Charissa N. Terranova

Charissa N. Terranova is Associate Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She writes at the interstices of critical theory, the philosophy of science, science fiction, and outer space studies. She lectures and teaches seminars on modern and contemporary art and architectural history, theory, and criticism, the history of biology in art and architecture, and media and new media art and theory. For her writing practice, Terranova researches complex systems within art and architecture, focusing on the history of biology and biocentrism in art and architecture. She is author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (2014), editor of a double-issue of Technoetic Arts devoted to "Complexism" (2016), and coeditor with Meredith Tromble of The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (2016).