BOOKS

Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect, 2024)

Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists In Times Square (Phaidon Press, 2024)

SAMPLE SCHOLARSHIP & ESSAYS

“Notes Towards Situating ‘AI’: Seven Critiques & Seven Problems,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2025.

Wet and Saturated Processes: Casey Reas. 2024, April 24-May 25. Unit London. “Casey Reas’ Garden of Earthly Delights”

“Time on the Blockchain” in Right Click Save, Vetro Editions 2024.

ASAP/Journal. 2023. “Extreme Capitalism: The Absurd Performance of Jennifer Lyn Morone, Inc.”

Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems. Curatorial essay for “Landscape for Lilypads” 15 May - 15 November, 2023 at Nxt Museum, Amsterdam.

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.

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 co-authored Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists In Times Square (Phaidon Press, 2024). She is co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect, 2024), and currently working on Contemporary Art & Technology: Rethinking Systems, Crises, and the Absurd (for Routledge series, Art and Science After 1750).

An Editor-at-Large with a monthly column on Art & Technology for The Brooklyn Rail, she contributes to assorted magazines, academic journals, catalogs, and books. She speaks locally and internationally about contemporary art’s imbrication in social and environmental situations. She serves on the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property, and was on the National Arts Club’s Board of Governors (2017-2020) where she led the founding of the Artist Fellowship.

Current research on disciplinary notions of agency as these apply to art and automation in a global context is supported by grants from Google Artist and Machine Intelligence (2023, 2024) and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities in Technology (2024-2026). In 2023, she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum in Amsterdam 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.

EDITORIAL WORK

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.