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Gene Ray is Associate Professor in the CCC Research-Based Master Program at HEAD-Genève, where he has taught the Critical Studies seminar since 2008. He writes about the aesthetics of the sublime and the politics of memory, at the intersections of art, critical theory and trauma studies. Ray is the author of Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory and co-editor of Reinventing Institutional Critique and Critique of Creativity. His essays have appeared in journals including Third Text, South as a State of Mind, Yale Journal of Criticism, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Brumaria and Historical Materialism, and in books such as Camera Atomica, The Sublime Now, Rasheed Araeen and Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology. He directed the HEAD-based online collective research project “The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva” and is currently organizing the new project “Mutations of the Sublime, Endings of the Holocene.” With the students of the 2020-21 Critical Studies seminar, he prepared the online dossier “All Monuments Must Fall” for ISSUE – Journal of Art & Design, HEAD- Genève.

Gene Ray est professeur associé dans le programme de master CCC à la HEAD-Genève, où il enseigne le séminaire d'études critiques depuis 2008. Il écrit sur l'esthétique du sublime et la politique de la mémoire, à la croisée de l'art, de la théorie critique et des études sur le traumatisme. Ray est l'auteur de Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory et co-éditeur de Reinventing Institutional Critique et Critique of Creativity. Ses essais ont été publiés dans des revues telles que Third Text, South as a State of Mind, Yale Journal of Criticism, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Brumaria et Historical Materialism, ainsi que dans des ouvrages tels que Camera Atomica, The Sublime Now, Rasheed Araeen et Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Il a dirigé le projet de recherche collective en ligne basé sur HEAD "The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva" et organise actuellement le nouveau projet "Mutations of the Sublime, Endings of the Holocene." Avec les étudiants du séminaire d'études critiques 2020-21, il a préparé le dossier en ligne "All Monuments Must Fall" pour ISSUE - Journal of Art & Design, HEAD- Genève.