Jared Pappas-Kelley

[1] Pappas-Kelley also studied with filmmakers Claire Denis and Barbara Hammer whom he cites as influences on his visual work.

[2] His doctoral thesis, supervised by Sylvère Lotringer, examines the inherent instability of art objects, investigating what he terms "the thing that is not a thing"[3] through an examination of events such as the 2004 Momart warehouse fire and the objects stolen and subsequently lost or destroyed by art thief Stéphane Breitwieser.

[3] Developing these themes, he is currently organizing a group exhibition that he is co-curating with Natasha Chuk entitled Solvent Forms.

[13][14][8] Pappas-Kelley’s first job after graduating from university was in the Bomis/Nupedia offices where Wikipedia was first taking form, and he along with the rest of the staff composed and played with some of the first wiki experiments there.

[16] Filmmaker Claire Denis once described Pappas-Kelley's approach with: "Jared, well I have no words to say how much I was impressed by him, by his capability to synthesize, by his aptitude to capitalize everything not only for his own profit but also for the group.