Focusing her research on the history of media art, Gloria Sutton is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art History at UCLA. She has been a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and the Getty Research Institute. Sutton has contributed to Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film (2003) and Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Digital Computing and the Experimental Arts (forthcoming). Her criticism appears in the exhibition catalogues Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), Laura Owens (catalogue raisonné, 2007), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (2006) and Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture (2007). As the Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, she co-curated in 2006 MOCA Focus: Karl Haendel. She is co-curator of an exhibition on public space and media at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture (to open in 2009). Sutton is working on a book on American expanded cinema practices of the 1960s.
