Maayan Amir (born 1978, in Hadera, Israel) is an artist, researcher, and senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Arts Department. Biography Amir’s collaborative work with artist Ruti Sela has been widely exhibited, including at the Sydney Biennale (2006), Istanbul Biennale (2009), and Berlin Biennale (2010), the New Museum Triennial (2015), and in such venues as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Art in General (NY), Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, Ludwig Museum, HKW, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo among others. She is the holder of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 2011 young artist award. Amir holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA and MFA from Tel- Aviv University. In 2008, she edited a book about Israeli documentary cinema titled Documentally. In 2011, she was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She has curated exhibitions related to state power, art, and ideology. Her essays have been published internationally, in books, journals, and catalogs, and she was a researcher on the Forensic Architecture project at Goldsmiths University, London. In recent years, her research has focused on the concept of extraterritoriality. In addition to her in-depth inquiry into existing definitions of extraterritoriality, Amir proposes that the concept may be extended to other objects and spheres of activity such as regimes of representation and information. Her work conceptualizes what she views as extraterritorial images. A definition to extraterritorial image was first included in Forensis (Sternberg Press) and later appeared in other platforms such as the New Museum Triennial “Surround Audience” catalog and in the mini special journal published by Utrecht Law Review. Before joining BGU, where she is also the curator of the university galleries, she was the head of the MFA in Fine Art Program at Haifa University and lectured at Tel-Aviv University at the History of Art Department. In 2020, Amir received the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture (IAVC / JVC) Early Career Researcher Prize for her article, “Visual Lawfare: Evidential Imagery at the Service of Military Objectives.” The prize board members included Brooke Belisle, Jill H. Casid, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Almira Ousmanova. Her book, Visual Evidence and the Gaza Flotilla Raid: Extraterritoriality and the Image, was published in 2022. The monograph expands on Amir’s concept of extraterritoriality as means of deciphering mechanisms by which the State classifies