Background
Kirsten Gill is a scholar of moving image media, focusing on experimental and avant-garde moving image practices and the intersection of art and the moving image, with research interests in diasporic, Black, and anti-colonial art and time-based media. Her current book project traces a range of experiments in post-war film, video and para-cinematic media to show how the social and aesthetic forms of moving image media were re-imagined in light of Black liberation movements in the U.S. from the '60s to the '80s.
Gill completed her PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at The New School, and at City College, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the New York City College of Technology at CUNY.
In addition to teaching, Gill is also an active curator and organizer. She was Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation, and has held positions at the ICA Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has presented projects at Dia (with the Hammer Museum and Electronic Arts Intermix), Wendy鈥檚 Subway, Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), the James Gallery (New York) and numerous galleries in Philadelphia. Since 2023, she has run After Hours Film School, a workshop and programming series that operates out of Wendy鈥檚 Subway, an independent publisher and reading space in Brooklyn. She has written for Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Title Magazine, Island Island and others, as well as for publications by the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
Education
- PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Bates College
Research Interests
- Histories of visuality
- Black Studies
- Experimental cinema
- Philosophies of the image
- Diasporic cultural practices
- Collectivity and forms of the social
- Poetics