McGill University professor Christine Ross
Today Montreal’s Artexte announced that McGill University professor Christine Ross has won its inaugural Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art.
Ross specializes in contemporary media art, and she is particularly interested in the relations between media, aesthetics and subjectivity.
Recent books include The Past is the Present; It’s the Future too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art (Continuum, 2012) and The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). She also co-edited Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).
Ross is currently the James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill. She and her research group are currently conducting research on augmented reality in the visual arts and in visual culture at large.
A ceremony to celebrate Ross’s win will be held at Artexte on October 30. Ross will deliver a 30-minute lecture, the first of a series due to happen through 2013.
This article was corrected on October 17, 2012. The original text stated that Artexte is an artist-run centre.
