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Kenneth White

Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies, Departmental Faculty Advisor of Visual Studies

Email
whiteka@newschool.edu

Office Location
M - 68 Fifth Avenue

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Kenneth White

Degrees Held

PhD Art History-Film and Media Studies, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 2015

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), Studio, 2014-15

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Critical Studies, 2013-14

Princeton–Weimar Summer School for Media Studies, Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Bauhaus-Universität, 2013

MA Art History-Film and Media Studies, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 2010

BFA Film, Syracuse University Department of Art Media Studies, 2005

 


Recent Publications

Annette Michelson and the Radical Aspiration in American Avant-Garde Cinema: A Critical Anthology. Luis A. Recoder and Kenneth White, eds. Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image, Series Editors: Kim Knowles and Jonathan Walley. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Lux Mundi: Peter Shellenberger's Photosynthesis.” LACE: Photography by Peter Shellenberger. Portland, Maine: Zero Station, 2025. 

Hello, Darkness: A Story of Collage and War.” Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Lotte Johnson and Chris Bayley, eds. London: Barbican Centre and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

Eye/Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera. Carolee Schneemann, 1963.” The Lacanian Review 11 (Fall 2021): "The Art of Singularities: One, by One." Robert Buck, ed.

House Body House.” Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 107 (Fall 2021). “Dossier: Carolee Schneemann.” Tess Takahashi and Kenneth White, eds. 

Michael Snow (October File). Annette Michelson and Kenneth White, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.

“Accumulator.” Rotterdam: Garage Rotterdam, 2019.

Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable. Kenneth White, ed. London: Black Dog, 2015.

“Meat System in Cologne.” Art Journal vol. 74, no. 1 (Spring 2015).

“Strangeloves: From/De la région centrale, Air Defense Radar Station Moisie, and Media Cultures of the Cold War.” Grey Room 58 (Winter 2015).

“Absolute Feedback: Notes on the Discursive Spaces of Video Art circa 1976.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly 13 (May-July 2013).

“Until You Get to Know Me: Tony Oursler’s Aetiology of Television.” Millennium Film Journal 57 (Spring 2013).

“Muybridge’s Enthalpy.” Public 47. “3D Cinema and Beyond” (Spring 2013).

“Urban unknown: Chantal Akerman in New York City.” Screen vol. 51 no. 4 (Winter 2010).


Current Courses


Future Courses

  • Atrocity Exhibitions
    LVIS 3029 - Spring 2027
  • Video Art History
    LVIS 3035 - Spring 2027
  • Independent Study
    LVIS 3950 - Spring 2027
  • Core Studio: Senior Thesis
    PUFA 4310 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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