Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan is Assistant Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Her focus is on the uses of new media technologies, including video, digital, and internet art. In addition to curating, she regularly writes criticism for Artforum; her essays have appeared in journals such as Framework, Art Journal, and Media-N, and in exhibition catalogs from institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center. An art historian by training, she received her PhD from Columbia and BA from Harvard.