Caroline Jones studies modern and contemporary art, with
a particular focus on its technological modes of production,
distribution, and reception. Trained in visual studies and
art history at Harvard, she did graduate work at the Institute
of Fine Arts in New York before completing her PhD at Stanford
University in 1992. Previous to completing her art history
degree, she worked in museum administration and exhibition
curation, holding positions at The Museum of Modern Art in
New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums
(1983-85), and completed two documentary films. In addition
to these institutions, her exhibitions and/or films have been
shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, the Hara Museum
Tokyo, and the Boston University Art Gallery, among other
venues. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation (among others), and has been honored by fellowships
at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Max Planck Institüt
(2001-02), the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton
(1994-95), and the Stanford Humanities Center (1986-87). Her
books include Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar
American Artist, (1996/98, winner of the Charles Eldredge
Prize from the Smithsonian Institution); Bay Area Figurative
Art, 1950-1965, (1990, awarded the silver medal from San Francisco's
Commonwealth Club); and Modern Art at Harvard (1985). She
co-edited Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), and has
published on subjects ranging from Francis Picabia to John
Cage to new media art in journals such as Critical Inquiry,
Res, Science in Context, caareviews online, and Cahiers du
Musée national d'art moderne. Currently finishing a
manuscript on the mid-20th century art writer Clement Greenberg
(forthcoming in 2004), Jones's ongoing research interests
include globalism and new media art.