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Interactive Telecommunications

Courses

Tactical Media: History and Theory
Sousveillance Culture

Education

BA/MA, UC Berkeley
MA, UC Santa Cruz
C. Phil, UC Berkeley

Biography

Marisa is an artist, critic, and curator. She is currently Editor
& Curator at Rhizome.org and she's organized exhibitions and programs
at the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, the Getty, White Columns, Artists Space, the
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and elsewhere, including SF
Camerawork, where she was previously Associate Director. She's written
for Wired, Mute, Afterimage, Flash Art, ArtReview, and others,
and has written commissioned essays for the Walker Art Center, the
Banff Centre's New Media Institute, and Eyebeam. Her own
performance-based work often takes the form of net art, video, sound
art, and installations. This work has recently been presented by the
Whitney, the New Museum, the Pacific Film Archive, and numerous
international festivals. Marisa holds an MA in History of Consciousness
from UC Santa Cruz, where she taught in the Film & Digital Media
department; and both a BA and MA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where
she is currently a PhD Candidate and where she has
created and taught classes in new media in the departments of Film
Studies and Art History