Professor Sue Golding
Courses
Untimely Meditations: Fractal Philosophy/Electronic Arts Performance
Contemporary Political Philosophy and Aesthetics
MPhil/PhD Dissertation Supervisions
Low Fidelities: live streaming ICAS and Methods lectures
Director, Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences - ICASProfessor of Philosophy in the Visual Arts & Communication Technologies
Chair, University Research Ethics Committee
Programme Leader for:
MA/PhD Media-Arts Philosophy and Practice
MPhil/PhD Media Arts
(Visual, Performance and Sonic Arts)
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 8948
Email: s.golding@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 130
Alternative email: Director@MediaArtsResearch.com
Alternative website: http://gre.academia.edu/ProfessorJohnnyGolding
Publishes under the names of: johnny de philo and Johnny Golding
Born in New York, lived in Toronto, and now a Londoner since 1993, having been granted 'indefinite leave to remain' in 1997.
Office Hours
Monday 11am - 1pm
Friday 12 - 1pm
Professor Golding's full Curriculum Vitae
Qualifications
PhD Political Philosophy. University of Toronto / Cambridge University [1989] 1980-84 full doctoral funding to attend both Toronto and Cambridge under the tutelage of C.B. Macpherson/Raymond Williams.
Masters University of Toronto [Political Economy] [1977-79]
BA University of Maryland, Magna cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa [1972-76]
Summary
Sue Golding is a philosopher and artist whose internationally rated research covers the intra/interdisciplinary discourses associated with the contemporary media arts, new sciences and communication technologies. Set out in terms of installation, performance, rolling-documentary, books, articles and aphoristic text, her works address the various aspects of contemporary art practice in terms of their mobile multi-media, contemporarary philosophical foundations and meta-mathematic (space-time) dimensionalities.
Professor Golding is Director of the Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences, a postgraduate/post-doctoral international research environment for cutting-edge work and production in this burgeoning new field. Research clusters within the Institute include: Media Arts and the New Sciences; Linguistics and Communication Technologies; Contemporary Philosophy, critical literary studies and the performing arts. Sue Golding is also Head of the MA-PHD Postgraduate programme in Media Arts Research. She has supervised 13 PHD students to completion.
Currently programme leader also for the taught/research MA-PHD in Media Arts Philosophy Practice and the MRes in Media Arts.Extensive Management experience both in academic and cultural arts institutions in the UK and Europe, initiating new programmes in the arts (interweaving theory, the media arts and design), securing networks throughout the EU/Japan/W.Africa and S. Africa/USA, and working with varying sized budgets (up to and including £2.5 million+ during her tenure as Head of the Theory Department at the experimental postgraduate/post-academic research institute, the Jan van Eyck Academy [Maastricht], from 1998-2003). Since 1998 have been awarded grants totalling over £550,000.
Extensive Management experience both in academic and cultural arts institutions in the UK and Europe, initiating new programmes in the arts (interweaving theory, the media arts and design), securing networks throughout the EU/Japan/W.Africa and S. Africa/USA, and working with varying sized budgets (up to and including £2.5 million+ during her tenure as Head of the Theory Department at the experimental postgraduate/post-academic research institute, the Jan van Eyck Academy [Maastricht], from 1998-2003).
Her single authored and co-edited books include:
- Dirty Theory (or the birth of Zeta-Physics). Forthcoming: Routledge, 2010;
- Games of Truth (a blood poetic in seven part harmony).
- Inaugural Lecture Series (University of Greenwich: London, 2003); ISBN 18166 190 8
- Five edited collections Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics [V. 2/3: 2009; V.1, London: 2005 nominated outstanding new journal for 2005 by CELJ]. ISBN 0 9555037 09 (earlier collections listed within)
- Honour (parallax 13, London: Taylor Francis, 1999); ISBN 07484 0947 5
- The Eight Technologies of Otherness (London: Routledge, 1997); ISBN 0 415 14580 5
- Gramsci’s Democratic Theory (Toronto: 1992). ISBN 0 8020 7674 2
Video/acoustic and moving image works include:
- Conversion on the Road to Damascus (Serpentine Gallery, 2008; toured also in Europe)
- God is a Lobster (and other forbidden bodies) (London/Paris: 2006);
- In God We Trust (London/Berlin/Istanbul: 2005);
- Games of Truth (Dakar, 2003);
- I Spy with my Little Eye (London: 2000);
- once upon a wormhole (London/Maastricht, 1999).
- Theatre Director (Toronto: Founding President 1984-994 Buddies in Bad Times; Theatre Director,
- London: The Drill Hall and the ICA, The Royal Court and the Edinburgh Festival), from early 1980s till the mid 1990s.