photo by Rick CocciaDena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
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Recent and upcoming events:
On sabbatical September 2009-September 2010
Study at Qalam wa Lawh Arabic Language Institute, Rabat, September-October 2009
“Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art,” talk in the Department of Interactive Media and Design, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, October 30, 2009
“Neo-textualism in Arab and Muslim media art,” talk on the panel “Pirated Politics: Contemporary art, artists, and the postproduction of the Middle East,” Middle East Studies Association, Boston, November 24, 2009
“Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics,” talk at the Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, February 8, 2010
“Vegetable Locomotion: A Deleuzian Ethics/Aesthetics of Traveling Plants,” keynote lecture, Third International Deleuze Studies Conference, Amsterdam, July 12-14, 2010
News from some of my students, present and former:
Gabrielle Hezekiah’s beautiful book, Phenomenology's Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience, will be published by Intellect Books in February 2010.
Aleksandra Dulic teaches at UBC Okanagan. You can read about the Cinema of Braided Processes and other projects here.
Tarja Pitkänen-Walter is Head of the Degree Program in Painting at Helsinki Academy of the Fine Arts. See her artwork here.
Emily Rosamond is in the Humanities Doctoral Program at Concordia University. Her 2010 activities will include the International Camp for Improbable Thinking.
See Jacky Sawatzky’s interactive and handmade objects
See Donna Szöke’s video and new media works
See Adrian Buitenhuis’s photography and films
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