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Geoff Cox

 

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Dr Geoff Cox

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Reader) in Computing, School of Art & Media (Faculty of Arts)
  • Address: B312, 22 Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586220
  • Email: geoff.cox@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Currently on a research secondment at Center for Digital Urban Living, Dept of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.
See http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk
 

Qualifications & background

BA, MA (RCA), PhD


 

Roles on external bodies

Researcher in Digital Aesthetics, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University (DK).

Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini (UK).

Chair of Cultural Studies, Transart Institute (DE/US).

Trustee of Kahve-Society (UK).

Treasurer of the Museum of Ordure (UK).


 


Teaching interests

Currently on a research secondment, Digital Urban Living Research Centre, Aarhus University, teaching one course in Digital Kultur.

MFA research advisor for Transart Institute.

PhD supervision (6 currently, 2 completions, and 6 examinations).

 


Research interests

Specifically: Critical discourse of art and software, software studies and network culture, application of historical materialist and post-Marxist thinking, and speculations on the performative and transformative action of code. More generally: critical theory/arts practices; intersections of art and education, curating and networks.

 

UoP Research group membership

Art and Social Technologies 
AZTEC (Art, Science, Technology Research Consortium) 
Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr) 

Creative practice & artistic projects

see http://www.anti-thesis.net/

 


Publications

Forthcoming book: Speaking code, 2012.

A recent selection of published works includes:

Edited Books
Concept Store #3: Art, Activism and Recuperation (with Nav Haq and Tom Trevor) Bristol: Arnolfini, 2010.
Concept Store #2: Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures (with Nav Haq and Tom Trevor), Bristol: Arnolfini, 2009.

Creating Insecurity (with Wolfgang Sützl) New York: Autonomedia, 2009.
Engineering Culture (with Joasia Krysa), New York: Autonomedia, 2005.
Economising Culture (with Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin) New York: Autonomedia, 2004.

For other texts, see
http://www.anti-thesis.net/anti-thesis.php?id=4