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

“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)

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

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

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

“Stil als Ort. Eine Neudefinition der Frage nach Kunst und Sozialität,” Kunsthandeln, eds. von Hantelmann et. al. (Zürich: Diaphanes, 2010)

“Two Chairs in the Museum,” in The Quick and the Dead, ed. Peter Eleey (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center Publications, 2009)