Dr Lotfi Gouigah

Dr. Lotfi Gouigah is an art historian working at the intersection of theories of performativity and the philosophy of technology. He is currently researching the use of quantum computing in Art and its aesthetic significance. Lotfi holds a Ph.D. (2021) in Art History from McGill University, Canada and an MA in Communication Studies from McGill completed with funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Prior to that Lotfi completed a BFA in Art History from Concordia University, Canada. Recent Research Contributions: 2024: “Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Review),” in Visual Studies journal. 2023: “Art’s Theories of Everything: Performativity, Science, and the Enigma of their Entanglement in Art” at Reanimating Human-Machine Interaction: Reflecting on Multidisciplinary Methods symposium. Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, University of Antwerp. 2022: “How to Do Things with Art,” Among the Machines, London: Zabludowicz Collection. 2022: “She is Me: Sort Of: The Conjuring of Lynn Hershman Leeson as Roberta Breitmore,” This is me. This is also me: The Artist’s Archive as Self-Portrait, Association for Art History Annual Conference, London, 2022.