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Tarek Elhaik is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research bridges anthropology, contemporary art, and experimental media through fieldwork-based inquiries, focusing on curatorial practice as a critical lens for examining cultural, ethical, and political dimensions of modern life. He directs the Anthropology of the Image Lab (AIL), an online platform exploring curatorial challenges to anthropological thinking.
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC Berkeley (2007)
Elhaik’s work interrogates curatorial practice as a mediator of cultural forms, from his ethnographic study of Mexican post-Mexicanist art in The Incurable Image to his exploration of aesthetics in Aesthetics and Anthropology: Cogitations. His current project, The Strait and The Sea, examines marine media practices across the Sea of Cortez, Tyrrhenian Sea, and Strait of Gibraltar, blending sound studies, cetacean research, and multimedia storytelling.
His recent publications include interdisciplinary analyses of curatorial design and media anthropology. Elhaik has collaborated on symposia, research clusters, and editorial projects exploring intersections between anthropology, art, and philosophy. He has secured funding from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Getty Foundation, and teaches courses in media anthropology, aesthetic anthropology, and graduate-level fieldwork.
- Co-director, CIFAR Global Call 'Future Flourishing' (2023-2028)
- Member, Getty Foundation-funded 'Experimental Cinema in Latin America' (2014-2017)
Elhaik’s curatorial and scholarly practices emphasize the 'zone of mutual intrusion' between disciplines, reimagining anthropological inquiry through artistic and technological interventions.
