Charlie Gere is a British academic who is professor of media theory and history at
The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts,
The University of Lancaster and previously, director of research at the Institute for Cultural Research at
The University of Lancaster.
Charlie Gere at Lancaster University
/ref> He is author of several books and articles on new media art
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D prin ...
, art and technology, continental philosophy
Continental philosophy is a term used to describe some philosophers and philosophical traditions that do not fall under the umbrella of analytic philosophy. However, there is no academic consensus on the definition of continental philosophy. Prio ...
and technology. His main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to post-conceptual
Post-conceptual, postconceptual, post-conceptualism or postconceptualism is an art theory that builds upon the legacy of conceptual art in contemporary art, where the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work takes some precedence over traditional ...
art
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
and philosophy.
Gere's PhD, ‘The Computer as an Irrational Cabinet’, was part practice-based and was from the Centre for Electronic Arts and the Department of Visual Culture, Middlesex University
Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated MDX) is a public research university in Hendon, northwest London, England. The name of the university is taken from its location within the historic county boundaries of ...
, and looked at the question of the ‘Virtual Museum’.
He was lecturer in digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various names ...
history in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College
, mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck.
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £4.3 m (2014)
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for seven years, where he ran the MA Digital Art History. He chairs the group Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) and is director of the AHRB-funded Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories etc. project at Birkbeck.
Publications
Books
* ''Digital Culture'' (Reaktion, 2002) ; 2nd edition (Reaktion, 2008)
* ''Art, Time and Technology: Histories of the Disappearing Body'' (Berg, 2005). This concerns artistic and theoretical responses to the increasing speed of technological development and operation, especially in terms of so-called ‘real-time’ digital technologies. It draws on the ideas of Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed th ...
, Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler (; 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also the founder in 2005 of the polit ...
, Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard (; ; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and ...
and André Leroi-Gourhan
André Leroi-Gourhan (; ; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.
B ...
, and looks at the work of Samuel Morse, Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inclu ...
and Kasimir Malevich, among others.
* '' White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980'' co-edited with Paul Brown, Catherine Mason and Nicholas Lambert ( MIT Press, 2006)
* Special issue on Brains in Vats, ''Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences'', co-edited with his sister Cathy Gere (2004)
Papers, chapters and extended reviews
These include:
* ‘Minicomputer Experimentalism in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to 1980’ in Hannah Higgins
Hannah B. Higgins (born 1964) is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. Higgins's research examines various post-conceptual art historical subjects (visual, musical, computational and material) in terms of two philosophica ...
, & Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn (born 1951 in Bremerton, Washington, USA) is known for his historical and theoretical writings on the use of sound in the avant-garde and experimental arts and music, energies in the arts, and history and theory of the media arts. H ...
(Eds.), Mainframe experimentalism: Early digital computing in the experimental arts. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (2012)
* ‘A Prehistory of Net.Art’ in Net.Art edited by Tom Corby (Swetz, 2006)
*‘“I AM STILL ALIVE”: Derrida, Karawa and Telecommunications’ in White Cube/Blue Sky: Art Cultures in the Information Age edited by Michael Corris, Josephine Berry, Pauline Broekman and Simon Ford (forthcoming, Berg, 2007)
* ‘Art is not Terrorism’ ''Journal of Visual Communication'' (2004)
* ‘The technologies and politics of delusion: an interview with artist Rod Dickinson’, ''Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences'' (2004)
* ‘World Brains, Giant Brains and Brains in Vats’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences ( 2004)
*‘Armagideon Time’, London from Punk to Blair, edited by Joe Kerr and Andrew Gibson (Reaktion, 2003)
*‘Breaking the Time Barrier’, Culture and Organization, vol. 8, no 4 (2004)
*‘Can Art History Go On Without A Body’ Culture Machine, 5 (2003)
Notes and references
See also
* Digital Art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various names ...
* Computer art
Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many tradit ...
* Electronic art
* Systems art
Systems art is art influenced by cybernetics, and systems theory, that reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself.
Systems art emerged as part of the first wave of the conceptual art movement extended i ...
* New media art
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D prin ...
* Generative art
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of Middlesex University
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Academics of Lancaster University
Postmodernists
Mass media theorists
Cultural historians
Philosophers of art