Lali Pertenava

Assistant Professor
Photography History Theory
Institute of Photography and New Media
Tbilisi, Georgia

E-mail: lpertenava_lp@yahoo.com


During the 2002-2003 academic year, Lali Pertenava was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Her stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her advisor at GWU was Professor Frank Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery.

EDUCATION:

1999:               Postgraduate Study, Art History Department, Tbilisi State University.
                        Research work: "Body representation in contemporary art of post-soviet countries.”                        
1996:               Honors Diploma in Art History and Theory, Tbilisi State University
                        research work: Time and Space in German Expressionist Art.


SEMINARS and WORKSHOPS:

Spring 2005:    Contemporary Georgian Art (Caucasian Center for Cultural                                                      Development/Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art).
Summer 2004:  Workshops in Curatorial work (Goethe Institute (CCCD)
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2002/2003:      Workshops in video art and photography with Urs Stahel, Keiko Sei, Josef                                           Koudelka (CCCD).

EXPERIENCE:

2005:               Contemporary Georgian artists’ web-archive (financed by Georgian                                                      Ministry of Culture)

2003-present:   Institute of Photography and New Media
                        Lecturer of Photography History and Theory
                       
Teaching Photography History and Theory to II, III & IV year students.                         Translating reading materials of course syllabus. Made curriculum design                         and interdisciplinary planning.

2004- present:  Caucasian Center for Cultural Development
                        Head of Contemporary Art Library
                       
Cataloguing the books, networking with international art libraries,                          fundraising.

2001-present:   Tbilisi State Institute of Culture
                        Assistant Lecturer in Modern Art History

1999-2001:      Newspaper Resonansi
                        Art Critic/Correspondent

PUBLICATIONS:

2005,              
February:          Belgian video art (Quarterly addition to Newspaper 24 hours)

2004,              
November:       Arte Povera (Quarterly addition to Newspaper 24 hours)

 

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