Introducing Workspace: Beyond Fictions of the Digital Age

Nisa Ari is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. She studies late nineteenth and twentieth-century visual practices, with a focus on artwork from the Middle East. Her research explores the relationships between cultural politics and the development of art institutions, specifically in Palestine and in Turkey. She received a B.A. with honors in art history from Stanford University and worked in contemporary art centers in New York before starting her doctoral degree.

Christianna Bonin is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture + Art program at MIT. She studies late nineteenth and twentieth-century art and architecture in Europe and Russia. Her research considers the relationships among industry, economic trade, and culture, particularly the effect of migration on artistic and architectural practices in Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in Germany and received a B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College as well as an M.A. in art history from Williams College.