Dr. Antigoni Memou
Senior Lecturer
Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)
Antigoni's research focuses on history and theory of photography and global contemporary art.
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University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London, E16 2RD
United Kingdom
E16 2RD - a.memou@uel.ac.uk +44208237542
Antigoni is a member of the Association of Art Historians and a member of the Organising Committee of the research seminar Marxism In Culture (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/132). She is a member of the Global Nominations Panel for the Prix Pictet (The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability http://www.prixpictet.com/nominators/memou-antigoni/) and a nominator for First PhotoBook Award, New Media Space, Science Museum, London (http://www.firstbookaward.com/2015/).
She has been previously an Associated Researcher in the European Protest Movements’ Network and she has acted as a reviewer for book manuscript in Bloomsbury Academic (Dec. 2015); the peer-reviewed academic journals: Photography and Culture (Jan. 2016); Visual Anthropology (June 2015); History of Photography (July 2013); Photographies (March 2012); Theory, Culture and Society (May 2010) (Special issue on ‘Photography and the State’); the Czech National Grant for the Arts (Aug. 2013) and the 36th Macromarketing Conference, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, Stream: Art, Culture and Markets. (Feb. 2011)
Member of the Organising Committee of the research seminar Marxism In Culture (Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, U.K.) (2009-today)
Member of the Nomination Panel, Kyoto Prize for 2018 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (“Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Architecture, Photography, Design”, June 2017).
Member of the Nomination Panel, First PhotoBook Award, New Media Space, Science Museum, London (2013-today).
Member of the Global Nominations Panel, Prix Pictet (The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability)(2013-today).
Professional Member of the Association of Art Historians (AAH) (2007-today)
Associated Researcher in the European Protest Movements’ Network (01 June 2006-30 Dec. 2010)
Manuscript Reviewer for: Intellect (Dec. 2018); Verso (Oct. 2018); Bloomsbury Academic (Dec. 2015 & Sept. 2018);
Routledge (Aug. 2017 & Nov. 2017).
Overview
Antigoni is the author of ‘Photography and Social Movements’ published by Manchester University Press in 2013. She has published in the academic journals Third Text, Photographies, Philosophy of Photography and Ephemera and she has contributed book chapters to edited collections.
She has presented her research in numerous international academic conferences including the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference (2007 & 2010), where she also co-convened sessions (‘Relocations: Photography Within, Across, and Outside the Museum since the 1970’ in 2008 and ‘In and Out of History: Media and Politics in Latin America’ in 2011). She has been an invited speaker at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University in Istanbul (Turkey) in 2010 and at the conferences ‘Curating Resistance: Aesthetics and Ethics in Social Movement’ at the University of Essex in 2010 and ‘The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art Across Disciplines’ at Cambridge University in 2008. In 2012, she was invited to contribute to the ‘Art and Globalisation Talks’ at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and in 2014, she was invited to present on Realism at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh as part of the talks: Keywords: A (Polemical) Vocabulary of Contemporary Art.
2015
‘A Dissident Museum? Counter-Narratives within the Contemporary Museum’, International Conference: Politics, State Power and the Making of Art History, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 18 - 19 June, 2015.
‘Global Photography: Notes on the ‘Documentary Turn’ in Contemporary Art’, International Conference: Situating Global Art, InterArt Research Programme (Free University of Berlin) Berlin, 12-14 February, 2015.
2014
‘Photography and Realism’, Keywords: A (Polemical) Vocabulary of Contemporary Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 7 October 2014. [By Invitation]
Panel Event: ‘What is Photography?’, Free Range, Truman Brewery, London, 21 June 2014. [By Invitation]
2012
‘Green Alternatives/Conflicting Representations,’ International Conference: Eco-images: Altering Environmental Discussions and Political Landscapes, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, 18-19 April 2012
‘Contesting Globalisation: Allan Sekula’s “Waiting for the Tear Gas”’, Art and Globalisation Talks, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 March 2012. . [By Invitation]
2011
‘Bernd and Hilla Becher,’ Seminar at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA in Contemporary Art), London, U.K., 5 October 2011. [By Invitation]
2010
‘The Düsseldorf School of Photography,’ Seminar at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA in Contemporary Art), London, U.K., 28 October 2010. [By Invitation]
‘Carnival Against Capital’: From the Street to the Archive, Symposium: Curating Resistance: Aesthetics and Ethics in Social Movement, University of Essex, U.K., 27 October 2010. [By Invitation]
‘Photography in May ‘68’, Marxism in Culture Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, 28 May 2010.
‘Rethinking May ’68: Photography and Memory’, Seminar at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 May 2010. [By Invitation]
‘A Conflict of Representations: Photography and the Internet in the Zapatista Struggle’, Session Title: Supplementary Conflicts: Domesticities and Life Histories in Wartime, 36th Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, U.K., 15-17 April 2010.
‘Thinking about Protest through Images’, EU Workshop, Centre for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 18-20 February 2010.
2009
‘Photography and Counter-Globalisation in the Contemporary Art World’, Seminar at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA in Photography), London, U.K., 2 March 2009. [By Invitation]
2008
‘May 1968 in Paris: Student Movement, Photography and Memory’, Summer School: Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-25 August 2008.
‘Photographs of May 1968 in the Contemporary Museum: A Note on Politics and Aesthetics’, International Conference: The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art Across Disciplines, Cambridge University, U.K., 24-26 July 2008. [By Invitation]
2007
‘The Student Movement of May 1968: Activist Photography, Self Reflection and Antinomies’, Session Title: 1968: Activist Art and Its Legacies, 33rd Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, U.K., 12-14 April 2007.
‘When It Bleeds, It Leads: Press, Photography and Ideology in the Anti-globalisation Movement’ (Genoa 2001), Marie Curie Conference and Training Series: Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 7-10 March 2007.
Introduction to the documentary film ‘Crossroads’ (2006), Marie Curie Conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 7-10 March 2007.
‘The Student Movement of May 1968: Activist Photography, Self- Reflection and Antinomies’, AAH conference preview seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, U.K., 16 March 2007.
2006
‘Reclaim the Streets: Social Protest, Photojournalism and Activist Photography’, International Conference: Citizenship(s): International Congress on Discourses and Practices, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, 28 June-01 July 2006.
‘Death in Genoa: Notes on Photography, Press and Representation’, International Conference: Photography, Power and the Institution, Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies, University of Durham, U.K., 8 June 2006. [By Invitation]
‘Che Lives in the Anticapitalist Movement’, World Art Postgraduate Symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., 27 May 2006.
‘Reclaim the Streets: Social Protest, Photojournalism and Activist Photography’, Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, U.K., 20 March 2006.
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Research
Publications
The history and theory of photography; the politics of contemporary art; digital image and social media; visual activism and tactical media; art institutions and issues in contemporary display; Latin American photographic practices; the impact of globalization on art, photography and culture; cultural and critical theory; crossdisciplinary approaches to art history.
Interests
Contextual Studies
Contemporary Photography
Research into Practice
Global Photography
Dissertation
PhD and Professional Doctorate Supervision