MEMBERS A-C

MEMBERS D-G

MEMBERS H-K

MEMBERS L-Q

MEMBERS R-Z

Andrew Hemingway: University College London. Recent or upcoming works: review of Dave Beech and John Roberts, The Philistine Controversy (Verso, 2002) in Historical Materialism (forthcoming); lecture, "Precisionism and Reification: The Work of George Ault," Department of American Studies, University of Sussex (February 2004); inaugural lecture, "Louis Lozowick and Marxist Modernism in 20s America," University College London (April 2004). Research interests: US art, 1900-1950; Marxism and aesthetics; history of the left. Publications include: Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002); and Romantic Landscape: The Norwich School of Painters, 1803-1833 (Tate Publishing, 2000).

Keith Holz: researches the art of 20th century Germany (ca. 1900-1950). The public activities of German exile artists and their artists' groups in Prague, Paris, and London during the 1930s are the focus of his books Im Auge des Exils:  Josef Breitenbach und die Freie Deutsche Kultur in Paris 1933-1941 (with Wolfgang Schopf,) Berlin: Aufbau Verlag (German/English), 2001 & Paris: Autrement (French/German), 2003; and  Modern German Art for Thirties Paris, Prague and London: Resistance and Acquiescence in a Democratic Public Sphere, Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.  Stemming from his research on the small, alternative German artists groups formed in European exile centers and their relationships to local cultural institutions and those of the Third Reich, he is interested in the implications of an institutional history of art for ongoing art historical and art practices.  He currently is researching the role of modern art within German foreign relations from 1914-1945, and is completing a study of three private Jewish collections of modern art in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)--collections dispersed at the time the Nazis took control of Breslau in the mid-1930s.  He is also interested in the art and careers of Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Freundlich.  At Western Illinois University he regularly offers the following courses: Introduction to Visual Art, Twentieth Century Art, and Contemporary Art.  In 2008, he is offering two courses on the Visual Arts and Nazi Germany.  Contact Info: 32 Garwood Hall, Art Department, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL   61455;  309.298.2563 (office phone); dk-holz@wiu.edu.

Paul B. Jaskot:

DePaul University, Department of Art & Art History; Former RAC Secretary, CAA Board Member, President of CAA (2008-2010). Research,
activist interests: Modern German Art and Architecture, Marxist Art History, and the Political Economy of Art. Recent Activities: [co-edited
with Gavriel Rosenfeld] Beyond Berlin: 12 Postwar German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008); "Marxism
and the Built Environment in the 21st Century: Millennium Park in Chicago and the Question of Private and Public Space," in "As radical as
reality itself": Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century, eds. Matthew Beaumont, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie and John Roberts
(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007): 105-32; Director, Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization
(June 2008). Contact info: Department of Art and Art History, 1150 W. Fullerton, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614; 773-325-2567.

William Kaizen:  Asst. Prof. of Aesthetics and Critical Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.  Editor, Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics in Practice, Duke University Press; The Immediate: Video and the Irrational, Duke University.  Research interests: moving images, radical democracy, public sphere debates, media and ecology.  wkaizen@hotmail.com

Sarah Kanouse: is an interdisciplinary artist examining citizenship, public space, landscape, and historical memory through arts practice, writing, and occasional curatorial work. In the last few years, her work has appeared in exhibitions mounted by Artlink (Belgrade, Serbia); Institute for Quotidian Arts and Letters (Milwaukee); Columbia College (Chicago); Women's Caucus for Art (Barnard College, New York); SOFA Gallery (Indiana University), Kupfer Center (University of Wisconsin Madison), Centro Cultural Rosa Luxemburg (Buenos Aires, Argentina), among others. Sarah's writings have been published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Acme, The Democratic Comunique, Critical Planning and Art Journal. She is an occasional contributor to the online forums iDC and Critical Spatial Practice and is a frequent coordinator of guest artist presentations, end-of-semester shows, and miscellaneous events in Carbondale. She teaches digital media and contemporary arts practices at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Janet Koenig is a New York based artist and graphic designer whose work has appeared in MoMA, Exit Art, P.P.O.W. gallery, the Studio Museum of Harlem, Alternative Museum, and Dia Art Foundation, NYC. Her work has been reproduced and/or reviewed in the New York Times, Village Voice, AfterImage, Artforum, Oxford Art Journal and Print Review among other venues. She has been a member of these art collectives: the Catalog Committee of Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, which produced the anti-catalog, Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PADD), and REPOhistory. In 2007, she published “Lost and Found Again, or Pierre Cholet,”her annotated translation of the French Canadian classic, “L’Enfant Perdu et retrouvé, ou Pierre Cholet.”

Annie Krieg: Annie Krieg is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her research interests are medievalism in modern Germany and the political instrumentalization of medieval architecture during the Third Reich.  She has also worked on the cultural production of the Sorbs and the reconstruction of cathedrals in the newly gained western territories in Poland after World War II.  Address:  104 Frick Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

Karen Kurczynski: currently teaches modern and contemporary art history at Massachusetts College of Art. She is also a RAC co-president. She is working on a book on Situationist and artist Asger Jorn. Her research interests include postwar European art and politics, feminism, and contemporary activist art, especially around issues of migration. She has recently published an Eva Hesse review for Woman's Art Journal (Fall 2007), and has articles forthcoming on Asger Jorn in RES (Summer 2008) and a review on "Leveraging Situationism?" in the special issue of Third Text on tactical media (Summer 2008), ed. Greg Sholette and Gene Ray."  She can be reached at kk240@nyu.edu.

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