Prof. Efrat Biberman Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Personal Details Name: Efrat Biberman Citizenship and ID No.: Israeli, 055284756 Permanent Address: 20 Binet Meir St., 69091, Home Phone: 972-3-6477020 E-mail: [email protected]

Higher Education 1986-1990: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, , Department of Fine Arts. B.F.A awarded in 1990. 1994-1998: Tel Aviv University, Department of Comparative Literature, M.A (summa cum laude) awarded in 1998. Thesis subject: Narrative Structures in Pictures. 1999-2004: Tel Aviv University, School of Cultural Studies. PhD awarded in 2004. Thesis subject: On Narrativity in the Visual Field.

Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education DATES NAMES OF INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT RANKS 2000-2005 Dept. of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. Adjunct Teacher 2003-2006 MFA program, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Adjunct Teacher 2004-2006 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl College. Adjunct Teacher

2005-2011 Dept. of the Arts, MFA program, Haifa University. Adjunct Teacher 2006-2009 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl College. Senior Lecturer, Tenure track 2009-2014 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl College. Senior Lecturer, tenured 2014-present Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit-Berl College. Associate Professor

Offices in the University Academic Administration 2006-present Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Research Committee. 2007-present Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl College, Head of Conferences and Institutional Affairs. 2008-present Member of Editorial board, Hamidrasha Journal of Art. 2007-2008 Haifa University, Dep. Of the Arts, Head of MFA rogram. 2008-2014 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl College, Academic Coordinator. 2009-2010 Open University, academic consultant for the course: Languages of Art, authored by Dr. Hanna Herzig. 2014-present Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit-Berl College, Head of Faculty Council.

Active Participation in Academic Conferences Conference Place and Title of Date Presentation 1. New Voices in Tel Aviv "A Footnote to Poetics University, Kant's Critique Tel Aviv of Judgment" May 2003 (With Ilit Ferber) 2. Fundamental Duquesne “Looking at Fantasies: Écrits University, Pictures as and After Pittsburgh, Fantasmatic Affiliated Pennsylvani Structures” Psychoanalytic a, U.S.A Workgroups May 2003 3. The Art of Ben-Gurion “Geometrical Narratives University, Perspective and Department of the Be'er Sheva Narrative Arts March 2004 Representation” 4. Sexuality and Tel Aviv “You never look at Gender University, me from the place The Forum of Tel Aviv from which I see Psychoanalysis, April 2004 you” Philosophy and Culture 5. Time and Clare College, “Rememberin Memory Cambridge g the Future” Twelfth University, International Cambridge, UK Conference July 2004

The International Society for the Study of Time

6. Ethics and Tel Aviv "Ethics and Morality University, Aesthetics: Thou The Forum of Tel Aviv shalt not make Psychoanalysis, May 2005 unto thee any Philosophy and graven image" Culture (with Ruth Ronen) 7. Between Bezalel "Painted Theory or Theory and Academy of Theoretical Practice Art and Painting: Orozco Design, and the May 2005 Psychoanalytic Discourse" 8. "Hamakom" The Center "The Concept Research of Lacanian of Locus in Group Studies, Art" Conference Tel Aviv, August 2005 9. Autobiography, Hamidrasha "Beyond the Interpretation School of Painting and Culture Art, Beit Berl Principle" College, December 2005

10. Workshop for Bar Ilan "Paper Truth: Visual Culture University, The Know- Research Ramat-Gan How of March, 2007 Thomas Demand" 11. Ethics and Haifa "Truthful Liars: Aesthetics University, Ethics and The Israeli April 2007 Aesthetics from Aesthetic Van-Hoogstraten Association to Demand" Conference 12. Conference in Hamidrasha Conference Memory of School of organization Art, Beit Berl (with Deganit College, Berest) December 2007 13. Fantasy and Reality: Haifa "Metaphorical Representation of University, Ghosts and Past, Present and April 2007 Metonimical Future Ruins: on Painting and Fantasy" 14. Time: between Bezalel "Raptures in Science and Art Academy Continuity: and the Photo-Painting Science and Time" Museum,

Jerusalem June 2008 15. The Comic in Art Hamidrasha Conference School of organization Art, Beit Berl College, January 2009 16. The Natural History Hebrew “The Image and of Destruction: W. University, the Imaginary: G. Sebald Between Jerusalem, Sebald and Literature and June 2008 Richter” History 17. Interpretation Tel Aviv "The in University, Iconography Psychoanalysi April 2009 of the s and the Unconscious" Humanities 18. : Beit Berl "Pingo Ergo Ready Maydele College, Sum" December 2009 19. Visualitat und Ludwig "Visual Visuelle Maximilians Texti(a)les" Kulturen Universitat, Munchen, June 2010 20. Drives and Saint "The

their Cultural Servolo, Pictorial Vicissitudes Venice, April Drive and its 2011 Vicissitudes " 21. Authority Hamidrasha Conference School of organization Art, Beit Berl College, May 2011 22. The Viewer as Tel Aviv The Sinner: On the University, excluded Act of Looking April 2011 Viewer: at Art Joshua Borkovsky and Painting in Itself”

23. Reading a Tel Aviv "Father Symptom: University Tongue: Literary and Michal Psychoanalytic Na'aman's al Perspectives Birth of Art from the Spirit of History" 24. Opposition Hamidrasha Conference School of organization Art, Beit Berl

College, May 2011

Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses

1. Department of Philosophy, Colloquium. Tel Aviv University, June 2004. Paper entitled: “On Narrativity in the Visual Field”.

2. The Interdisciplinary Seminar, M.A Program, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, November 2006. Paper entitled: "Traces from the Future: On the Representation of Time in the Visual Field".

3. The School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Beit Berl College, Annual Colloquium, November 2007. Paper entitled: "Modes of Looking at Paintings". 4. The Photography Forum, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, December 2006. Paper entitled: "The Photography of Thomas Demand". 5. The Photography Forum, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, December 2007. Paper entitled: "Photography and Painting: Between Two Death". 6. The Photography Forum, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, June 2009. Paper entitled: "Between Oblivion and Anxiety: The Duplicity of the Image in Richter and Sebald". 7. Tel Aviv Forum of the International Forum of the Lacanian Field, Ramat Aviv. November 2009. Paper entitled: "The Figure and the Image.

8. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Lectures on Ideology. March 2010. Paper entitled: "Ideology and Anti-Ideology in Painting: Gerhard Richter and Luc Tuymans". 9. Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, Institute of Philosophy, Hanoi, Vietnam. October, 2011. Title: "Remembering the Future".

Scholarships, Awards, Research Grants

Scholarships 1987-1990: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design scholarship. 1995: The Porter Institute of Poetics and Semiotics scholarship for outstanding students. 1999-2003: Tel Aviv University scholarship for outstanding students.

Academic Awards 1987: Prize for academic achievement, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. 1990: The Mary Fisher prize for sculpture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Grants 2006: Beit Berl College, Research Authority: Book Publication Support 2007: Beit Berl College, Research Authority: Editing Support 2008-2009: Beit Berl College, Research Grant. Project entitled: Death is the Mother of Beauty: On Finality and Death in the Visual Art

Teaching Courses taught in recent years:

Title Year Type Leve l 1 Visual Time 2002 Course B.A 2 Gaze and Painting 2003 Course B.A 3 The Painting from 2004 Course B.A Within and Without 4 Thoughts on 2004 Course M.A Narrative in Painting 5 Gabriel Orozco 2006 Research B.A Group 6 Painting Theory 2006 Course M.A 7 Painters and Liars 2006 Course B.A 8 On Sight: From 2006 Course B.A Descartes to Merleau-Ponty

9 Reading Workshop: 2006 Worksho B.A Interpretation of p Works of Art 10 A Portrait of the 2007 Course B.A Artist as a Funny Man 11 Reading Workshop: 2007 Course B.A Photography -

Painting 12 Art, Sight, 2007 Course M.A Psychoanalysis 13 Visual Art and Time 2007 Course B.A 14 Sand Box in the 2007 Course B.A Studio 15 Reading Workshop: 2008 Course B.A Modernism and Beyond 16 Theories of 2008 Course M.A Interpretation in the Twentieth Century 17 The Death of Art 2008 Seminar M.A 18 Philosophy for 2008 Seminar M.A Artists 19 The Object of Art 2008 Course B.A and the Domestic Arena 20 Head or Tails: 2008 Course (With B.A Signification and Deganit Interpretation in Art Berest) 21 Between Painting 2009 Course B.A and Photography 22 Israeli Art and the 2009 Course M.A other Locus 23 The Projected 2010 Workshop B.A Image 24 Issues in 2010 Course and M.A

Contemporary Art Workshop 25 Duchamp’s Letter 2011 Course (with B.A Deganit Berest) 26 Realization 2011 Colloquium B.A 27 Narrative in Art and 2012 Course and M.A Design Workshop 28 100 Years for the 2012 Colloquium B.A Ready-made 29 Artists on Art 2012 Course B.A

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1. Biberman, Efrat. 2009. Visual Text(a)iles: Narrative and Gaze in Painting. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. 2. Biberman, Efrat and Deganit Berest. (eds.). 2009. Raffi Lavie: Please Read what is Drawn here. Kefar Saba: Hamidrasha. 3. Biberman, Efrat and shirley Sharon-Zisser. Death is the Mother of Beauty. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press. (In preparation).

Articles in Refereed Journals

1. Benari, Motti, Ziva Ben-Porat, Efrat Biberman, Liza Chudnovsky, Tammy Amiel-Hauzer and Eyal Segal. 2004.“The Intertextual Thread: A New Cultural Unit in Hypertext”. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 12, Number 9. 2. Biberman, Efrat. 2005. “The Self as Other”. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 6, Number 1.

3. Biberman, Efrat.2005. “You Never Look at Me from the Place from which I See You”. In: Neumeier, Beate(ed.). Imagendering: Gender and Visualizations. Gender Forum, 11. 4. Biberman, Efrat. 2005. "Painted Theory or Theoretical Painting: Gabriel Orozco and the Psychoanalytic Discourse". Protocols in History and Theory, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Vol. 1.

5. Ronen, Ruth and Biberman, Efrat. 2006. “The Truth about Narrative, or how does Narrative Matter?” Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 30 Num. 1, pp.118-139. 6. Ronen, Ruth and Biberman, Efrat. 2005. "Who is Deceived by Tromp-L'oeil?" In: Tymieniecka (ed.) Human Creation between Reality and Illusion. Analecta Husserliana 87, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 257-265. 7. Biberman, Efrat. 2006. “Remembering the Future: On the Return of Memories in the Visual Field". In: Crawford, Michael, Paul Harris and Jo Alyson Parker (eds.). The Study of Time XII: Time and Memory. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 261-274. 8. Biberman, Efrat. 2006. "On Narrativity in the Visual Field: a psychoanalytic view on Velázquez's Las Meninas. Narrative, Vol. 14, Num. 3. 9. Biberman, Efrat. 2006. "On Painting as Locus". Machbar-Ot, The Journal of the Center of Lacanian Studies, Volume 1, pp. 144- 152. 10. Biberman, Efrat. 2007. "Truthful Liars: On Truth, Desire and Structures of Discourse". Machbar-Ot, The Journal of the Center of Lacanian Studies, Volume 2, pp. 151-160. 11. Biberman, Efrat. 2008. "Of the Gaze as Topological Locus: Alberti and Lacan". (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies. "The Gaze". Volume 3 & 4, Spring 2008, pp. 135-149. 12. Biberman, Efrat. 2008. "Beyond the Painting Principles". Machbar-Ot, The Journal of the Center of Lacanian Studies, Volume 3, pp. 69-78.

13. Biberman, Efrat. 2008. "Fresco Psoriasis, or On Paintings and their relation to Jokes". Hamidrasha Art School Journal, Volume 11, pp. 149-168. 14. Biberman Efrat. 2009. "Raptures in Continuity: Time and Photo-Painting". Protocols in History and Theory, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Vol. 12. 15. Biberman, Efrat. 2010. "Paper Truth: The Know-How of Thomas Demand". Afterimage. Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 4-8. 16. Biberman, Efrat and Yeshayahu Shen. 2010. "A Story Told by a Picture". Image and Narrative, Vol. 11, No 2. 17. Biberman, Efrat. 2010. "The Iconography of the Unconscious". Machbar-Ot, The Journal of the Center of Lacanian Studies, Volume 4. 18. Biberman, Efrat. 2011." On Friendship and Beauty: A Broken Phone from Deganit Berest to Virginia Woolf". In: Protocols in History and Theory, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. 18. Biberman, Efrat. "Metaphoric Ghosts and Metonymic Ruins: On Fantasy and Painting". (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies., vol. 7. (In print).

Articles or Chapters in Books

1. Biberman, Efrat and Deganit Berest. 2009. "The Painting Before the Wall". In: Biberman, Efrat and Deganit Berest. (eds.). 2009. Raffi Lavie: Please Read what is Drawn here. Kefar Saba: Hamidrasha. 2. Biberman, Efrat. 2009. "Between Oblivion and Anxiety: the Duplicity of the Image in Sebald and Richter". In: Shahar, Galili and Michal Ben Horin (eds.). Germany, Catastrophe and Representation: W.G. Sebald:

Between Fiction and Testimony. Jerusalem: European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 3. Biberman, Efrat. 2011. "Pingo Ergo Sum". In: Ready Maydeale: The art of Yair Garbuz. Kefar Saba: Hamidrasha. 4. Biberman, Efrat. 2012. " On Friendship and Beauty: A Broken Phone from Deganit Berest to Virginia Woolf". In: Protocollage2012: Materia. Pimentel Dror, Dana Arieli Horvitz, Gal Ventura and Noemi Meiri-Dan (eds.) Jerusalem:, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Resling, pp. 176-190. (Also published in Protocols in History and Theory, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design). 5. Biberman, Efrat and Yeshayahu Shen. "Narrative Organization of a Picture: Empirical Study". Anniversary Book in Honor of Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat, Intertextuality in Literature and Culture. Tel Aviv: The Porter institute of Poetics and Semiotics, Hakibbutz Hameuchad. (In print). 6. Ronen, Ruth and Efrat Biberman. 2014. "By Way of Deception". In: Ronen, Ruth. 2014. Art before the Law. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.

Other Publications

1. Biberman, Efrat. 2007. "Diamonds are Forever". In: Young Israeli Art. Exhibition Catalogue, curated by Olga Cohen. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum, pp. 44-50.

2. Biberman, Efrat. 2008. "Splendor". In: Astonishment: Yitshak Livneh. Exhibition Catalogue, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum, pp. 17-30. 3. Biberman, Efrat. 2008. "The Collage's Lacking Object". Text exhibition of M.F.A. Graduate Students, Haifa University. Haifa: Haifa University. 4. Biberman, Efrat. 2010. "EXIT". Text exhibition for the works of Yitshak Livneh. Tel Aviv: Sommer Gallery. 5. Biberman, Efrat. 2010. "Ties and Loops: David Ginton's Library". In: David Ginton: David and I. Exhibition Catalogue, Curated by Naama Haikin. Tel Hai: The Open Museum, pp. 82- 111. 6. Biberman, Efrat. 2012."The Fourth Competition". In: Veronese Green: Joshua Borkovsky, Paintings 1987-2012 . Exhibition Catalogue, Curated by Haim Ninuo. Jerusalem: , pp. 35-44. 7. Biberman, Efrat. 2012."Five Remarks on Drawing". Text exhibition for the works of Shahar Yahalom. Tel Aviv: Noga Gallery. 8. Biberman, Efrat. 2013. “308 Burning Sails”. Deganit Berest's Exhibition Catalogue, Curated by Ellen Ginton. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum.

Articles, Books or other Works Submitted for Publication

Books Biberman, Efrat and Shirley Sharon Zisser. Death is the Mother of Beauty.

Other Works and Activities Connected with your Scholarly Field

2006 - Art Theory Teaching Plan, Program of Advanced Studies, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College. 2006 - Design of Graduate Program in Art Education, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College. 2007 - Adjustment of B.Ed. Teaching Plans for New Outline, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College. 2011 - Teaching plan, preparatory art course for Arab students. 2012 - Writing two chapters for the course The Language of the Arts by Chana Hertzig, The Open University (in preparation).