Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect, 2024)
Magenta Elephants: Damjanski. 2024, June 7-July 12. Office Impart “Nobody is Here aka Outis Arrives and Nemo Appears”
Wet and Saturated Processes: Casey Reas. 2024, April 24-May 25. Unit London. “Casey Reas’ Garden of Earthly Delights”
ASAP/Journal. 2024. “Extreme Capitalism: The Absurd Performance of Jennifer Lyn Morone, Inc.”
Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems. 2024. Nxt Museum. “Landscape for Lilypads”
Digital Culture and Society. 2023. “Installation Art in Virtual Reality: Resisting a Corporate Commons.”
Woman’s Art Journal. 2023. Review of Judith Brodsky’s Dismantling the Patriarchy Bit by Bit. Vol 44, no. 1.
Visual Studies. 2023.“Reclaiming Vision: Looking at Berger’s Ways of Seeing and NASA’s Blue Marble,” Vol. 38, no. 1. Published online August 2021.
The Comparatist. 2022. “The Politics of the Absurd in the Obadike’s Blackness for Sale and Dread Scott’s White Male for Sale.” Vol. 46. 65-83.
In Light of Abstraction: Leo Villareal. 2022. Marfa Invitational, ArtBlocks. Spring.
City of Los Angeles, Individual Master Artist Program Catalog. 2022. “The Material Trace: Nancy Baker Cahill.”
Leonardo. 2022. “Beyond Representation in Virtual Reality: The Abstract Art of Jane Hamill and Kevin Mack,” 55.3, p. 240-245.
Proof of Art: A Short History of NFTs from the Beginning of Digital Art to the Metaverse. 2021. Ed. Alfred Weilinger (Distanz Verlag). “Blockchain’s Conceptual Landscape,” p. 144-153. Published following the exhibition Proof of Art at the Francisco Carolinum, Linz, June 10-September 15, 2021, curated by Jesse Damiani, Fabian Müller-Nittel and Markus Reindl.
Tech/Know/Futures. 2021. Ed. Charlotte Kent (Montclair State University and CalArts). “An Odd Assortment of Thoughts on the Monsters, Margins and Media of Our Time,” p. 70-79. Published following the exhibition Tech/Know/Futures at the Segal Galleries, Montclair, NJ, September 14-December 11, curated by Tom Leeser.
Burlington Contemporary. 2021 “Blockchain Manifestos: Fighting for the Imagination of a Culture,” November.
Emotion, Affect, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Media: Theories and Case Studies. 2018. Ed. Lei Zhang. New York: Routledge. “Aestheticizing the Affective Politics of "If You See Something, Say Something." 156-170.
Harvard Design Magazine, To Manifest, manifesto with the Feminist Art & Architecture Collaborative
Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an arts writer and Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University. She specializes in 20th and 21st century art, digital culture and emergent technologies, with a focus on situating these within a historical and ecological trajectory of culture and politics. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (2024, Intellect Books).
She is an an Editor-at-Large with a monthly column on Art & Technology for The Brooklyn Rail and writes for assorted culture magazines and academic journals, as well as contributing essays to books and exhibition catalogs. She speaks locally and internationally about contemporary art’s imbrication in social and environmental situations. She was awarded a grant from Google Artist and Machine Intelligence (2023) and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities in Technology (2024), pursuing research on disciplinary notions of agency as these apply to art and automation in a global context. In 2023, she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum where she co-curated with Jesse Damiani the first RealTime exhibit, Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems.
Beyond topical politics, there are a politics to her style. She often interjects unexpected digressions because to mediate is to be situated liminally, like so many mythological tricksters, weaving connections across divides. Introducing a wry humor offers an alternative affective lens on culture and the contemporary, and so undermines tragedy as a superior mode, one that reproduces a classical hierarchy with alienating socio-political consequences.
She is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center, St. John’s College, Phillips Academy Andover, and the Writer’s Institute.
Brooklyn Rail, Editor at Large, monthly column on Art & Technology, reviews contributor and New Social Environment interviewer. She was the Guest Editor for the Critic’s Page of the May 2023 issue.
Art Forum, contributor
ArtNet, contributor
Art News, contributor
Art Papers, contributor to special issue on AI
Art Review, contributor
BOMB, contributor
Burlington Contemporary, journal and reviews contributor
CLOT Magazine, op-eds and reviews
Fast Company, contributor
Huge Moves, contributor
Hyperallergic, op-eds and reviews
Litro Magazine, feature article
Musée Magazine, feature articles and reviews
ex: Robert Rauschenberg: Pollinating Iconography March 2020
ex: Andy Warhol: Master of the Instant March 2020
Outland, contributor
Right Click Save, contributor
Wired, contributor Ideas
Artists Magazine, Contributing Writer: feature articles and monthly columnist “Business of Art” 2018-2021.