The Visual Culture Department welcomes new faculty for the 2022-2023 academic year:
OFRI CNAANI will be joining the department as Guest Professor in both terms and STEFANO HARNEY will be offering a series of open seminars as 2022/23 Professorial Research Fellow throughout autumn 2022 and spring 2023.

Dr OFRI CNAANI is an artist and researcher who works across media and performance. In addition to her guest professorship at TU Wien, she is a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam. In 2022 she completed her doctoral studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Cnaani writes about data and coloniality, digital contested heritage, institutional practices in the algorithmic turn, and performance as a model for the creation of critical technology. Cnaani’s work has appeared at the Venice Biennale of Architecture; Tate Britain, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; PS1/MoMA, NYC, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Cnaani recently co-organized Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London and is currently working on a project at the International Space Station (ISS).

STEFANO HARNEY (Dr.) is Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at the ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS COLOGNE and a Honorary Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. He is a scholar specializing in Black Studies and has taught in the fields of anthropology, sociology, art criticism, American studies and business and management.