Max Symuleski is a third-year PhD student in art history at Duke University, with a focus on media theory, visual culture, and modernity. Max’s current research project involves experimental media art of the 1960s and 1970s and changing conceptions of earth, environment, and energy, while more general interests include the history of science and technology, environmentalism, socially engaged art, databases, and data visualization. Max also holds an MA in historical studies from the New School for Social Research, having completed a thesis on experimental and visionary architecture projects in the US in the 1960s.