Chad Elias
Biographic Data
| ID | 4367639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chad Elias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Elias |
| SIGNATURE | ELIAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Video Archives of the Syrian Revolution
This article builds on ongoing debates in archival theory that point both to the democratic potential of digitization and to its dangers (mass deletion, de-contexualization, algorithmic bias). It considers what happens when visual documents that were once made to mobilize a counterpublic are repurposed as the basis for reflections on memory and loss for a generation of Syrian revolutionaries, who remain exiled from their homeland with little hope…
Islam and the Middle East in the United States
Claire Beckett’s series Simulating Iraq consists of large-scale portraits and landscapes taken in U.S. military training centers, where fabricated Afghan and Iraqi villages help soldiers prepare for deployment. Granted special access as an embedded artist, Beckett documents the simulation techniques used to portray the alien peoples, cultures, and landscapes of the Middle East. Questions of authenticity are also central to The Converts, large-for…
Posthumous Images
For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways, to interrogate the contested memory of those years of civil strife and political upheaval. In their films, photography, architectural projects, and multimedia performances, these artists appropri…
Whose Digital Heritage
3D scanners and printers offer a relatively inexpensive means of preserving threatened, destroyed, or lost cultural artifacts. At the same time, the digital reproduction of this heritage (which now increasingly results in physical replicas) resonates with a public that wants to experience historical monuments and objects first-hand. This article examines recent artistic projects that use this technology to produce 3D scans of highly charged artif…
Citizen Photography in Fouad Elkoury’s Beyrouth Aller-Retour
This article examines Fouad Elkoury’s Beyrouth aller-retour[Beirut round-trip] (1984), a collection of black-and-white photographs taken during the civil war in Lebanon. Contrary to the images of death and destruction that circulated in the international media at the time, Elkoury’s photographs of Beirut focus on the survival of the inhabitants of a city in which “the future was always in the conditional.” The article argues that the images in Be…
Signs of Conflict
Whose Digital Heritage
3D scanners and printers offer a relatively inexpensive means of preserving threatened, destroyed, or lost cultural artifacts. At the same time, the digital reproduction of this heritage (which now increasingly results in physical replicas) resonates with a public that wants to experience historical monuments and objects first-hand. This article examines recent artistic projects that use this technology to produce 3D scans of highly charged artif…
Signs of Conflict
Citizen Photography in Fouad Elkoury’s Beyrouth Aller-Retour
This article examines Fouad Elkoury’s Beyrouth aller-retour[Beirut round-trip] (1984), a collection of black-and-white photographs taken during the civil war in Lebanon. Contrary to the images of death and destruction that circulated in the international media at the time, Elkoury’s photographs of Beirut focus on the survival of the inhabitants of a city in which “the future was always in the conditional.” The article argues that the images in Be…
Whose Digital Heritage
3D scanners and printers offer a relatively inexpensive means of preserving threatened, destroyed, or lost cultural artifacts. At the same time, the digital reproduction of this heritage (which now increasingly results in physical replicas) resonates with a public that wants to experience historical monuments and objects first-hand. This article examines recent artistic projects that use this technology to produce 3D scans of highly charged artif…
Posthumous Images
For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways, to interrogate the contested memory of those years of civil strife and political upheaval. In their films, photography, architectural projects, and multimedia performances, these artists appropri…
Islam and the Middle East in the United States
Claire Beckett’s series Simulating Iraq consists of large-scale portraits and landscapes taken in U.S. military training centers, where fabricated Afghan and Iraqi villages help soldiers prepare for deployment. Granted special access as an embedded artist, Beckett documents the simulation techniques used to portray the alien peoples, cultures, and landscapes of the Middle East. Questions of authenticity are also central to The Converts, large-for…
Video Archives of the Syrian Revolution
This article builds on ongoing debates in archival theory that point both to the democratic potential of digitization and to its dangers (mass deletion, de-contexualization, algorithmic bias). It considers what happens when visual documents that were once made to mobilize a counterpublic are repurposed as the basis for reflections on memory and loss for a generation of Syrian revolutionaries, who remain exiled from their homeland with little hope…
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)