María Fernández 

Nicaragua – United States

Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University.

Her research interests include the history and theory of digital art, feminist media art, Latin American art, and the intersections of these fields.  She is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press 2014) for which she was awarded the Arvey Prize by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015. She edited Latin American Modernisms and Technology (Cornell Institute of Comparative Modernities and Africa World Press 2018). With Faith Wilding and Michelle Wright she edited Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices (Autonomedia 2002). Her work appears in several volumes including A Companion to Feminist Art edited by Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buzek (Wiley 2019),  The Art of Art History edited by Donald Preziosi (Oxford University Press, 2009), White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980 edited by Paul Brown et al., (MIT Press, 2008) At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark (MIT Press, 2005), and Feminist Visual Culture edited by Amelia Jones (Routledge, 2003.) Her most recent essay “Radical Women and Digital Bodies: Brazil, Argentina and Mexico was published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture in 2023. She is now writing a book on the work of the British cybernetician, Gordon Pask.

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Profesora asociada de Historia del Arte y Estudios Visuales en la Universidad de Cornell.

Sus intereses de investigación incluyen la historia y teoría del arte digital, el arte feminista de los medios, el arte latinoamericano y las intersecciones de estos campos. Es autora de Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press, 2014), por la que recibió el Premio Arvey de la Asociación de Arte Latinoamericano en 2015. Editó Latin American Modernisms and Technology (Cornell Institute of Comparative Modernities y Africa World Press, 2018). Junto con Faith Wilding y Michelle Wright, editó Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices (Autonomedia, 2002). Su trabajo aparece en varios volúmenes, entre ellos A Companion to Feminist Art, editado por Hilary Robinson y Maria Elena Buzek (Wiley, 2019), The Art of Art History, editado por Donald Preziosi (Oxford University Press, 2009), White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, editado por Paul Brown y otros (MIT Press, 2008), At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, editado por Annmarie Chandler y Norie Neumark (MIT Press, 2005), y Feminist Visual Culture, editado por Amelia Jones (Routledge, 2003). Su ensayo más reciente, Radical Women and Digital Bodies: Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, fue publicado en Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture en 2023. Actualmente está escribiendo un libro sobre el trabajo del cibernetista británico Gordon Pask.