SEMINAR NO.6: LEGACY OF 1968

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David Crowley (Royal College of Art, London)
David Crowley is currently researching material for a book surveying the visual culture of the Thaw period in Eastern Europe. He is currently editing a collection of essays relating to the phenomenon of leisure and luxury in the former Eastern Bloc. He is also the co-curator of major exhibition at the V&A, Cold War Modern. Modern Art and Design in a Divided World, 1945-1975, which will open in September 2008.

Maja Fowkes (University College London) and Reuben Fowkes (MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University) are curators and art historians who deal with issues of memory, ecology and translocal exchange. They have written and lectured extensively on sustainability and contemporary art, recently organising the symposium on Exit or Activism? Their curated exhibitions include Revolution is not a Garden Party in 2006-7, which dealt with the legacy of the 1956 Revolution for contemporary art. Their current exhibition, Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy opens at Centre for Contemporary Art Thessaloniki in May 2008. They publish their joint activities on www.translocal.org

Francesca Franco is a sessional lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, within the School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media (2007-2008). She is currently completing her PhD in history of art (thesis title: Digital Art and Art Institutions: the Articulation of a New Space) on the relationship between digital art and museum space, with a particular focus on the Venice Biennale, at Birkbeck College. She holds an MA in Digital Art History obtained from the same college. She has been sitting on the editorial board of Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) since 2005.

Daniel Grun (Academy of Fine Arts Bratislava) is an art historian, curator, and writer; works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. In 2006 he curated international exhibition Pantheon: Heroes and Anti-Monuments
(Gallery Medium, Bratislava). In 2006 and 2007 he received Visegrad Scholarship at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and Charles University in Prague. He is completing his PhD. theses on art writing and art criticism in the 1960s Czechoslovakia.

Tomasz Gryglewicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
(born in 1949) an art historian and critic  – member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA),  professor at the Jagiellonian University (UJ)  in Krakow, in charge of the History of Contemporary Art Department at the Art History Institute (UJ).      


Maria Hussakowska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) is associate professor at the Institute of  Art History of the Jagiellonian University  (IHS UJ) . President of Curatorial Studies at the Institute of Art History. Member of the Board of Polish Section of  AICA. Her main interest and specialization focus is on postwar art with an emphasis on American  Art Theory.Her publications include: Minimalism in visual art. De-mythologisation of the concept of Avant-Garde (2003) and Duchamp’s Inheritors? Negation of Art in American Artistic Circles after World War II (1984).

Adriana Kiss-Davies is currently researching a PhD in Art History on ‘Revolution and Exile: Central-European Émigré Artists in Britain after the Uprisings of 1956 and 1968’at University of Wales Aberystwyth. She has given papers at the conference ‘Mass Media and Propaganda in the Making of Cold War Europe’ at University College Dublin and the Association of Art Historians annual conference in Belfast 2007.    

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he convenes Critical Spaces  - the Centre for Critical Cultural Research. He is author of Urban Utopias (2008), Cities & Cultures (2007), Urban Avant-Gardes (2004) and Art Space & the City (1997), co-author of Consuming Cities (2004, with Steven Miles), and co-editor of the City Cultures Reader (2nd edition 2003, with Tim Hall and Iain Borden). He is co-Editor for the Routledge series, Critical Introductions to Urbanism, with John Rennie Short (University of Maryland); and has contributed to Space & Culture, Urban Studies, and Parallax, among other journals. His current research is between contemporary art, critical theory, and social change. Website: www.malcolmmiles.org.uk

Luiza Nader (born 1976) is an art historian and art critic. She lectures at the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw. Author of PhD thesis Conceptual art in Poland. Language-attitude-strategy. She has published texts in catalogues and periodicals a.o. “Artium Quaestiones”, “Ikonotheka”, “Obieg”, “springerin” and anthologies Memory/haunting/discourse (2005), Art after Conceptual Art (2006). Her interests are focused on avantgarde and neoavantgarde art, memory, trauma, archive and relation between history writing and the experience of psychoanalysis. In 2005 she was granted a Fulbright scholarship. Lives in Warsaw.



Sheila Skaff is Assistant Professor and Head of Film Studies in the Department of Communication at University of Texas at El Paso. Serhe is the author of "The Law of the Looking Glass": Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007) and several articles on Polish cinema. She received the 2006 Metchie J.E. Budka Award in Polish History from the Kosciuszko Foundation and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. H research interests include East European cinema, early cinema, and media on the Mexico-United States borderlands.