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image:Liat Yossifor, Black Horizontal (detail), 2006. See more of Yossifor's work
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Vol.2 cover (detail): painting by Donald McFayden, reproduced courtesy of Zolla/Lieberman Gallery and Peggy Kottos.

volume 2 : fall 2006 :: the dark / contributors

René Thoreau Bruckner is Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the Binghamton University Cinema Department. He is finishing his Ph.D. in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he also completed his M.A. in 2003. This article condenses the first chapter of his dissertation, “The Art of Disappearance: Duration, Instantaneity, and the Conception of Cinema.”

Heidi Rae Cooley is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Cinema-Television/Critical Studies at University of Southern California, having received an M.A. in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is an editor for journal of visual culture. Her current project is a digital dissertation entitled “The Body and Its Thumbnails: The Work of the Image in Mobile-Imaging.”

Anne Friedberg is Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2003, she was on the faculty of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where she was the principal architect for the new interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Visual Studies and the founding director and programmer of UCI’s Film and Video Center. A historian and theorist of modern media culture, Professor Friedberg is the author of Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern (University of California Press, 1993) and The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft (MIT Press, 2006). In 2001-2002, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, and during 2005-2006, she was a fellow at USC’s Annenberg Center as a member of the themed research group, “Networked Publics.” Professor Friedberg’s current research and teaching interests include: film and media histories and theories, old media/new media historiographies, critical theory/ feminist theory, nineteenth century visual culture and early cinema, theories of vision and visuality, architecture and film, global media culture.

Eva J. Friedberg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on the American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his public plazas of the 1960s. Her research interests include everyday performance and art in public space, architecture history, urbanism, and the representation of the city in film.

Peter Krapp is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he also contributes to the program in Arts-Computing-Engineering. He is the author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and co-editor of Medium Cool (Duke University Press, 2002: SAQ 101:3).

Donald McFadyen (1965-2005) Born in Glascow, Scotland, McFadyen graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Scotland in 1981. In 1982, he left his native country to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago, where he subsequently taught painting and drawing until 2003. In Chicago, his adopted hometown, he was represented by Zolla/Lieberman Gallery.

Eugene Ostashevsky’s books of poetry include Iterature and Infinite Recursor Or The Bride of DJ Spinoza, both available through Ugly Duckling Presse. His work has also appeared in Best American Poetry, Jubilat, Boston Review, and Fence. A recipient of a 2005 poetry fellowship from NYFA, he also translates Russian absurdist literature of the 1930s, and is the editor of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, published by Northwestern University Press.

Itay Sapir is an art history PhD candidate in the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam and in the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is currently writing a dissertation titled “Early Baroque Tenebrist Painting: an Epistemological Interpretation,” whose main protagonists are Caravaggio, Adam Elsheimer, Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne. Itay Sapir holds an M.A. in Early Modern History from Tel Aviv University.

Rei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the ‘Death of the Subject’ (Harvard University Press, 2001). Some of her articles on critical theory have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Common Knowledge, ELH, Romantic Circles, and SAQ. She is at work on Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction: Kant to Adorno.

Nicole L. Woods is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently writing a dissertation on theories of the art object in Fluxus, with a particular interest in the American artist Alison Knowles.

Liat Yossifor is a visual artist living in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been exhibited in various venues including Anna Helwing, Angles, and Noga galleries. She has also been shown at: the University of California (Los Angeles and Irvine), as well as MocaMinsk and Lyman Allyn Museums of Fine Arts. Currently, she is represented by the Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles. She is scheduled for a solo show at Pomona Museum in January 2007.