smack Mellon fellow and a 2015 Creative Capital visual arts grantee.  

Anwyn Crawford  

Robyn Creswell teaches comparative literature at Yale University and is poetry editor of the Paris Review.  

Simon Critchley is chair of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and part-time professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying and Faith of the Faithless.  

John Crowley is the author of many novels and volumes of short fiction, including the famed fantasy novel Little, Big.  

Sarah Crowner is an artist and erstwhile set designer based in Brooklyn. Her recent solo exhibitions include shows at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm; Catherine Bastide, Brussels; and Nicelle Beauchene in New York. She is currently working on an artist’s book to be published by Primary Information in September 2012 and her work will be included in an upcoming 2013 exhibition at the Walker Art center about new directions in painting. Website

Teddy Cruz is an architect and professor at the University of California, San Diego. Website

Chris Csikszentmihalyi is an artist working on technologies that rebalance power between citizens, governments, and corporations; he founded and directed the Center for Civic Media at MIT.  

Mary “Missy” Cummings is one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots and director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University.  

Robert Currie  

Charles Curtis  

Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy is a curator and writer. She was recently appointed director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, a position she will assume on January 1, 2018. In the meantime, and since 2011, she works as the curator of contemporary art for Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which has headquarters in Caracas and New York. Sofía is also a counselor for Fundación Alumnos47 in Mexico City.  

Keren Cytter spent her childhood in Israel and lives in Berlin. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at museums and galleries throughout Europe. Website

Catherine Czacki