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

“Mediating Sociality. A Contested Question of Contemporary Art,” in Thinking Media Aesthetics, ed. Liv Hausken (Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, 2013)

“Weather Channel. Frank Gillette’s ‘Symptomatic Syntax’ and Paul Ryan’s ‘Earthscore Notational System’,” Artforum International (September 2013)

“Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology beyond Technical Invention,” Contemporary Art. Themes and Histories, 1989 to the Present, eds. A. Dumbadze and S. Hudson (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)

“The Logic of the Trailer: Abstraction, Style and Sociality in Contemporary Art,” in Abstraction (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art), ed. Maria Lind (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2013)

“The More Things Change. On the Art of Roman Ondak,” Artforum International (Summer 2012)

“Many Novels,” postscript to A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard (Oslo: Aschehoug, 2012) Reprinted in Nick Vogelson (ed.) Bjarne Melgaard (New York, Skira, 2016)

“Media Animism,” in Art and Subjecthood: The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism, eds. Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw, Nikolaus Hirsch (New York: Sternberg Press, 2011)

“Videosociality. Rethinking Social Memory in 1970's Video Art,” in The Cornerstones Lecture Series (New York: Sternberg Press, 2011)

“Moving Images and the New Collectivity,” in Between Stillness and Motion: Film, Photography, Algorithms, ed. Eivind Røssaak (Amsterdam University Press, 2011)

“Spectacle versus Cinematographic Subject,” in Cognitive Architecture: From Bio-politics to Noo-politics, eds. Deborah Hauptmann, Warren Neidich (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2010)