Co-directs, envisions, and implements the production process for all our public art projects and related programming, from conception to post-production. In 2022-2023, the Associate Curator was responsible for co-curating and executing a series of public programs including workshops, music, performances, readings, and more, created in conjunction with a new public sculpture by Fred Wilson at Brooklyn’s Columbus Park and centered on this year’s theme of Walls, Borders and Gates. Moving forward into 2023 and beyond, the Associate Curator collaborates with the Chief Curator/Executive Director in selecting artists and shaping future projects. The Associate Curator holds an important role in the organization necessitating a great sense of responsibility, organizational capabilities, initiative, and community care. The position interfaces with artists, makers, and community members/organizers and combines a need for technical (production) know-how, strategic vision, and interpersonal awareness in order to bring these worlds together in an intentional and thoughtful way. The Associate Curator reports to the Executive Director/Chief Curator, and collaborate with the Director of Operations, Communications and Programs Assistant, and Engaging Artists Fellowship Leader on overall project planning, development, and execution.

Dylan will advance WII’s research programs by helping to set priorities and goals for interdisciplinary research. Along with Frida Foberg, he co-directed the Institute’s Field Stations Iceland program in 2023, and he co-leads the Institute's grantmaking program, which has awarded over $500k to conservation and educational non-profits, along with WII Board Member Anna Grady.

Dylan Gauthier is a Brooklyn-based artist who works through a research-based and collaborative practice centered on experiences of ecology, architecture, landscape, and social change. Gauthier is a founder of the boat-building and publishing collective Mare Liberum and of the Sunview Luncheonette, a co-op for art, politics, and communalism in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His individual and collective projects have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne (Paris), Parrish Art Museum, CCVA at Harvard University (Cambridge), the 2016 Biennial de Paris (Beirut), the Center for Architecture (New York), The International Studio and Curatorial Program (NY), EFA Project Space, and other venues in the US and abroad. His writings about art and public space have been published by Contemporary Art Stavanger, Parrish Art Museum, Urban Omnibus, Art in Odd Places, and Routledge/Public Art Dialogue, among others. In 2015 he was the NEA-supported Ecological Artist-in-Residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP); in 2016 he was a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellow (NY), and this year he is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Brandywine River Conservancy and Museum of Art, where his solo project highwatermarks was on view in 2018. Gauthier received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, CUNY (‘12), and teaches courses on emerging media and expanded cinema in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, and design and public practice in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons/The New School.

Delete Me When I’m Gone: An Ethical Framework for Drawing Down Our Online Data Bodies is an artistic research project into the right to be forgotten online, aiming at the creation of an open source toolkit for our descendents to reclaim our data bodies after our death. During Phase 1, the project will draw on varied contemporary investigations of the interconnectedness between data and justice. Aiming to encourage conversation around the long tail of our data bodies, in hopes of changing perspective on planning for our after-lives, the project hopes to increase public understanding, policy recommendations, and individual and collective scenario planning.

Courses taught/written include:Thesis Practicum (MFA)Understanding New Media (undergrad)History and Theory of Emerging Media (graduate - Integrated Media Arts MFA)Media+Policy+Rights (cross-listed grad and undergrad)Advanced Web Projects (undergrad)Introduction to Media Studies (undergrad)Film and Media in a Digital Age (undergrad)

Develops, advises on, and produces digital media initiatives for the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities including web and media design, creative direction, and technical expertise.

As the Brandywine River Museum of Art’s first artist-in-residence, and in a continuing program of collaboration examining the intersection between art and nature, Brooklyn-based artist Dylan Gauthier has been commissioned to embark on a year-long environmental art project that will trace the Brandywine River, from its headwaters in Honey Brook Township to its mouth at the convergence of the Brandywine and Christina rivers in Wilmington—water which eventually flows into the Delaware River. From June 2016 until July 2017, Gauthier will be an embedded artist in the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art’s staff, fostering a dialogue between the conservancy’s acclaimed group of riparian restoration, mapping and easement experts and the museum’s curators and educators. Gauthier will serve as a catalyst between these two distinct fields combined within the Brandywine's dual missions.The artist’s project, highwatermarks: six ways of sensing the river, engages with the Brandywine River as a natural site and a common waterway, connecting diverse communities that rely on the river for drinking water, irrigation and recreation. Gauthier’s art will address the multiple layers, uses, stakeholders and visions for the watershed, explore its history as a seat of early American industrial power, and register the ongoing conservation and protection efforts in the region centered around easements and land management.highwatermarks is comprised of six separate modules, each producing an artwork and encompassing a range of multidisciplinary artistic practices around the following guiding terms: drifting, observing, gathering, charting, following and distributing – from a direct communication between the artist and the landscape to more abstracted and even virtual forms of interaction with the river and its surrounding communities.

- Chief technology officer and manager of media operations for Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, the public policy and human rights academic center at Hunter College.- Leads the creation and direction of media initiatives of the new public policy and human rights institute at Hunter College (CUNY), located in the historic home of Franklin, Eleanor, and Sara Roosevelt on Manhattan's Upper East Side. - Oversees media and technology strategy and implementation, including of academic conferences, public programs, and faculty and student initiatives.- Co-originator and member of organizing committee for the Politics, Policy and the Arts public programming and seminar series at Hunter College in Fall 2015 which was organized by Roosevelt House, Arts Across the Curriculm and the Art & Art History Department at Hunter College and featured speakers Tania Bruguera, Dread Scott, Susan Crile, A.K. Burns, Miguel Gutierrez, Daniel Heyman, and others, in addition to an inaugural Policy and the Arts Student Prize presented by Anne Pasternak.- Works closely with house historian Deborah Gardner to design in-house and online exhibitions, including exhibition design and content curation.- Contributed media chapter and appendices to Roosevelt House Strategic Planning Document.

- Led IBM Trailblazer Grant implementation at Roosevelt House.- Designed original media and installation elements for NEH Interpretive Grant application; designed grant application package.- Organized redevelopment of all Roosevelt House online services (web & social media).- Formed communications strategy committee with Hunter College faculty and administrative staff.

The 1970s Warriors-era New York City lives in the imaginations of many as the kind of town it used to be. That gritty, wild, at times dangerous place was also a site of agency and possibility. The New York City of present day is much more polished, and encumbered by big money than recent decades; a statement not meaning to invoke nostalgia for the way things used to be, but as a simple point of fact. New York City has changed. Chain retailers (and their shoppers), real estate developers (and their high-paying tenants), and cultural tourists (and their transient economy) now rule the landscape. Between private corporations and city-mandated public space regulations, our every move is watched, recorded, policed, and normalized. Patti Smith said it. David Byrne said it. New York City is not a place for artists.Or is it?Fourteenth Street in Manhattan is at a crucial nexus of this issue. As a kind of informal divider between the “uptown” and “downtown” worlds, 14th Street spans the widest part of the Manhattan island, and has been an important site for trade, light industry, radical activism, transportation, housing, and culture. It is an artery through which crowds of New Yorkers flow everyday to work, play, live, dissent, shop, parade, and create. It has also undergone tremendous change and gentrification, with high-end retail and big box stores dotting the street to accommodate a shift toward an increasingly privatized sidewalk experience.The festival’s ethos has always been one of sharing, openness, and accessibility; produced without a budget, outside of permitting regulations, and taken up completely on the initiative of the organizers and participating artists. AiOP is collaborative, horizontal, and constantly in motion. AiOP is FREE.–Juliana Driever & Dylan Gauthier

Associate Director of TriBeCa-based art gallery focused on new media (sound, technology, new media, performance, socially-engaged art), founded by Lea Rekow in 2003. GAS was a legendary Downtown art venue for the pursuit of cultural practices which foster ideas and collaborations in multi-disciplinary contemporary art with a focus on the intersection between music, politics, pop and international cultures.AIMS & OBJECTIVESTo extend the range of art experience.To encourage emerging artists to exhibit innovative work in a professional environment.To develop a gallery program which includes a wide range of disciplines and to facilitate and support varied curatorship, exhibition, and contemporary critique.To assist in catalogue essays and publication, promotional material and exhibition concepts.To promote artists and their practices.To foster an awareness within both the local downtown manhattan community and a wider international community of the cultural pursuits being explored at GAS.To raise the professional profile of the curators, writers, exhibitors and designers through exposure and sale of their work.