From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl's writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in
contemporary cultural criticism today.
Not exact matches
Multicultural Education magazine features established and emerging voices on
contemporary social and educational issues and
cultural criticism and the promising work of minority populations in schools and society.
Huang Rui, a non-conformist Chinese
contemporary artist is internationally known for his artistic expression of social and
cultural criticism in painting, installation, and performance art.
But his willingness to call out what he saw as complacency within the
contemporary art elite, his exacting knowledge of art history, and his witty approach to writing and speaking about art, marked him out, winning him a wide audience in an age obsessed with
cultural criticism's supposed decline.
Lau is the chairman of the curatorial office Society for Experimental
Cultural Production and was awarded the Chinese
Contemporary Art Awards» jury prize for art
criticism in 2011.
He received his PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, where he specialized in modern and
contemporary art,
criticism, and Cold War
cultural exchanges between Latin America and the United States.
The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about
criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how
contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led
cultural phenomenon and
cultural movement, and the role of curator as a
cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.
-- Stuart Hall's work on culture and representation — Artistic and / or curatorial practice — Filmmaking and media analysis —
Cultural histories — local and diasporic — Literary Studies including criticism and theory — Researching visual archives — The relationship between contemporary visual art and cultural
Cultural histories — local and diasporic — Literary Studies including
criticism and theory — Researching visual archives — The relationship between
contemporary visual art and
cultural cultural politics
Huang Rui, a non-conformist Chinese
contemporary artist is internationally known for his artisitc expression of social and
cultural criticism in painting, installation, and performance art.