Publications
Monographs
- Art after God (MIT Press, forthcoming, 2010)
- Non-Relational Aesthetics: Transmission, the Rules of Engagement 13 (Artwords, 2008), with Michael Corris
- Art, Time and Technology (Berg, 2006)
- Digital Culture (Reaktion, 2002, 2nd edition 2008). (One chapter translated and published in Russian journal; translation of whole book in Finnish and Korean published in 2006)
Edited Volumes
- Art Practice in a Digital Culture, co-edited with Hazel Gardiner (forthcoming, Ashgate, 2009)
- White Heat, Cold Logic: Early British Computer Art, co-edited with Paul Brown, Catherine Mason and Nicholas Lambert (MIT Press, 2009)
- Special issue on 'Brains in Vats', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, co-edited with Cathy Gere (2004)
Papers, chapters and extended reviews
- 'New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age' in Curating New Media, edited by Christiane Paul (University of California Press, 2009)
- 'Slitting open the Kantian Eye' in Hazel Gardiner and Chris Bailey (eds), Revisualizing Visual Culture (forthcoming, Ashgate, 2009)
- 'Reading the Traces' in Reading CSI, edited by Michael Allen (I. B. Taurus, 2007)
- 'Breaking the Time Barrier with John Cage' in Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet, edited by James Lyons and John Plunkett (University of Exeter Press, 2007)
- 'The Gay-Science Museum', Dialogue (online, 2006)
- 'Digitality' in The Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by Jan Aart Schlote and Roland Robertson (Routledge, 2006)
- 'Introduction' and 'Richard Colson - Image Recoder' in Sense Detectives (Watermans, 2006)
- 'Network Art and the Network Gallery', Tate Online/Whitney Museum of American Art Artport (2006)
- 'Genealogies of the Screen' in The Journal of Visual Communication (2006)
- 'Blindness, Mourning and the Archive on Planet Usher' in Sequences edited by Paul St George (Peterborough Arts, 2006)
- 'Short Films about Flying' in Digitale Forbindelser - en antologi, edited by Yvette Brackman (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, 2006)
- 'A History of Network Art' in Network Art edited by Tom Corby (Routledge, 2006)
- Online interview with artist Warren Neidich, Interviewstream: Conversations with Cultural Producers working with or linked to ZKM (2005)
- 'Jack Burnham and the Work of Art in the Age of Real-Time Systems' in Real Time + Art + Theory + Practice + History, edited by Morten Sondergaard, (Informations Forlag/George Braziller, 2005), pp 149 - 164
- 'Interview with Rod Dickinson' in Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, edited by Claire Docherty (Black Dog, 2004)
- 'Art is not Terrorism' in Journal of Visual Communication (2005)
- 'New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age' in Tate Papers (on-line, 2004)
- 'When New Media was New' in New Media Art: Practice and Context 1994-2004, edited by Lucy Kimbell and Helen Cadwallader (ACE/Cornerhouse, 2004)
- 'The technologies and politics of delusion: an interview with artist Rod Dickinson', , Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2004)
- 'World Brains, Giant Brains and Brains in Vats', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2004)
- 'Armagideon Time', London from Punk to Blair, edited by Joe Kerr and Andrew Gibson (Reaktion, 2003)
- 'Breaking the Time Barrier', Culture and Organization, vol. 10, no 1 (2004)
- 'Can Art History Go On Without A Body' Culture Machine, 5 (2003)
- Extended review of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor, Journal of Visual Culture, vol 1, no 3 (2002)
- 'Probing the Beginnings of Digital Art Practice', everything, 4.2 (2002)
- 'The Book at the end of the Book', The Art Book, vol 9 no 2 (2002)
- 'Punk and the Digital Aesthetic', Proceedings of the CHArt Conference 2000, edited by Anna Bentkowska (2001)
- 'Nothing, Apocalypse and Utopia', Nothing, edited by Graham Gussin and Ele Carpenter (2001)
- 'The Canon and the Network Society', Engage, no. 8 (2001)
- 'Angels and Demons', Pandaemonium 2001, Festival of the Moving Image (London, LEA, 2001)
- 'The Work of Art in the Age of the General Intellect', Intelligence: New British Art 2000 (London, Tate Gallery, 2000)
- 'John Cage's Early Warning System', Coil, double issue nos 9/10 (2000)
- 'Hypermedia and Emblematics', Computing and Visual Culture, edited by Tanya Szraijber (1999)
- 'Writing Cyberculture', Oxford Art Journal, Vol 22, no. 1 (1999)
- 'Museums, Contact Zones and the Internet', Museum Interactive Multimedia 1997: Cultural Heritage Systems Design and Interface edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant (1997)
- 'The Digital Museum: a critical point of view', Corto Circuito 1997: Festival Europea della Communicazione Audiovisive Breve, edited by Franz Cerami (1997)
Exhbitions
- Co- curator of FEEDBACK exhibition, Asturias, Spain, 2007
Consultancy work with external bodies, panels and associations etc.
- Member of review panel, FutureSonic, 2009
- Advisor to the British Council Collections Commission, 2009
- Member of the Advisory Board for the joint Doctoral Programme in Digital Culture as a joint initiative by Universities of Jyvaskyla, Tampere and Turku in Finland, 2008-
- Member of the International Advisory Board for the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Digital Culture, (Arc Digital), Anglia Ruskin University, 2008-
- Member of team for AHRC-funded CRUMB project at Sunderland University, looking at digital curation, 2006-.
- Member of team for AHRC-funded Computational Intelligence, Creativity and Cognition project, in collaboration with the University of Sussex, and with responsibility for overseeing MPhil/PhD research into the history and theory of computational creativity, 2006-8
- Member AHRC Network on Curating Media Art with Tate Modern, 2008 -
- Member of paper review panel, Re-Place Conference, 2007
- Member of review panel, FutureSonic, 2007
- Member AHRC ICT Methods Network Academic Advisory Committee, 2006 - now
- Treasurer and Member of Board of Grizedale Arts, 2006 - now
- Member of Media Arts Network, 2006 - now
- Consultant for the Science Museum, London on curating new media art in the museum, 2006
- Member of the Arts and Humanities Database Service Visual Arts Advisory Board, 2005 - 2008
- Member, AHRB/EPSRC-funded 'Designing for the 21st Century' research cluster Digital Design, Representation, Communication and Interaction: Screens and the Social Landscape, 2005
- Member of the Advisory Committee, AHRB REWIND project looking at artists' film and video in the '70s and '80s, Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee, 2004 - now
- Member, selection committee for National Centres for Excellence in Research, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2004
External events and courses organised
- Organise and chair the annual CHArt conference, 2002 - now
- Co-organised (with Warren Niedich) Neuroaesthetics Conference, Goldsmiths College, 2005
- Organised and chaired talk by Bernard Stiegler at Tate Modern, 2004
- Organised and chaired talk by Harold Cohen at Tate Modern, 2004
- Organised and chaired ten week course at Tate Modern, The Role of the Gallery in the Digital Age, 2004
- Organised and chaired talk and seminar series at Tate Modern, When New Media was New, 2003
- Organised session, Historicising Digital Art, Association of Art Historians Conference, Birkbeck College, UCL, 2003
- Organised one-day workshop in collaboration with the Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University, Cultures of Information, Birkbeck College, 2001
Presentations
• Keynote Speaker, Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk conference, Cardiff University, 2009
• Invited speaker, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2009
• Invited speaker at the Radiator Festival, Derby-Nottingham, 2009
• Invited Speaker, Memory, Media and the Archive, Argos Arts Centre, Brussels, 2007
• Keynote Speaker, AVPhD Workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007
• Invited Speaker, Closeness vs Dislocation - Contextualising Net-Based Art, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2007
• Guest lecturer, University of Turku, Finland, 2007
• Invited speaker, Digital Aesthetics II, University of Central Lancashire, 2007
• Guest lecturer, Goldsmiths College, 2007
• Invited speaker, Visual Knowledge Lecture and Graduate Masterclass Series, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, Manchester University, 2006
• Invited speaker/participant, Seminar on Architecture and Situated Technology, Architectural League, New York, 2006
• Invited speaker, talk on Art at the Edge of Time, ICA, 2006
• Invited speaker, seminar on the work of artist Stephen Willats, Tate Modern, 2006
• Invited speaker, AHRC Methods Network Expert Seminar, Chelsea School of Art, 2006
• Discussion chair, Early British Computer-Generated Art Film, National Film Theatre, 2006
• Keynote Speaker, Art - Place - Technology: International Conference on New Media Art Curating, FACT and Liverpool School of Art, Liverpool, 2006
• Session Chair, Cybersalon on Creative Software, Dana Centre, 2006
• Session chair, Systems Art Conference, Tate Modern, 2005
• Session chair and speaker, REFRESH! Conference on Media Art Histories, Banff New Media Institute, Canada, 2005
• Session chair, Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference, Lancaster University, 2005
• Invited speaker, symposium on Take Away Cultures, Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona (CCCB), 2004
• Invited Speaker, The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), Glasgow University, 2004
• Invited Speaker, The Slade School of Art Contemporary Art Lectures, Slade School of Art, University College London, 2004
• Invited speaker, symposium on New Media and Public Art, York Science City, York, 2004
• Plenary speaker, Aesthetics and Organisation Conference, Paris, 2004
• Invited speaker, Breathing New Life into the Fine Rooms: Book Celebration, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2004
• Invited speaker, symposium on British New Media Art, Tate Britain, 2004
• Invited speaker, Gage, Technology, Art and the Individual, festival of new media and art, Hull Time-Based Arts, Hull, 2004
• Invited speaker, seminar on Digital Technologies in the Visual Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 2003
• Invited speaker at London: Hell or High Water, conference at the Museum of London, 2003
• Chaired panel on Curating New Media, the London College of Music and Media, Thames Valley University, 2003
• Paper given at Multimedia Histories Conference, Exeter University, 2003
• Invited speaker at Prosthetics: Technology and the Human with Stelarc, ICA, 2003
• Invited speaker at the London College of Music and Media, Thames Valley University, 2003
• Invited speaker at the Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield, 2003
• Invited speaker at Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture (NIRV), University of Nottingham, 2003
• Paper given at Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Budapest, 2002
• Speaker, Matrix: Intersections of Art and Technology lecture series, Tate Modern, 2002
• Invited speaker, seminar with Richard Beardsworth, Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University, 2000
• Invited speaker, ESRC-funded seminar on Complexity and the Social Sciences, Complexity and Subjectivity, Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, 2000
• Paper given at CHArt Conference, Courtauld Institute, 2000
• Invited seminar speaker, Cambridge University, 1999
• Paper given at Cybersociety Conference, University of Northumbria in Newcastle, 1999
• Paper given at CHArt Conference, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1998
• Paper given at Art and Technology Conference, Tate Liverpool, 1998
• Paper given at International Conference on Hypermedia and Museums (ICHIM), Louvre, Paris, 1997
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Chair, Computers and the History of Art (CHArt)
- Editor-in-Chief, CHArt Yearbook
- Member, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MCCSA)
