Dean, who is based in Los Angeles, will work alongside Artistic Director Michael Connor and Preservation Director Dragan Espenschied, on the preservation, presentation and re-performance of works of digital art, created from the 1980s onwards. The appointment reflects Rhizome’s ongoing commitment to the promotion and growth of contemporary art engaged with technology and the internet.
Dean, who graduated from Oberin College with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and has written for, among others, Artforum and The New Inquiry, is also co-director of the Los Angeles exhibition space As It Stands LA — where she has both exhibited work and acted as curator. Her writing focuses on the interrelationship between digital art, feminism and blackness.
The news comes after Rhizome announced a planned expansion of its curatorial staff — the organization is in fact to hire a software curator, and has also just announced the forthcoming appointment of a net art Ph.D. student in collaboration with The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University.
Aria Dean photo via Rhizome
