Dr Roddy Hunter
Dr Roddy Hunter
- Head of Academic Planning
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5298-7789- Job Title
- Head of Academic Planning
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- R.Hunter@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- School of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RF
Biography
Roddy Hunter is an artist, curator and researcher working across performance, conceptual and new media art. His research investigates artistic and curatorial strategies in relation to how social and technological infrastructures shape everyday lives, identities and worldviews. Recent work focuses on networked art practice, artists' archives, digital preservation and open-source infrastructures, exploring reactivation as a strategy for maintaining archives as active, distributed networks. His projects include "The Next Art-of-Peace Biennale", "Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation", "Curating the Digital Attic Archive", and "archivuminternetwork: 30 Years of artpool.hu". His research has been published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and international journals, including Apparatus, Acoustic Space, and Inter: art actuel. A recognised art educator, he has held academic leadership roles at several UK institutions and is currently Head of Academic Planning in the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art, where he also supervises postgraduate research students.
Research Interests
performance and media art; networked art practice; artists' archives; active archives and reactivation; digital preservation; open-source infrastructures; digital sovereignty; curatorial strategies; self-archiving.
Grants
Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Research Network Award, ‘Curating Open Source Artists’ Archives: The Attic Archive (1975-2020) as Case Study’, co-investigator with Dr Judit Bodor, University of Dundee. £20,000 (2023-25).
PGR Supervision Interests
He would like to hear from potential doctoral students exploring performance, time-based and site-responsive art, new media art histories and practices, particularly networked art, software studies, open-source infrastructures, and contemporary curatorial practice.
Current PGR Students
Caulm Eccleston, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Dundee. Thesis title: 'Die to self': A practice-led exploration of the unseen in The Alastair MacLennan Archive. Co-supervisor, SGSAH AHRC DTP cross-HEI supervision team. Expected completion: November 2026
Yimin Xiang, Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis title: 'Archive In the Flesh: Investigating the Anxieties of Digital Media Through Printmaking Practice'. Primary Supervisor. Expected completion: February 2027
Toby (Chengwei) Mao, Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis title: 'Framing the frame in a frame: How could subtle and unsettled conceptual state experiments and the indirect access to material possibly engage an alternative understanding of the ontology of art?'. Primary Supervisor. Expected completion: August 2027
Former PGR Students
Co-supervisor, Charlotte Goldthorpe, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Huddersfield, 2022. Thesis title: 'Materialising Memories: Investigating the Rearticulation of Personal Narratives Through the Crafted Artefact'.
Teaching
Interim Programme Leader, Master of Fine Art (MFA), 2024-2025.
Course leader, 'Research Methods and Methodologies in Practice', cross-SoFA Postgraduate course, 2024-25.
Course leader' Studio Teaching’, cross-GSA Postgraduate Elective, 2022-23.
Interim Head of Department, Sculpture and Environmental Art, 2021-22.
Latest Additions
- Bodor, Judit and Hunter, Roddy (2026) Archiving Autonomy: Regenerating The Attic Archive As An Open-Source Web Platform. Festival Internacional de la Imagen, 24. ISSN 2981-5193
- Hunter, Roddy and Cook, Sarah (2023) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. In: The Black Box Book. Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions. Masaryk University Press, Brno, pp. 192-227. ISBN 978-80-280-0225-1
- Hunter, Roddy and Bodor, Judit (2021) artpool.hu: a user’s guide: Remediation, Digitization and the Networked Art Archive. In: What Will Be Already Exists Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 171-190. ISBN 978-3-8394-5823-5
- Hunter, Roddy (2021) On the spatialisation of performance and the performance of spatialisation. In: Sculpture in Process: Sculpture as a Medium of Space Transformation / Rzeźba w procesie : rzeźba jako czynnik transformacji miejsca i przestrzeni : międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa. University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poznań, Poland, pp. 119-143. ISBN 978-83-66015-93-7
- Bodor, Judit and Hunter, Roddy (2020) The Poïpoïdrome in Budapest: A Case Study in Curating Changeability in Contemporary Art. Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europ. ISSN 2365-7758
- Hunter, Roddy (2018) Beyond "East" and "West" through The Eternal Network: Networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe. In: Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe. Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies . Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 19-31. ISBN 9781315193106
- Hunter, Roddy (2016) Curating the Network-as-Artwork after Globalisation. In: OPEN FIELDS. Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society. Acoustic Space, 15 (15). RIXC Center for New Media Culture & Liepaja University's Art Research Lab, Riga and Liepaja, pp. 20-29. ISBN 9789934843457
- Hunter, Roddy (2015) The Last Art-of-Peace Biennale. Richard Saltoun, 111 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 6RY, 13 February– 20 March, 2015
- Hunter, Roddy and Bodor, Judit (2012) Art, Meeting, and Encounter: The Art of Action in Great Britain. In: Histories and Practices of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 65-89. ISBN 9780230229730
- Hunter, Roddy (2011) I think I now know. In: Artistic Research in Action: Proceedings of CARPA 2 - Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts. The Publication Series of The Theatre Academy Helsinki, 42 . Theatre Academy Helsinki, Helsinki, pp. 23-48. ISBN 9789529765621
