Roddy Hunter
Head of Academic Planning
Fine Art-Sculpture & Environmental Art
Glasgow School of Art
Research Interests
performance art, post-digital art and culture, curating artists' archives, networked art practice, site-specifc and locational art, art education
Research Profile
Roddy Hunter is an artist, educator, curator and writer. He began teaching at Dartington College of Arts in the late 1990s and has since taught internationally, including at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, and now at The Glasgow School of Art. He has an MA Contemporary Arts from Nottingham Trent University and a PhD from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. His performance art and body-based action art has been seen worldwide, and some of his work is documented in the survey Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture and his monograph Civil Twilight and Other Social Works. While the exploration and experience of live presence have always been central to his practice, his work has become increasingly concerned with art and performance in the context of posmore...
Roddy Hunter is an artist, educator, curator and writer. He began teaching at Dartington College of Arts in the late 1990s and has since taught internationally, including at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, and now at The Glasgow School of Art. He has an MA Contemporary Arts from Nottingham Trent University and a PhD from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. His performance art and body-based action art has been seen worldwide, and some of his work is documented in the survey Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture and his monograph Civil Twilight and Other Social Works. While the exploration and experience of live presence have always been central to his practice, his work has become increasingly concerned with art and performance in the context of post-internet, post-digital globalisation and working in hybrid online/offline spaces, such as through his PhD, 'Curating The Eternal Network after Globalisation' which led to the artistic-curatorial project 'The Next Art-of-Peace Biennale 2015-17'. He also researches digital archiving and preservation alongside pre-internet histories of networked art practice. Often adopting a collaborative, networked and workshop-based approach, projects include 'Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation' with Professor Sarah Cook at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2020 and 'Resisting Recuperation' with Dr Judit Bodor as part of 'Curating Living Archives', 2021. His research has been published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among others, in international journals such as Apparatus, Berlin, Acoustic Space, Riga and Inter: art actuel, Québec, and he has written monograph essays on artists including Alastair MacLennan, John Newling, and André Stitt. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Trustee of The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD). He supervises and examine PhD students, and is interested in hearing from potential candidates working in performance art, sculpture and site-responsive practice, media art histories and practices, particularly networked art, and contemporary curatorial practice.
Qualifications
2015-2019
PhD, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Thesis: ‘Curating the Eternal Network After Globalisation’. Director of Studies: Professor Sarah Cook. Co-supervisor: Dr Anna Notaro. Practice-based research exploring performance and curatorial practice ‘after the net’.
1996-1998
MA Contemporary Arts, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University. Practice-based MA by Registered Project: ‘Neither ‘Here’ Nor ‘There’. Supervisor: Professor John Newling.
