The Platform
VICTOR BURGIN
AUDITORIUM - LEVEL 1
Victor Burgin is a British artist and writer who lives in France. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His most recent theory books are
The Camera: Essence and Apparatus (2018) and
Le film qui me reste en mémoire (2019). The most recent books about Burgin’s visual work are
Victor Burgin’s Parzival in Leuven (2017) and
Seeing Degree Zero : Barthes / Burgin and Political Aesthetics (2018). Burgin’s text/image book
Afterlife is forthcoming from Walter König and a web-based version may be viewed at
https//:afterlife.victorburgin.eu