Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture

Marina Grzinic (PhD) is a philosopher and artist who lives in Ljubljana and works in Ljubljana and Vienna. She is researcher at the FI SRC SASA (Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts) Ljubljana and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Aneta Stojnic (PhD) is a Belgrade-born theoretician, artist and curator. She is assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade. Misko Suvakovic (PhD) is Dean of Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, and professor of theory of art and media in the PhD program of transdisciplinary humanities and theory of art. Contributions by: Marina Grzinic, Adla Isanovic, Alanna Lockward, Federica Martini, Aleksa Milanovic, Andrea Pocsik, Aneta Stojnic, Misko Suvakovic, Sefik Tatlic, Jelena Todorovic

1. Introduction: Image, Racialization, History.- 2. Racialized bodies, and the digital (financial) mode of production.- 3. Politics and Aesthetics of Databases and Forensics.- 4. The Emancipation of Necrocapitalism: Teleological Function of Liberalism and the Optimization of Hegemony.- 5. Influence of Western Society on Identity Politics of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Colonial and Post-Colonial India.- 6. Radical Contemporaneity: Politics of the Image in Videos by Grzinic & Smid.- 7. Affective Constructions: Image - Racialization - History.- 8. Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the 'Secularity' of the Arts.- 9. "Contingent monuments": Constructions of Publicness in the Fascist Italy Exhibition Complex, 1920s-1940s.- 10. Screened Otherness: A Media Archaeology of Romani Criminalization.- 11. An Image and its Histories: The Uncovering of Rembrandt's Masterpiece Lost During the Second World War.-