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Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium - Derek Conrad Murray

"On the Queering of Post-Black Art"
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Porter College Room D245 (UCSC)
Presented by: 
Arts Division
Film and Digital Media
History of Art and Visual Culture

Derek Conrad Murray is an assistant professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals of contemporary art and visual culture such as American Art Art in America, Parachute, Art JournalThird Text, Consumption Markets & Culture, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Duke University Press), where he currently serves as Associate Editor. Murray is also currently serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of Third Text. His book entitled Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Rethinking African-American Identity After Civil Rights will be published by I.B. Tauris (UK) in 2015.

For more information: visualmedia@ucsc.edu

Free and open to the public.

Image caption: Glenn Ligon, Malcolm X (Version 1) #1, 2000, Vinyl-based paint, silkscreen ink, and gesso on canvas. 96 × 72 in. (243.8 × 182.9 cm).