Christine Ross is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her main field of research is contemporary media arts, in particular: the relationship between media, aesthetics and subjectivity; spectatorship studies; Augmented Reality; and the study of alternative forms of temporality in recent media arts. She is the author of Images de surface: l'art vidéo reconsidéré (Montreal: Artextes, 1996) and The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). She has recently co-edited (with Olivier Asselin and Johanne Lamoureux) Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008). Recent publications include: "The Suspension of History in Contemporary Media Arts," (Intermédialités, Spring 2008); "New Media's Presentness and the Questioning of History: Craigie Horsfield's Broadway Installation," (Cinémas, 2007); "The temporalities of video: extendedness revisited" (Art Journal, 2006); "New media art hybridity and augmented reality: a process for the interaction of art, (neuro)science and AR technology" (Convergence, 2005); "The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art," in Amelia Jones, ed., A Companion to Contemporary Art (Blackwell, 2006); "The Disappearing Screen: An Incomplete Matter" (Parachute, 2004); "Redefinitions of abjection in contemporary performances of the female body," in F. Connelly, ed. Modern Art and the Grotesque (Cambridge University Press, 2003); "To Touch the Other: A Story of Corpo- Electronic Surfaces," in Amelia Jones, ed., The feminism and visual cultural reader (Routledge, 2003); "Pipilotti Rist: Images as Quasi Objects" (n. paradoxa 7, 2001); "The Insufficiency of the Performative: Video art at the turn of the millennium" (Art Journal, 2001); and "Vision and insufficiency at the Turn of the Millennium: Rosemarie Trockel's Distracted Eye" (October, 2001). She is presently (2005-2009) the Principal Investigator of a FQRSC research team on the exploration of Augmented Reality in contemporary art and visual culture. Her current book project is entitled Creating Time(s): Contemporary Media Art and the Post-Optical Investigation of the Image, from the instant to slow time.