faculty profile

Rudolf Frieling, PhD, is curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is currently working on the impact of the museum expansion on the media arts program. His curatorial projects include, among others, the online archive Media Art Net and major survey shows such as The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now (2008), on the history of contemporary participatory practice, and Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and New Media (2012), on the crossover between visual and performing arts. He has curated numerous monographic shows with artists such as Sylvie Blocher, Candice Breitz, Jim Campbell, David Claerbout, Bill Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and Sharon Lockhart, among others.