Bassam El BaroniBassam El Baroni is a curator, writer, sporadic artist and Associate Professor in Curating and Mediating Art at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland. He has lectured at the Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University of th Arts, Arnhem (2013–2018) and served as the artistic director of the now folded non-profit art space ACAF - Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, in Alexandria, Egypt (2005–2012). El Baroni’s work explores artistic and curatorial practices in relation to technology, the political economy, financialization, infrastructural futures and histories, and new forms of activism. Recent publications include: Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art (2022) and Manual for a Future Desert (co-editor with Ida Soulard and Abinadi Meza, 2021). Curatorial projects include: Infrahauntologies, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany; La Box ENSA, Bourges, France (2021-2022); Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010 (co-curator); the Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway, 2013 (co-curator with Anne Szefer Karlsen and Eva González-Sancho); Agitationism, the 36th Eva International–Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick, 2014; and, What Hope Looks like after Hope (On Constructive Alienation) at HOME WORKS 7, Beirut, 2015. In 2021, El Baroni, in collaboration with Constantinos Miltiadis, Georgios Cherouvim and Gerriet K. Sharma, co-created Cybersyn 1973/2023, a video installation that reimagines the historic Project Cybersyn within the context of accelerated automation and advanced financialization. El Baroni holds a Ph.D. in Curatorial Knowledge from the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Read More Read Less