Chief Curator, Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is also Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and her books are A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, 2016), Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 2003, 2008, 2015; Intellect, 2011), and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008).

At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018/19), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes The Public Private (Kellen Gallery; The New School, 2020), Little Sister (is watching you, too) (Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 2015); and What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015).