Credits

Project Directors

Barbara Clausen
Curatorial Research Director

Curator and Associate Professor, Art History Department, Vice Dean of Research and Creation, Faculty of the Arts, University of Quebec in Montreal 
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Deena Engel
Technology Research Director

Clinical Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science, New York University 
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Glenn Wharton
Academic Research Director

Professor, Art History and Conservation of Material Culture; Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, University of California, Los Angeles
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Project Advisors

Ute Meta Bauer

Founding Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Melitte Buchman

Independent Researcher

Fiammetta Griccioli

Curator, Pirelli HangarBicocca

Chrissie Iles

Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art

Ana Janevski

Curator, Department of Media & Performance Art, Museum of Modern Art

Kelly Kivland

Curator, Dia Art Foundation 

Pip Laurenson

Head of Collection Care Research, Tate

André Lepecki

Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Andrea Lissoni

Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich 

Joanna Phillips

Director, Conservation Center, City of Düsseldorf

Ann Reynolds

Associate Professor, Art History, The University of Texas at Austin

Catherine Wood

Senior Curator, International Art (Performance), Tate Modern

Lori Zippay

Director Emeritus, Electronic Arts Intermix

Team

Assistant Curatorial Research Director

Kristin Poor, Art History, Princeton University

Assistant Linked Data Research Director

Lozana Rossenova, London South Bank University / Rhizome

Website Concept and Design Consultant

Jason Varone, Artist and Web & Electronic Media Manager

Website Content and Design Management

Allison Kalb, Histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal
Kristin Poor, Art History, Princeton University

Website Team

JooHee Kim, Museum Studies, NYU
Tracy Robinson, Museum Studies, NYU

Website Host

Digital Scholarship Services, Bobst Library, New York University

Student Research Associate

Brandon Eng, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Student Research Assistants

Nesma Belkhodja, Computer Science, NYU
Amrit Dhillon, Museum Studies, NYU
Ricardo dos Santos Almeida Nunes, Computer Science, NYU
Taylor Healy, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Allison Kalb, Histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal
Alhena Katsof, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
JooHee Kim, Museum Studies, NYU
Michelle Kvetnoy, Computer Science, NYU
Camille Richard, Histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal
Tracy Robinson, Museum Studies, NYU
Melissa Tincopa, Museum Studies, NYU

Editors

Kristin Poor, Art History, Princeton University
Jeanne Dreskin, Editor and researcher 
Geneviève Marcil, Editor and researcher

Copyright Permissions

Kristin Poor, Art History, Princeton University
Jeanne Dreskin, Editor and researcher

Bibliographic Research

Amrit Dhillon, Museum Studies, NYU
Brandon Eng, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Taylor Healy, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Alhena Katsof, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
JooHee Kim, Museum Studies, NYU
Tracy Robinson, Museum Studies, NYU
Camille Richard, Histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal

Descriptions, Abstracts, and Texts

Amrit Dhillon, Museum Studies, NYU
Alhena Katsof, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
JooHee Kim, Museum Studies, NYU
Kristin Poor, Art History, Princeton University
Tracy Robinson, Museum Studies, NYU

Research Support

The Joan Jonas Studio
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
Dia Art Foundation, New York
Documenta Archives
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Fales Library, Bobst Library New York University
Festival d’Automne, Paris
Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart
Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Gladstone Gallery, New York 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery ​@KCUA, Kyoto
LIMA Foundation, Amsterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
MACBA, Barcelona
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Malmö Konsthall, Malmo
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna
Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
Queens Museum, New York
San Francisco Art Institute
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Modern, London
Texas Gallery, Houston
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

For more information, see Archives

Financial Support

Suzanne Deal Booth
The Center for Humanities, New York University
The New York University Arts Council
Social Sciences Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant, Canada 
The Polonsky Foundation Digital Humanities Internship Program, New York University
Faculté des Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Land Acknowledgment

The Joan Jonas Knowledge Base, hosted by New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections, acknowledges that it is located on Lenapehoking, ancestral homelands of the Lenape people. We recognize the continued significance of these lands for Lenape nations past and present, we pay our respects to the ancestors, as well as to past, present, and emerging Lenape leaders. We also want to recognize that New York City has the largest urban Indigenous population in the United States. We believe that addressing structural Indigenous exclusion and erasure is critically important and we are committed to actively working to overcome the ongoing effects and realities of settler-colonialism within the institutions where we currently work.

Thank You

We thank the sixteen students and researchers who worked on the project and our thirteen project advisors. This team is too large to list individually here, but we would particularly like to thank Kristin Poor who served as Assistant Curatorial Research Director, Allison Kalb for the final design and concept of the WordPress site, and Lozana Rossenova who served as Assistant Linked Data Research Director. We also thank Emily Bates at Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Gladstone Gallery for her ongoing research support. Most of all, we would like to thank Joan Jonas and her studio, with special thanks to Sekeena Gavagan. 

We are grateful to the interviewees for their generous participation. We also thank the photographers, institutions, authors, and publishers who generously provided permission for their work to be shared here.

We are grateful to Suzanne Deal Booth for her generosity in supporting our research and development of the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base. Additional funding was provided by the Center for Humanities (NYU), the NYU Arts Council, the Polansky Foundation Digital Humanities Internship Program (NYU), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Program (Canada), and the Faculté des Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.