CV

Work experience

• Senior Manager, Application Development at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2021 — present
• Lead Developer, Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2016 — 2021
• Manager of Media Technology, Digital at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2014 — 2016
• Media Technology Developer at Museum of Modern Art
  2007 — 2014
• Technologist at WNYC
  2006 — 2007
• Special Projects Technologist at AV&C
  2006 — 2007
• Business Analyst, Licensing at ASCAP
  2001 — 2005
• Team Lead, International Distribution at ASCAP
  1996 — 2001
• Webmaster at Anthology Film Archives
  1998 — 2000
• Co-founder at Fluid Ounce Records
  1996 — 1999
• Music Buyer at Mondo Kim’s
  1996

Publications

Connecting to art: How The Metropolitan Museum of Art used a public API to share 5,000 years of human creativity with audiences beyond its walls.

Choi, Jennie and Spencer Kiser. "Connecting to Art: How The Metropolitan Museum of Art Used a Public API to Share 5,000 Years of Human Creativity with Audiences Beyond its Walls." Increment. Issue 14. August 2020.

Talks

Delving into Open Access Artwork Metadata and Imagery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

June 18, 2023

Invited Talk at Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop 10, organized in conjunction with 2023 Conference of Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, Vancouver, BC, CA

Artwork Collection Data at The Met

June 17, 2019

Invited Talk at Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop 6, organized in conjunction with 2019 Conference of Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, Long Beach, CA, USA

Building a Map for the Met App

November 06, 2015

Case Study at Museum Computer Network Annual Conference 2015, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Teaching

Communications Lab

Soundwalk Studio: Making Environmental Sound Art

Education

• Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.), Interactive Telecommunications Program
  New York University
  2004 — 2006
• Audio Engineering Certificate
  The New School
  2000
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), German Language and Literature
  Boston University
  1992 — 1994
• Germanistik Austauschprogram
  Universität Heidelberg
  1993 - 1994

Volunteering