KRIS COHEN - Affiliated Researcher

Kris Cohen is a third year PhD student in Art History at the University of
Chicago. His work focuses on how contemporary images and image-making practices engender feelings of belonging and un-belonging; how images produce eventfulness within ordinariness and visa versa; how images become sites for attachment and gathering and for the production of both personality and impersonality; in short, how images today have become sites in which normative personhood is both produced and interrupted. This work tries to follow its themes across a variety of theories and practices, but draws particular inspiration from public sphere theory and theories of affect, belonging, technology and new media, as well as from practices of ordinary photography and contemporary media arts.

Before moving (back) to Chicago, while working as a research fellow at
INCITE, Kris completed a one-year ESRC project about ordinary photography and the Internet, entitled "Photos Leave Home" (see
and recent publications). He has also written about contemporary arts in the UK, including a chapter produced in collaboration with Thomson and Craighead
(http://www.thomson-craighead.net/), an essay for the recent exhibition
"Day to Day Data" (http://www.daytodaydata.com/), and a forthcoming essay on Hamilton and Southern (http://www.24elements.net/,
http://www.theportable.tv/).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Cohen, K. (2006) ‘A Welcome for Blogs’, Counter-Heroics and
Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies Special Issue - Continuum,
Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, (2) June 2006.

Cohen, K. (2005) "What does the photoblog want?" in Media, Culture &
Society, 27 (6) pp. 883-901

Cohen, K. with Thomson, J and A, Craighead. (2005) "The Wrong Categories" in Corby, Tom (ed.) Network Art: Positions and Practices. London: Routledge.

Cohen, K. (2005) ' Better the data you know...', Essay commissioned for
Day to Day Data exhibition catalogue, Harrison, E.(ed.) Nottingham: Angel Row Gallery.

email: kcohen [at] uchicago.edu