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Karen Archey
Alma materThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Occupation(s)Curator, writer
Notable workArt Post-Internet (2014)
After Institutions (2022)
Websitewww.karenarchey.com

Karen Archey is an American art critic and curator based in New York City and Amsterdam. She is the Curator of Contemporary Art and Time-Based Media at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the former editor of e-flux.[1]

Archey regularly speaks on issues related to contemporary art, feminism, and technology at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She has written for publications such as Art in America, ArtReview, frieze, and Spike Art Quarterly, and she has contributed essays to publications of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.[2][3]

Biography

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Archey received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Critical Studies in 2008 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4]

Archey was the Curator-in-Residence at the Abrons Arts Center in New York from 2012 to 2013.[5] She also served as the Editor-at-Large of Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.[5] She contributed the essay Bodies in Space: Gender and Sexuality in the Online Public Sphere to the 2015 publication Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, co-published by the MIT Press and New Museum as part of the series Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture.[6][3][7]

In 2014 in Beijing, Archey co-curated the survey exhibition Art Post-Internet[8] at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art with Robin Peckham[9] and edited the freely available publication Art Post-internet: Information/Data.[10][11][12] Trevor Smith of Hyperallergic wrote that Archey and Peckham's exhibition and catalog "solidified the term “post-internet art” in our vocabulary".[13] Archey and Peckham describe Internet art as: "post-Internet refers not to a time ‘after’ the Internet but rather to an Internet state of mind — to think in the fashion of the network.”[14] They go on to write in the catalogue:

"Our current historical moment has been postulated as the dawn of the posthuman, at least in the cultural imaginary. Since the advent of the internet, theorists of new media have described the emergent possibilities of a distributed global unconscious, a "next nature" that evolves alongside human society, or an "anthropocene" geological era defined by the human accumulation of carbon. In all of these narratives, what matters is the back-and-forth relationship between ecology and the human. As our bodies are extended and perhaps supplanted by prosthetic devices that mediate our experiences of the world, new forms of being — once known as science fiction — come alive in very real, often prosaic ways."[15]

Archey joined e-flux in 2014. While editor at e-flux, she began the web publishing platform Conversations.[1] She remained the editor of Conversations until 2017.[5]

She has contributed reviews to numerous contemporary arts publications, such as ArtReview and Art-Agenda.[3] In 2015, Archey received a Creative Capital grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for short-form writing.[16][17][18]

In 2017, Archey was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art for Time-Based Media of Stedelijk Museum.[17][19][5]

Archey founded Women, Inc. a group that supports women in the arts at the early stages of their careers.[20]

Exhibitions

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  • Images Rendered Bare. Vacant. Recognizable, Stadium, New York City, 2012
  • Bcc #7, Stadium, New York City, 2012
  • Deleuze & Co., Stadium, New York City, 2012
  • How to Eclipse the Light, Wilkinson, London, 2012
  • Deep Spaces (Insides), Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York City, 2012
  • Harm van den Dorpel, Abrons Art Center, New York City, 2013
  • Hymns for Mr. Suzuki, Abrons Art Center, New York City, 2013
  • Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2014[21]
  • Sharing Love, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, 2016[19][22][5]

Selected writings

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  • Hack Life, Art Papers, November/December 2013[23]
  • "Hyper-Elasticity Symptoms, Signs Treatment: On Hito Steyerl's Liquidity Inc." within Too Much World: The Films of Hito Steyerl, edited by Nick Aikens; Sternberg Press, Van Abbemuseum and Institute of Modern Art, 2014[24]
  • Art Post-Internet: Information/Data, edited with Robin Peckham, 2014[25][26][12]
  • Bodies in Space: Gender and Sexuality in the Online Public Sphere, within Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter; MIT Press and New Museum, 2015[3]
  • Embodied Differences: New Images of the Monstrous and Cyborg in Contemporary Art, within Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, edited by Chrissie Isles; Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016[2][27]
  • Archey, Karen; Metahaven, eds. (2018). Metahaven, PSYOP. Köln: König, Walther. ISBN 9783960983620.[28]
  • Archey, Karen (2022). After Institutions. Floating Opera Press. ISBN 9783981910889.[29][30]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Karen Archey | Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech Thinkers". Apollo Magazine. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b Isles, Chrissie (2016). Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 978-0300221879.
  3. ^ a b c d Cornell, Lauren; Halter, Ed (2015). Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts / London, England: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. pp. 451–467, 473. ISBN 978-0-262-02926-1.
  4. ^ "Karen Archey's column on Artinfo - School of the Art Institute of Chicago". saic.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Karen Archey joins the Stedelijk Museum / ArtReview". artreview.com. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  6. ^ "Mass Effect". MIT Press. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  7. ^ "Series - New Museum Digital Archive". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  8. ^ Cornell, Lauren (November 2013). "Beginnings + Ends". Frieze (159): 127, 129 – via Art & Architecture Source.
  9. ^ Luke, Ben (December 2014). "From the web to the gallery". Art Newspaper. 24 (263): 52 – via Art & Architecture Source.
  10. ^ Grayson, Richard (September 2015). "TALKIN' 'ABOUT THEIR G-G-G-GENERATION". Art Monthly (389): 2 – via Art & Architecture Source.
  11. ^ Droitcour, Brian (September 2018). "BROKEN LINKS: THE INTERNET SHOW". Art in America. 106 (8) – via Art & Architecture Source.
  12. ^ a b Archey, Karen; Peckham, Robin (2014). "Art Post-Internet: INFORMATION/DATA". post-inter.net. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015.
  13. ^ Smith, Trevor H. (11 February 2015). "In Search of the Post-Internet at Art Rotterdam". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  14. ^ Kennedy, Randal (5 February 2015). "Where Virtual Equals Real". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  15. ^ Indarola, Alexander (19 November 2014). "TFC". The Quietus. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  16. ^ "Karen Archey - Grantees - Arts Writers Grant Program". www.artswriters.org. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  17. ^ a b Greenberger, Alex (2017-04-20). "Stedelijk Museum Names Karen Archey Curator of Contemporary Art for Time-Based Media". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  18. ^ Greenberger, Alex (2015-11-30). "Here Are the 2015 Recipients of Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  19. ^ a b "Karen Archey Joins Stedelijk Museum as Curator of Contemporary Art for Time-Based Media". www.artforum.com. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  20. ^ "The Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant: Karen Archey". Art Writers. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  21. ^ "Art Post-Internet: 2014.3.1 - 2014.5.11, Central Gallery". UCCA. Archived from the original on 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  22. ^ "Ann Hirsch: Sharing Love - Maine College of Art". Maine College of Art. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  23. ^ "2013". Karen Archey.
  24. ^ Inside HD squarespace.com
  25. ^ Waugh, Michael (2017). "'My laptop is an extension of my memory and self': Post-Internet identity, virtual intimacy and digital queering in online popular music". Popular Music. 36 (2): 233–251. doi:10.1017/S0261143017000083. ISSN 0261-1430. JSTOR 26358350.
  26. ^ Gentles, Tim (2015). "Between Here and Nowhere: A Survey of Post-Internet Practices among New Zealand Artists". Reading Room (7): 102–117. ISSN 1177-2549 – via Art & Architecture Source.
  27. ^ "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  28. ^ Cianciotta, Aurelio (31 December 2018). "(edited by) Karen Archey, Metahaven – PSYOP: An Anthology". Neural. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  29. ^ Reviews of After Institutions
  30. ^ Madsen, Kristin Vistrup (12 June 2023). "Girls, Interrupted". Artforum. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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