Caroline A. Jones

Caroline A. Jones is Allen Professor in the Architecture Department at MIT, where she teaches art history and serves as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the School of Architecture and Planning. She studies modern and contemporary art, focusing on its technological modes of production and distribution, its urban reception, and its interface with science. Jones has also curated exhibitions with publications, most recently Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere (2022), and earlier Hans Haacke 1967 (2011), Video Trajectories (2007), and Sensorium (2006) – all at MIT / with MIT Press. Solo-authored publications include Machine in the Studio (1996/98), Eyesight Alone (2005/08), and The Global Work of Art (2016). She has edited or co-edited Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), and Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense (2016). Current research includes bio-art and planetary symbiosis, GenAI / technoshock, and monuments, memory, and media in the Anthropocene.