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!!Bio:
_*Soraya Murray*_ is a scholar and critic of contemporary art, with particular interest in new media, theory and criticism, and globalization in the arts.  Her writings have been published in _Art Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Flash Art,_ and _PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art._  She is also a regular contributor to the international contemporary art journal _ExitEXPRESS_ (Spain).  Murray holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine, and recently received an MA and PhD in art history at Cornell University. She began teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Fall 2007.

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Contact:
semurray@ucsc.edu


!!Research Interests:

Murray's scholarship seeks to unearth the ways that a global phenomenon of electronic mass media and communications technologies shapes human interactions and interpenetrates contemporary experience. How do race, nation, class, gender and access affect who may share in this experience? How do the technologies that we have fashioned, in turn refashion us? Further, her research is focused on how art and technology intersect, how cultural production responds to its influential presence, and how artists have utilized new media forms to express their visions. In her analysis of photography, film, video, electronics and the digital, Murray seeks to illuminate these technological expressions within the social, theoretical and historical contexts from which they arise.

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!!Recent Publishing:
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“Conversation with the Artist: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons,” co-authored with Derek Conrad Murray in Salah M. Hassan and Cheryl Finley, eds., _Diaspora Memory Place: David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z_ (New York: Prestel, 2008), 244-248.

“Conversation with Pamela Z,” co-authored with Derek Conrad Murray in Salah M. Hassan and Cheryl Finley, eds., _Diaspora Memory Place: David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z_ (New York: Prestel, 2008), 302-309.



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“Cybernated Aesthetics: Lee Bul and the Body Transfigured” in _PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art_ 88 Vol. 30, No. 1 (May 2008).

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“On Art and Contamination: Performing Authenticity in Global Art Practices,” Co-authored with Derek Conrad Murray, in _Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art_ 22/23 (Spring/Summer  2008): 88-93.

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[Uneasy Bedfellows essay, Co-Authorship with Derek Conrad Murray, published in Art Journal (downloadable pdf) |http://danm.ucsc.edu/media/events/2009/collaboration/uneasybedfellows.pdf]




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!!Courses:

_MFA Exhibition Production,_ Spring 2009

_Activist Art Since the 60s: Focus on Collectivism and Technology,_ Winter 2009

_Video Games as Visual Culture,_ Winter 2009

_Time-Based Media and The Body, 1980 to the Present,_ Fall 2008

_Histories of Early Video Art in the U.S.,_ Spring 2008

_Issues and Artists,_ Winter 2008

_Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora,_ Winter 2008

_Introduction to Issues in Digital Art,_ Fall 2007

_Media History and Theory,_ Fall 2007

_Recent Methods and Approaches to Digital Media,_ Fall 2007

_Introduction to Art and Technology,_ Fall 2006-Spring 2007

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