Andrew Uroskie is Associate Professor of Modern Art and Media at Stony Brook University. He teaches in the Doctoral Program in Modern Art History & Criticism, the Masters Program in Philosophy and the Arts, and the Graduate Concentration in Media, Art, Culture and Technology, which he helped found in 2014. Focusing on film, video, sound, installation and performance, his scholarship, teaching, and doctoral advising explore how durational media have helped to reframe models of aesthetic production, exhibition, spectatorship, and objecthood.
His 2014 book, "Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art" (Chicago University Press) was the first book to trace the roots of contemporary video art to the midcentury movement of "expanded cinema." His essays on film, sound, performance and visual culture in modern and contemporary art have been published in more than a dozen interdisciplinary academic journals and anthologies, most recently in Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film through Contemporary Art (Amsterdam University Press) and Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running (Yale University Press) – and have so far been translated into six languages. He recently begin writing features for Artforum international on contemporary video installation and sound art.
He is also sound and visual artist working primarily in expanded documentary. His first film, Paranthropic Audition: Prospect Park Lake (2025), is an experimental documentary about the avian wildlife at one of the world's busiest public parks. Over 18 months of field recording, he captured the sounds of countless birds, which were slowed to approximate avian hearing, as well as allowing humans to hear these familar sounds in a completely different way. His sound works, which explore non-human life as well as the infrastructure of the built environment, are released under the moniker "Paranthropic" and are available through most music streaming services.