Kate Mondloch is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Clark Honors College. Her research explores how contemporary technologies and designed environments shape perception, attention, embodiment, and everyday experience. Working at the intersections of new media art, feminist theory, and science and technology studies, she investigates how screens, immersive installations, and digital tools shape how we see and experience the world. Her work also engages flourishing and contemplative research, examining how attentional and sensory awareness contribute to well-being.
Mondloch is the author of Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010; republished 2024) and A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). She also created the multimedia publication, Installation Archive: A Capsule Aesthetic and co-edited a 2023 special issue of Arts on “Framing the Virtual: New Technologies and Immersive Exhibitions.” Her current book project, Art of Attention, investigates how designed experiential environments choreograph attention, perception, and embodiment across contemporary art and digital culture. Her essays have appeared in journals including Art Journal, Art Bulletin, Feminist Media Studies, Leonardo, and Senses and Society, as well as in edited volumes such as Exhibiting the Moving Image, Screen/Space, and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media.
Beyond her scholarship, Mondloch has held numerous leadership roles at the University of Oregon, including Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Department Head in the History of Art and Architecture, founding Director of the Graduate Certificate in New Media and Culture, and Director of Graduate Studies. She serves on the editorial board of Afterimage and the advisory boards of Media:Art:Write:Now (Open Humanities Press), Center for Environmental Futures, the Center for the Science and Practice of Well-Being, and is a member of the Flourishing Academic Network.
Mondloch’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Getty Research Institute, the Clark Art Institute, the Banff Centre, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and the Oregon Humanities Center, among others. Her teaching has been recognized with the Sherl Coleman and Margaret Guitteau Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities, the Faculty Excellence in Universal Design Award, and the Williams Fellowship.
Her website is www.katemondloch.com
