Horea AvramCoordinator of the group, PhD candidate in Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University)His areas of research include visual cultures, theory of representation, installation art, (new) media artistic practices and all the relationships between them. His doctoral dissertation deals with the aesthetics of space and the problem of (re)presentation in Augmented Reality art and technology.Selected publications:“The Visual Regime of Augmented Space”, Visual Studies Reader, edited by James Elkins, New York: Routledge, (forthcoming 2013); “Cover & Remix: Paradigms of Adaptation in Installation Art”, Kinephanos (forthcoming, 2011); “Intermediary Zones. Augmented Space between Real and Digital”, International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), 2009 - Vol. 2, No. 4; “It’s about taste. A Few Recipes for Art”, in Social Cooking (Romania) eds. Dan Mihaltianu, Ulrike Ettinger and Raluca C. E. Blidar, Berlin: NGBK, 2007.

Mediatopias research project led by Professor Christine Ross is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity group based at McGill University (Department of Art History and Communication Studies), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Between 2009 and 2013, Mediatopias’ program of research will be focusing on the study of the impact of media on the (modern/postmodern) notion and experience of space, under the generic theme of The Inhabitability of the Contemporary World.

Our team brings together artists, art historians, specialists in the field of communication and media studies, as well as geographers.

©Mediatopias (Christine Ross, Olivier Asselin, Darin Barney, Kim Sawchuck, Jonathan Sterne, David Tomas, and special postdoc member: Ingrid Hölzl)