Delinda Collier

Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies. Education: MA, 2004, Arizona State University; PhD, 2010, Emory University. Awards: 2024 Arnold J Rubin Outstanding Publication Award for Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa; 2020 Center for the Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art: Visiting Senior Fellowship; 2017 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: Clark Fellowship. Publications: Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020); Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016); "Tercera Bienal de la Habana" in Sven Spieker, et al., eds.; Handbook of Socialist Exhibition Cultures International Art Exhibitions in the Socialist World, 1947–1989, (Toronto: Toronto University Press, forthcoming 2025); “‘We Need a Lighthouse Philosopher': Filipa César’s and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media,” ARTMargins (February 2024), 18-39; “Crypto-Art and the Fungible Body: CUSS Group’s Video Party 4 (2014),” VCS: Visual Cultural Studies Journal special issue co-edited by Sean Cubitt and Valentino Catricalá, “Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Media,” 3/4 (June 2022), 1-20; Coeditor with Robyn Farrell, Perspectives on In/Stability (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022); “The Miscegenated Interface: Functionality in Fatimah Tuggar’s Working Woman (1997) and Broom (1996),” in Davis Museum, Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons (Munich: Hirmer, 2019), 39-48; “On the Sindika Dokolo Foundation and Art’s Exceptionalism” Art Africa (March 2017), 170-176; “Sona Drawing’s Geometric Discourses and its Implications for Global Art History” Convocarte 2:3 (April 2017), 179-190; “Obsolescing Analog Africa: a Re-reading of the ‘Digital’ in Digital Art” Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture (Winter 2015), 1-11.