I am Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, where I also serve as a Faculty Fellow in the Clark Honors College. Prior to joining the Honors College, I served for two years as Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, three years as Department Head, four years as the founding director of the university’s graduate certificate program in New Media and Culture, and five years as Director of Graduate Studies. I earned my MA and PhD in art history from UCLA.
My research focuses on perception, embodiment, and new technologies in art and the social realm in the late 20th- and early 21st- centuries. My research fields include media art and theory, installation art, feminism, new media, science and technology studies, digital humanities, human flourishing, and contemplative studies. I am especially interested in theories of spectatorship and subjectivity, and in research methods that bridge the sciences and the humanities.
My first book is Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). My second book is A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), for which I developed a related multimedia publication, Installation Archive: A Capsule Aesthetic, using the Scalar platform. I co-edited a special issue of Arts on “Framing the Virtual: New Technologies and Immersive Exhibitions” in 2023. I am currently working on a third book, tentatively entitled Art of Attention, which explores body-mind awareness in art since 1950.
I have published in a variety of journals, including Art Journal, Art Bulletin, Feminist Media Studies, Leonardo, and Vectors, and contributed essays to anthologies such as Exhibiting the Moving Image (JRP/Ringier), Screen/Space (Manchester University Press), and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. I currently serve on the editorial board of Afterimage and was a former editorial board member of Art Journal. I am on the advisory boards of Media:Art:Write:Now (Open Humanities Press), the Center for Environmental Futures, and the Center for the Science and Practice of Well-Being.
I have been awarded research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of California Humanities Research Institute, Banff Centre, and Oregon Humanities Center. My research has also been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Clark Art Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. My teaching has been recognized by the Sherl Coleman and Margaret Guitteau Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities, the Faculty Excellence in Universal Design Award, and the Williams Fellowship.
Contact: mondloch@uoregon.edu