Dr Jane Frances Dunlop BA (Hons), MA, PhD

University Galleries Curator

• Board Member (Lexicon Officer) Performance Studies international, 2019 – 2022
• Visiting Artist Scholar, Sensorium at York University, Autumn 2019
• Member, Sonic Cyberfeminisms Collective 2017 – Present
• Member, Dance Critical Theory Group 2013 – 2018
• Member, Salon Flux Art Collective 2012 – Present
• Member, Performance Studies international 2010 – Present

Jane Frances Dunlop creates installations, videos, essays, poems, and performances driven by research into contemporary systems and critical theories, and seeks to capture how these shape-shifting ideas are lived, narrativised, and performed. Her work begins with the concrete structures and abstract ideas that make the world, shaping how we are together. It ends in aesthetic propositions that provide no answers.

Between 2015 and 2018, she created a body of artworks that interrogated the cultural functions of internet communication tools through their misuse: minor fabrics (2016); exercises in nervousness (2016); (tfw) spin measure cut (2016); hurl outward at a certain pace (2016); weaver (2017); speculative and palimpsestic documents (2017); collected dissonances (2018) and minor documents (new effort) (2018). Disturbing the standard use of digital communication tools was, in this series, a way of understanding how they already trouble, and glitch, our everyday lives. The research that accompanied the project was presented at conferences as well as in essays and articles published by scholarly journals and digital culture publications.

Her current project, _select important things_ (ongoing) brings together stock footage, memories and subjective definitions in order to probe the how we make knowledge for ourselves and for machines, and how that knowledge in turn makes the world. It is supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

select important things is a response to two crises of knowledge that have come to define the last decade: the rise of ‘alternative facts’ that undermine and destabilise expertise, and the increasingly complex AI systems for which datasets stand in as knowledge. My aim is to situate these ‘knowledge crises’ within a history of human representation, highlighting the subjectivity of the knowledge systems that play out in fake news or are the basis of machine learning. The work’s structure is inspired by Knowledge Representation, the field of machine learning that studies how to represent human knowledge for Artificial Intelligence, as well as by feminist approaches to knowledge and contemporary crises of truth.

Key funded projects

Project title: Section 28 and its Afterlives. £1656 from ICE Collaborative Development Fund, University of Greenwich, January 2026.

Project title: Crowds, Choruses, Composites. £3884 from Early Career Academic (ECA) Pilot Project Fund, University of Greenwich, April 2024.

Project title: select important things. $35 000 CAD from Digital Arts Explore and Creation: Concept to Realisation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, August 2021. Dunlop CV

Project title: select important things. $10 000 C

• Crisis and the habit of being oneself, Programme Essay for Joe Moran’s On the Habit of Being Oneself, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK. (September 2017)
• Through the Wires, Essay in Real Life Mag, Online Publication (26 July 2017
• Nervous? We should be, Essay in Real Life Mag, Online Publication (18 July 2016)
• Care in Crowded Spaces, Essay in Exeunt Magazine, Online Publication (13 Oct 2015) http

Contributions to Books

J. F. Dunlop, “Dissonance: the theatricality of internet performance practices” Theatricality and the Arts: Film, Theatre, Art. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

J. F. Dunlop, ‘Weaving an Artistic Research Methodology’ in Performance Matters: Performing Practice-based Research Vol. 9.1-2 (Summer 2023).

J. F. Dunlop, ‘Proximity and Dissonance in Internet-situated Performance’ in Performance Research: On Proximity Vol. 22.3 (Autumn 2017).

J. F. Dunlop, ‘Walking and Theatricality of Imaginative Geographies in Janet Cardiff’s The Missing Voice (Case Study B)’ in Platform: On Corporeality Vol. 7.1 (Spring 2013)

Essays

J. F. Dunlop, “Gertrude Stein’s Landscapes, and Other Things That Are All at Once’ in Visualities Forum, Modernism/modernity (3 Dec 2025).

Online

Dunlop CV | Modernism / Modernity Print+

J. F. Dunlop, “Crisis and the habit of being oneself,” Programme Essay for Joe Moran’s On the Habit of Being Oneself, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK. (September 2017)

J. F. Dunlop, “Through the Wires,” Essay in Real Life Mag, Online Publication (26 July 2017): http://reallifemag.com/through-the-wires/

J. F. Dunlop, ‘Nervous? We should be,’ Essay in Real Life Mag, Online Publication (18 July 2016) http://reallifemag.com/nervous-we-should-be/

J. F. Dunlop, “Care in Crowded Spaces,” Essay in Exeunt Magazine, Online Publication (13 Oct 2015) http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/care-in-crowded-spaces/

• “Rubber Ducks: oceans and art, algorithms and capitalist networks” at Performance Studies international #30 Federal University of Ceará, December 2025.
• “crowds chorus composites: Preliminary thoughts on the chorus” at Performance Studies international #29 University of London, June 2024.
• “select important things: knowledge representations in artistic research” at Sound|Image 2023 University of Greenwich. November 2023.
• “Sonic Wandering in New Landscapes” at Performance Studies international #28 University of the Witwatersrand, August 2023.
• “Pre-Visualising, Landscapes & Cliches” at London Conference in Critical Thought, London Metropolitan University. June 2023.
• “‘they are just there’: fictioning the visual in Gertrude Stein’s ‘landscapes’ at uncertain relations 01: visual|fictioning, University of Greenwich. June 2023.
• Mis/Disinformation and the Artifices of Authenticity and Authentication ICA pre- conference, York University. 24 May 2023.