Ina Blom was born in Oslo in 1961. She is an art critic, curator and art historian. Since 2001 she has been Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology, History of Art and Conservation at the University of Oslo, specialising in 20th century art, with a special focus on avant-garde aesthetics, and contemporary art. Her articles and books deal with subjects such as dada/neodada, the media technologies of the avant-garde and the ambivalent politics of Joseph Beuys. In the 1980s and early '90s Ina Blom was a music critic and DJ. She has been an art critic for Aftenposten and co-editor of Siksi and NU, and is a contributor to various art publications, including Frieze, Parkett, Afterall and Flash Art, as well as to numerous books and catalogues on contemporary art. She has been a senior curator at the National Museum of Contem-porary Art in Oslo (2000), and the curator of the Fluxus/Intermedia Archive at the Henie Onstad Art Center in Oslo (1988-93). Her most recent exhibitions include Momentum Festival of Contemporary Art, 2000; De Rijke & De Rooij: 3 Films (Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Oslo 2001); The Postal Performance of Ray Johnson (Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Oslo, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, and Museum Het Domein, Sittard, 2003); as well as a 2003 Berlin project with Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset in collaboration with Museum in Progress, Vienna.