About
I have
worked for over three decades to make information accessible, and to explore the interaction of words, art, audiences and virtual and actual public spaces, connecting what’s distant with the here and now.
Education
M.A. in Moving Image Archive Studies, UCLA, 2011
B.A. in Classics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1984
Publications
Open Bar: A Diary of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2018–2019 Centennial Season, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 28, 2019
The Numinous Has Many Shapes and Ways: On SITI and Aaron Poochigian’s “Bacchae”, Los Angeles Review of Books, January 6, 2019
Mapping No-Man’s Land: On Thomas Dilworth’s “David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet”, Los Angeles Review of Books, February 8, 2018
Notes of Actuality: A New Anthology Documenting the Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 7, 2017
When People Wanted Civilisation: Reassessing Kenneth Clark, Los Angeles Review of Books, January 11, 2016
The Dunce Gets a Doorstop: A Life of Jean Cocteau, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 17, 2016
Michelangelo’s Marble Blog: epigraphic walls as pictures and samples of language. In Adele Scafuro and John Bodel, Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy, 2014
Guerrillas, Architects & Cable TV: SCI-Arc’s videos in context. In Todd Gannon, Confederacy of Heretics, 2013
Learning from the SCI-Arc Media Archive, International Federation of Library Associations, 2013
Some Recent Place Compilation Movies. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2012
Talking at the Movies. Cabinet, #46, Summer 2012
Projects
Co-manager with Reza Monahan, SCI-Arc Media Archive project, 2009-present
SCI-Arc, Manager, Kappe Library, 1987 to present
The Mike Kelley Foundation, Consultant with Reza Monahan on media preservation and access, for the creation of an archive, January-June 2014, and October-November 2018
School of Architecture, University of Limerick, Library consultant for the architecture collection, 2005-6
SCI-Arc, Accreditation Liaison Officer, 2002-8
Verso Press, Copy editor, October 1993 to 2000, part-time
Memberships
American Library Association
Art Libraries Society of North America
Association of Architecture School Librarians
Association of Moving Image Archivists
Visual Resources Association
