Constanza Salazar

Managing Director of Media-N

Art historian, writer, and educator based in New York City

Constanza Salazar, Ph.D., is a Canadian art historian, writer, and educator based in New York City. Her work centers on the histories and theories of artists and activists who co-opt and transform new media technologies in creative and political ways. She has presented papers internationally on art, new media, and technology. She has published in Momus, Internet Histories, and Afterimage, among others. She is currently working on her book project titled Poetics of Resistance: How Contemporary Art Reimagines the Future of Digital Technologies.

She serves as a board member for the New Media Caucus, a non-profit organization that promotes diversity and inclusivity in new media. Her roles have included working in communications, serving on juries for exhibitions, grants, and symposia, organizing virtual gallery exhibitions, and co-hosting the header/footer gallery podcast.

Constanza received her Bachelor's in Fine Arts and Philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Canada, her Master's in Art History at the University of Guelph in Canada, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University in New York.