Victoria Campbell

• Writes and edits essays on contemporary art, labor, biotechnology, and digital culture for print and digital publication
• Develops editorial concepts and pitch angles; conducts archival and primary-source research for commissioned features
• Maintains terminology, house style, and factual consistency across commissioned writers and staff contributions
• Produces quarterly issues under fixed print deadlines; 20+ bylined essays

• Long-form criticism and research on institutional politics, bioethics, labor, media systems, and technical infrastructure
• Bylines and credited contributions include Spike, The New Inquiry, Grow by Ginkgo, and Tout-fait; ArtReview and Vice covered related projects
• Talks, panels, podcasts, and broadcasts at New York University, College Art Association, Left Forum, Boston University, EARTH, Montez Press Radio, and WVFP
• Press releases, exhibition writing, technical explainers, and editorial research

• Wrote the Graham Foundation project grant for Domesti.city, on reimagining urban space as a private prison
• Won a Fractured Atlas project grant for Kunstverein NY
• Secured private funding for the Woodycrest House for We are Family, a food charity run as part of a communal living situation in the Bronx
• Proposal writing for BHQFU

• Artist statements, project descriptions, biographies, and exhibition releases
• Commercial gallery press releases
• Any and all writing with a focus on maintaining the conceptual integrity of exhibitions
• Copywriting and editorial activities range from dating profiles and web writing to high-traffic Wikipedia pages that see 30–50k+ pageviews per month
• Corporate communications and social reputation

• Long- and short-form reviews on artists and exhibitions for the online platform
• Interviews and market data / research; forecasting

• AI tools in the editorial workflow — machine-assisted drafts, hand-checked facts, provenance labeled
• Short technical explainers of federated wiki and retrieval research for a general professional audience
• Technical writing: turning dense technical material into clear prose

• Administers a public farm based on Ward Cunningham's Federated Wiki: 21 canonical root domains, 1,400+ linked pages, and 2,000+ provisioned sites
• Server and nameserver administration, plugin development, cross-origin retrieval, technical documentation, style guidance, and named corrections
• Built and maintains Claude-assisted editorial tooling with human fact review and provenance labels
• Hosts a public source corpus for Spiritual America and other research used to test authority, source lineage, and retrieval behavior in a deployed retrieval-augmented encyclopedia
• Co-develops the mech computational-markup plugin and maintains independent web-publishing tools

• Built grok.surf utilities for auditing source reliability, revision history, and citation gaps across collaboratively edited and AI-generated repositories
• Tested a deployed LLM moderation agent against 218 logged edit requests by comparing rulings with primary sources and exposed tool traces
• Diagnosed full-text search degradation caused by base64 image data flooding word indices; reduced the most affected page from 692,156 indexed entries to 556
• Analyzed 698,886 logged requests from a sampled week to compare AI-agent and crawler traffic

• Prepared research in advance of MoMA's 2026 Marcel Duchamp exhibition; verified readymade records against primary and institutional sources
• Cleaned and normalized object data; configured an open-source database with schema-aligned classifications, source-authority fields, citation generation, and relationship graphs
• Updated public records and maintained ground-truth references for Art Science Research Lab and Tout-fait; documented corrections and contested Wikipedia claims
• Expanded the public bibliography for Rhonda Roland Shearer and maintained claim-level source trails for Duchamp research

• Facilitated 70+ artwork sales totaling $350K+ and advised on collections valued at $4M+
• Developed market strategy, negotiated sale agreements, and maintained collector and artist relationships
• Supported six international art fairs from load-in through sales-floor close

• Direct sales, collector relations, exhibition support, and programming
• Art-fair support and administration for Miami Art Basel; deal sourcing and recordkeeping
• Wrote public-facing materials, including the release for N24B at Renzo Piano's 565 Broome

• Provenance files, certificates of authenticity, bills of sale, condition notes, and conservation records for post-war work
• Collector and institutional communications, acquisitions support, and provenance research

• Organized and catalogued correspondence among Sidney Wallach, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray
• Cross-checked provenance, auction, and estate records against primary archives; liaised with auction houses and the Man Ray Trust
• Created claim-level citation mapping and maintained a research audit backlog

• Managed exhibition publishing across web, print, events, and digital catalogue formats in New York, Milan, Amsterdam, and Toronto
• Coordinated artists and contributors; maintained naming, date, caption, source, and house-style standards
• Supported sales inventory, fundraising, grants, and independent press distribution

• Kai Matsumiya Gallery — assistant to the director; sales, client relations, art-fair administration, and Frieze New York support
• Silvershed NY — public demonstration and event support

• Compliance review, incident response, crisis communications, stakeholder coordination, and recordkeeping

• Engagement completed under NDA; scope not disclosed

• Sales, collector relations, calendar and administrative support, and art-fair operations
• Represented Rainer Ganahl's S/L: Representations of the Intellectuals at Frieze New York 2018
• Curated and wrote the exhibition text for Elliott Robbins's solo debut; handled mediation, community relations, early-market strategy, and direct sales

• Supported media management, project administration, and production for An Application, developed with waste pickers in Manila and Cavite Province

• Monitor for Pat Lipsky's painting program, with emphasis on twentieth-century art
• Produced Color in Master Paintings, a Metropolitan Museum of Art floorplan guide

• Full-time studio production and administration for a Y Gallery exhibition; fabrication

• Research, artist coordination, exhibition documentation, and production support

• Temp post at the Latin American contemporary gallery on the Lower East Side, with ongoing involvement through art-fair seasons

• Internship
• Supported the gallery director through exhibition production
• Hospitality coordination among Lower East Side gallerists
• Represented White Box at Miami Basel 2010

• Production crew, program administration, teaching support, public programs, and large-scale exhibition logistics

• Studio production and installation support

• Creative agency and production studio operating in a contemporary-art context, co-founded with Micaela Carolan
• Styling, brand identity, content strategy, art direction, multichannel video, websites, trailers, press texts, and incident response
• Produced Red Bull Studios New York, Calvin Klein × Opening Ceremony, Google Hangouts, Soft Skills, and thechandelierbid.com projects
• Managed surface specifications and a $50,000 Moodring fabrication budget; produced aprons for a Columbia University graduate student-teacher strike and communications for SMS Jane
• Studio administration, employment standards, invoice approval, budgets, vendor management, and shared editorial, typographic, and visual style guides
• Merde! Gala at 99 Scott — gala liaison, press release, performance production, A/V, and run-of-house

• Casting, forging, mold and surface preparation, and day-to-day foundry operations

• Designed and fabricated large-scale exhibition installations and educational displays for clients including Disney, the Toyota Corporation, and the Texas Department of Transportation

• Build-out, service, event, and run-of-house support

• Photographic, editorial, and moving-image work with the International Center of Photography, Richard Kern, Jo Schwab (Berlin), and Camille Henrot
• Performance and image-production credits organized in ATS-neutral terms; individual project documentation remains in the archive

• Operational support for Order of the 3rd Bird programming and other small public programs

• Formed a C-corporation for studio-networking and self-database tools; handled deal sourcing, deck design, outreach, investor relations, strategy, executive summaries, open-build coordination, user research, and surveys
• Raised $11.75K toward a $30.5K pre-seed, shipped an open-source MVP to closed beta, onboarded 15 studio customers, and conducted 40 user interviews
• Led product design for an ERC-721 implementation of the 1971 Siegelaub–Projansky Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement; project documentation; third place, ConsenSys Summer Hackathon
• Submitted to Y Combinator Summer 2019; completed a LACMA Art + Technology Lab application. These entries record submissions, not acceptance or awards

• Investor narratives, pitch materials, financial models, executive summaries, messaging, and investor relations
• Generated meetings with 15+ angel investors and three venture-capital firms toward $120K+ in seed funding

• Authorized security research, vulnerability assessment, documentation, and product collaboration with development staff

• Ecosystem Programs and Communications Liaison, Tlon · 2021–2022 — Organized Urbit for Kids at Assembly 2021; convened an art-world and Urbit working group to align an artist-residency proposal with an existing token program; coordinated event production, sponsorships, enterprise partners, auction documentation, and ecosystem communications; represented the ecosystem on New Models
• Privacy-incident response, Tlon · 2022 — Documented and escalated a Mailchimp privacy incident involving an $8,192 digital-asset receipt
• Urbit Foundation Grant, Evaluation Researcher · 2022–2024 — Built comparative valuation models assessing address space, network effects, and commercial use; produced market sizing, investment memos, and evaluation summaries from structured technical and market results; researched an artist-residency token distribution and documented a Gall app for federated moons
• Incident Response, Urbit Foundation · 2024–2025 — Managed sensitive stakeholder communications and reputational-risk mitigation; migrated and normalized stakeholder records from spreadsheets into Senate CRM; mapped people, organizations, roles, and digital assets; tracked provenance through source references, ownership history, and audit trails; supported public positioning, event production, and enterprise partners
• Founder's Associate, Urbit Foundation · 2024–2025 — Produced market sizing and TAM analysis, investment and analysis memos, deal sourcing, event production, and enterprise-partner coordination; presented Open Problems in Long-Term Data Conservation at the Subassembly PNW developers conference

• Contractor coordination, sourcing, a $20,000 interiors budget, and production for an early-stage development team

• Generalist support for programming, outreach, and operations

• Public relations, policy research, and workplace-equity communications

• Engagement completed under NDA; scope not disclosed

• Progressed from studio and production assistant to Studio Manager / Program Director at a volunteer-run, alternative arts university
• Co-designed and taught a course on communication and creative pedagogy; organized large-scale public programs and multi-venue events, including the Brucennial (700+ participating artists, 1,400+ attendees)
• Budget oversight, vendor coordination, and run-of-show documentation across concurrent multi-venue events
• Kept the collective's anonymous house voice — one register across press, wall text, and applications; run-of-show documentation on deadline
• Program coordination at scale — multi-contributor projects on hard deadlines, 376–700 artists per program
• Production support for a BHQFU collaboration at the Creative Time Fall Ball

• Co-designed and taught courses on gender dynamics, sexuality, and creative communication with Ana Cecilia Alvarez, including Sx-Ed / Interpersonal Technologies, a post-graduate sex-education course
• Communications curriculum and run-of-show for a 60-student public program
• Audience building for a free school — filled a 60-student public program through outreach and communications run-of-show

• Speculative communications agency providing research and consultation on user-oriented design from an interpersonal perspective; audience building served as research for online communications strategy, messaging, and narrative development

• Network and access-care administration for a text-based community service; coordinated volunteer communications, referrals, community operations, and audience development

• Autonomous commune in the Bronx
• Resident
• Acquired its private funding

• Worked behind the Occupy Wall Street Twitter and media teams during the early weeks of the occupation; operated Tweetboat and published live social-media dispatches from Zuccotti Park
• Hosted Occupy Wall Street Radio on WBAI Pacifica and coordinated real-time audience communications across field, social, and broadcast channels
• Applied shared style and message-discipline rules across a leaderless press operation

• Operational support during a November 2016 escalation; assisted supply, medic, kitchen, and working-group operations

• Developed and maintained a cross-platform identity, brand system, written voice, image treatment, styling, and contract language across ModelMayhem, Tumblr, and editorial channels
• Managed digital outreach, audience development, campaign planning, and image delivery for an international network of photographers and artists, including Richard Kern, Jo Schwab, Ed Fornieles, and Camille Henrot
• Editorial and institutional credits include Vice, Vogue Italia, Purple, the International Center of Photography, and the New Museum
• Project documentation appeared in Emergency Index, vol. 3, and continued as The Penelope Files in Body Anxiety (2015)

Alyssa Davis Gallery, Polignano a Mare

Exhibiting video artist

Carriage Trade, New York

Annual benefit

White Box, New York

Sound intervention for Rainer Ganahl's Comme des Marxists runway show

Bowman Gallery, Los Angeles

With Micaela Carolan and Robin Winters

New York

Curated by Dean Kissick; with Aria Dean, Campbell Carolan, Jacky Flowers, Matt Hilvers, Paige K. B., Precious Okoyomen, Torey Thornton, Sven Loven, and Amalia Ulman

Carriage Trade, New York

Annual benefit

Church of Greenwich Village, New York

Group show

Gallerina Valerina + Greg, New York

Curated by Rina Goldfield and Valerie Skakun

OUTPOST Artist Resources, New York

Group exhibition curated by Andrew Ross

online exhibition

Group exhibition featuring The Penelope Files

Knockdown Center, New York

Group exhibition

Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York

Group exhibition

BHQFU, New York

Group exhibition

Contributor

New Museum, New York

Performance happening for a gala by Ed Fornieles

New York

Group exhibition by the Bruce High Quality Foundation

Knockdown Center, New York

Group exhibition curated by Rafael Rozendaal

Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio

Student exhibition

Lawrence Art Center / Spencer Museum of Art

Curated by Rex Hausmann

Artist talk on source integrity, Federated Wiki, citation authority, and diff archives for public knowledge disputes

Talk and technical demonstration on the decentralization of wiki systems; demonstrated an evidence atlas, source inventory, and citation library

Co-hosted a 50-person salon on collecting American cultural heritage alongside works of art

Guest critic for Vladislav Davidzon's Visual and Literary Criticism seminar

Visiting lecturer

Panel with Dean Kissick, Patrick McGraw, Richard Turley, David Rudnick, and Bliccy; sound and visuals by Arthur Siller

Presented Open Problems in Long-Term Data Conservation at the Urbit Subassembly developers conference

Recorded conversation with Kim Fine on the provenance, edition count, and history of the Spiritual America gallery

Podcast appearances including Victoria Campbell 2: The Tlon/Urbit Years

Screening and discussion with Taylor Ervin and Caesura Magazine editor Gabriel Almeida

Panel participant; organized by Matthew Donovan, with E. Barker, Jak Ritger, Andrew Green, Zachary C. Marlow, Garland Miller, Cameron Cowan, and Blake Robbins

Organized screening and panel discussion

Podcast with Nate Freeman and Dean Kissick

Keynote and public demonstration of the Siegelaub–Projansky contract implementation, with Patrick Steadman

Keynote presentation on the politics of the pitch

On Silvia Federici, with Fiona Duncan; broadcast from Lafayette-Morehouse

Panelist; Alternative Art School working group

Panel participant

Roundtable discussion on Occupy

Philosophy and literature coursework, including Étienne Balibar, Jou, Ross Shields, and Michael Swellander; related project: Other Side of History

Studio apprenticeship with Pat Lipsky; teaching assistant / monitor; Color in Master Paintings: Metropolitan Museum of Art Floorplan

Student, teacher, organizer, and production crew; co-designed and taught a research-based communication course with Ana Cecilia Alvarez

• Coursework included What Is a Metaphor?, a weekly studio-critique class with Caitlin MacQueen; David Salle's Leave the Theory at Home: Writing About Art; Elizabeth Jaeger, Jarrett Earnest, Seth Cameron, and Sean Patrick Carney
• Additional coursework included Will This Be Livestreamed?, organized by Josh Citarella, and Brad Troemel's Chat Room III

Coursework, public programs, and organizing through Free Cooper Union

Invited audit in contemporary art and criticism with Haley Mellin; Platypus Affiliated Society coursework and discussion program

Winter Fellow, Code Societies, Winter 2019

A.A., Art; early college admission at fourteen; scholarship recipient

Dual-credit liberal arts coursework

Communication coursework and Nonviolent Communication training; Mark Group training and Window into Morehouse