DAI warmly congratulates Dr. Bassam El Baroni, esteemed member of our faculty, with the completion of his PhD in Curatorial / Knowledge at Goldsmiths College, London. We are proud to share that examiners Stefan Nowotny, Andrea Philips and James Trafford have approved his thesis "Post-Agonistics. Pluralism, Realism and the Image" (Alexandria/London, 2017) without any reservations.
Dr. Bassam El Baroni is a curator, teacher and writer based in Alexandria (Egypt). He has been teaching theory at the Dutch Art Institute since 2013. From 2016 onward he also curates and co-tutors practice led study groups next to his theory seminars.
Bassam's projects, seminars and symposia for DAI:
2017-2018 Proximity Aesthetics: Constructing New Ecologies of Practice
2016-2017 In Dialogue with Robotics
2016 ROAMING ASSEMBLY#5 ~ PROMETHEANISM 2.0
2015-2016 Constructive Alienation and the Anti-Sublime
2014-2015 Before Art: the Problem of Abstraction and it's Contradiction