Rain Embuscado (b. 1991, USA) is an American installation artist, new media researcher, and visual studies educator holding dual MFA/MA degrees in visual studies and journalism from the University of Missouri–Columbia, and a BA in studio art and political science from Hunter College of the City University of New York. His interdisciplinary work focuses on the intersections of early twenty-first century visual knowledge production, electronic media systems, and social-organizational semiotics. With over a decade of experience in editorial, design, and communications across corporate publishing, digital newsrooms, mid-size non-profits, and start-ups, Embuscado has contributed art, design, and technology writing to local, national, and international publications, including The Art Newspaper, The Seattle Times, The New York Magazine, NEW INC, Hyperallergic, HuffPost, and Artnet News (where he formerly served as assistant editor). His journalism is referenced and cited in the dot-com pages of The Smithsonian Magazine, Flavorwire, and e-flux, and has been cited in peer-reviewed journals and trade books authored by Hito Steyerl, Linda Weintraub, Martha Buskirk, Michael Maizels, Kit Messham-Muir, Uroš Cvoro, Zing Tsjeng, and Myriam Diatta. He has presented award-winning conference papers at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), and guest lectured at cultural institutions including Charlotte Street Foundation, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Cooper Union.

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