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Charlotte Kent

Associate Professor, Art and Design, Dean's Office, College of the Arts

Office:
Calcia Hall
Email:
kentc@montclair.edu
Phone:
973-655-4260
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CHARLOTTE KENT, PhD is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of the book, Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (forthcoming, Intellect Books) and an Editor at Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology, contributing to many arts magazines and academic journals about the intersection of contemporary art, digital culture, and ecological systems. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities and Google's Artist + Machine Intelligence program. In 2023, she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum, where she co-curated with Jesse Damiani the RealTime exhibit, Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems. Her service to the field includes being a mentor for Hyundai ArtsLab Editorial Fellowship, a judge for Creative Capital and the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, the founder of the Artist Fellowship for the Board of Governors at the National Arts Club, and participating in a roundtable for the UCI Beall Center for Art + Technology's Getty PST Art Initiative. She is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center, St. John’s College, and Philips Academy, Andover. She currently lives in New York City.

Specialization

Visual culture, narratology, contemporary art, digital culture, emergent technologies, history of aesthetics, ekphrasis, deconstruction, critical theory, surrealism, and the absurd.