Ina Blom

Biography

Ina Blom is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo and Wigeland Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Art History, University of Chicago. Her fields of research are modernism/avant-garde studies and contemporary art with a particular focus on media aesthetics and the relationship between art, technology, media and politics. She has taken part in the NFR-supported projects Aesthetics at Work (2003-2007) and Media Aesthetics (2004-2008) and have directed the NFR supported research project The Archive in Motion (2011-2014) in collaboration with media- and film scholars.

She has been a member of the international editorial board of Art History. Journal of the Association of Art Historians (Wiley) (2012-2016) and am currently member of the editorial board of MAST. The Journal of Media Art, Study and Theory (NeMLA) and Journal of Art History (Routledge), A former music critic and DJ; she has published extensively as an art critic and is a frequent contributor to Artforum, Afterall, Parkett, and Texte zur Kunst. She has also contributed essays to numerous exhibitions catalogues for museums and art institutions around the world. She is currently working on a book with the working title On Following. Straight Lines and Infrastructural Sensibilities, to be published by University of Chicago Press. 

Publications

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social 

(eds. Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo, Eivind Røssaak), Amsterdam University Press
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2017

The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

New York: Sternberg Press
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2016

Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes 

Les Presses du réel
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2014

On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture

Sternberg Press
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2007

The Name of the Game: Ray Johnson's Postal Performance

Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Stedelijk Museum Sittard
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2003

"... And Follow It. Straight Lines and Infrastructural Sensibilities." Critical Inquiry, forthcoming summer 2019

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On Snow Dancing (Parreno's Design Weather), in Superhumanity: Design of the Self, eds. Mark Wigley & Beatriz Colomina, University of Minnesota Press, 2018

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“Perfect Storms. On Ed Atkins and the Science of Weather Simulation,” Artforum, Vol. 56 (October 2017)

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“Video Public, Video Sociality,” Public Space? Lost and Found, eds. Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman (Cambridge, Massachusetts: SA+P / MIT Press, 2017)

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“Boredom and Oblivion,” Boredom. (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art), ed. Tom McDonough (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2017) Edited republication, first published in The Fluxus Reader, 1998

MIT Press
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2017

“Hecker Made Me Disco,” in Florian Hecker. Formulations, ed. Robin Mackay (Köln: Walter König, 2016)

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“Dream Work. The Art of Torbjørn Rødland,” Artforum International Vol. 54 (1) (September 2015)

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“Passive Viewing. Video Watching Television,” Tele-Gen: Art and Television, eds. Dieter Daniels and Stephan Berg (Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2015)

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“Video and Autobiography vs. The Autobiography of Video,” in The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, eds. Pasquinelli and Neidich  (Berlin: Archive Books, 2014)

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“The Autobiography of Video. Towards a Revisionist History of Video Art,” in Critical Inquiry (Winter 2013)

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Profiles

Andrei Pop
Andrei Pop
Modern Art and Aesthetics
Department Chair
CWAC 162 | Tuesdays 1-2pm or by appointment.
773.702.0278
Niall Atkinson
Niall Atkinson
Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History
CWAC 260
773.702.0270
Wei-Cheng Lin
Wei-Cheng Lin
Chinese Art and Architecture
Architectural Studies Advisor
CWAC 268 | Office Hours: Wednesdays 9-10am and 12-1pm
773.702.0268
2006-07
Iowa State University
Assistant Professor, East Asian Art and Architecture
Potters Wheel
Richard Neer
Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
CWAC 259
773.702.5890
Megan Sullivan
Megan Sullivan
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
CWAC 272
773.702.5126