Contributors

Ellie Ga ’s work has been exhibited in New York at Bureau, the Swiss Institute, the Kitchen, and the New Museum; at Galerie du Jour in Paris and Hong Kong; at Konstmuseum in Malmö Sweden; and at Projekt 0047 in Oslo, Norway. She has performed at RISO-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sicility; Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin; Betonsalon, Paris; and in New York City at MoMA PS1. She is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse. Website

William Gaddis (1922-1998) was the author of five novels, two of which won National Book Awards. He taught a course titled “Literature of Failure” at Bard College in 1979.  

Malik Gaines is an artist and writer based in New York. His essays have appeared in Art Journal, Women & Performance, and in numerous exhibition catalogues and arts publications. His book, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left, traces a circulation of political ideas in performances of the 1960s and beyond. Since 2000, Gaines has performed and exhibited extensively with the group My Barbarian, whose work has been shown at MoMA, the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Kitchen, LACMA, MOCA LA, ICA Philadelphia, Toronto’s Power Plant, Amsterdam’s De Appel, Madrid’s El Matadero, Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery, and many others, and has been included in the Whitney Biennial, two Performa Biennials, the Montreal Biennial, and the Baltic Triennial. Gaines also makes performance and video work solo, and in other collaborations. He is assistant professor of Performance Studies in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a PhD in Theater Performance Studies from UCLA and an MFA in writing from CalArts.  

Rivka Galchen ’s most recent book is Little Labors, a miscellany about babies and literature. She is also the author of the short story collection American Innovations and the novel Atmospheric Disturbances, winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Website

Nikita Gale is an artist who lives in Los Angeles. Gale received an MFA in new genres at University of California, Los Angeles, in 2016. By engaging with materials that have properties that are simultaneously acoustic and protective, Gale examines the ways in which silence and noise function as political positions and conditions. Gale's work has recently been presented at the California African American Museum (Los Angeles) MoMA PS1 (New York), LACE (Los Angeles), the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, 56 Henry (New York), the Bemis Center (Omaha), Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles), the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), Rodeo Gallery (London), Martos Gallery (New York), and in “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Gale’s work has been published or featured in the New York Times, Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Vogue, and Flash Art, among other publications. Gale currently serves on the Board of Directors for GREX, the West Coast affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. Website

John Gallaher  

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects. Currently associate professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, he is author or co-author of three books on media and cultural theory, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), The Exploit: A Theory of Networks, written with Eugene Thacker (Minnesota, 2007). In 2010 he and Jason E. Smith translated Introduction to Civil War by the French group Tiqqun (Semiotext[e]). Recently, the Public School New York published French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures, a set of five pamphlets documenting Galloway's seminar conducted there in the fall of 2010.  

David Gatten  

Rami George is a multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. His work has been exhibited or screened at the Institute for Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), and the Bahia Museum of Art (Salvador, Brazil).  

Keith Gessen is a cofounder of n+1 and the editor of It’s No Good: Poems, Essays, Actions by Kirill Medvedev, due out from n+1 and Ugly Duckling Presse in December 2012. Website

Daniela Gesundheit is a singer, songwriter, musician, composer, lyricist, and cantor living between Los Angeles and Toronto. She currently plays in the band Snowblink, a duo with Dan Goldman.  

Andrea Geyer is an artist living and working in New York. Website

Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, filmmaker. Her work looks at places, spaces and moments where social, political and cultural structures take on visible forms, and spans video, sound, installation, photography, performance, text and data. Ghani has exhibited and screened at the Guggenheim, MoMA, Met Breuer and Queens Museum in New York, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the CCCB in Barcelona, the Rotterdam and CPH:DOX film festivals, the Sharjah and Liverpool Biennials, the Dhaka Art Summit, and dOCUMENTA (13) in Kabul and Kassel. Her writing recently has been published by e-flux journal, Frieze, and Foreign Policy, as well as in the books Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production, Critical Writing Ensembles, Dissonant Archives, Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000–2015, and Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom. Ghani has received fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies from Creative Capital, Art Matters, the 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles, the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which gave her its inaugural Changemaker Storyteller award in 2017. Website

Rob Giampietro is a designer, writer, and principal at Project Projects. Website

Gabrielle Giattino  

Gabrielle Giattino is owner and director of Bureau, a gallery located on the Lower East Side. From 2002 to 2007, she served as curator of Swiss Institute and in 2006 was co-curator of “Repeat/Redux,” a screening and performance series at the Whitney Museum at Altria, along with Howie Chen and Jay Sanders. With Chen, she is also a founding director of Dispatch, an ongoing series of exhibitions, publications, and other artist projects. Giattino studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London where she received a masters degree in art history in 2001. Currently, she sits on the Art Basel selection committee.  

John Gibler is a journalist living in Mexico City. He has contributed to In These Times, Yes! Magazine, Colorlines, and the California Sunday Magazine, among other publications. He is the author of Una historia oral de la infamia (2016), To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (2011), Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (2009), 20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera (2012), and Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero (2012).  

Alan Gilbert is a poet, critic, and scholar and a lecturer at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.  

Simone Gilges is a photographer and artist living in Berlin. Since 1995 she also realized numerous exhibitions with the collective Honey-Suckle Company. Website

US Girls (Meg Remy) has released two albums, Introducing and Go Grey, both on Siltbreeze, and singles and CD-Rs on Chocolate Monk, Not Not Fun, Hardscrabble Amateurs, Cherry Burger, and Atelier Ciseaux. Website

Lisa Gitelman is a media historian whose research concerns American book history, techniques of inscription, and the new media of yesterday and today. She is particularly concerned with tracing the patterns according to which new media become meaningful within and against the contexts of older media. Gitelman has just published Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Duke University Press), which focuses on the meaning of seemingly mundane documents—the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF—as they inhabit various media over time.  

Renee Gladman ’s most recent work of prose is The Ravickians, published this fall by Dorothy, a Publishing Project. She lives in Providence and teaches fiction and book arts at Brown University. Website

Robert Gober lives and works in New York, and is most recently the subject of a major retrospective, The Heart Is Not A Metaphor, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gober represented the United States at the 2001 Venice Biennale and has had one-person exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Serpentine Gallery, London; and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel. In 2007 his work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Schaulager, Basel.  

Beka Goedde is a printmaker and sculptor whose work explores the perception of change, duration, and the physical body in space. She is currently artist in residence at PS122 in New York City and an MFA candidate at Bard College. Website

Rainald Goetz is a German novelist. His first novel, Insane, was published in 1983. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary Rubbish for Everyone, which was probably the first literary blog in Germany, and included entries on the world of media and consumerism. The blog was published in book form in 1999 and is part of This Morning, Goetz’s four-volume history of the present, along with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration, and Deconspiration. Goetz has been awarded numerous prizes, most notably the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.  

James Goggin is the design director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and principal of Practise. Website

Steven Goldglit is the Managing Partner of Goldglit & Company, LLP and works directly with all clients. He is a board member or an advisor to the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation (Treasurer); Marina Abramovic Foundation (Treasurer); Faou Foundation (Treasurer); and Professional Advisors to the International Art Market NY, Inc. (PAIAM; President and Founding Board Member).  

Goldin+Senneby is a Stockholm-based artist subject established in 2004 by Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby. Goldin+Senneby often focuses on speculation and financial markets, and employs the practices that distinguish those markets. Their collaboration has also been shaped by the experience of disease, vulnerability, and caregiving, especially that of living with an autoimmune condition. Goldin+Senneby’s retrospective, “Standard Length of a Miracle,” was on view in 2016 at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm and in 2017 at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. Goldin+Senneby has had solo exhibitions at e-flux, New York; CCA Derry-Londonderry; Kadist, Paris; and the Power Plant, Toronto, among other venues. In 2015, Triple Canopy published Headless, a detective novel, ghostwritten by K. D., that culminated Goldin+Senneby’s eight-year investigation of offshore finance and human sacrifice. In 2019, Triple Canopy published “Eternal Employment,” a listing for a never-ending job at a train station in Gothenburg, written by Lina Ekdahl as part of a project by Goldin+Senneby. Website

Vivien Goldman is a New York-based Londoner and a writer, musician, educator, and broadcaster. She’s the author of six books, most recently Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot (Omnibus, 2019). In 2016, Staubgold released Resolutionary, which compiles her music from the early 1980s. She’s currently working on a new album, Next Is Now, produced by Youth of Killing Joke. Goldman is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. NYU’s Fales Library acquired her archive as the Vivien Goldman Punk and Reggae Collection.  

Billy Gomberg is a musician and video artist living in Brooklyn. Website

Christian González-Rivera is senior researcher at the Center for an Urban Future and author of “The New Face of New York’s Seniors.”  

Hardworking Goodlooking was established in 2013 as a publishing hauz devoted to the decolonization of tropical aesthetics, vernacular artisanship, and the value of the invisible. It is composed of Clara Balaguer, a cultural worker in the Netherlands; Kristian Henson and Dante Carlos, graphic designers in the United States; and Czar Kristoff, an artist in the Philippines. HWGL is an offshoot of the Office of Culture and Design, a platform for cultural social practice that was founded in 2010, based in Parañaque City, and laid to rest in 2018.  

Matthew Shen Goodman is a Triple Canopy senior editor. He writes and makes music. Website

Ain Gordon  

Danny Gordon received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2006. He has exhibited his photographs in solo exhibitions at Zach Feuer Gallery and Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York City and Claudia Groeflin Gallery in Zurich. He has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the CCS Museum at Bard College, and MoMA PS1. Gordon is the author of Portrait Studio and Flying Pictures. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Website

Vivian Gornick is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at the New School.  

Alex Gourevitch is a political science professor at Brown University who writes about the environment, work, and economic freedom.  

David Graeber is an activist and professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of eight books, including Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and, most recently, The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement. Website

Garrett Gray is an actor, educator, and mime from Savannah, Georgia, who currently resides in New York City. He grew up with a love for classical theater and clowning, which led him to the American Mime Theatre, founded by Paul J. Curtis in 1952. He was introduced to mime by the artistic director, Jean Barbour, and went on to become a member of the company. His theatrical roles include Ariel in “The Tempest” (Columbia Stages) and Bob in “American Buffalo” (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre); he has appeared in films and television shows such as Bolden!, Necessary Roughness, “BULL,” and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga.” Website

Neil Greenberg has been drawing maps since he was in high school. He currently lives in Detroit, where he runs a transit system for students at the University of Michigan and schedules buses for Southeast Michigan’s Transit Authority. Website

Adam Greenfield is Senior Urban Fellow at LSE Cities; founder and managing director of design practice Urbanscale; and author, most recently, of Against the smart city.  

David Greenspan has had plays produced by the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Foundry, Target Margin, and Transport Group. Greenspan has also acted in premieres of works by Terrence McNally, David Adjmi, Sarah Ruhl, Adam Rapp, Mac Wellman, and Richard Foreman. For his writing and performance work, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Alpert Award, and five Obies.  

Karen Gregory is a lecturer in sociology at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York. Her research focuses on the entanglement of contemporary spirituality, precarity, entrepreneurialism, and digital media, with an emphasis on the role of the laboring body. She is a founder of CUNY’s Digital Labor Working Group, and her writing has appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women and Performance, the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and Visual Studies.  

Jane Gregory is from Tucson, Arizona. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently working towards a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley, California. Her book My Enemies was released by The Song Cave in early 2013.  

Joe Grimm is a composer and performer based in Chicago. He has collaborated with Lucky Dragons, Glenn Branca, and Alvin Lucier, among others. His most recent record is Brain Cloud (Spekk). Website

James Grimmelmann is an associate professor at New York Law School and a member of its Institute for Information Law and Policy. He studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society. He writes about intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, online privacy, and other topics in computer and Internet law. He blogs at the Laboratorium. Website

O Grivo is a duo of Brazilian audiovisual artists. O Grivo was formed in 1990 by Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira, who live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. An installation by the duo is currently on view as part of "Soundtracks" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. O Grivo's work has been included in the twenty-eighth São Paulo Biennial, the eighth Mercosul Biennial, and the ninth Sharjah Biennial, and exhibited and performed at Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo; Pivô, São Paulo; Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Brazil; and South London Gallery. O Grivo has collaborated with artists such as Cao Guimarães, Lucas Bambozzi, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Valeska Soares. Website

Jonah Groeneboer  

Prismatic Ground is a festival centered on experimental documentary. The inaugural edition took place in 2021, in partnership with Maysles Documentary Center and Screen Slate, with support from Canyon Cinema, Icarus Films, Video Data Bank, and Microscope Gallery. Website

Group Theory , a Brooklyn-based theater company, is Ben Vershbow and Dorit Avganim plus collaborators. Vershbow works at the New York Public Library running NYPL Labs, a digital skunkworks, devising ways to liberate archives and library data online. Avganim is an independent producer, working with artists such as Rainpan43, David/Ain Gordon, Tina Satter/Half Straddle, and the Debate Society, and is cofounder of Neighborhood Productions. Website

Regan Lin Grusy is Chief of Staff for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past February. Previously, she was Associate Director for the New Museum (2006) and Director of Development for both LMCC (2005) and Exit Art (2003). Regan is also a member of Triple Canopy’s Outreach Committee.  

Elizabeth Gumport is working toward an MFA in fiction at Johns Hopkins. She lives with her gerbil, Henry. Website

Summer Guthery  

Nathan Gwynne