Executive Director
About
Marisa Olson is an artist, writer, and media theorist who initiates dialogue about network culture through teaching, research, exhibitions, and public programs. Marisa's work on the cultural history of technology as it pertains to gender, political participation, and the environment has manifest in a range of media, publications, and feminist pedagogy. Marisa studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Film & Media/Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She's been an Artist in Residence at ZKM, Akademie Schloss-Solitude, Eyebeam, the Banff Centre, and Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, exhibiting at venues ranging from the Venice Biennale to the Whitney Museum and the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to serving on the faculty at NYU, RISD, and Bard College, and as a Visiting Critic at Brown, Yale, and elsewhere, she was the first Editor & Curator of Rhizome, and is the former Associate Director of SF Camerawork. She has curated projects at the New Museum, Guggenheim, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and DiverseWorks and her critical writing about postinternet art & politics (a discourse she initiated in the early 2000s) has appeared in numerous academic journals & anthologies, now translated into multiple languages, in addition to platforms such as Artforum, The Guardian, Wired, and e-flux.
