Professor Dr Beryl Graham

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:

• 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.

I am Professor of New Media Art at the University of Sunderland, and co-founder of CRUMB resource for curators of new media art. I curated the international exhibition Serious Games for the Laing and Barbican art galleries. My books include Digital Media Art (Heinemann 2003), Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press 2010 with Sarah Cook), and New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences (Ashgate 2014 edition) I have written for periodicals including Art Monthly, Leonardo, and the Journal of Curatorial Studies. I have been an invited speaker at conferences including Navigating Intelligence (Banff Centre for the Arts), Decoding the Digital (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Cultural Value and the Digital (Tate Modern).

My major areas of research interest are: Curating new media art, with a particular interest in interactive and participatory art, and concepts of audience. Recently, my research has concentrated on systems of collecting new media art.

I have particular experience in supervising art and design practice-led research, and my own PhD concerned audience relationships with interactive art in gallery settings.

Leading the MA Curating course, the Professional Development Course in London means that my research feeds into academic and professional education at all levels.

I have raised over £1million from AHRC for research grants where I was Principal Investigator, and been involved in successful applications for 2 AHRC studentship collaborations worth over £2million.

I was involved in the Creative FUSE NE bid and I am a named Investigator, and line manager of Post-Doctoral worker and AHRC student alumna, Suzy O’Hara.

• Curating new media art
• Interactive and participatory art
• Collecting new media art
• Digital art
• Creative industries
• Net art
• Software art

I have acted as External Examiner for over 12 PhDs, including in Sweden and Australia.

• 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)

• 2017 Slade School of Art, UCL, London (Masters)
• 2017 University of the West of England, Bristol (Masters)

• 2014-17 University of the West of England, Bristol (MA Curating)
  
  

www.berylgraham.com