Clark Buckner

Clark Buckner is a curator and cultural critic, who works as Director of the art gallery and production company Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco. His recent curatorial and production projects include: When Dreams Are Realty, A quadraphonic sound art installation and character fiction, by leading Indigenous-American artist and scholar, Cristobal Martinez. Responsive Eye, a three part exhibition of generative art and digital animation by NY artist Peter Burr. The Friend, a nine-channel video installation by pioneering video artist John Sanborn, featuring actor John Cameron Mitchell, which debuted at Videoformes 2021 in Claremont-Ferrand, France. And The Archive to Come, a large group show of time-based works by more than 50 international artists, co-curated with new media powerhouse, Carla Gannis, in response to Covid-19, BLM, and the current crisis of the republic.

Along with numerous catalog essays, Clark's publications on art, philosophy, film/video, and curatorial practice include Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers (SUNY U.P.), and the co-authored collection Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy After the Death of God (Fordham, U.P.), as well as articles in Afterimage; Art Journal; Culture, Theory, Critique; Art Review; Bomb Magazine; NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; and SFMoMA's Open Space.

For many years, he taught critical theory, cultural criticism, and curatorial practice in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute; and, before that, he taught in the Philosophy Department at Mills College. He co-founded The Blue Studio, an arts community and workspace; and he served for many years as Director/Curator of the project space, MISSION 17. He composes sound scores for the dance company, Jennifer Perfilio / Movement Works and has a PhD in Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Critical Theory from Vanderbilt University.