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Hatim El-Hibri is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at George Mason University, where he is also affiliated with the programs in Cultural Studies, and Middle East and Islamic Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and previously was a faculty member at the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut.
This talk will outline an infrastructural approach to visual culture, demonstrating the embeddedness of media within the sociotechnical and spatial frameworks that it in turn shapes. Doing so allows a critical understanding of practices of concealment - a politically ambiguous practice of remaining deliberately hidden from or unrecognized by an opposing entity - is a central but often overlooked vector of everyday life and public culture.