{"id":4,"date":"2009-07-10T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/about-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:18:19","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_183\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/files\/2020\/05\/\u00e6sasigurjonsdsv-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo credit: Anton Brink.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>\u00c6sa Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, PhD. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor in Art History, Art Theory, and Curatorial Studies at the University of Iceland. Her research has been focused on contemporary art, art historiography, the history and theory of photography, visual culture and curatorial studies \u2013 and she has written extensively on these subjects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As curator, she has curated a number of exhibitions in Icelandic and European festivals, museums and galleries, such as National Museum of Iceland; National Gallery of Iceland; Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum; Reykjav\u00edk Museum of Photography; Reykjav\u00edk Art Festival; Turku Biennial, Finland, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland; Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Riga European Capital of Culture; Curated by_ Vienna,Austria; FNAGP, France.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c6sa Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<br \/>\n<\/strong>School of Humanities<br \/>\nUniversity of Iceland<br \/>\nSaemundargata 2<br \/>\n101 Reykjav\u00edk<\/p>\n<p>Email: aesas@hi.is<br \/>\n<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c6sa Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, PhD. Professor in Art History, Art Theory, and Curatorial Studies at the University of Iceland. Her research has been focused on contemporary art, art historiography, the history and theory of photography, visual culture and curatorial studies \u2013 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/aesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}