Center for Curatorial Studies , Bard College
Who did Lauren Cornell work for from 2013 to 2017?
Lauren Cornell Lauren Cornell is an American curator and writer based in New York . Cornell is the Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies , Bard College , and Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art . Previously , she worked at the New Museum for twelve years and was the Executive Director of their affiliate Rhizome ( 2005-2012 ) . Biography . Cornell was born and raised in New York City . She started her career in the arts as the Executive Director of Ocularis , a now-closed cinema in Brooklyn , New York . She joined the New Museum in 2005 , where she worked on the inaugural Generational show , Younger Than Jesus , and became the Executive Director of Rhizome , an organization that commissions , exhibits , and preserves art engaged with technology . She stepped down from her role at Rhizome in July 2012 to curate the New Museums third Generational Triennial , Surround Audience , in 2015 . Cornell and Ed Halter co-edited the anthology Mass Effect : Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century ( 2016 ) . She has contributed to publications including Aperture , Art in America , ArtReview , Frieze , and Mousse , and written on artists for monographic catalogues . In 2016 , Artsy named Cornell one of The 20 Most Influential Young Curators in the United States . In 2017 , Cornell was the recipient of ArtTables New Leadership Award . In 2017 , she was named an Apollo 40 under 40 . Seven on Seven conference . In 2010 , Cornell founded Rhizomes Seven on Seven conference , which bridges contemporary art and technology fields by pairing technological innovators with visual artists and challenging them to develop something over the course of a day . Seven on Seven was inspired by Experiments in Art and Technology ( E.A.T. ) , a project launched by Billy Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg in 1967 , which organized collaborations between artists and engineers at Bell Labs . Quotes . “It’s important to consistently interrogate what exact freedoms or limitations structure our information environment.” Good curators don’t just show established artists or reiterate well-trodden art histories but work to expand , complicate and critique these narratives and open the doors of art to lesser-known or new voices . Exhibitions . - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Black on White , Gray Ascending , December 2007 – March 2008 ( co-curated with Laura Hoptman ) - New Museum Triennial : Younger Than Jesus , April–July 2009 ( co-curated with Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman ) - Free , October 2010-January 2011 - Walking Drifting Dragging , January–February 2013 - New Museum Triennial : Surround Audience , February–May 2015 ( co-curated with Ryan Trecartin ) - Song , Strategy , Sign : Beatriz Santiago Munoz ( co-curated with Johanna Burton and Sara O’Keeffe ) - Invisible Adversaries at CCS Bard , June–September 2016 ( co-curated with Tom Eccles ) - Daniel Steegmann Mangrane : A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth at CCS Bard Selected Writings . - The Intensity and Integrity of Ian White , Frieze - Mass Effect , Mousse Magazine - Self-Portraiture in the First-Person Age , Aperture - In the Studio : Dara Birnbaum , Art in America - Techno-animism , Mousse Magazine - Down the Line , Frieze Publications . - Cornell , Lauren , Massimiliano Gioni , and Laura Hoptman , eds . Younger Than Jesus : The Reader ( New York : New Museum / London : Steidl & Partners , 2009 - Cornell , Lauren , ed. , Free . New York : New Museum , 2010 - Cornell , Lauren and Helga Christoffersen , eds . 2015 Triennial : Surround Audience . New York : New Museum / Rizzoli Skira , 2015 - Cornell , Lauren and Ed Halter , eds . Mass Effect : Art and the Internet in the 21st Century . New York : New Museum / Cambridge , MA : the MIT Press , 2015 - Cornell , Lauren and Eccles , Tom , eds . Invisible Adversaries . New York : Hessel Museum , 2016