Christopher Williams-Wynn is a historian of modern and contemporary art. His research investigates how media have been used to explore, and challenge, the aesthetic implications, epistemological claims, and political consequences of disciplinary knowledge and practice. Working across borders, his writing has examined art and technology in Argentina, information and materiality in East Germany, the politics of the avant-garde, and digital media in South Africa. This research has appeared in Grey Room, The Art Bulletin, Modernism/modernity, Third Text, and Photography and Culture. His research has been supported by, among other institutions, the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, DAAD, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Krupp Foundation, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art.