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Courses

Fall

COMS463 – Semiotics

COMS888 – Discourses of the Body

Krista Geneviève Lynes

Assistant Professor

PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

MSc, Gender Studies, London School of Economics & Political Science

BA, English Literature/Political Science (Double Major), McGill University

Areas of Research:

Examines the intersections of video art and documentary in making visible feminist political subjects, as well as multiple visions of social life under conditions of duress, political struggle, human rights abuse or super-exploitation. Her focus on the politics of visibility engages feminist and queer theories, questions of embodiment, gender and sexuality, postcolonial and transnational examinations of culture, questions of witnessing, spectatorship and encounter, psychoanalysis and semiotics. She is currently working on the aesthetics of ‘groundedness’ in representations of popular struggle and protest, as well as on panoramic visions in contemporary social landscape photography.

Publications:

Books

Experimental Media, Transnational Circuits: Prismatic Visions and Feminism Without Guarantees. New York: Palgrave (forthcoming).

Book Chapters

“On the Ground: Media in Conflict Zones” in Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Peter Mortenböck and Helge Mooshammer (Eds). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2011.

Articles

“Visual Currencies: Documenting India’s Red Light Districts”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol.37, No.1, Autumn 2011, 109-132.

“Perversions of Modesty: Lars Von Trier’s The Five Obstructions and ‘The Most Miserable Place on Earth’”. Third Text. Vol.24, No.5, September 2010, 597-610.

Other

“Curriculum Guide: !Women Art Revolution”. In !W.A.R. Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Alexandra Chowaniec & Spain Rodriguez. 2010.

“A Present Which is not a Transition: TV Buddha and ‘Asia Effects’”. Appendix: CAA Conference: Asia Effects in New Media. Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations. Exhibition Catalogue, 2006.

“North/South Heterotopias: Mina Cheon’s Half Moon Eyes”. New York Arts. Vol.10. No. 5/6, May/June 2005.

From Local to Global: Making Peace Work for Women. Krista Lynes & Gina Torry (Eds.). New York: The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, 2005.

“Geobodies and Heterotopias: The Installations of Mina Cheon” in Dizz/placement. Exhibition Catalogue for Mina Cheon Solo Exhibition at the Insa Art Space, Seoul, South Korea, 2005.

“Beard, Shave, Dental, Hair, Alone” in Shock & Awe: War on Words. Anna Tsing & Jennifer González (Eds.). Santa Cruz: New Pacific Press, 2004.

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