CONNIE SAMARAS
Professor (MFA 1980, Eastern Michigan University)
and an Affiliated Faculty Member in Women's Studies. Her teaching
interests include photography and media criticism, interdisciplinarity
and art, studies in popular culture, women's studies, studies in
sexuality/ies, and issues in cultural criticism and technology.

Recent art awards include Durfee Foundation ARC Grant (2002), Los
Angeles Cultural Affairs Visual Arts Fellowship C.O.L.A (2002),
Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2002-03), and the Adaline Kent Award, San
Francisco Art Institute (2002). Past awards
include grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for
the Arts, and the Laanan Foundation. She has exhibited and lectured on
her work extensively at numerous institutions nationally and
internationally including Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada;
ICA London; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Betty Rhymer Gallery,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Centre for
Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia; Kunst House, Chongiu
City, South Korea; Franklin Furnace, NY; the Berkeley Museum; Detroit
Institute of Arts; Queensland University of Technology, Australia and
Medcad, Barcelona Spain.

A recent catalogue (2002) of photographic works "Angelic States-Event
Sequence" dealing with urban landscape and the intersection of police,
surveillance, military, and
entertainment technologies can be viewed online at San Francisco Art
Institute under Publications/Catalogues: www.sfai-art.com. Over the
past decade she's presented and published numerous papers on a variety
of cultural issues including feminist critiques of censorship of the
arts (NY Law School Law Review; Artforum), considerations of
contemporary art in the Pacific Rim (Australian Monthly), and an
analysis of UFO culture as it relates to US cultural anxieties in the
late 20th century ("Is it Tomorrow or Just the End of Time?" in
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life, Jennifer
Terry and M. Calvert, eds, Routledge). She also has co-authored, with
Victoria Vesna, the book and online project Terminals dealing with
technology and the cultural production of death:
http://time.arts.ucla.edu/terminals.

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