Dr
Roddy
Hunter
Head of Academic Planning
School of Fine Art
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.
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
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