Name: Brian Goldfarb
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Email: bgoldfarb@ucsd.edu
Website: http://communication.ucsd.edu/goldfarb/
Campus Address: Media Center/Communications Building (MCC) 205
Phone: (858) 822-2239

Education: Ph.D. Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, 1998


Field of Expertise:
Goldfarb is a digital media artist, curator, and educator. His research and visual media production focuses on media studies and contemporary visual and digital culture. His book, Visual Pedagogy: Media cultures in and beyond the Classroom, (Duke University Press, 2002), considers how media technologies were used in the second half of the 20th century to advance a model of pedagogy across the arts, education, and postcolonial politics in the United States and globally. Goldfarb's digital art projects have been exhibited nationally, internationally, and on the Web. "Ocular Convergence," an interactive, fictional, and critical examination of digital prosthetics for enhancing vision, has traveled to museums throughout the US and to Mexico City, Calgary, Paris and Johannesburg. Goldfarb was curator of education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC from 1994-7 where he organized "alt.youth.media" (Fall 1996), an exhibition of computer art, video, and popular print media (zines) by and for youth.

Regions of Interest: Latin America, United States

Selected Publications:
"Fragments on Prosthetics and the Virtual: Ocular Prosthetics and the Embodiment of Digital Visuality," co-author Lisa Cartwright, Documentary and the Practice of the Visual, ed. Christina Lam, Vienna: Verlag Turia & Kant, 2002.


Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures of Educationin and beyond the Classroom, Duke University Press, 2002.