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Liat Berdugo
University of San Francisco
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 4154224301
2130 Fulton St
Department of Art + Architecture Fromm Hall, XARTS 007
San Francisco CA 94117
United States
ABOUT
Liat Berdugo is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, Places, and The Institute for Network Cultures, among others, and her latest book is The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East (Bloomsbury/I.B.Tauris, 2021). She is one half of the art collective, Anxious to Make, and is the co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art series. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an associate professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Berdugo lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
Israel Studies
Palestinian Studies
Visual Cultural
Media
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Palestine
Specialties
Citizen Videography
Photography
Languages
English (native)
Hebrew (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
Education
MFA | 2013 | Digital + Media | Rhode Island School of Design
Abstracts
The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Video, Politics, and the Visual in Israel and Palestine A Tree in Palestine: A photographic view of afforestation as a tool for colonization and control