RESUME
edward d bacal is a PhD-educated professional who combines creativity, critical thinking, and technical skill, offering a holistic approach to digital/print media and educational design
WRITING
edward d bacal writes mostly on modern & contemporary art / visual culture from north america, latin america, and europe. he is particularly interested in abstract and conceptual art since the 1960s, with emphasis on work that explores the political implications of formal innovations.
Bodies Withdrawn: The Ethics of Abstraction in Contemporary Post-Minimal Art
PhD Thesis (2018)
Teresa Margolles: The Life of the Corpse
Routledge Handbook of Necropolitics (FORTHCOMING)
Review: Toronto Biennial of Art: The Shoreline Dilemma
ASAPJournal.com (December 17, 2019)
Review: Muscled Rose at Scrap Metal Gallery
CanadianArt.ca (August 14, 2019)
pervasive death: teresa margolles and the space of the corpse
human remains and violence 4/1 (2018)
The Concrete and the Abstract: On Doris Salcedo, Teresa Margolles and Santiago Sierra’s Tenuous Bodies
Parallax 76 (2016)
Up, Down, Left, Right: Some Thoughts on the Inverse, Reverse, and Double
FrameWork 4-16 (2015)
Sharon Lockhart and Steve McQueen: Inside the Frame of Structural Film
CineAction (2014)
Capitalism and Contemporaneity: On Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave
Kapsula (2014)
DESIGN
edward d bacal is a designer that specializes in digital media, including web design, graphics (still and animated), illustration, video editing, and front-end web development. He also draws with pen and paper
[nb: personal and volunteer work only;
other work available by request]
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WEB PROJECTS
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GRAPHIC DESIGN (volunteer projects only)
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DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
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INK ILLUSTRATION
LET'S IRON OUT A FEW WRINKLES (2025)
This is an interactive site I created to host a DJ mix I made in summer 2025.
NAAAANA (2022)
A temporary blog for art criticism I designed and coded as a project for a digital communications course (2022).
Responsive Records (2020)
This site is an design project in which I recreate some of my favourite album covers in the context of a responsive web browser. I experiment with the possibilities and limitations that come with reinterpreting static, fixed-frame images as dynamic, interactive layouts, including animations and functionality via JavaScript.
Grids: A Short Introduction (2020)
Grids is a "web essay" on the role of the grid in the history of art and visual culture. This project marries my background as an art historian with my work in web design. It demonstrates both a practical exploration of CSS grid as a design tool and an experiment in creative web-publishing, with an emphasis on creating more engaging user experiences in educational content.
CE Art Trace
This React app displays items from the Harvard Art Museums' collection of over 230,000 items. When users select a medium, the app calls the institution's API and returns a randomly selected object from that classification, displaying an image, title, name, and date.
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