Associate Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
As associate curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Madeleine Casad, Ph.D., has helped manage an expanding new media collection that spans 40 years of aesthetic experimentation with electronic communications media. These holdings have been at the center of some of Cornell University Library’s most complex media preservation initiatives, such as the creation of a new audiovisual preservation lab, a digital forensics lab, and a $300K National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop archival preservation and access strategies for complex digital artworks. As curator for digital scholarship in Cornell University Library’s Division of Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services, Casad is involved in the development of many faculty-led digital humanities projects at Cornell. She has played a role in the creation of new programs for reaching out to graduate students in the arts and sciences, including a graduate summer fellowship in digital scholarship, the “Conversations in Digital Humanities” lecture series, and a program of informal drop-in discussions targeting graduate students in the arts and sciences. Her academic research interests include narrative and virtual technologies, theory and aesthetics of new media, feminist and minority art and literature, globalization, and questions of identity and contested public memory in 20th and 21st century media art. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell’s Department of Comparative Literature in 2012.