Sean Cubitt

Currently based: London/Melbourne/Dundee
Affiliated institution: Goldsmith, University of London
Website: www.digital-light.net.au/
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Feature Last updated: 2015-09-02

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

CV

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

2015-06-04

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

'Ethics of Animation’ given at 'Life Remade: The Politics and Aesthetics of Animation, Simulation and Rendering' Symposium

2015

University of London

Lecturer

'Archive Ethics' given at 'Turn to the Archive! Ethics and theMaking, Encountering, Imagining and Missing of the Archive' symposium

2015

Royal College of Art

Lecturer

Screen Conference '14: Landscape and environment

2014

University of Glasgow

Lecturer

Transmediale.14: The Afterglow

2014

Transmediale

Lecturer

'Ecologies of fabrication' given at 'Telas a Parte'

2014

Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo

Keynotes

Renew 2013 Riga

2013

Society for the Histories of Media Art, Technology, and Science

Organizer

'We have never been human' given at 'Intermediality – digital images incontemporary art' colloquium

2013

ICA – Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts

Keynotes

'Digital Light: Technique, Technology, Creation' symposium

2011

University of Melbourne

Organizer

ISEA 2011 [International Symposium on Electronic Art]

2011

ISEA International1

Curator

‘The Light through the Cloud: Questions of Network Distribution’ given at 'Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process'

2010

Cultures of digital economy institute (CoDE)

Keynotes

ISEA 2008 [International Symposium on Electronic Art]

2008

ISEA International

Participant

REWIND Soft Launch at Visual Research Centre and Dundee Contemporary Arts

2006

University of Dundee

Lecturer

digital aesthetics website launch

2006

Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art

Lecturer

New Media Arts

2004

Platform Gallery

Participating Artist

Bibliography

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 SondergaardNew York: Routledge, 2015.
Cubitt, Sean. »Data Visualisation and the Subject of Political Aesthetics.« In postdigital aethetics, edited by David Berry and Michael DieterLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Cubitt, Sean. The Practice of LightA 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 KellyOxford: 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 CubittCambridge, 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.

21 publications