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Vendela Grundell Gachoud
Vendela Grundell Gachoud is an interdisciplinary researcher, a teacher in advanced education and a photographer with a Ph.D. in art history from Stockholm University (2016). With her socially engaged expertise regarding critical perspectives on visual technology, she focuses on how digital photography shapes perception. Her consistent inquiry into normativity and activism recurs in diverse international output, notably her doctorate on glitch art in digital interfaces, her postdoctoral research on visually impaired photographers and a study on metadata as a diversity tool in online cultural heritage archives. Recent publications include chapters in Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) (Persinger and Rejaie [eds]), Error, Ambiguity, Creativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) (Whatley and Popat [eds]), Visual Activism in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2022) (White and Hartle [eds]) and Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2022) (Giglitto et al. [eds]).
Contact: Accelerator, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.