Gene McHugh is an art writer and curator based in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in Artforum and Rhizome, and he was the recipient of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for his blog, Post Internet. McHugh is currently the Kress Fellow in Interpretive Technology at the Whitney Museum of American Art. (http://linkeditions.tumblr.com/mchugh)
He has written about the relationship between art and technology for Rhizome and Artforum, and was a panelist at «Internet Browser as Exhibition Space» a roundtable conducted as part of the exhibition In Real Life. He is currently writing about the Franklin Street Art Center, a largely undocumented downtown Manhattan art space where seminal work in new media art took place in the 1970s. McHugh studied film at New York University and received a graduate degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where he also curated a solo show with the post-internet artist Marisa Olson. (http://www.artswriters.org/grant/grantees/grantee/gene_mchugh)