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"Confronting Digital Capitalism", Lake Como Summer School in Critical Theory of Society, organized by University of Milano-Bicocca.
MA, History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon.
BA, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University.
Contemporary art and digital visual culture; digital and material culture studies; cyberfeminism; Asian diaspora; art writing and experimental publishing; graffiti and street art; digital capitalism.
Sarah is a critic, editor and researcher of contemporary art and digital visual culture. She is currently a Visual Studies PhD student and a 2025-2026 ARI Graduate Fellow. She is also co-founder of DiSCo Journal and was a 2017 fellow of the Art Practical and Daily Serving Art Publishing Residency.
"Hello Kitty, the hairless girl: An allegory of Japan's post-war reconstruction." Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, GA, April 2026.
"experimental publishing + research writing." Guest lecture for AS249 Art Practice Major Capstone at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 2025.
"Memeing Graffiti Practice: KATSU's 'Deepfake' Videos." Guest lecture for HAVC49 From Memes to Metadata: an Introduction to Digital Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, CA, May 2024.
"DiSCo Journal: a story about digital publishing." Guest lecture for DAT504 Reflexive Design at University of Plymouth, UK & Nanjing University of the Arts, China, October 2022.
"Street Art + Identity: The Tag." Recorded guest lecture for Art History Summer University at the Courtauld Institute fo Art, London, UK, July 2022.
"MATRIX 285/Young Joon Kwak: Resistance Pleasure." Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas 10, 1-2 (2024): 218-223. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-10120016.
"Rave into the Future at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco." Variable West. 7 Jan 2026. online.
"Between Indoor and Outdoor: Barry McGee's 1994 Mural for the Clarion Alley Mural Project". Art & the Public Sphere 13, 1 (2024): 95-105. https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00106_1.
"Super-ephemerality: Street Art in Digital Space". FLAT X (2019). online.
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