Ana Peraica

Ana Peraica
Born (1972-06-15) June 15, 1972 (age 52)
Croatia
NationalityCroatian
MovementNew media
Academic background
Alma materJan Van Eyck Akademie, University of Amsterdam, University of Rijeka

Ana Peraica (born June 15, 1972) is a Croatian-born photography theorist and Ghetto activist, whose work is focused on post-digital photography. Born to a family of professional photographers, her grandfather Antonio Peraica was a war reporter and filmmaker[1] and her father a photographer of architecture. Peraica is focused on constant changes of the medium, bringing focus to its rational, scientific implementations, but also irrational horrors.[2]

Educated as an art historian and philosopher, Peraica graduated from post-academic programs of the theory of arts at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, continuing at the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD thesis was defended at the University of Rijeka, titled "Photography as Evidence", and was on the epistemology of photography.[3] Peraica was teaching visual culture-related courses at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Central European University (CEU) and is teaching at Danube University in Krems programs in Media Art Histories and Media Art Cultures.[citation needed]

Peraica's Culture of the Selfie, published by the Institute of Network Cultures (2017) and translated to Croatian for Jesenski I Turk (2022), was one of the first readings on the theme of selfies in the field, which made her work reviewed in succeeding overviews.[4][5][6][7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

  1. ^ Kirn, Gal, ed. (2020), The Partisan Counter-Archive Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle, De Gruyter
  2. ^ Peraica, Ana (2022), "the horrors of postdigitalphotography", Fotograf (41)
  3. ^ Peraica, Ana (2018), Fotografija kao Dokaz, Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb
  4. ^ Jandric, Peter (2017), Learning in the Age of Digital Reason, Sense Publishers
  5. ^ Motyl & Schober (2018), Failed Individual, University of Chicago Press
  6. ^ Battisti & Fiorato (2019), Law and Humanities, De Gruyter
  7. ^ Larissa Hjorth; Adriana de Souza e Silva; Klare Lanson, eds. (2020), Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art, Routledge
  8. ^ Lovink, Geert (2020), Sad by design, Digital nihilism, Pluto Press
  9. ^ Lehner, Ace (2021), Self-Representation in an Expanded Field. From Self-Portraiture to Selfie, Contemporary Art in the Social Media Age, MDPI books
  10. ^ Kacunko, Slavko (2021), After Taste, Logos Verlag
  11. ^ Murray, D. D. (2021), Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie, Routledge
  12. ^ Giannachi, Gabriella (2023), Technologies of the Self-Portrait: Identity, Presence and the Construction of the Subject(s) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art, Routledge