Ina Blom is an art critic, curator and art historian. Since 2001 she has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway, specialising in modernism and avant-garde studies, and contemporary art and aesthetics, with a particular focus on media art practices and media aesthetics. A former music critic, she has also worked extensively as an art critic and curator, contributing to frieze, Parkett, Afterall, Artforumand Texte zur Kunst. Selected writings include: On the Style Site; Art, Sociality and Television Culture (Sternberg Press, New York 2007); How to (not) Answer a Letter, The Postal Performance of Ray Johnson's (MIT Press, Oslo / Kassel / Sittard, 2003); Joseph Beuys (Gyldendal, Oslo, 2001).