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Derek Conrad Murray

Derek Conrad Murray

Professor, History of Art & Visual Culture

History of Art/Visual Culture

Areas of expertise: Visual Culture, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Critical Theory, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Media Studies, Contemporary Cinema, African American / Black Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He works in contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory with particular attention to technocultural engagements with identity and representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals such as Radical History Review, American Art, Art in America, Parachute, Art Journal, Third Text, Consumptio... more »


Areas of expertise: Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Film and Politics, Globalization, Nationalism, Colonialism, Media Studies, Race


Biography, Education and Training

  My research and teaching interests center on popular media, nationalism, globalization, feminism, postcolonial theory, cultural theory, and modalities of difference such as race, caste, and gender. My book, Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, May, 2022), focuses on the intertwined projects of Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India and their narration in popular culture. https://www.rutgersuniver... more »


Areas of expertise: Sound, Radio and Radio History, Media Studies, Media Art, Environmental Art, Critical Practice


Biography, Education and Training

Anna Friz creates media art, sound art, radio and transmission art, working across platforms to present installations, broadcasts, films and performances. Her creative and scholarly works often reflect upon media ecologies, land and land use, infrastructures, time perception, radio and transmission art histories, and critical fictions. She specializes in self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Currently her focu... more »


Areas of expertise: Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Latin American and Latino Studies, Home Movies and Personal Media, Film Preservation and Film Archiving, GLBTQ Film and Media, Media Studies, World Cinema, Cinema and Social Movements, Digital Arts


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Livia Perez (she/her/ela/dela) is a Brazilian educator, media scholar and filmmaker. Her moving-image practice and research span non-fiction media, Latinx, feminist and queer media history, visual memory, diasporic media history, transnational film, and multimedia. She received an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from the University of Sao Paulo. The films she directed and produced have been screened at Sundance, Locarno, Havana, ID... more »

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