{"id":9671,"date":"2019-10-24T23:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T03:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:31:43","slug":"dalida-maria-benfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/dalida-maria-benfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalida Mar\u00eda Benfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4038\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9671-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/DalidaMariaBenfield.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/DalidaMariaBenfield.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/DalidaMariaBenfield.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9895 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?w=1776&amp;ssl=1 1776w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dalida-42019.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalida_Mar%C3%ADa_Benfield\">Dalida Mar\u00eda Benfield<\/a>, Ph.D. (Panam\u00e1\/US) is an artist, filmmaker, writer, curator, and educator. She is the cofounder and Research and Program Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/centerartsdesign.org\/\">Center for Arts<\/a>, Design and Social Research (<a href=\"http:\/\/centerartsdesign.org\/\">CAD<\/a>+SR), a non-profit international research center. Her work engages and produces decolonial feminisms, media, networks, and aesthetics, and she is a longtime organizer of autonomous cultural and educational platforms. Her most recent activities include organizing the CAD+SR artist\/researcher residencies &#8220;Commonplaces and Entanglements (after Edouard Glissant)&#8221; in Spoleto, Italy; exhibiting in &#8220;Stateless Mind,&#8221; S\u00f6rte Firkant and Lanterna Magica, Copenhagen; and <a href=\"https:\/\/frontiers.utah.edu\/cfp-world-making-and-world-traveling-with-decolonial-feminisms-and-women-of-color\/\">co-editing a special issue of the feminist journal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/frontiers.utah.edu\/cfp-world-making-and-world-traveling-with-decolonial-feminisms-and-women-of-color\/\">Frontiers<\/a>, on &#8220;&#8216;World-Traveling&#8217; and World-Making with Decolonial Feminisms and Women of Color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is also the co-founder of the Institute of (im)Possible Subjects, a transnational feminist collective of writers, researchers, and artists who curated a year-long series of public interventions, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/migratorytimes.net\/\">Migratory Times<\/a>,&#8221; (2016-2017) with exhibitions, workshops, and events in the US, the Phillipines, S. Korea, Denmark, Colombia, and an ongoing online platform. Other recent pedagogical engagements include: Co-Chair and Graduate Faculty of the Visual Arts Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (2013 &#8211; present); Visiting Artist at the Institut de Beaux Arts de Besan\u00e7on, France (2018); Visiting Artist at the Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen (2018); Visiting Scholar at Microsoft Research New England (2017); Visiting Professor at futuremaking.space at Aarhus University, Denmark (2016-2017); and Faculty Associate and Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (2011-2015).<\/p>\n<p>Before pursuing her Ph.D., she was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1997-2004). Her M.F.A. is from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies with Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of California-Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>The book mentioned in the interview is by\u00a0Yuk Hui, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/question-concerning-technology-china\">The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9897\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9897 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=640%2C423&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=1024%2C677&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=696%2C460&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=1068%2C706&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?resize=635%2C420&amp;ssl=1 635w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dalida-Maria-Benfield-still-losarchivosdelcuerpo-2015.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">losarchivosdelcuerpo[bodyfiles], Huret &amp; Spector Gallery, Emerson College, Boston, MA, US, 2015. An archive of video, photography, drawings, and written and printed texts, and a multi-media interactive art installation, online archive, and tumblr (2013 &#8211; ongoing) animated by Dalida Mar\u00eda Benfield. First commissioned by Arte Nuevo Interactiva, M\u00e9rida, Mexico (2013). With works by Joeser Alvarez (Brazil), Lindsay Benedict (USA), Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet (Cuba\/Mexico\/USA), Maria Magdalena Campos Pons (Cuba \/ USA), Isaac Carrillo (Mexico), Benvenuto Chavajay (Guatemala), Daniel Brittany Chavez (Mexico \/ USA), Jane Jin Kaisen (Korea\/Denmark), Fabiano Kueva (Ecuador), Pedro Pablo Gomez Moreno (Colombia), Mar\u00eda C. Lugones (Argentina \/ USA), Teresa Mar\u00eda D\u00edaz Nerio (Dominican Republic \/ The Netherlands), Robert Ochshorn (USA \/ Germany), Naomi Elena Ramirez (USA), tammy ko Robinson (S. Korea), Zvonka Simcic (Slovenia), Guston Sondin-Kung (Denmark), Filippo Spreafico (Germany \/ Italy), and others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/DalidaMariaBenfield.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listDalida Mar\u00eda Benfield, Ph.D. (Panam\u00e1\/US) is an artist, filmmaker, writer, curator, and educator. She is the cofounder and Research and Program Director of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR), a non-profit international research center. 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