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 adopts artistic and curatorial strategies to explore 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
Yimin Xiang, Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis title: 'Archiving Digital Anxiety: Decelerating Image Reproduction Through Printmaking Practice'. Primary Supervisor. Expected completion: February 2027
Toby (Chengwei) Mao, Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis title: 'An “object” in between: theorise and practice the Art Object for Philosophy as a method of investigating the transcendental questions of philosophy'. Co-supervisor. Expected completion: June 2027
Jingru Ao, Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis title: 'Creating Non-linear Temporal Experiences in Moving Image Installations through Hesitant Intervals and Episodic Memory'. Primary Supervisor. Expected completion: September 2029
Eva Bodo, Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis title: 'Residual Cartography: A Tangible Archive of a Liminal Space'. Primary Supervisor. Expected completion: September 2029
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