Shelley Hornstein

Associate Professor
York University
Visual Arts; & Institute for Technology Enhanced Learning
248 GCFA
York University
Toronto ON
M3J 1P3 Canada
http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/faculty/profs/hornstein/hornstein.htm

Shelley Hornstein is Professor of Architectural History & Visual Culture in the Department of Visual Art, Faculty of Fine Art, and is widely published on the examination of concepts of place and spatial politics in architectural and urban sites. Her edited books include: Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art (McGill-University Press, 2000); Image and Remembrance: Representation and The Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2002), and Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2003). Her current projects are book manuscripts entitled Losing Site: Architecture and Place, Lost and Found and Romancing the Stone: Architectural Tourisms and our Fascination with Buildings and Places. She is Executive Director and Co-Founder of www.mosaica.ca, the first online contemporary cultural space devoted to Jewish culture.

Shelley will demonstrate www.mosaica.ca - The Digital Diaspora and a New Cultural Aesthetic.