Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Moderator

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (Moderator)is a writer, interviewer, and cartoodlist. She writes about art as a world building activity. Her interests include art as a “structure of feeling,” human/nonhuman animal ontologies, the natural fantastic, the aesthetics of wonder, the history of modernism(s), surrealist methodologies, dystopias, heterotopias, and utopias, and the metaphysics of technology. Her book-length portrait of Donna Haraway, How Like A Leaf (1999) has been re-published in several languages including Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. She is the co-author with John Shoesmith of Scribbles, Comments, and Codes: The Marginalia of Marshall McLuhan (Arcana Books, 2025) and the editor of Anatomy of the Crit, Volume 1 and 2 (Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA, forthcoming in 2026). She teaches in the MFA Art Practice, MFA Fine Arts, and MFA Computer Arts programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.