Delinda Collier

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

February–June 2017

Delinda Collier is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her fields of research are Southern African art, new media art, and Cold War cultures. She is the author of the book Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art (2016) and has articles in Nka, Critical Interventions, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Third Text, and African Arts. At the Clark, Delinda will work on Essays on The History of New Media Art in Africa, a book that investigates the “new” of new media and the methods by which the new is folded into the archaic and the natural. It will be the first book to devote itself entirely to new media art in Africa: that is, to pose “new media” art from or about Africa as the central question.