Helena Shaskevich (she/her) is currently the Assistant Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History at Kennesaw State University, with a specialization in new media art from the 1960s to the present.

She is currently working on two book projects. The first book argues that video art played a central role in the emergence of a broader field of feminist visual politics in the 1970s; the second examines discourses of ecological anxiety & ideologies of landscape in gaming & computer art during the 1980s.

Her scholarly writing has been published in numerous journals, including Feminist Media Histories, Camera Obscura, Art Journal, Woman’s Art Journal, Millennium Film Journal, & Afterimage, among others. Her short-form reviews & thought pieces can be found in the Brooklyn Rail, Burlington Contemporary, & Burnaway.

Helena has curated numerous public programs on new media art. Her most recent curatorial projects include Acid Rhythms, which showcased feminist computer art at the Kunsthall Trondheim & Copper Frances Giloth: As I Said at Microscope Gallery.