, currently based: London/Melbourne/Dundee
Affiliated institution: Goldsmith, University of London
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About
Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television and co-Head of the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture, Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory, The Cinema Effect, EcoMedia and his most recent book, The Practice of Light (MIT 2014). He has recently co-edited Rewind: British Video Art of the 1970s and 80s, Relive: Media Art History, Ecocinema: Theory and Practice and the open access anthology Digital Light. He is the series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press. His current research is on environmental impacts of digital media and on media arts and their history.
Websites
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/
http://seancubitt.blogspot.co.uk/
http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/SeanCubitt
http://www.slideshare.net/seancubitt
Websites
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/
http://seancubitt.blogspot.co.uk/
http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/SeanCubitt
http://www.slideshare.net/seancubitt
CV
2014
Editorial Board Journal of Visual Arts Practice (Routledge, refereed) (on-going)
2011 - 2012
Professor of Global Media and Communications, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
2010
Assessor, Canada Research Chairs program (on-going)
2009
2009 - Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
2006 - 2011
Professor and Director of the Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
currently Joint Head of Department Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London
2015 European Research Council, peer reviewer
2014- LUX Board of Directors
2014 Krasnza-Krausz Book Award, film panel, judge.
2014 Canadian Moving Image Archive Network (CMIAN) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership, Advisory Board.
2014 CHASE AHRC PhD scholarship consortium, Panel C
2013 International Committe, Colloque sur la magie des effets speciaux, Cinémathèque Quebecoise, Montreal.
2013 Conference committee, Renew Media Art Histories, Riga
2011-2012 Professor of Global Media and Communications, Winchester School of Art, University
of Southampton
2006-2011 Professor and Director of the Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
2007 - ISEA 2008 International Symposium Advisory panel
2006 Editor-in-Chief, Leonardo Book Series, Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press
2005-6 ISEA 2006 Pacific Rim section selection panel
2000 - 2006 Professor of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.
1989 - 2000 Professor of Media Arts (from 1st September 2000); Reader in Video and Media Studies (1994-2000); Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (1989-1994) Liverpool John Moores University (previously Liverpool Polytechnic)
Education
2001 PhD by publication, Liverpool John Moores University, awarded for Digital Aesthetics and supporting materials.
1976 - 80 McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada; Ph.D. research (all but dissertation) on Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League as cultural forms.
Editorial Board Journal of Visual Arts Practice (Routledge, refereed) (on-going)
2011 - 2012
Professor of Global Media and Communications, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
2010
Assessor, Canada Research Chairs program (on-going)
2009
2009 - Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
2006 - 2011
Professor and Director of the Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
currently Joint Head of Department Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London
2015 European Research Council, peer reviewer
2014- LUX Board of Directors
2014 Krasnza-Krausz Book Award, film panel, judge.
2014 Canadian Moving Image Archive Network (CMIAN) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership, Advisory Board.
2014 CHASE AHRC PhD scholarship consortium, Panel C
2013 International Committe, Colloque sur la magie des effets speciaux, Cinémathèque Quebecoise, Montreal.
2013 Conference committee, Renew Media Art Histories, Riga
2011-2012 Professor of Global Media and Communications, Winchester School of Art, University
of Southampton
2006-2011 Professor and Director of the Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
2007 - ISEA 2008 International Symposium Advisory panel
2006 Editor-in-Chief, Leonardo Book Series, Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press
2005-6 ISEA 2006 Pacific Rim section selection panel
2000 - 2006 Professor of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.
1989 - 2000 Professor of Media Arts (from 1st September 2000); Reader in Video and Media Studies (1994-2000); Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (1989-1994) Liverpool John Moores University (previously Liverpool Polytechnic)
Education
2001 PhD by publication, Liverpool John Moores University, awarded for Digital Aesthetics and supporting materials.
1976 - 80 McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada; Ph.D. research (all but dissertation) on Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League as cultural forms.
News
04.06.2015
Goldsmiths Inaugural Lectures 2015: Sean Cubitt
As part of the Media & Communications series of Inaugural Lectures, the Warden has invited Sean Cubitt, Professor of Film and Television, to give his Inaugural Lecture – the title of the Lecture is “Political Aesthetics: Becoming Human". What is the internet made of? How does it work? In a time when politics is played out through media, how do the design and materials of media influence and constrain what we think of as politics? This talk asks whether the traditional questions of aesthetics about truth, beauty and the good can also be applied to the conduct of political life. Can ecology teach us new ways to think about both politics and aesthetics, new ways to be human?
Goldsmiths Inaugural Lectures 2015: Sean Cubitt
As part of the Media & Communications series of Inaugural Lectures, the Warden has invited Sean Cubitt, Professor of Film and Television, to give his Inaugural Lecture – the title of the Lecture is “Political Aesthetics: Becoming Human". What is the internet made of? How does it work? In a time when politics is played out through media, how do the design and materials of media influence and constrain what we think of as politics? This talk asks whether the traditional questions of aesthetics about truth, beauty and the good can also be applied to the conduct of political life. Can ecology teach us new ways to think about both politics and aesthetics, new ways to be human?
Exhibitions & Events
2015
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Publications & References
Cubitt, Sean and Daniel Palmer and Nathaniel Tkacz, ed. Digital Light. London: Open Humanities Press, 2015.
Cubitt, Sean. »Integral Waste.« Theory, Culture & Society 32, no. 4 (2015): 133-145.
Cubitt, Sean. »The Information Environment.« In Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture, edited by Ulrik Ekman and Lily Diaz and Morten Sondergaard. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Cubitt, Sean. »Data Visualisation and the Subject of Political Aesthetics.« In postdigital aethetics, edited by David Berry and Michael Dieter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Cubitt, Sean. The Practice of Light
A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels. Leonardo Book, Camebridge: MIT Press, 2014.
Cubitt, Sean. »Toxic Media: On the Ecological Impact of Cinema.« In Eco-Trauma Cinema, edited by Anil Narine, 231-48. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Cubitt, Sean. »Utopia.« In The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Cubitt, Sean. »Telecommunication Networks: Economy, Ecology, Rule.« Theory, Culture and Society 31, no. 7/8 (2014): 185-199.
Andres Burbano and Paul Thomas. »Between punched film and the first computers, the work of Konrad Zuse..« In Relive : Media Art Histories, edited by Sean Cubitt. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013.
Cubitt, Sean. »The Shadow.« MIRAJ Moving Image Research and Art Journal 2, no. 2 (2013): 187-197.
Rust, Stephen and Salma Monani and Sean Cubitt, ed. The Ecocinema reader: Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge/Amercian Film Institute, 2012.
Cubitt, Sean. »Avatar and Utopia.« Animation 7, no. 3 (2012): 1-11.
Cubitt, Sean and Steven Partridge, ed. Rewind: Artists’ Video in Britain 1970s and 1980s,. New Bartnet: John Libbey, 2012.
Cubitt, Sean. »Audiovisionaries of the Network Planet.« In Globalization and contemporary art, edited by Jonathan Harris, 225-236. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Cubitt, Sean and Gunalan Nadarajan and José‐Carlos Mariátegui. »Social Formations of Global Media Art.« Third Text: Special issue MEDIA ARTS: Practice, Institutions and Histories 23, no. 3 (May 2009): 217-228.
Cubitt, Sean. The Cinema Effect. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
Cubitt, Sean. Ecomedia. Contemporary cinema series, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
Sardar, Ziauddin and Sean Cubitt, ed. Aliens R Us : the other in science fiction cinema. London/Sterling: Pluto Press, 2002.
Cubitt, Sean. Simulation and Social Theory. Theory, Culture and Society. London: Sage, 2001.
Cubitt, Sean. Digital Aesthetics. Theory, Culture and Society. London, New York: Sage, 1998.
Cubitt, Sean. Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture. Communications and Culture, London: Macmillan Education, 1993.