Ofri Cnaani

Ofri Cnaani is an artist and researcher who works across media and performance. She is an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London and a research fellow at the Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Cnaani writes about data and coloniality, digital contested heritage, institutional practices in the algorithmic turn, and performance as a model for the creation of critical technology. She submitted her PhD at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths in June 2022. Prior to her move to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty at the School of Visual Arts’s Visual and Critical Studies. At SVA she also ran the “City as Site: Performance + Social interventions” program. Cnaani’s work has appeared at Venice Biennale of Architecture; Tate Britain, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Israel Museum; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; PS1/MoMA, NYC; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arnolfini, Bristol; Tel Aviv Museum; and Prague Triennial, among others. Cnaani recently co-organized Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London and is currently working on a project at the International Space Station (ISS).