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Biography
Irit Rogoff (born 1947) is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory; postcolonialism, geocultures and geographies, cultures of education and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.
Teaching
Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture. In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London where she is a Professor of Visual Culture, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program.
Curating
Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
In 2011, together with Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld she founded the curatorial and research collective freethought. In 2016 freethought was the Artistic Director of the Bergen Assembly.
Writing
Rogoff has written and co-written a number ofessays. She has only authoured one book 20 years ago:
- Visual Cultures as Seriousness This is a short pamphlet. (2013) (co-written with Gavin Butt), Sternberg Press
- Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (2000).
- A.C.A.D.E.M.Y., co-eds. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff, Revolver (2006)
- Museum Culture – Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (with Daniel Sherman) Minnesota 1994, Routledge 1998.
Rogoff has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal, e-flux, and Third Text. She was a guest-editor for the special issue of e-flux journal no. 14 entitled Education Actualised which was published in 2010