Associate Professor and Chair of Screen Arts, and Seaver Fellow in Communication, Pepperdine University
David Madden is Associate Professor and Chair of Screen Arts, and Seaver Fellow in Communication at Pepperdine University, where he teaches courses in media history, sound studies and design, storytelling, and scoring. His research examines sound and electronic music as sites through which broader questions of history, temporality, identity, and creative practice become audible and contestable, particularly through transatlantic processes of circulation, appropriation, and erasure. It mobilizes both critical theory and practice-based modes of knowledge production,...
Blake Oetting is a Postdoctoral Fellow between the Art History and Rhetoric departments and Curatorial Fellow at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He received his PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2025) and his BA from Swarthmore College (2018). In 2023-2024, he was a Critical Studies participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Oetting’s current book project focuses on the development of Institutional Critique practices at the end of the twentieth century. It showcases how artists—including Renée Green, Tom Burr, Adrian Piper, Andrea...
