Charlotte Kent, PhD, is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of the book, Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books), and an Editor at Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology, contributing to many arts magazines and academic journals about the intersection of contemporary art, digital culture, and ecological systems--most recently, Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Phaidon Press, 2024).