Curating the Moving Image

Mark Nash is an independent curator, film historian, and filmmaker. He is Professor of Film and Digital Media and of History of Consciousness and cofounder with Isaac Julien of the Moving Image Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also author of Screen Theory Culture and Experiments with Truth, and editor of Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War. Nash worked closely with the late Okwui Enwezor on several large exhibitions including The Short Century and Documenta11 as well as the New Museum's Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.

"As a well-established pioneer in curatorial studies, Nash provides copious notes and a well-stocked bibliography to enable expansion into this important area of research and scholarship." - Mike Leggett (Leonardo Reviews) "Rather than a historical recounting of film's convergence with contemporary art exhibition, Curating the Moving Image narrates a very personal trajectory, intent on reconciling two modes of moving image often set up in opposition." - Lucy Reynolds (Screen) "Multiple pasts traverse Curating the Moving Image, a handsomely designed book: they range from Mark Nash's own left-leaning pasts, post-1968 and post-1989 political legacies, and the art-house cinemas of his formative years. . . . Accessibly couched in the authorial voice of the 'I', Curating the Moving Image situates Nash's interests in the communality of moving-image forms in terms of the cinematic." - Maria Walsh (Art Monthly) "Curating the Moving Image is an inspiring volume containing many photographs and diagrams from the various exhibitions Nash cites. I would recommend it to scholars and practitioners interested in the intersection of visual art and cinema. It is relevant to those who are eager to explore with others how best to re-examine the past in the present moment." - Phoebe Hart (Media International Australia) "Curating the Moving Image provides readers with ample criticism of art from the post-Communist Revolution and the People's Republic of China." - Mackenzie Anne Williams (ARLIS/NA)