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Jaret Vadera

  • Assistant Professor, Studio Arts

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Biography

Jaret Vadera's transdisciplinary work examines the ways that images, ideologies, and technologies colonize our vision. Vadera hacks different visual systems, and rewires them to glitch, rupture, and open up parallel ways of seeing.

Vadera’s prints, collages, sculptures, videos, and installations have been exhibited and screened internationally at venues such as: Queens Museum, MoMA, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Asia Society, Aga Khan Museum, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, and the Maraya Art Centre.

In parallel, Vadera has worked as a curator, programmer, and writer on projects that focus on art as a catalyst for cultural change.

Vadera completed his undergraduate education at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. He has lectured at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yale University; Cornell University; Pratt Institute; Indian Institute of Technology; Tufts University; Brooklyn College; and Montclair State University, among others. 

Jaret Vadera lives and works between Montreal and New York.

Selected Publications

On Multivalent Imagemaking,
Henni, S. and J. Vadera. (2021), "Cornell Journal of Architecture, Vol. 12: AFTER." Ithaca: Cornell University. pp. 262-275.

Archives, Algorithms, and Resistance: Documenting SAWCC,
Rizvi, U. Z. and J. Vadera (2017) Archives, Algorithms, and Resistance: Documenting SAWCC. 'Archive Alchemy: SAWCC’s 20th Anniversary Visual Arts Exhibition.' New York: South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. pp. 48-53.

New Poetics of Translation: An Interview with Jaret Vadera
Stewart, C. and J.Vadera (2015), 'Breach Magazine, Issue 1: Decolonial Aesthetics.' Vancouver.

Courses

ASEM 652: Art, Race, and Interface: Graduate Seminar 

IMCA 610-13: Intermedia Studio I/II/III/IV 

PHOT 610-13: Photography Studio I/II/III/IV 

DISP 615: Directed Studio Practice 

INDS 670/1 Independent Study 


PHOT 398: Art, Imaging, and Power: Special Topics in Photography 

IMCA 398: Art, Culture(s), and Technology: Special Topics in Intermedia 

PHOT 300: Photographic Vision: Theory and Practice II 

IMCA 310: Intermediate Video Production 

IMCA 471: Independent Study in Intermedia

Research Areas

Abstraction;
Algorithms;
Visual Translation; 
The Politics of Vision;
Ways of Seeing;
Imaging Other Spaces;
The Poetics of Entropy; 
Camouflage; 
Radical Artistic Practices; 
The Technological Sublime.
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