Co-Director of CSNI & Professor
Geoff Cox is Professor of Art and Computational Culture at London South Bank University, co-Director of CSNI and co-Director of MA Curating Art and Public Programmes (in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery). He has previously worked as education curator at Camerawork Gallery (1994-98), adjunct online curator for Arnolfini (2008-12), Reader at University of Plymouth (2000-2010 & 2017-19), and Associate Professor at Aarhus University (2010-2016) where he retains an Adjunct position. He was visiting academic at University of Cambridge (2016) and in Digital Visual Studies at Max Planck/University of Zurich (2022).
He has a research interest in software studies and contemporary aesthetics. With Jacob Lund, he is co-editor of The Contemporary Condition book series published by Sternberg Press (since 2016), and with Joasia Krysa, co-editor of the open access DATA browser book series published by Open Humanities Press (since 2018, earlier with Autonomedia). With Christian Ulrik Andersen, he co-runs a yearly workshop/publication in collaboration with transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin (since 2012), and is co-editor of the associated open access online journal APRJA, hosted by the Royal Danish Library.
He has published widely, most often in collaboration, including: with Alex McLean, Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression (MIT Press, 2013); with Jacob Lund, The Contemporary Condition: Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2016); with Winnie Soon, Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Open Humanities Press, 2020); with Mitra Azar and Leonardo Impett, the co-edited special issue Ways of Machine Seeing, AI & Society (Springer-Nature, 2021), which relates to an ongoing collaborative research on computer vision (with, amongst others, colleagues at University of Cambridge and The Photographers’ Gallery) and visual literacy (with Institute of Education and The Turing Institute). The multi-authored book Live Coding: A User’s Manual, with Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Thor Magnusson and Alex McLean, was published by MIT Press late 2022.