Diana Flores Ruíz

Diana Flores Ruíz, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she teaches courses on race and media in the US. Dr. Ruíz’s research and writing examine how popular media and surveillance technologies coproduce visual infrastructures of racialized violence, as well as the ways in which artist and activist mediations propose alternative forms of safety, survival, and sovereignty. Her essay on Sky Hopinka “Visiting: Towards Ethical Forms of Encounter” will be published in the exhibition catalog The sun comes in whenever it wants at the fall 2022.