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Publications - Brian Goldfarb

  • “Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures of Education in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2002)
  • “Fragments on Prosthetics and the Virtual: Ocular Prosthetics and the Embodiment of Digital Visuality,” co-author Lisa Cartwright, Documentary and the Practice of the Visual, ed. Christina Lammer (Vienna: Verlag Turia & Kant, 2002)
  • “Local Television and Community Politics in Brazil: São Paulo's TV Anhembi,” Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video, edited by Chon Noriega (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
  • Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, co-edited with Mimi Young (New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995)
  • “A Pedagogical Cinema: Development Theory, Colonialism, and Post-Liberation African Film,” Iris special issue on African cinema (1995), reprinted in Revista Archivos De La Filmoteca, Valencia, Spain (Fall 1998)
  • “Intimate Interactivity: New Safer Sex Software,” The Independent 16, no. 10 (1993)
  • “Video Activism and Critical Pedagogy,” Afterimage 20, no. 10 (May 1993). Reprinted in Art Activism and Oppositionality, ed. Grant Kestor and Lynn Love (Duke University Press, 1998) 
  • “Cultural Contagion: On Disney’s Health Education Films for Latin America,” co-author Lisa Cartwright, Disney Discourse, ed. Eric Smoodin (New York and London: Routledge, 1994)
  • “Radiography, Cinematography, and the Decline of the Lens, 1920-1970,” co-author Lisa Cartwright, Incorporations, Zone Vol. 6, eds. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (Cambridge: MIT, 1992)

Recent Media Projects:

  • Pictures of Waiting Children. (web-based project 20001-present) exploring the culture and economy of international adoption and the Internet subculture that has grown up to support it.
  • Ocular Convergence (interactive CD-ROM/Web project, 1999) A fictional and critical examination of digital ocular prosthetics.

Curatorial Projects:

  • Curator, alt.youth.media, 1996, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
  • Co-curator, Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, 1995, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
  • Curator, Digital Check-Up, 1993, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY