SINA NAJAFI Adjunct faculty Cover, Cabinet, Fall 2004 (click on image for larger view) Sina Najafi is editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine, a quarterly nonprofit publication that reflects a diverse range of subject matter of interest to contemporary artists, from the scholarly to the scientific and the curious. Najafi describes the Cabinet reader as "anyone interested in understanding culture in the expanded sense of the word." Najafi is formerly co-editor-in-chief of Merge magazine, published in Stockholm and New York, and Index magazine, published in Stockholm. Najafi is director of the New York-based nonprofit arts organization Immaterial Incorporated, which publishes Cabinet and serves as an umbrella for a broad range of cultural activities, including the organization of exhibitions and conferences and nontraditional publications, such as a series of CD-Roms. Participants include artists, architects, anthropologists, historians, poets and philosophers, among others. Two exhibition projects co-curated by Najafi are the 2003 traveling exhibition, the Paper Sculpture Show, and a forthcoming show on Gordon Matta-Clark, to be exhibited at White Columns and the Queens Museum of Art. Najafi has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and Stockholm University. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Columbia University, the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Tyler School of Art, Hampshire College, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Tate Modern in London. He holds degrees in comparative literature from Princeton University and Columbia University and is currently completing a dissertation in comparative literature at New York University. Najafi teaches an interdisciplinary class at Cooper Union in photography, film/video and installation. www.cabinetmagazine.org | BACK |