“I tell you-we have to start all over again from the beginning and assume that language is first and foremost a system of gestures. Animals after all have only gestures and tones of voice-and words were invented later. Much later. And after that they invented schoolmasters. ”
Gregory Bateson
William Kaizen is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Theory and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His current book project is The Immediate (Duke University Press), on early video art, teletechnology and the public sphere. His writing has appeared in Bomb, October, Grey Room, Texte zur Kunst and elsewhere. Recent essays he has written include "Steps to an Ecology of Communication: Radical Software, Dan Graham and the Legacy of Gregory Bateson" in Art Journal (Winter, 2009) and "Computer Participator: Situating Nam June Paik's Work in Computing" in Mainframe Experimentalism: The Experimental Arts and Early Digital Computing (University of California Press, forthcoming).
William Kaizen, Aesthetics & Critical Studies
PhD, Art History
Columbia University
MA, Art History
Columbia University
BS, Studio Art
New York University
