Chad Elias

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Art History

My first book, Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon, was published by Duke University Press in 2018. Reviews of Posthumous Images have appeared in Arab Studies Quarterly, Art Journal, Art Papers, the Journal of Arabic Literature, Object and Third Text.  In collaboration with the Hood Museum, I organized a multidisciplinary symposium which explored questions relating to resource extraction, carbon imaginaries, species extinction and evocations of the deep past and worlds-to-come in contemporary art. My ongoing book project explores how contemporary artists critically interact with artificial intelligence systems, with a particular focus on the implications arising from the automation of cognitive and social processes inherent to human visual perception.  

Contact

Chad.Elias@dartmouth.edu
Carpenter, Room 210A
HB 6033

Department(s)

Art History

Education

PhD Northwestern University

Selected Publications

  • "Video Archives of the Syrian Revolution: A Media Experiment." Visual Anthropology 37, no. 1 (2024): 74–91.           

  • "Akram Zaatari: The Social Life of Photographs," in Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, ed. Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford and Laura Wexler (London: Thames & Hudson, 2024).

  • "Islam and the Middle East in the United States: Claire Beckett's Simulating Iraq and The Converts." American Art 37, no. 3 (2023): 72–95.

  • "Between Species: Animal-Human Collaboration in Contemporary Art," Burlington Contemporary 2 (November 2019): n.p.  http://[http://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/between-species-animal-human-collaboration-in-contemporary-art]

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