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
New book: Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art
“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
Order from MIT Press
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
Recent and upcoming events:
“Manners of unfolding in documentary cinema,” SFU President’s Faculty Lecture, January 31, 2012. Halpern Centre, Burnaby campus, 4:30 p.m. Reception follows.
"Enfolding-unfolding aesthetics: What gesture draws an image into the visible; what gesture hides it away?", keynote talk at “Image-Gesture,” 5th Nomadikon meeting, University of Bergen, Norway, November 9-12, 2011
“Enfolding-unfolding aesthetics,” talk at the Institut für Künste und Medien, Europäische Medienwissenschaft, University of Potsdam, Germany, November 6, 2011
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