Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

Contributors

Contributors J. Keri Cronin is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University. She is also a faculty affiliate in Brock’s Social Justice and Equity Studies graduate program and the editor of The Brock Review. She is the author of Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park (2011). Kirsten Forkert is a researcher and activist based in London, UK. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her recent writing, dealing with topics such as cultural policy, cultural activism and the politics of education, has been published in Mute, Variant, Chto Delat, and Third Text. Ayesha Hameed is an FQRSC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her Ph.D. was completed at the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought atYork University, where her dissertation, “Bricks and Blood: The Dialectical Image of The Black Atlantic in The Colonial Metropolis,” was nominated for the Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize. Hameed’s video and performance work focuses on borders in the context of sans-papiers organizing and migrant subjectivity. She has presented her work at the Banff Centre for the Arts, OBORO Gallery Montreal, Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI), the HTMlles Festival, ISEA and elsewhere. Hameed is a former board member of Fuse magazine, and her writing has been published in journals like Public and Topia as well as in collections such as PLACE: Location and Belonging in New Media Contexts. www.ayeshahameed.net. David Jefferess teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He has published articles that provide postcolonial analysis of human rights, humanitarianism, global citizenship, and Western representations of the Global South.His book Postcolonial Resistance: Culture, Liberation, and Transformation was published in 2008,and his current project focuses on the discourse of benevolence and the figure of humanity. 271 Louis Kaplan is a professor of history and theory of photography and new media in the Graduate Department of Art at the University of Toronto and the chair of the new Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. He has published widely in photography studies and on the relationship between contemporary art and media culture. His books include Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: BiographicalWritings (1995),American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century (2005),and The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer (2008).With John Paul Ricco,he co-edited the special issue“Regarding Jean-Luc Nancy”for the Journal of Visual Culture in the spring of 2010. His essay on the photoscrolls of Patrick Clancy will be published in a forthcoming issue of History of Photography.Louis Kaplan is currently working on the Verifax photo-collages of Wallace Berman in the 1960s and their relations to both counter-culture and Kabbalah. Claudette Lauzon is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art at Cornell University.Her current research project,“Troubled Icons: Trauma,Eyewitness Photography, and Contemporary Art,” examines the ways in which artists appropriate iconic photographs of suffering.Recent publications include“What the Body Remembers: Rebecca Belmore’s Memorial to Missing Women,” in Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art andVisual Culture,edited by OlivierAsselin,Johanne Lamoureux,and Christine Ross (2008). Ruth Phillips is a Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture at Carleton University. Her new research centres on two book projects, whose working titles are Museum Pieces: Exhibiting Native Art in Canadian Museums, and Transmission and Translation: Visuality and Art in the Great Lakes. She is also establishing a Visual Studies Laboratory with grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Innovation Fund that will enable her to work with students, Aboriginal researchers, and colleagues in North America and Europe to develop a data base of Great Lakes and Northeast art and material culture and a virtual archive of Canadian exhibits that address the arts and cultures of indigenous and diasporic communities. Kirsty Robertson is an assistant professor of contemporary art and museum studies at the University of Western Ontario. Robertson’s research focuses on activism, visual culture and changing economies. She has published widely on the topic and is currently finishing her book Tear Gas Epiphanies: New Contributors 272 Economies of Protest, Vision and Culture in Canada. More recently, she has turned her attention to the study of wearable technologies, immersive environments and the...