Fernandez, Maria
Associate Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- History and theory of digital art, with special interest in cybernetics and art in the late 1950’s and 60’s, artificial life art, and the integration of media theory with post colonial and feminist theory.
- Mexican art and architecture with emphasis on the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
international geographic focus
- Mexico | country
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- History of Art and Visual Studies (ART H) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | minor graduate field
- History of Art, Archaeology and Visual Studies | graduate field
- Latin American Studies | minor graduate field
- Latino Studies | minor graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Latino Studies Program | academic program office
teaching
teaching focus
- Arth 366 History and Theory of Digital Art
- Arth 368 (3550) Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
- Arth 205 Introduction to Latin American Art
- Arth 570 (4150): Introduction to Critical Theory
- Arth 572 (4152) Mimesis in Digital Visual Culture
- Arth 674 Cyberfeminism
- Arth 644/444 Responsive Environments
teaches
- ARTH 4821 - Mobility and Invention (T 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | fall 2009 class
- ARTH 4991 - Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ARTH 5991 - Supervised Reading (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ARTH 5993 - Supervised Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- SHUM 4821 - Mobility and Invention (T 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | fall 2009 class
- VISST 4821 - Mobility and Invention (T 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | fall 2009 class
- ARTH 3550 - Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- ARTH 4150 - Introduction to Critical Theory (W 07:30:PM-09:25:PM) | fall 2008 class
- ARTH 6150 - Intro to Critical Theory (W 07:30:PM-09:25:PM) | fall 2008 class
- LATA 3680 - Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- LSP 3551 - Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
event contributor
background
educational background
- Ph.D. Columbia University
featured in
- Forum examines humanities publishing in the digital age | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Book-length project on cosmopolitanism in Mexican visual arts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century including a substantial discussion of the representation of national identity in Mexican architecture.
- Book-length project on the British cybernetician Gordon Pask focusing on his contributions to theater, art and architecture and investigating parallels among his theories, artificial life and materialist philosophy.