SARAH ARCHINO is the Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris. She received her PhD in 2012 from the City University of New York on Reframing the Narrative of Dada in New York, 1910-1926. She was previously Teaching Fellow at Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, Writing Fellow at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, and Visiting Instructor at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. http://gc-cuny.academia.edu/SarahArchino.

CURATING AND EDITING

      2012  Editor,  Instructor’s  Manual  for  Stokstad’s  Art  History,  Pearson  Publishing  2011  Co-­‐curator,  forthcoming  exhibition  on  Theresa  Bernstein.  2012  Co-­‐host,  “Deadly  Serious  Art:  Strategies  of  Humor  as  Critique.”      2010  Editor,  Instructor’s  Manual  for  Stokstad’s  Art  History,  Pearson  Publishing  2009  Faculty  Advisory  Board  Member,  Pearson  Publishing  2004  Assistant  Curator,  Hunter  College  Art  Galleries.  

PUBLICATIONS

2013 “The People’s Art Guild and the Forward Exhibition of 1917,” American Art 2013 “Unpacking the White Box: Aspen 5+6,” Rutgers Art Review, volume 28 2013 Editor, Instructor’s Manual, Art History, 5th edition. Volume II. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Publishing 2013 “Theresa Bernstein and the Era of World War I in New York” and “Dada’s Long Shadow: Bernstein and ‘The Paint Rag’” in Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art, Gail Levin, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska 2011 “Linda Cunningham,” Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2010 Editor, Instructor’s Manual, Art History, 4th edition. Volume II. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Publishing

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2013 Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, France 2012 Alternate, Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2012 Honorable Mention, Professional-Development Fellowship in Art History, College Art Association 2012 College Art Association Travel Grant 2012 Faculty Development Grant, Millsaps College 2011 Terra Summer Residency, Terra Foundation for American Art. Residency in Giverny, France 2011 Doctoral Student Research Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2011 Presidential Research Fund Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2010 Nominated for American Association of Colleges and Universities K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award 2009 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship 2009 Susan Rosenthal Zalk Fellowship, The Gradaute Center, CUNY. Support for conference travel, Mobile, Alabama 2006 Susan Rosenthal Zalk Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Support for conference travel, Baltimore, Maryland 2005 Chancellor’s Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY

   

ISABELLA STREFFEN is a practice-based researcher who was recently awarded her doctorate by Newcastle University, where she specialized in the use of military visioning technologies in fine art, and developed her methodology of ‘field-craft’. Isabella works primarily in lens-based media, exploring complex and contested cultural sites and attempting to shed light on their origins and consequences. Her work is explicitly political and site-specific, whilst retaining a keen and pleasurable sense of the absurd, and has become increasingly ambitious in scale and complexity. Projects such as You Never See Me From The Place At Which I See You in the 2008 Hatton Gallery exhibition Shooting The Light Fantastic used eye-tracking technology and a retina scanner in conjunction with a dual-channel video to frustrate the viewer and never let them see what they were looking at.

1&2 HAWK & DOVE (2012) 17m digital video, silver vinyl architectural prints, edition of prints Hawk & Dove was commissioned as part of the 5x5 public art festival in Washington DC, 2012 (www.the5x5project.com) and saw two remote-controlled zeppelins mounted with miniature cameras exploring the iconic spaces of Washington DC’s Library of Congress and Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library. The resulting film, which revealed the power plays inherent in the control of knowledge, was screened at the Library of Congress and on an architectural scale at MLK Library, and as part of ‘Magnificent Distance’ at Globe Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2012.

3&4 THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE (2012) looped digital video, edition of prints This project derives from Isabella’s 2011 residency at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France. Shot on location in Monet’s garden in Giverny during June 2012, the work meditates on visibility in this site of a million tourist fantasies about ‘nature’, ‘art’ and ‘beauty’. The resulting film, The Old Razzle Dazzle – a reference to the military camouflage developed in WWI by artists – will premier in 2013.

5&6 NEW BATTLE PLAN [work in progress] A project developed for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Hadrian’s Wall (a historic boundary between England and Scotland), New Battle Plan supposes an escalation in demands for the devolution of Scotland from the United Kingdom and the resulting scenario of an insurgent terrorist attack on the Spadeadam military site on the border. Working with RAF Regiment veterans with substantial experience, including a team involved in a comparable terrorist incident in Cyprus in the mid-1980s, the project takes the form of two battle plan documents (offensive and defensive) and a subsequent ‘CPX’ (Command Post Exercise). New Battle Plan tackles the issues of contested territories, historical narrative and the relationship between politics and war, and generates a new battle plan for Hadrian’s Wall in the event of it once again becoming the England-Scotland border.

7&8 ILLUMINATING HADRIAN’S WALL (2010) event, DVD

Isabella was artistic director for Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall (a one-day event that lit the entirety of the 84-mile Wall sequentially with beacons in an echo of a Roman gesture of defensive integrity), and was also commissioned to produce Scintilla, a film about the illumination made using hyper-spectral imagery that was subsequently exhibited at nine sites across the Wall corridor.

   

SIOFRA MCSHERRY is a poet, art critic and creative researcher. She studied English at Oxford University before completing an MA at University College London, and is currently an Assistant Editor at the Getty Reseach Institute in Los Angeles. In June 2013 she will take up a Huntington Fellowship working with manuscripts from the Wallace Stevens collection. Siofra’s poetry has been anthologised in the Salt Book of Younger Poets 2011 and elsewhere. She publishes regularly on contemporary art in the US and Europe. http://siofra.net.

ART CRITICISM

Review: Cyprien Gaillard, thisistomorrow.info, March 2013 Review: Ed Ruscha, thisistomorrow.info, November 2012 Review: Lucy Raven, thisistomorrow.info, October 2012 Article: Mike Kelley in Los Angeles, thisistomorrow.info, February 2012 Review: Lydia Gifford, thisistomorrow.info, February 2012 Review: Lynda Benglis, thisistomorrow.info, October 2011 Review: Claude Cahun, thisistomorrow.info, August 2011 Review: Shirin Neshat, thisistomorrow.info, January 2011 Review: Mark Bradford, thisistomorrow.info, November 2010 Review: Rivane Neuenschwander, A Day Like Any Other, thisistomorrow.info, August 2010 Review: Judith Clark and Adam Philips, thisistomorrow.info, June 2010 Review: Phyllida Barlow, Bluff, thisistomorrow.info, May 2010 Artist Profile: Blue Curry, thisistomorrow.info, March 2010 Review: Old Mayfair Carpet Gallery: SOUTH TOWER SOCIAL, thisistomorrow.info, February 2010

POETRY

‘Casting Song’, Abraxas Magazine Issue 3, Abraxas Press, 2012 ‘No Nemo’, Sylvia is Missing: Flarestack Poets Competition Anthology 2012, Flarestack, 2012 ‘Public Love Poem’, inc. magazine, inczine, June 2012 “All thoughts are prey to some beast”, Streetcake #23, May 2012 ‘Faust’, ‘Sleepless’, ‘L’Etoile’, ‘To a blackberry maggot’: Salt Book of Younger Poets, Salt Publishing, October 2011 ‘Willow Warbler’: Birdbook I, Sidekick Books, January 2011 ‘Insomnia’, ‘Music for a Summer Afternoon’: foam:e 7, www.foame.org, January 2010 ‘Swans’, Cluster Arts Magazine Issue 1: As Many Works as Dots, The Ladies of the Press*, winter 2007

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2013 Huntington Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA 2011 Summer Residency Fellow, Terra Foundation, Giverny, France 2010 Fulbright Special Programme Participant, Multinational Institute of American Studies Summer Program, New York University, US 2010 BAAS Short Term Postgraduate Travel Grant 2009 KCL Travel Grant to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy