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Irit Rogoff

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Irit Rogoff
Born1947
EducationCourtauld Institute of Art
Occupation(s)Professor, writer, curator
Employer(s)Goldsmiths, University of London

Irit Rogoff is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory;[1] postcolonialism, geoculture, and geographies,[2] cultures of education[3] and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD degree from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.[4]

She was born in Jerusalem, Israel and immigrated to London for her studies in the 1970s.

Teaching

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Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture.[5] In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London[6] where she is a professor of Visual Cultures, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program.[7]

Curating

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Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.[8]

In 2011, together with Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld she founded the curatorial and research collective freethought.[9] In 2016, freethought was the artistic director of the Bergen Assembly.[10]

Writing

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Rogoff has written co-written a number of essays and pamphlets. She has authored one book over 20 years ago:

  • Visual Cultures as Seriousness (2013) (co-written with Gavin Butt), Sternberg Press [11]
  • Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (2000).[12]
  • A.C.A.D.E.M.Y., co-eds. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff, Revolver (2006) [13]
  • Museum Culture – Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (with Daniel Sherman) Minnesota 1994, Routledge 1998.[14]

Rogoff has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal,[15] e-flux,[16] and Third Text.[17] She was a guest-editor for the 2010 special issue of e-flux journal no. 14 entitled Education Actualised

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References

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  1. ^ "Rogoff | transform.eipcp.net". transform.eipcp.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Exhausted Geographies (1 of 7) - Professor Irit Rogoff. YouTube.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Art Concerns". Art Concerns. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  7. ^ "Irit Rogoff | Curatorial / Knowledge". ck.kein.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Academy". vanabbemuseum.nl. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Who We Are". freethought-collective.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Freethought – Bergen Assembly". bergenassembly.no. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Sternberg Press - Gavid Butt, Irit Rogoff". www.sternberg-press.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  12. ^ "FORMER WEST – Irit Rogoff". www.formerwest.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  13. ^ "A.C.A.D.E.M.Y. | Revolver Publishing". revolver-publishing.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  15. ^ Rogoff, Irit (2002). "Hit and Run—Museums and Cultural Difference". Art Journal. 61 (3): 63–73. doi:10.2307/778213. JSTOR 778213.
  16. ^ "Turning - Journal No. 0 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  17. ^ "third text". www.thirdtext.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  18. ^ ""Education Actualized" – Editorial – Journal No. 14 March 2010 – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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