A focus on the work of diasporic Arab artists

Speaker

Dr Marianna Liosi (https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/LIOSI92209/Marianna-Liosi) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Essex, Visiting Fellow at the ViDi – Visual and Digital Cultures research centre, University of Antwerp, and a curator. In her research, she explores activist practices online and offline, focusing on social networks as digital archives, more-than-human as site of memory, digital environments and justice, and the question of the expanded spectator. She has published essays in edited books, such as Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Change and Resistance in an Unpredictable World, and e-Journals, such as MAP – Media, Archive, Performance. She edited a book project as part of the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: The Environment as Battleground.

Abstract

To be announced.

Access

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