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Octavian Es¸anu was the founding director
of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art,
Chis¸ina˘u, Moldova (currently KSA:K), and
subsequently earned his doctoral degree at
Duke University. He has recently been
appointed curator/assistant professor at the
American University of Beirut, where he con-
tinues to seek a common ground among his
artistic, curatorial, and academic interests.
Azin Feizabadi is a Berlin-based filmmaker
and visual artist. Born in Tehran, he gradu-
ated with an MFA from New York’s New
School and attained a Meisterschüler degree
from the University of the Arts Berlin. In
2006, Feizabadi cofounded the art collective
Reloading Images, a platform for artistic
research and curatorial and publishing proj-
ects in the Middle East and Europe. In 2009,
he launched “A Collective Memory,” an ongo-
ing research and production framework, as a
response to the sociopolitical transformations
in the Middle East.
María Amalia García earned her PhD and
bachelor’s in art history and theory from the
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Her
PhD thesis was published under the title El
arte abstracto: Intercambios culturales entre
Argentina y Brasil (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI,
2011). She is a researcher in Argentina’s
National Scientific and Technical Research
Council (CONICET) and teaches at UBA.
Ros Gray is a writer and lecturer in the
Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University
of London, and a tutor in Curating Con-
temporary Art at the Royal College of Art.
Her research focuses on revolutionary cin-
ema and its global networks, socialist friend-
ship, anticolonialism, postcolonial theory,
and contemporary art. She has coedited a
special issue of Third Text titled “The
Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography” and has
contributed to numerous books and art
journals.
Huw Hallam is a doctoral candidate at
King’s College London. His research engages
with a wide range of modern and contempo-
rary music, sound art, and visual cultures,
often focusing on their political and temporal
dimensions.
Fernanda Negrete is a visiting assistant
professor in the Department of French
and Italian at Miami University, Ohio. Her
research and curatorial projects investigate
intersections of literature, contemporary art,
aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. She is cur-
rently working on a book manuscript entitled
The Aesthetic Clinic in Post-Freudian
Experimental Literature and Art.
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