Research Catalogue

Alise Upitis holds an A.B., summa cum laude, from Smith College and a PhD from the MIT Department of Architecture. In 2009-10 she was Visiting Scholar in the Archive of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and is currently Assistant Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, for which she has organized exhibitions that include Image Transfer, Plastic Alphabet, and Ken Okiishi (summer 2013). Her research interests include normativity in postwar systems technologies in architecture, art, and design, and configurations of knowledge in contemporary art. Upitis has recently authored for Intellectual Birdhouse: Artistic Practice as Research (Walther-König), A Second Modernism: Architecture, MIT and the ‘Techno-Social” Moment (MIT Press, forthcoming), and the journal Fuse.