Professor, IFIKK – Dept. of Art History, University of Oslo
Ina Blom is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, where she also got her PhD (The Cut Through Time. A Version of the Dada/Neo-Dada Repetition. Oslo, UniPub, 1999). Her fields of research and teaching are modernism/avant-garde studies and contemporary art and aesthetics, with a particular focus on media aesthetics and interdisciplinary practices. A former music critic and radio DJ, she has also worked extensively as an art critic and curator. She has been a senior curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo (2000), and the curator of the Fluxus/Intermedia Archive at the Henie Onstad Art Centre in Oslo (1988–1993), producing a number of exhibitions on art from the 1960’s onwards. She has been an editor of Samtiden and of NU: The Nordic Art Review, contributes to Frieze, Artforum, Parkett, Afterall and Texte zur Kunst, and has produced essays for a large number of books and academic journals on contemporary art and theory. Recent books: Joseph Beuys, Gyldendal, 2001; The Name of the Game. The Postal Performance of Ray Johnson, Oslo/Kassel/Sittard, 2003; On the Style Site. Art, Sociality, and Media Culture, Sternberg Press, New York, 2007