Nicolas Mirzoeff

Professor of media, culture and communication at New York University. Since 2013 he also teaches visual culture at Middlesex University in London. Author of An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999), The Visual Culture Reader (1998), Watching Babylon. The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture (2005), The Right to Look. A Counterhistory of Visuality (2012) and How to See the World (2015; Polish edition 2016). In 2012 he started running a daily blog devoted to the Occupy movement, and in 2014 he started an open writing project After Occupy: What We Learned. He is currently working on a book entitled The Visual Commons #BlackLivesMatter, dedicated to the creation of visual communities from the Haitian Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement.