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About Svetlana BoymSvetlana Boym (b. 1966) is a writer, theorist, and media artist who leads parallel lives. She is the author of The Future of Nostalgia (Basic Books, 2001), (translations into Serbian, Italian, Polish (partial), Chinese, Hebrew, Turkish, Spanish, forthcoming), the novel Ninochka (SUNY Press, 2003), Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future (with photos by Adam Bartos, 2003), Territories of Terror: Memories and Mythologies of Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art (exhibition catalogue, 2006) and forthcoming Architecture of the Off-Modern (Columbia University, 2008) and Another Freedom: Art, Philosophy, Politics (2008). Her recent media exhibits include “Nostalgic Technologies” (2006 in Ljubljana and Cambridge), “Unforeseen Past” (2007, NYC) and “Skipping the Page” (Book Art Center, NYC). She presented her work and lectured in the Freud’s Museum at Vienna Artweek, at Frieze Art Fair, London, Kitchen, NYC, Apexart, NYC, and the MediaCenter at Karlsruhe in the City Museum in Ljubljana. She has contributed to many journals, including Art Forum, ArtMargins, Cabinet, Critical Inquiry, Representations, Poetics Today, and Harpers’s Magazine. In yet another life she wrote a play The Woman Who Shot Lenin, performed at the Charlestown Working Theater in Boston. When not doing art projects, Svetlana Boym teaches in Comparative Literature at Harvard University and is an Associate of the Graduate School of Design. Native of St. Petersburg, Russia, she now lives and works in Cambridge, USA and on svetlanaboym.com To learn more about her academic interests and publications, please visit her staff pages at Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature.
2006-2008 Lectures and Artistic Presentations
2006-2008 Solo and Group Exhibits
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