Dr Roddy Hunter is an artist and researcher working across performance, conceptual, and new media art. His work explores connections between art, philosophy, media, and technology through artistic research often focused on questions of time and place, how experiences and knowledge unfold over duration and are shaped by location and context.

Hunter's work as a performance artist since the 1990s has been internationally recognised, including in the global survey 'Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture' (Phaidon, 2007) and his monograph 'Civil Twilight and Other Social Works' (Trace: Samizdat, 2007). He has become increasingly engaged with agency and behaviour under post-digital conditions, 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'. Other recent projects include 'Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation' with Professor Sarah Cook, University of Glasgow, which explored challenges and solutions for preserving historical analogue and born-digital networked art practice with outputs including a co-authored chapter in 'The Black Box Book. Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions' (Masaryk University Press, 2023).

Since 2021, his research focuses on the project, 'Curating The Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study For Open-Source Approaches To Artists' Archives,' developed with his long-term collaborator and co-author, Dr Judit Bodor, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Together, they have been exploring how to curate The Attic Archive (1980-2020), established by artist Pete Horobin at 37 Union Street, Dundee, Scotland, as a self-historicisation project of work produced under four different identities, namely Pete Horobin (1980-89), Marshall Anderson (1990-99), Peter Haining (2000-09), and Ae Phor (2010-19). Responding to the archive's historical formation through peer-to-peer networked correspondence art and its present dispersal across collections in Scotland, Ireland and Hungary, Bodor and Hunter are establishing an open-source, user-generated web platform to share and generate work, correspondence and ephemera related to the archive by an open and inclusive network of care of artists, archivists, curators, and researchers internationally.

His research has been published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among others, and in international journals such as Apparatus (Berlin), Acoustic Space (Riga), and Inter: art actuel (Québec). A recognised art educator, he has held several teaching and leadership roles in higher education internationally, including previously as Director of Programmes in Fine Art at Middlesex University and currently as Head of Academic Planning in the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art.

Hunter regularly contributes internationally to the academic and artistic community as a subject expert, external examiner, peer reviewer, and PhD supervisor.