Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano

Rodrigo is an art historian and musician researching the interaction between art, science, and technology. His current research explores the concept of invention and how it can be used to frame and understand contemporary artistic practices that engage with technoscience.

Noah Mapes

Noah Mapes is an art historian who specializes in Indigenous North American art and material culture. His research primarily focuses on trans-historical Anishinaabe aesthetic practices and their role in governance. Noah’s dissertation project, tentatively titled “Aesthetics of the Treaty Relationship: An Art Historical Analysis of Anishinaabe Diplomacy,” investigates the agential and vital roles of art and objects in the formation of Anishinaabe political consciousness and diplomatic relations with settler colonial governments.

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Salah M. Hassan

Salah M. Hassan is the Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies and Research Center, and Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM), Cornell University. He is also the Founding Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE. Hassan is an art historian, art critic and curator. He is aneditor and founder of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Duke University Press) and served as consulting editor for African Arts. He currently serves as member of the editorial advisory board of Atlantica and Journal of Curatorial Studies. He authored, edited and co-edited several books including Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination (2021); Ibrahim El Salahi’s Prison Notebook (English Edition) (2018); Ibrahim El Salahi’s Prison Notebook (Arabic Edition) (2018); How to Liberate Marx from His Eurocentrism: Notes on Black/African Marxism (2012); Darfur and the Crisis of Governance: A Critical Reader (2009), and Diaspora, Memory, Place (2008); Unpacking Europe (2001); Authentic/Ex-Centric (2001); Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists (1997); and Art and Islamic Literacy among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria (1992).

Cheryl Finley

Cheryl Finley holds aPh.D. inAfrican American Studies andHistory of Art from Yale University. With nearly 20 years of research on historic and contemporary images of the transatlantic slave trade, her seminal study, Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press, 2018) was the winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, 1600-1800. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery, a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold, and the art, architecture, poetry and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. Another of Dr. Finley’s works, My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South (Yale University Press, 2018), has accompanied the exhibition History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2018.

Ksenia Un

Ksenia’s research critiques how official visual culture promoted the representation of Slavic and Eastern Orthodox dominance in the former territories of the late Russian Empire. Her dissertation works across media including photography, ornament, and painting. Ksenia is currently an advisory board member of the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre. In her teaching of art and visual histories from the nineteenth century to the contemporary, Ksenia encourages ways of seeing which work against…

Maria Fernandez

María Fernández’s research and teaching concern three areas and their intersections: the history and theory of digital and new media art, Latin American art, and feminist media art, with attention to postcolonial/decolonial theories. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press 2014), for which she won the Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015. With Faith Wilding and Michelle Wright she edited Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices (Autonomedia, 2002). More recently, she edited the volume,Latin American Modernisms and Technology, which explores diverse engagements of Latin American intellectuals and artists with modern technologies, mechanical, electronic, digital and imaginary (Cornell Institute for Comparative Modernities and Africa World Press, 2018). Her essays have appeared in multiple journals including Leonardo, Art Journal and Third Text as well as in edited collections. She is now writing a book on the work of the British cybernetician, Gordon Pask and investigating the contributions of women artists working in new media to posthumanisms and new materialisms.

Iftikhar Dadi

Iftikhar Dadi teaches and researches modern and contemporary art from a global and transnational perspective, with emphasis on questions of methodology and intellectual history.His writings have focused on modernism and contemporary art of South and West Asia and their diasporas.Another research interest examines the film, media, and popular cultures of South Asia, seeking to understand how emergent publics forge new avenues for civic participation.