Claire Bishop

Professor of Contemporary Art
CUNY Graduate Center

Claire Bishop is a Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Installation Art: A Critical History (2005), Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012), for which she won the 2013 Frank Jewett Mather award, and Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? (2013). She is a regular contributor to Artforum, and her essays and books have been translated into eighteen languages. Her current research concerns the impact of digital technology on contemporary art and performance since 1989.

Papers

  • Against Digital Art History

    This article responds to two issues affecting the field of contemporary art history: digital technology and the so-called computational turn in the humanities.

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