Nick received his BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University where he studied the theory, history and literature of performance with concentrations in critical and cultural theory, 20th and 21st century avant-gardes, and jazz. He earned his MA in Performance Studies from NYU, where he completed a Master's project about theories of assemblage, affect, Afrofuturism, and becoming alien in the music of the late L.A. abstract hip-hop producer Ras G. Nick is currently finishing a dissertation tentatively titled "Techno-sonic Modulations: Performing Radical Topologies in Contemporary Sonic Capitalism," which explores the work of contemporary electronic music producers and performers who remix and retool the sonic, affective, and technological substrates of contemporary capitalism's bio-entrainment tactics to gain access to modes of navigating and feeling both within-and-beyond the totality of real subsumption through radical social, aesthetic, and political practice. Nick is also a DJ, curator, and event producer living and working in Bushwick/Ridgewood.