Kirsten Mairead Gill (she/her) is a scholar and theorist of moving image media and a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a current Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Medgar Evers College, and a fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. Her dissertation, Movement Image: Black Freedom in Experimental Film and Video, 1965-85, recovers a range of experiments in post-war cinema to argue that the sociality of moving image media was dramatically re-imagined in the light of Black liberation movements from the 1960s-1980s. The project asks what possibilities exist for solidarity, and for the re-making of social relations in, around, and by the cinema. Kirsten was Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation from 2019-2020 and has held positions at the ICA Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has presented projects at Dia (with the Hammer Museum and Electronic Arts Intermix), the James Gallery and the Center for the Humanities (New York), Wendy’s Subway, Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and Ulises, Space 1026, Little Berlin, and Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia. Also an educator, Kirsten has taught classes in art history, photography, and film studies at the New York City College of Technology and City College of New York. 

Image: Fritzia Irízar, Untitled (the disappearance of the symbol), 2015