Christiane Paul is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Professor Emerita in the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is the author of the book Digital Art, part of the 'World of Art' series published by Thames & Hudson.
Education
Paul received both her MA and PhD from the University of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Career
In 2016, Paul was the recipient of the Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art for an established arts writer who has made significant contributions to the intersection of art and technology. In 2018, Paul was a speaker at the Chicago New Media Symposium which was held as part of the Chicago New Media 1973–1992 Exhibition. The Exhibition was curated by . and her books are Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 2003, 2008, 2015, 2023); A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, May 2016); Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012); and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008). At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Refigured (2023), Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018/19), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes Chain Reaction (feralfile.com, 2023), DiMoDA 4.0 Dis/Location (traveling show, 2021- ), The Question of Intelligence (Kellen Gallery, The New School, NYC, 2020), and What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015).
Publications
Die Antizipation der amerikanischen Postmoderne im Romanwerk Herman Melvilles / The Anticipation of Postmodern American Fiction in the Novels of Herman Melville [Dissertation], Idstein, Germany: Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, 1988 Unreal City, A Hypertext Companion to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Storyspace hypertext software, Cambridge, MA: Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1995 telematic landscape / Telematische Landschaft, editor, Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany, 1999 Digital Art, 'World of Art' series, Thames & Hudson, UK, 3rd revised ed. 2015 (1st edition 2003; 2nd revised edition 2008) New Media in the White Cube and Beyond – Curatorial Models for Digital Art, editor, UC California Press, 2008 Context Providers — Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, co-editor with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna, Intellect Press, UK / University of Chicago Press, 2011 Chinese Edition: Context Providers — Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Beijing Beepub Media & Culture Publishing Co., Ltd: Beijing, 2012) A Companion to Digital Art, Wiley-Blackwell, April 2016, Hoboken, NJ
Awards, fellowships and residencies
2005–2007: Cassullo Fellow, Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum
2013: Dora Maar Fellow in Residence, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France
2014: Residency at the David Bermant Foundation, Santa Ynez, CA
2016: Recipient of the Thoma Foundation’s 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art (Established Category)