Translator Biography: W. Keith Brown
Task of the Translator-“Translation is a mode. To comprehend it as a mode one must go back to the original, for that contains the law governing the translation: its translatability.
-Walter Benjamin
W. Keith Brown is a visual artist, designer, writer and educator living in Chicago.  Born in Louisville Kentucky, he moved to Chicago in 2006 to pursue graduate studies in art, he recently received a masters' degree in Art Education from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  His writing employs postmodern discourse and professional identity as strategies to investigate hybrid approaches to artistic practice/education.  Works range in interests concerning curatorial process, critical pedagogy and visual communication as ways of creating critical testimony/dialogue.  Employing such strategies means to interpret material by way of subjectivity.  The writing seeks to make meaning from non-meaning.
Keith is currently pursuing educational positions inside and outside of the institution.  His focus on social justice and community activism in concert with critical pedagogy allows him to communicate in a non-oppressive style, which passes agency to humans allowing them to form their own interpretations of a work of art and or personal creative processes.  With these themes in mind he has also applied to the Media, Technology and Society PhD. program at Northwestern University where he hopes to study Visual Culture and Critical Theory.

Interdisciplinary Studies:
Art History Theory & Criticism
Postmodernism
Visual Culture
Semiology
Cultural Studies
Critical Pedagogy
Art Production/Process
Community Activism
Arts Administration
Museum Studies