About Professor Dr Beryl Graham
I retired from full-time employment with the University in 2022, and I'm now Emeritus Professor of New Media Art. I am co-founder and editor of CRUMB(opens in new tab), the resource for curators of new media art.
I curated the international exhibition Serious Games(opens in new tab) for the Laing and Barbican art galleries, and have also worked with The Exploratorium, San Francisco, and San Francisco Camerawork. I have been an invited speaker at conferences including Navigating Intelligence (Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada), Decoding the Digital (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Cultural Value and the Digital (Tate Modern).
Teaching and supervision
My past employment by the University has included the Art and Design Research Training programme, MA Curating programme leader, being Principal Investigator for AHRC Research Grants, and supervising research students:
PhD supervisions have included:
- Carole Baker (2000) Imaging the animal: Visual media representation within creative practice.
- Sarah Cook (2004) The search for a third way of curating new media art: Balancing content and context in and out of the institution.
- Ele Carpenter (2008) Politicized socially engaged art and new media art.
- Dominic Smith (2011) Models of Open Source Production Compared To Participative Systems In New Media Art. AHRC-funded.
- Graham Harwood (2014) Database machinery as cultural object - art as enquiry.
- Victoria Bradbury (2015) The Performativity of Code in Participatory New Media Artworks.
- Marialaura Ghidini (2015) Curating Web-based Art exhibitions: Mapping their Integration with Offline Formats of Display. AHRC-funded.
- Suzy O’Hara (2016) Collaborations between Arts and Commercial Digital Industry Sectors: A Curatorial Practice-led Investigation of Modes of Production. AHRC-funded.
- Ed Carter (2019) Rhythm, Scale, and Liminality: Sonic composition and interdisciplinary artwork developed in response to architectural contexts. AHRC-funded.
- Dani Admiss (2019) How Could the Tactical Affects of ‘World-building’ in Art and Design Inform Critical Curatorial Practice? AHRC-funded.
- Dawn Bothwell, (2019) Regional Intermedia: A Study of the Intermedia Approaches to Curating (1964 -1990) in North East England. AHRC-funded.
- Jo Joelson (2020) Library of Light: An Artistic Framework To Explore Light, Material Culture And Social Experience. AHRC-funded.
- Rene Cepeda (2020) Curation and Display of Interactive New Media Art: Making a Manual.
- Liam Jefferies (2020) When Space Becomes Interface: Mobile Augmented Reality, Audiences and Engagement in Cultural Institutions. AHRC-funded.
- Bruce Gilchrist (2022) Poetics of Artificial Intelligence in Art Practice: (Mis)apprehended Bodies Remixed as Language. AHRC/NPIF-funded.
- Stamatis Schizakis, Plugged In: The Introduction of New Media Practices in Greece.
- Catrina Ure, Audience evaluation of digital art experiences; lightening the load for smaller cultural organisations. AHRC/NPIF-funded.
- Ben Evans James, Parafactual Artist Film: Extending the Curatorial through Filmic Processes. AHRC-funded.
- Matthew Olaseni Gansallo, Digital and Traditional Art Curatorial Practice: Connectivity and Distribution in Post Colonial Museums/Art Galleries in West Africa and Europe. AHRC-funded.
- Georgia Smithson, New Collecting and Distribution Models for Contemporary Media Art. AHRC/NPIF-funded.
- Janine Sykes, Rethinking Curation as Blended Practice. AHRC-funded.
Areas of expertise
- Media and arts
- Collecting new media art
- Creative industries
- Curating new media art
- Digital art
- Interactive and participatory art
- Net art
- Software art
Further information
I have acted as External Examiner for over 12 PhDs, including in Sweden and Australia.
Selected Membership of professional bodies award and review panels:
- AHRC Peer Review College
- Austrian Science Fund (Arts) research council reviewer
- International Centre for Photography: Infinity Awards. New York. Invited Jury member
- University of Salford Art Collection Peer Review. Invited panel member
- Arts Council England creative industries policy. Invited to advise by Neil Harris Senior Relationship Manager at Arts Council England
- Montabonel Foundation Media in the Expanded Field: Curators and museum professionals’ Think Tank. Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Invited
- European Union project PERICLES (FP7), Tate. Project Advisory Board
- Database of Virtual Art (Berlin Humboldt Univ.) International Advisory Board
Leonardo Electronic Almanac Editorial Board (USA)
Selected External Scrutineer of Proposed New Courses:
- 2017 Slade School of Art, UCL, London (Masters)
- 2017 University of the West of England, Bristol (Masters)
Selected External Assessor of Courses:
- 2014-17 University of the West of England, Bristol (MA Curating)