Cinémathèque de Tanger, May 2012. photo: Rick Coccia
Dena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
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Starting September 2013: MA in Comparative Media Arts
Art and Culture Studies at SFU Contemporary Arts
See the Dossier on Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, a collection of student works
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:
“The Right Time: Experiments in Arab Cinema,” Goldsmiths, London, January 17, 2013, 5:15 p.m.
“Noise in Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics,” Royal Academy of Art, London, January 16, 2013, 2 p.m.
“Getting in Touch: Palestinian Video from Haptic Image to Networked Space,” University of Lund, Sweden, January 14, 2013
“Fabulation and Imaginal in Hadjithomas and Joreige’s Je Veux Voir,” talk on the panel “Taking Place: Media Objects, Media Histories, and Middle East Studies,” Middle East Studies Association annual conference, Denver. November 19, 2012
“Noise in Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics,” Centre for New Aesthetics, University of Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. October 15, 2012.
“Arab Experiments: Creation, Exhibition, Distribution,” talk at Think Film!, Berlin. October 13, 2012
“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
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