[spectre] Other Art Histories: talk - screening - book launch on media art in London

[Gabriel Menotti]

*Other Art Histories*
Tue 13 Oct 2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
King’s College London, Strand, Bush House, South East Wing, BH SE 2.12,
WC2R 1AE

Dear All,

*The Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception*
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at King’s College London has the pleasure to invite you to this talk,
accompanied by a screening, on reframing the history of art history, while
asking bigger questions about the condition of modernity and the narratives
that have shaped it.

What is it like to look at art history sideways, from the perspective of
niche practices undertaken in marginalised territories? In this
presentation, Gabriel Menotti and German Nunez discuss possibilities of
reframing the discipline and its established categories from the Global
South, based on their experience of editing the pioneering anthology,
*Barbarian
Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts*
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(Open
Humanities Press, 2025, open access).

*Barbarian Currents *gathers more than fifty original texts from Brazilian
authors, artists, critics and curators – most of them published in English
for the first time. The book advances a compelling sociological approach to
the development of arts and technology in Latin America and, arguably, the
world.

The talk will be accompanied by a screening of historical Brazilian video
art.

Free and open to all, booking required:
*https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforattentionstudies/2431568*
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*Speakers' bios*

*Gabriel Menotti* is a Brazilian independent curator and filmmaker working
across various media. He works as Associate Professor and Director of
Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. He has published
extensively on the subject of images, institutions and technology. His
works have been shown at various institutions worldwide, such as the São
Paulo Biennial, Centre Pompidou and the transmediale festival. His latest
publications are the monograph *O filme em circuito* (Editora Machado,
2026) and the *Barbarian Currents* anthology. Menotti is also one of the
coordinators of the Besides the Screen research network and festival.

*German Alfonso Nunez* is a social art historian whose research examines
the intersections of contemporary art, social history, technology and
visual culture, with a particular focus on Brazil. He received his PhD from
the University of the Arts London and has held postdoctoral fellowships at
the University of Campinas (Unicamp), the University of São Paulo (USP) and
Stanford University. He is the co-editor of *Barbarian Currents* and the
editor of the publication marking the 75th anniversary of the Museum of
Modern Art of São Paulo. Since May 2026, he has been Assistant Professor at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo.

Best,
Joanna
-- 

Joanna Zylinska <https://www.joannazylinska.net/>

Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice

Director of the Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception
<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-attention-studies>

Co-Director of Open Humanities Press <https://openhumanitiespress.org/>
King's College London

Department of Digital Humanities
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