Sir Isaac Julien
Sir Isaac Julien, RA (1960) is a critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker. He is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California Santa Cruz where he leads the Moving Image Lab together with Arts Professor Mark Nash.
Current and recent international solo exhibitions include Isaac Julien, Tate Britain, London, UK, 2023; Lina Bo Bardi, A Marvellous Entanglement, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA, 2023; Lessons of the Hour, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Virginia USA, 2022-23; Once Again… (Statues Never Die), Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 2022.
Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award 2017, and a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022. He was granted knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List in 2022.
Mark Nash
Mark Nash (1947) is an independent curator, film historian and filmmaker. He is currently a Professor of Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he co-founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his long term partner and collaborator, Sir Isaac Julien.
Nash has collaborated with Julien on works including: Looking For Langston (1989); Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask (1995); Vagabondia (2000); Lina Bo Bardi - a Marvellous Entanglement (2019); and Lessons of the Hour (2019). Additionally, Nash co-curated the influential Documenta11 with Okwui Enwezor and has published books including Curating the Moving Image, 2023; and Red Africa: Affective Communities in the Cold War, 2016.
Jennifer A. González
Jennifer A. González is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, and a faculty member at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. Her many books include Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art (MIT), Christian Marclay (Phaidon), and Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (Duke), which ArtNews listed among the top art books of the decade in 2020.
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is a writer, educator, curator and organizer. She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002. Rogoff works at the meeting ground between contemporary practices, politics and philosophy. Her current work is on new practices of knowledge production and their impact on modes of research, under the title of “Becoming Research” (forthcoming MIT).
As part of the collective freethought Rogoff was one of the artistic directors of the Norwegian Triennial “The Bergen Assembly” September, 2016, Spectral Infrastructure’ BAK 2020-22) and editor of ‘The Infrastructural Condition” (to be published by BAK/MIT). Rogoff is also co-founder in 2017 of “The European Forum for Advanced Practices”, a Europe wide forum for engaging with and developing a set of principles for Advanced, Practice Driven forms of Research.
