I teach courses in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I specialize in modern and contemporary art, aesthetic and critical theory, and global and transnational art and art history. My books and articles have appeared in English, German, Korean, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Albanian, and Polish. I am the founding editor of ARTMargins Online and ARTMargins Print Journal (MIT Press) as well as a co-founder of the Working Group Cultures of World Socialism. In 2008 I published The Big Archive. Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press). In 2017, I edited a volume about destruction in global art (Destruction, MIT Press). My latest book publications are a co-edited volume about sound in art and culture (Akusmatik als Labor: Kultur/Kunst/Medien, ed. with Mario Asef, 2023) and the monograph Art as Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2024). Forthcoming is Socialist Exhibition Cultures. International Art Exhibitions in the Socialist World, 1950-1990 (ed., Toronto University Press).
