Faculty: Geoff Cox
Geoff Cox has a research interest in ’software art’. Geoff co-curated the touring exhibition ‘Generator’ in collaboration with Spacex Gallery, and ‘Vivaria.net’ that asks the question ‘why look at artificial animals?’. He co-organised (with Joasia Krysa) two conferences: ‘globalica: artistic and conceptual tensions in the new world disorder’ as part of the WRO biennial, Poland, and ‘artist as engineer’, as part of an Arts Council of England initiative around socially-engaged arts practice.

Seminar Description:
Radical changes in the nature of work have lead to the current tendency to regard curatorial, artistic and cultural work as indicative of the ways in which all work is increasingly (forced to be) creative, flexible and precarious - making artists exemplary contemporary workers. Through selected projects of contemporary artists and groups we will explore the increased sharing of skills and expertise as well as the rising importance of communicative interconnections in what the autonomists call the ’social factory’.

Goals:

• To introduce concepts and examples of contemporary interdisciplinary arts praxis.
• To develop strategies for research and future creative production that is informed by historical and theoretical references.