Ina Blom

Research and writing:

My fields of research are modernism/avant-garde studies and contemporary art with a particular focus on media aesthetics and the relationship between art, technology, media and politics. I have taken part in the NFR-supported projects Aesthetics at Work (2003-2007) and Media Aesthetics (2004-2008) and am currently directing the NFR supported research project The Archive in Motion (2011-2013) http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/archive-in-motion/ in collaboration with media- and film scholars. I am a member of the international editorial board of Konsthistorisk Tidsskrift (Routledge), and a contributor to Artforum, Frieze, Parkett, and Texte zur Kunst. I have previously worked as music critic and also done a number of curatorial projects.

Monographs:

• On the Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture. New York: Sternberg Press, 2007  (2nd edition 2009)
• The Name of the Game. Ray Johnson's Postal Performance, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Stedelijk Museum Sittard, 2003
• Joseph Beuys, Oslo: Gyldendal, 2001
• The Cut Through Time. A Version of the Dada/Neo-Dada Repetition, Acta Humaniora, 1999

Articles (selection)

• Moving Images and the New Collectivity, in Between Stillness and Motion. Film, Photography, Algorithms, Amsterdam University Press, 2011
• Media Animism. In Art and Subjecthood. The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism (eds. Birnbaum, Graw, Hirsch), New York: Sternberg Press, 2011
• Videosociality. Rethinking Social Memory in 1970's Video Art. In The Cornerstones Lecture Series, New York: Sternberg Press, 2011
• Spectacle versus Cinematographic Subject, in Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. (ed. D. Hauptmann), Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2010
• Stil als Ort. Eine Neudefinition der Frage nach Kunst und Sozialität. In Kunsthandeln (ed. von Hantelmann et. al.) Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, 2010
• Radical Software and the Noosphere, in Are You Ready for TV (ed. C. Martinez). Barcelona: MACBA Publications, 2010
• What Subject of Taste. In Texte zur Kunst #75,  2009
• Two Chairs in the Museum. In The Quick and the Dead (ed. P. Eleey). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center Publications, 2009
• Nach dem Objektfieber wird sich die Kunstkritik der Politik der Dinge zuwenden. In Texte zur Kunst # 74, 2009 
• Liam Gillick's Sociality. In The Anyspace Whatever. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2008
• All Dressed Up. (On Rachel Harrison). Parkett #82, 2008
• The Logic of the Trailer. Abstraction, Style and Sociality in Contemporary Art, in Texte zur Kunst #69, 2008
• Working Class Abstractions, in Afterall. Art, Context, Enquiry #17, 2008.
• How to (Not) Answer A Letter: Ray Johnson's Postal Performance, in PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art  #29 (2), MIT Press
• Visual/Televisual. Ein einführender Kommentar zu einer anderen Geschichte der Videokunst. In The Expanded Eye. Sehen - entgrenzt und verflüssigt (ed. B. Curiger). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006
• Ben Vautier's Signature Acts and the Historiography of the Avant-garde. In Visible Language Journal #39 (3), 2005
• "Until the Principles of Form are Applied to Democracy ..." Avant-garde Art and Populist Imagination, in The Populism Reader (ed. Ricupero et. al), New York: Sternberg Press, 2005
• Too Close to the Real, in Surroundings Surrounded. Essays on Space and Science (ed P. Weibel), MIT Press, 2002
• The Touch Through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-garde. In Leonardo Journal of Art, Science and Technology, #3, 2001, MIT Press
• Boredom, Oblivion and The Event, in A Fluxus Reader (ed. K. Friedman) London: Adademy Editions, 1998

Forthcoming (selection)

• Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes (eds. Ina Blom, Timothy Benson, Hanne Bergius). Paris: Les Presses du Réel, 2011
• Inhabiting the Technosphere. Art and Technology beyond Technical Invention. In Contemporary Art. Themes and Histories, 1989 to the Present (eds. A. Dumbadze and S. Hudson), New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

See full publication list in FRIDA wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/frida.woa/wa/fres

Teaching:

• KUN 2230/4230 Art, Technology, Media, http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN2230/index-eng.xml http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN4230/index-eng.xml
• KUN 1002 Kunst og arkitektur fra barokken til samtiden (Art and Architecture from Baroque to Contemporary) www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN1002/index.xml
• KUN 2220/4220 Verk versus tekst (Work vs Text), www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN2220/index.xml www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN4220/index.xml
• KUN 2070/4070 Kunsten 1950-2000 (Art 1950-2000), www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN2070/index.xml www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ifikk/KUN4070/index.xml