{{Short description|American writer (1976–2024)}}{{Infobox academic | name = Marina Vishmidt | occupation = Professor of Art Theory | discipline = Philosophy, Art Theory | workplaces = Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | birth_date = {{Birth date|1976|05|06}} | birth_place = Kharkiv, Soviet Union | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|04|26|1976|05|06}} | death_place = Vienna, Austria | spouse = Danny Hayward | alma_mater = Queen Mary University of London | thesis_year = 2012 | thesis_title = Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital | thesis_url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240929213127/https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/80348674/9a5e51385d401c017370fa7f3542c52dce50-libre.pdf?1644167296=&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B+filename%3DSpeculation_as_a_Mode_of_Production_in_A.pdf&Expires=1727649062&Signature=HvPd4fRvNEtqaikWfGz~1VEAuYEmUO4O~JYh-8CCl3GVSIDMUxGiSgBK92B5XCzzpePmT3dyRuhuGCXtLuOvQDobSV4z4sHWV6WmWIiKBYNxPwIoynisZbUXVjnT9QIHJQLiNOEDNj70F66TL4NfP7kyWmDIeueBgT4mpJfUqF2LJH0YqL5Ous8ry8rjDMHhkIOZMJaNXvbb1b2U1ZRkbFq0R5vQiJgvPxmRAOyJkv9rbTLxG3Gbsv-9gxqJ1uY1o2Z3Wj6O99B7vT8vM5~FY8ztIqKXj1ZhHm3LUQuHFrrPScZRuuO10uyUggxq~l8KFidOo8~Ehdf2FpVwnIpyfw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA | doctoral_advisor = Peter Fleming<br/>Stefano Harney | image = Marina-vishmidt-cropped.png | caption = Vishmidt in 2016 }}
'''Marina Vishmidt''' (May 6, 1976 – April 26, 2024) was an American writer, editor and critic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collection.fraclorraine.org/critique/print/21?lang=en|title=Scattering as Behaviour Toward Risk|publisher=49 nord 6 est Frac Lorraine|access-date=3 March 2018}}</ref> She lectured at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London in the MA program Culture Industry, and taught Art Theory in the MA Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. Her research mainly concerned the relationship between art, value and labour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.formerwest.org/Contributors/MarinaVishmidt|title=FORMER WEST – Marina Vishmidt|website=www.formerwest.org|access-date=2018-03-02}}</ref> She further explored this through works on debt, social reproduction and artistic entrepreneurialism.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bakonline.org/person/marina-vishmidt/|title=Marina Vishmidt|work=BAK|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Life == Vishmidt came to New York City with her mother and grandparents when she was three during the 1970s Soviet Union aliyah. She studied at the Bronx High School of Science and went to Sarah Lawrence College.<ref>{{Cite web |last=variant |title=variant |url=https://variant.org.uk/ |access-date=2025-10-21 |website=variant.org.uk |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2013, she completed her PhD entitled ''Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital'' at Queen Mary, University of London.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital|last=Vishmidt|first=Marina|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|year=2018}}</ref> In the Summer Semester, 2022, Vishmidt was the [http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/personen/ehemalige-mitarbeiterinnen/seiten-ehemaliger-mitarbeiterinnen/marina-vishmidt/ Arnheim Visiting Professor] at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In October 2023 she started a new position as Professor for Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kunsttheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/wordpress/mitarbeiterinnen/|title=Marina Vishmidt, head of the dept. Art Theory|access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref> Vishmidt died on April 26, 2024 after a long cancer illness.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/marina-vishmidt-1976-2024 |title=Marina Vishmidt, 1976–2024 |website=Historical Materialism |date=29 April 2024}}</ref>
== Writing == Vishmidt wrote and edited several publications including ''Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art'' (2016) together with Kerstin Stakemeier<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reproducing autonomy: work, money, crisis and contemporary art|author=Stakemeier, Kerstin|year=2016 |isbn=9781906496999|location=London|oclc=967855147}}</ref> and ''Media Mutandis'' (2006) edited jointly with Mary Anne Francis, Jo Walsh and Lewis Sykes.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Media Mutandis: A Node.London Reader: Surveying Art, Technologies and Politics |editor=Marina Vishmidt, Mary Anne Francis, Jo Walsh, Lewis Sykes |year=2006 |isbn=0955243505 |location=[London]|oclc=154678056 |url=https://archive.org/details/mediamutandisnod0000unse}}</ref> Her 2018 monograph ''Speculation as a Mode of Production''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vishmidt |first=Marina |url=https://brill.com/view/title/31596 |title=Speculation as a Mode of Production |date=2018 |isbn=978-90-04-29137-9 |location=Leiden |doi=10.1163/9789004384774}}</ref> was praised for bringing "the full weight of critical theory – with its characteristic ambition of intellectual scope – ... to bear on art and politics in the age of financialisation".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beech |first=Dave |date=8 August 2024 |title=Review: Marina Vishmidt: Speculation as a Mode of Production |url=https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/april-2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241008202442/https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/april-2019 |archive-date=8 October 2024 |access-date=8 October 2024 |website=Art Monthly}}</ref>
Vishmidt contributed to various publications, such as [https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/undoing-property/ ''Undoing Property?''] (Sternberg Press, 2013), [https://www.archivebooks.org/mobile-cinema-romana-schmalisch/ ''Mobile Cinema''] (Archive Books, 2017), [https://shop.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/en/on-performance ''On Performance''] (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2012), the Exhibition catalogue for Grace Schwindt's exhibition ''Run a Home, Build a Town, Lead a Revolution. An Exhibition in Three Acts'' (1362), at MARCO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Grace Schwindt|last=Agar Ledo, Gill Park, Grace Schwindt, Marina Vishmidt|first=Bridget Crone|publisher=Fundacion MARCO & Goethe Institut|year=2016|isbn=978-84-943529-1-1|location=Vigo}}</ref> and ''The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON'' (2010) <ref>{{Cite book|title=The grand domestic revolution goes on|date=2010|publisher=London|others=Choi, Binna., Tanaka, Maiko., Casco, Office for Art, Design, and Theory.|isbn=9781907414145|location=Utrecht|oclc=697775234}}</ref> and ''Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning'' (2018)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Choi |editor1-first=Binna |editor2-last=Krauss |editor2-first=Annette |editor3-last=van der Heide |editor3-first=Yolande |editor4-last=Allan |editor4-first=Liz |title=Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning |date=2018 |publisher=Casco Art Institute |isbn=978-94-92095-53-4 |url=https://casco.art/nl/resource/unlearningexercises/ |language=en}}</ref> both published by Casco, Utrecht. She authored several chapters in the Routledge Companion to Art and Politics which discusses the complex relationship between art and politics and was published in 2015.
She was also a frequent contributor to various journals, including Afterall,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afterall.org/online/artists-at-work_maryam-jafri#.WpmoVRPOVZ0|title=Artists at Work: Maryam Jafri |website=www.afterall.org|access-date=2018-03-02}}</ref> E-flux,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/journal/43/60197/mimesis-of-the-hardened-and-alienated-social-practice-as-business-model/|title="Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated": Social Practice as Business Model |volume=43 |date=March 2013 |website=www.e-flux.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-02}},</ref> Mute Magazine,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vishmidt |first=Marina |date=7 March 2013 |title=Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici |url=https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/permanent-reproductive-crisis-interview-silvia-federici |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504121012/https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/permanent-reproductive-crisis-interview-silvia-federici |archive-date=4 May 2024 |access-date=4 May 2024 |website=Metamute}},</ref> and Texte zur Kunst.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.textezurkunst.de/articles/sweetest-taboo/?highlight=marina%20vishmidt|title=The Sweetest Taboo|website=www.textezurkunst.de|language=en|access-date=2018-03-02}}</ref>
In her teens and early twenties, Vishmidt was active in the US zine subculture, using the penname "Miss Mary Mack."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6KmnQAACAAJ | title=Beri-Beri: No. 2. No.? / Marina Vishmidt | date=1996 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://zinewiki.com/wiki/Miss_Mary_Mack | title=Miss Mary Mack - ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines, independent media and the small press }}</ref>
== Collaborations == Vishmidt frequently collaborated with various artists and activists. In 2010, she contributed texts to the 4th instalment of the project ''Lying Freely'' by artist Ruth Buchanan which took the form of a book.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Lying Freely|last=Ruth Buchanan|first=Marina Vishmidt|publisher=Jan van Eyck Academie and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory|year=2010|isbn=978-90-72076-41-0|location=New Zealand}}</ref>
She was also part of a longterm research group of artists, writers, architects and musicians who worked together on the historical and contemporary presentation, documentation and reception of Victory over the Sun a Russian Futurist opera that premiered in 1913 in Saint Petersburg. The collective research efforts have been gathered in the publication ''Anfang Gut, Alles Gut - Actualizations of the Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun 1913''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anfang gut. Alles gut : Aktualisierungen der futuristischen Oper Sieg über die Sonne (1913) = Actualizations of the futurist opera Victory over the sun (1913)|date=2012|publisher=Walther König|others=Birkenstock, Eva, 1978-, Köller, Nina., Stakemeier, Kerstin, 1975-|isbn=9783863351441|location=Köln|oclc=849898840}}</ref>
Vishmidt was part of the working group of Cinenova a London-based feminist film and video distributor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/out-past-interview-cinenova|title=Out of the Past: An Interview with Cinenova|website=www.metamute.org|date=28 June 2011 |language=en|access-date=2018-03-08}}</ref> She also collaborated with the Full Unemployment Cinema, a collective which screened films in independent, self-organised venues around London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://fullunemploymentcinema.wordpress.com/about/|title=Who the FuC?|date=2013-05-12|work=Full Unemployment Cinema|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US}}</ref> The films focus mostly on themes of work, non-work, refusal and struggle.
== External links == * [https://on-vishmidt.memoryoftheworld.org/ Marina Vishmidt Collected Works] * [https://www.e-flux.com/notes/611821/marina-s-cues Marina's Cues] by Kerstin Stakemeier for e-flux * [https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/spaces-of-speculation-movement-politics-in-the-infrastructure/ A 2020 Historical Materialism interview discussing her work] * [https://archive.org/details/TS_feedback_as_cultural_logic_150111 Feedback as Cultural Logic] (a 2011 discussion panel led by Marina Vishmidt and Matthew Fuller)
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