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Asbjørn Grønstad er professor i Visuell Kultur og har særlig arbeidet med spørsmål om etikk knyttet til kontroversielle uttrykk i billedmediene. Han er utdannet språk-og litteraturviter med doktorgrad innen feltet American Studies, og arbeider gjerne med tverrfaglige tema i skjæringspunktet mellom disipliner som filmvitenskap, medieteori, kunsthistorie, filosofi, og litteratutvitenskap. Fra 2008-20013 ledet han prosjektet Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image, finansiert av Trond Mohn-stiftelsen. Sammen med Øyvind Vågnes grunnla han i 2010 det fagfellevurderte tidsskriftet Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Grønstad har hatt to Fulbright-stipend (1998-99 & 2017-18) og har vært gjesteprofessor ved University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000, 2001, 2003), University of Amsterdam (2005, 2013) og University of California-Berkeley (2006-07, 2011, 2013 & 2017-18). I 2007-08 var han professor i Visuell Kultur ved Universitetet i Stavanger. Han har utgitt 13 bøker og over 60 vitenskapelige artikler. Hans seneste bokutgivelser er Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State (Palgrave, 2021) og Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment, med Lene Johannessen (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
Siste publikasjoner:
Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State
Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity
Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture
Film and the Ethical Imagination
Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing
Grønstad har bidratt med en rekke populærvitenskapelige tekster, kronikker, intervjuer og gjesteforedrag i offentligeten.
Seneste innlegg:
Less than zero: McGurls tidsriktige reduksjonisme
Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket
Johnny Cash International - digitalt arangement (Fulbright Norway, 27. oktober 2020).
"Har vi forstått hva "Ways of Seeing" egentlig handler om?" (Aftenposten, 25. september 2020).
"Hva er problemet?" (Klassekampen, 1. september 2020).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
- (2022). Screening absence. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 108-114.
- (2016). Gestures of Seeing. Objektiv. Tidskrift for kamerabasert kunst. 8-11.
- (2013). "Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin and the Aesthetics of Ethical Intimacy". Film Criticism. 22-37.
- (2012). Is there a transmedial dispositif? : aesthetic epistemes and the question of disciplinarity. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 32-49.
- (2012). Ekphrasis refigured: writing seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved. Mosaic. 33-48.
- (2011). "Is There a Transmedial Dispositif? Aesthetic Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity.". The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 32-49.
- (2009). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 106-112.
- (2008). Downcast eyes: Michael Haneke and the cinema of intrusion. Nordicom Review. 133-144.
- (2008). 'No One Goes to the Movies Anymore:' Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era. Kinema. A journal for film and audiovisual media. 5-16.
- (2008). "Teljekantar og Teljefantar: Om Forsking, Formidling og den Tospråklege Fordringa". Syn og Segn. 62-77.
- (2008). "Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion's In the Cut.". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 237-249.
- (2008). "Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion". Nordicom Review. 133-144.
- (2007). Disiplin og Purisme: Eit Essay om Transmedial Kultur. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 227-243.
- (2007). "Disiplin og Purisme: Eit essay om transmedial kultur". Norsk Medietidsskrift. 227-247.
- (2006). Denis Johnson's postmodern Lazarus: Transforming faith in 'Resuscitation of a Hanged Man'. American Studies in Scandinavia. 66-77.
- (2006). An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell. Image [&] Narrative.
- (2006). Abject Desire: Anatomie de l'enfer and the unwatchable. Studies in French Cinema. 161-169.
- (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Handsome Family and the Topographical Uncanny. Chapter & Verse.
- (2005). Tiresijin pogled: Joyce, Rossellini iikonologija mrtvih. Ljetopis: Croatian Film Journal.
- (2005). Om Minnet, Historia, Gløymsla: Godards Eloge de l'amour. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 34-46.
- (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text. Estragon. 9-15.
- (2005). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 121-136.
- (2005). "Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (II)". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 65-79.
- (2004). Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (1). American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 201-217.
- (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up. The Film Journal. 10.
- (2003). One-Dimensional Men: Fight Club and the Poetics of the Body. Film Criticism. 1-23.
- (2003). Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 385-409.
- (2003). Gathering at the River: Ford, Peckinpah and the Failure of the Communal. American Studies in Scandinavia. 51-67.
- (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 233-248.
- (2002). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form. www.Film-Philosophy.com.
- (2002). Fortolkningens Hegemoni: Om Filmkritikkens Usynliggjøring av Estetikken. Z filmtidsskrift. 30-37.
- (2002). Back to Bazin?: Filmicity in the Age of the Digital Image. Popular Culture Review. 11-23.
- (2001). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 212-227.
- (2001). Topographies of Defeat: Masculinity and Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner. Kinema. A journal for film and audiovisual media. 33-48.
- (2001). Straitjacketing the Image: Illocutionary Writing and the Obstruction of Cine-Semiosis in Hawks' Scarface. Redoubt. 109-116.
- (1999). Tid, Bevegelse og Narrasjon i Film. Bordwells Neoformalisme i Lys av Deleuzes Cinesofi. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 105-118.
- (1999). "Tid, bevegelse og narrasjon. Bordwells neoformalisme i lys av Deleuzes cinesofi". REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 105-118.
Vitenskapelig foredrag
- (2023). Sustainable Utopias.
- (2023). Plenary Lecture: "On the Persistence of Murray Bookchin’s Eco-Philosophy".
- (2023). Micro-utopias II - co-organizer.
- (2023). Convener and chair for guest lecture by Elly McCausland: "'Have They Come to Take Me Away?' Madness, Midnights, and the Feminist Antiheroism of Taylor Swift.".
- (2023). Chair of the panel "Animation and the Limits of Care".
- (2023). "Toward an Ethics of Inconvenience: Murray Bookchin's Eco-Philosophy".
- (2023). "Of Time and the River: Heather McEntire's Eno Axis".
- (2022). Rhythm in Moving Image Media.
- (2022). On the Concept of Opacity.
- (2022). Legal Aesthetics: The Case of Ways of Seeing.
- (2022). Labor, Self, and Memory in Dan Erickson's Severance.
- (2022). Komitémedlem og opponent på Jon Inge Faldalen doktoravhandling "Stillmoving.".
- (2022). Elemental Engagements: Art and/as Epistemic Media - Chair and Respondent.
- (2022). Confederalist Micro-utopias: From Murray Bookchin to Rojava.
- (2021). The River in Reverse.
- (2021). On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos's Microdystopias.
- (2021). "White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence".
- (2021). "Refleksjoner rundt 03.08.38".
- (2020). Thoughts on running a peer-reviewed journal.
- (2020). A Conversation with Fresh Eye about Visual Culture in Europe.
- (2019). Respondent to "Political Role of New Media in Relation to American Literature and Culture" and to "The Importance of Global Digital Literacy".
- (2019). Moderator for keynote by Lisa Parks, on "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock".
- (2019). Mediation, Ethics, and Opacity.
- (2019). Main organizer for the conference Monuments: The 26th Biennial Nordic Association for American Studies Conference.
- (2019). Main organizer and chair of the seminar "The Ethics of Surveillance".
- (2019). Keynote Address: "Sound and Image Between Narrative and Opacity".
- (2019). Chair, keynote by Lisa Parks: "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock".
- (2019). Chair for the panel "Monuments in Popular Culture.".
- (2019). Chair for panelet "Mediating Opacity in Visual Culture".
- (2019). "Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State".
- (2018). Ruben Östlund and the Cinema of Vulnerability.
- (2018). Memory, Art, and Ethics in the Work of John Akomfrah.
- (2018). Cosmopolitanism and the Right to Opacity.
- (2018). A Bibliography of Machine Vision.
- (2018). 'Everything was Stories:' The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.
- (2018). "On Visuality and Ethics".
- (2017). Film og den Etiske Imaginasjon.
- (2017). Figuring Opacity.
- (2017). Angelopoulos, Akomfrah and "The Elsewhere of the Image.".
- (2017). "Remediation, Ethics and the Transaesthetic".
- (2017). "A New Ethics For Biovisual Screens".
- (2016). Toward an Aesthetics of Opacity.
- (2016). Ernie Gehr and the Aesthetic Imaginary.
- (2016). Cinema's Gestural Connectivities.
- (2016). "The Virtues of Opacity in a World Without Shadows".
- (2016). "Remediation, Ethics, and the Transaesthetic".
- (2015). Organizer & chair for the symposium "Contested Spaces".
- (2015). Leviathan and the Ecological Screen.
- (2015). John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses and the Ethics of Memory.
- (2015). Archival Migrations: The Organic Image in John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses.
- (2015). "The Ethics of Transgression".
- (2015). "The Aesthetic Imaginary: Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max".
- (2015). "'The Honey of the Invisible:' Experimental Documentary and the Ethics of Memory".
- (2014). "Towards an Ethics of Distortion: Post-human Visuality in Leviathan".
- (2014). "The Organic Image in Nostalgia For the Light and The Nine Muses".
- (2014). "Refigurations of Walden: Notes on Contagious Mediation".
- (2014). "Here is a Picture of no Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max".
- (2014). "'Every Form is a Face looking at us:' The Ethical Encounter in Kiarostami's Shirin".
- (2013). The Nomadikon Lecture Series 8-11. Organizer and respondent.
- (2013). "Thinking Disciplinarity in an Age of Transmediality".
- (2013). "The Two Disciplines, Cinema Studies and Art History," Round table: Moving Images or Moving Theory? The Role of Film Studies in Creating Social Agenda for Visual Culture.
- (2013). "Temporality, Presence, and Slow Cinema".
- (2013). "Precarities Material and Conceptual".
- (2013). "Images Opaque and Precarious: On Ernie Gehr and the Boundaries of Discernibility".
- (2013). "Broken Materialities, or Three Forms of Opacity".
- (2012). Moderator for TBLRs forskerskoleseminar "On Jacques Rancière.".
- (2012). First opponent for Lise Majgaard Mortensens Ph.D thesis "Towards a Revival of Representation: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Novel at the End of Postmodernism".
- (2012). Deltager og kommentator.
- (2012). Arrangør av The 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Spaces, Images within Images.
- (2012). "Taxonomies of Violence.".
- (2012). "Notes on the Power of the Precarious Aesthetic".
- (2012). "Enfolded By Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage".
- (2011). Words of Welcome.
- (2011). "Writing Seeing 1: Transaesthetic Resonances".
- (2011). "Writing Seeing (1): Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega.".
- (2011). "Words of Welcome".
- (2011). "Entropic Cinema: The Case of Antichrist/Irréversible.".
- (2011). "A Cinema of Gestures: Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum".
- (2011). "'Clear-eyed visions of the Particular:' Transaesthetic Resonances in Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Don DeLillo's Point Omega.".
- (2010). Presentasjon av Nomadikon for studenter på Visuell Kultur-Verksted, Københavns Universitet.
- (2010). Panel discussion on "Creativity and Mediation from Husserl to Whitehead and Back.".
- (2010). Medarrangør av "Between the Aesthetical and the Political".
- (2010). Deltagelse uten paper.
- (2010). Arrangør av konferansen The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies.
- (2010). "Words of Welcome".
- (2010). "Visuell Kultur i Norden.".
- (2010). "Toward a Transaesthetic Dispositif: Approaching Disciplinarity Through Deleuze".
- (2010). "On the Unwatchable".
- (2010). "Om forholdet mellom estetisk teori og estetisk praksis.".
- (2010). "Explaining Ourselves to the Image: Ethics and Form in Morris, Folman and Haneke.".
- (2010). "Archives of Violence".
- (2009). Kommentator, moderator, medarrangør av "Concepts, Meaning, Interpretation, Intention (med Toril Moi)".
- (2009). Arrangør av konferansen The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images.
- (2009). Arrangør av The First Nomadikon Meeting: Pluralizing Visual Culture.
- (2009). Amerikabilder.
- (2009). "Words of Welcome".
- (2009). "Words of Welcome".
- (2009). "Transmedial Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity".
- (2009). "The Unwatchable, or, the Fork in the Eye".
- (2009). "The Ethical Life of Images".
- (2009). "The Death of Cinema and the Rise of Visual Culture Studies".
- (2009). "Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images".
- (2009). "Pluralizing Visual Culture: Roundtable Discussion.".
- (2008). Moderator, kommentator, medarrangør av "Det Estetiske i Litteratur-, kunst- og kulturforskningen".
- (2008). "Theorizing Disciplinarity: The Case of Cinema Studies and its Vanishing Objects".
- (2008). "Performing Landscape in Recent Art Cinema.".
- (2008). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights".
- (2008). "Ekphrastic Migrations: Showing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved".
- (2008). "Cinema and its Place in the Digital Era: The New Architecture of Image Studies".
- (2007). "The Place of Cinema in the Era of Visual Studies".
- (2007). "The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness".
- (2006). Abject Desire:Anatomie de l’enfer and the Unwatchable.
- (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Music of the Handsome Family.
- (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text.
- (2005). Last Year at the Ambassador: Pastness in The Decay of Fiction.
- (2004). Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in David Fincher's Fight Club.
- (2004). Denis Johnson's Postmodern Lazarus: Transforming Faith in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man.
- (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up.
- (2004). "Vår Tids Redsel For Alvor:" Nokre Refleksjonar Rundt Roy Anderssons Sanger Fra Andre Etasje.
- (2003). Rossellini and the Transtextual.
- (2003). Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World.
- (2003). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered.
- (2002). The Rhetoric of the Historical Fiction Film.
- (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead.
- (2002). Love Among the Ruins: Memory and Iconology in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia.
- (2002). Bazin and the Question of Filmicity in the Digital Age.
- (2001). The Lying Game?: Historical Fiction and the Re-Invention of the "Past".
- (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception, and Aesthetic Framework.
- (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception and Aesthetic Framework.
- (2001). Film Beyond Photography: The Politics of Artificiality.
- (2001). Andre Bazin and the Substance of Filmicity.
- (2000). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form.
- (2000). Peckinpahs Walden: The Violent Indictment of Civilization in The Wild Bunch.
- (2000). "Abject Topographies: Images of Male Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner".
- (1999). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: On Reading The Wild Bunch as a Narrative of Regeneration.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
- (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. Lexington Books.
- (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2017). Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing. Routledge.
- (2016). Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury Academic.
- (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury Academic.
- (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Routledge.
- (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Routledge.
- (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Routledge.
- (2010). Coverscaping : discovering album aesthetics. Museum Tusculanums Forlag.
- (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. Nova Science Publishers.
Kronikk
- (2023). Nyliberal ytringsfridom. Klassekampen. 40-41.
- (2022). Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket. Morgenbladet.
- (2022). Kampen mot Kritisk Teori. Klassekampen.
- (2021). Utvikling eller avvikling av forsking? Khrono.no.
- (2020). "Har vi forstått hva Ways of Seeing egentlig handler om?". Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
- (2015). Eit Globalt Perspektiv på Humaniora. På Høyden - nettavis for Universitetet i Bergen.
- (2014). "Kunst som forsking, forsking som kunst". Forskerforum. 40-41.
- (2009). Sosiopatiens anatomi - Michael Haneke og Das Weisse Band. På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).
- (2009). "Film Heile Dagen Lang.". På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).
- (2008). "Portrett av eit Augeblikk". Klassekampen. 12-13.
- (2008). "Eit Forsøk på å oppsummere den evigvarande tellekantdebatten". Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. 62-63.
- (2007). "Abu Ghraib i den visuelle kulturen". Klassekampen. 8-17.
- (2004). Murnau og Soloppgangen. Bergens Tidende. 37-37.
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
- (2008). New American Cinema. The Literary Encyclopedia.
- (2008). "Jean-Luc Godard". The Literary Encyclopedia.
- (2007). Mot ein ny biletvitskap: Intervju med W.J.T. Mitchell. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 71-81.
Se fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i CRIStin.
Monografier
Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State
Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (utkommer desember 2020).
Film and the Ethical Imagination (2016).
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema (2012).
Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008).
Antologier
Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (2019).
Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight (2016).
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing (2016).
Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014).
Ethics and Images of Pain (2012).
Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics (2010).
To Become the Self One is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter (2005).
Pågående bokprosjekter:
* Aesthetics, Neoliberalism, Isegoria.
* The Poetics of Mourning: Cinema, Literature, Music
* Sleater-Kinney
* The Soundscapes Project
Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image (Trond Mohn Stiftelse (tidl. Bergen Forskningsstiftelse) 2008-2013).
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