Miranda Hynes is a second-year Art History Master’s student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

where she currently serves as a departmental teaching assistant. Miranda received her Bachelor’s in Art History and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in contemporary art after 1980 from the United States and Britain, and is interested in works which unpack colonialism and racial capitalism. Her undergraduate thesis, “Who Guards the Art? Fred Wilson’s Guarded View, Museum Security Guards, and Equity in the Museum,” recontextualized contemporary artist Fred Wilson’s examination of racialized labor hierarchies in the museum through a case study of present-day museum guards at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Aside from her work in academia, Miranda has served in a number of roles in museums and archives, including at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, the Art Galleries at Black Studies in Austin, the Umlauf Sculpture Garden in Austin. Her current research explores artists who create multi-media installations that expose, critique, and combat every-day practices of technologically mediated surveillance.