Noam M. Elcott specializes in the history of modern art and media in Europe and North America, with an emphasis on interwar art, photography, and film. His research and teaching combine close visual 

analysis with media archaeology and critical theory. He also writes and teaches on contemporary art. 



Recent classes include seminars on Dada, on Futurism, and on art between photography and film, an 

undergraduate lecture course Art, Media, and the Avant-Garde, as well as Art Humanities.



Elcott was educated at Columbia University (B.A. summa cum laude 2000) and Princeton University (Ph.D. 2009). He is the recipient of Fulbright, Mellon, DAAD, and other fellowships.



Elcott is currently at work on two book-length studies. The first charts the rise of cinema and media architecture through close analyses of avant-garde cameraless photographs (photograms) and films, 

in particular those of Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy. The second carries this project forward to the present, with extended studies of Anthony McCall, Stan Douglas, James Welling, Christian Marclay, the London Film-Makers  Co-op, and other contemporary artists. He also curated "Comic - 

Film - Strips," a film program and installation at the CUNY Graduate Center James Gallery. Elcott has lectured widely, including recent and upcoming talks at the Tate Modern (London), the Bauhaus 

Universität (Weimar), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Light Industry at X-Initiative, Miller Theater at  Columbia University, and CUNY Graduate Center (New York).