As a Senior Research Fellow at UC Berkeley, C. Oliver O’Donnell is a core collaborator on the Depictured Worlds Project, sponsored by the NOMIS Foundation, Zürich. He is a historian of modern art and intellectual history with a particular focus on US-American traditions of modernity. He has held research and teaching appointments at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Warburg Institute, the University of Basel, and at the...
Blake Oetting is a Postdoctoral Fellow between the Art History and Rhetoric departments and Curatorial Fellow at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He received his PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2025) and his BA from Swarthmore College (2018). In 2023-2024, he was a Critical Studies participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Oetting’s current book project focuses on the development of Institutional Critique practices at the end of the twentieth century. It showcases how artists—including Renée Green, Tom Burr, Adrian Piper, Andrea...
As a Senior Research Fellow at UC Berkeley, Matthew Vollgraff is a core collaborator on the Depictured Worlds Project, sponsored by the NOMIS Foundation, Zürich. He is a historian of science, media, and visual culture, with a focus on modern Germany and its global entanglements. He has held research appointments and fellowships at eikones—Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel; the Warburg Institute, University of London; the University of...
