Steina in Conversation

The List Visual Arts Center will host a panel discussion in celebration of the opening of Steina: Playback followed by an opening reception.

This exhibition marks the first solo presentation in over a decade of Steina, the pioneering media artist whose work traverses video, music, and technology through a commitment to spontaneity and play. This conversation will be led by Natalie Bell, List Center Curator, and joined by Chris Hill, media curator, and Gloria Sutton, Associate Professor at Northeastern University.

Chris Hill is a media curator, currently on the faculty at CalArts. Hill received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo, and was video programmer at Hallwalls (Buffalo) for over a decade. She curated Surveying the First Decade: Video Art & Alternative Media (1996) for the Video Data Bank, and interviewed artists active in the Czech parallel culture before 1989 in Walking Trips in Czech Lands (1997). Her research interests include re-performing archives and beekeeping practice. Her recent project for the Vasulka Kitchen Archive (Brno) is A Navigational Tool for Traversing the Vasulka Mediascape (2023).

Gloria Sutton is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. A research affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT, Sutton serves on the Board of Directors for Boston Art Review and Voices in Contemporary Art. She publishes widely on the intersection of contemporary art and computational networks. A French translation of her book The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema (MIT Press) was published by Éditions B2 in 2022. Her scholarship has been supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Getty Research Institute where she is working on her current book, Pattern Recognition: Contemporary Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.