Caroline A. Jones

Caroline A. Jones
Caroline A. Jones

Caroline A. Jones is a full Professor at MIT, teaching in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture and also serving as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the School of Architecture and Planning. She studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception, and on its interface with sciences such as physics, neuroscience, and biology. Her essays on modern and contemporary art have appeared in journals ranging from Artforum to Critical Inquiry to Science in Contextshe is solo author of several books and exhibition catalogues, and a co-editor of volumes that examine technology and the senses, art and neuroscience, and art history and history of science as parallel inquiries. Collaborative work with historian of science and physicist Peter L. Galison will culminate in a book on scientific and viral images of environmental harm, titled Invisibilities: Seeing and Unseeing the Anthropocene (forthcoming with Zone Books at Princeton University press). Her research has been supported with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Radcliffe Institute, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Max Planck Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and other foundations interested in interdisciplinary inquiry emerging from art history.  Currently enmeshed with biologically-active art forms, she collaborated on curating the exhibition Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, and on producing its algae-enriched publication from MIT Press, Fall 2022.