photo: Rick Coccia
Dena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
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Art and Culture Studies at SFU Contemporary Arts
Online soon: the Dossier on Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, a collection of student works
Latest book: Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art
“Startlingly bold. ... [Marks’] vision of efflorescence across borders of faith and politics is exhilarating and persuasive.” --Marina Warner, Art Newspaper, December 2011
“A fast-paced, scholarly tour de force” --Rob Harle, Leonardo Reviews
“Fascinating and surprising reading”—Elizabeth Harrington, Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
“A promising source of new challenges for digital art”—Jay Murphy, Afterimage 38:6
See an illuminating discussion on Christopher Vitale’s blog Networkologies
See Finn Brunton’s beautiful explication of the book, enfoldment.net, with pages by artist-programmers Kim Asendorf, Kyle McDonald, Jim Bumgardner, subpixel, and Alasdair Turner
Order from MIT Press
Recent and upcoming events:
“Further Travels of the Abstract Line,” talk at the conference “Gazing Otherwise: Modalities of Seeing,” Max Planck Institute, Florence. October 10-12, 2012
"Immersed in the single channel: Experimental media from theater to gallery,” talk at Home Workspace, Beirut. June 19, 2012
“Thinking like a carpet: embodied perception and individuation in algorithmic media,” keynote lecture at “Cinema of Sensations,” 14th Annual Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. May 26, 2012
“Looking not at but beyond: mosaics and performative pixels in Byzantine, Islamic, and new media art,” talk at the conference “Byzantium/Modernism: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Avant-Gardes,” Yale University. April 22, 2012
Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Aesthetics and Politics, in Media and Critical/Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. April 18-19, 2012
"Enfolding-Unfolding aesthetics, or the unthought at the heart of wood," lecture in the School of Architecture, University of Utah. April 12, 2012
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