Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell'Aria is Assistant Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her research concerns the intersection of contemporary art, screen media, and public space. She has published in Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), Public Art Dialogue, and other venues and presented at SCMS and CAA. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the moving image in public art. She holds a PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York and currently lives in Cincinnati.

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 3February 28, 2018

The Urban Light Art Festival as Branding and Commons

By Annie Dell'Aria

The modernist imagination often filled the city of the future with an abundance of nocturnal urban lights. Massive screens, searchlights, illuminated facades, and other electric lights crowd the mise-en-scene of science fiction films and speculative renderings of the metropolis of …

no. 4, Trends, vol. 2October 18, 2017

Public Feeling: Rethinking Memorials and Monuments

By Annie Dell'Aria

In August, the planned removal of a statue of confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia sparked protests by white supremacists ending in violence. The following weeks saw a national conversation that continues today over the place of monuments …