Ceci Moss
Ceci Moss is a curator, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the founder and director of Gas, a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art located in a truck gallery and online, launched in Fall 2017.
She has a MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, and a BA in History and Sociology from U.C. Berkeley. Her academic research addresses contemporary internet-based art practice and network culture. Her first book Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu was published in 2019 (Bloomsbury). She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and has held teaching positions at Scripps College, the San Francisco Art Institute and New York University. Her writing has appeared in Rhizome, Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, The Wire, CURA, New Media & Society and various art catalogs.
Since 2005, she has worked in non-profit arts organizations in various curatorial, editorial and fundraising capacities. Previously, she was the Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Senior Editor of the art and technology non-profit arts organization Rhizome, and Special Projects Coordinator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her curatorial projects include the touring group exhibit Alien she co-curated with Astria Suparak on the influence of the punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, the group show Office Space presenting works that subverted office design, the triennial Bay Area Now, a large scale public art installation with Kota Ezawa, and solo exhibitions involving new commissions for artists such as Samara Golden, Shana Moulton, Metahaven, Nate Boyce and Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon. (2019)
- Publications
- Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 160 pp. [1]
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