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Caitlin Bruce

Caitlin Bruce is an Assistant Professor of Communication and affiliate faculty with the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies; Cultural Studies; and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD from Northwestern University. Her research is in the area of visual studies, affect studies, and critical theory. She is currently investigating the relationships between public art in urban spaces in transition within a transnational milieu. She is currently working on a manuscript on transnational public art.

Global Public Art, no. 1, vol. 5February 28, 2020

Urban Art as Visual Noise in Bogotá

By Caitlin Bruce

Bogotá is the city with the highest number of graffiti writers per capita in the world, Rodez said to me, after a panel at the CIMU (Ciudad Mujeres, Woman’s City) festival in Xochimilco in Mexico City. We had been discussing …

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Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance
Global Public Art, no. 2, vol. 4July 2, 2019

Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance

By Caitlin Bruce

The Carrie Furnaces are the remains of a blast furnace site where minerals were combined to create pig iron, the base material that is refined into steel (Figure 1 and 2). Though the original footprint of the site was about …

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Global Public Art, no. 2, vol. 3June 12, 2018

“Lo Internacional”: The International as Horizon for Legal Graffiti in Mexico

By Caitlin Bruce

“Global Public Art” is one of the journal’s recurring columns. Each column is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium in which the author is …

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Global Public Art, no. 4, vol. 2November 6, 2017

Ser Humano/Ser Urbano: How Urban Art in Mexico Became a Carrier for So-Called Universal Values

By Caitlin Bruce

We are pleased to announce that we are now hosting columns on Mediapolis. Each column is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium in which …

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From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2February 6, 2017

The Speed of Power, The Pace of Protest: Resistant Urban Rhythms

By Caitlin Bruce

[Ed. note: this post is part of an editorial discussion on “Media and the City in Light of Trump, Brexit, and the Global Far Right.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, …

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