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CV - Geoff Cox BA MA PhD
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M: +44 (0)7813 787862
E: geoff@anti-thesis.net
W: http://www.anti-thesis.net/


CURRENT
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Researcher in Digital Aesthetics, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, DK
http://darc.imv.au.dk/

Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/

Adjunct Faculty, Transart Institute, Berlin/New York, DE/US.
http://www.transartinstitute.org/

Associate Professor, School of Arts & Media, University of Plymouth, UK
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/


EDUCATION
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2006 PhD 'Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art', Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth
(supervisors: Professor Roy Ascott, Dr. Andreas Broeckmann; examiners: Dr. Charlie Gere, Dr. Jeremy Valentine)

1991-92 Goldsmiths College (Sociology Dept), University of London

1984-86 MA (RCA) Photography, Royal College of Art, London

1980-83 BA Art & Design, Bradford & Ilkley Community College

1978-79 Foundation Studies, Plymouth College of Art & Design


EMPLOYMENT
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2010 -> Postdoc Researcher in Digital Aesthetics, Digital Urban Living Research Center, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

2007 -> Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

2006 -> member of research faculty, Transart Institute (Donau University, Krems, Austria) [from 2009, Chair of cultural studies]

1999-09 (0.75) Lecturer in Computing, Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth, UK [from 2002, programme manager MA|MSc|MRes Digital Art & Technology; from 2009, M-level coordinator for School of Arts & Media; from 2009 Reader in Art & Technology]

1992-01 (0.5) Lecturer in Media Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth

1994-98 Outreach/Education programmer, Camerawork Gallery, London

1991-93 Part-time Lecturer, School of Architecture, South Bank University, London

1988-91 Associate Lecturer in Fine Art, Polytechnic South West, Faculty of Arts & Design

1987-88 Fellowship in Arts Communication, Exeter College of Art & Design

1986-87 Photo workshop coordinator, Montefiore Community Education Centre, London E1

1986 Photography Technician/Tutor, UCLA summer course, Royal College of Art

1987 -> Visiting Lecturer: University of West of England (2008); Dartington College of Arts (2004); University of East London (2000 & 2002); Central St. Martins (1999); Goldsmiths College (1998/99); John Moores University, Liverpool (1997); Staffordshire Polytechnic (1988-90); Harrow College of Higher Education (1987).


TEACHING
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PhD supervision: 8 students (1 as DoS); PhD examinations: 5 students (4 internal, 1 external)
Transart MFA seminars: Immaterial Research (2006); Software as Metaphor (2007); Group Effort (2008); Making Public (2009), Social Media + Art 2.0 (2010).


AFFILIATIONS
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2009 ISEA peer review.

2009 -> Editorial board, Concept Store journal, Arnolfini, Bristol.

2008 -> reviewer panel, Leonardo Reviews.

2008 -> Advisory board, Relational contemporary arts agency, Bristol.

2004 -> Editorial board, DATA browser series, Autonomedia, New York.

2006-2009 Board member, Spacex gallery, Exeter, UK.

2003 Jury member (with Casey Reas & Kate Rich), Software Art category, transmediale festival, Berlin.

2001 -> establishment of Kahve-Society, registered charity (with Hatice Abdullah and Victoria de Rijke).

2001 -> development of The Museum of Ordure (Stuart Brisley & Adrian Ward). http://www.ordure.org/


PUBLICATIONS
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(AUTHORED BOOKS)

2010 Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art, Arhus: DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, ISBN 87-91810-15-9, pp. 232.

2002 Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare, limited edition artists book & DVD, published by Kahve-Society, produced by Book Works, ISBN 0-9541181-2-X. (including extensive press coverage in national/international newspapers and broadcast media)

1999 Manifest (with Tim Brennan), London: Working Press, 48pp. ISBN 1-870736-48-6.

1996 This Paper is Intentionally Blank, limited edition book (co-authored with Victoria de Rijke and Sophie Weeks), London: Camerawork, ISBN 1-871-10307-3 (associated article in New Times with Kevin Davey).

1994 This is Not the National Curriculum for Art, book and postcard set (co-authored with Victoria de Rijke), London: Middlesex University, ISBN 1-85924-033-X.

(EDITED BOOKS/JOURNALS)

2010 Concept Store #3: Art, Activism and Recuperation (with Nav Haq & Tom Trevor), bi-annual journal, Bristol: Arnolfini, ??pp, ISBN 9780-907738-??-?.

2009 Concept Store #2: Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures (with Nav Haq & Tom Trevor), bi-annual journal, Bristol: Arnolfini, 112pp, ISBN 9780-907738-96-1.

2009 Creating Insecurity: Art and Culture in the Age of Security (with Wolfgang Suetzl), edited book, New York: Autonomedia, 208pp, ISBN 978-1-57027-205-9.

2008 Supertoys: A User's Manual (as Kahve-Society), Bristol: Arnolfini, 50pp, ISBN 978 0 907738 92 3

2005 Revolutionary Fragments (with Joasia Krysa), co-editor of Magazyn Sztuki, journal no. 32-33, Gdansk (http://www.magazynsztuki.pl/mambo/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=7&category_id=2&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=36〈=polish).

2005 Engineering Culture: on The (Digital) Author as Producer, edited book (with Joasia Krysa), New York: Autonomedia, ISBN 1-57027-170-4.

2004 Economising Culture: on The (Digital) Culture Industry, edited book (with Joasia Krysa and Anya Lewin), New York: Autonomedia, 256pp, ISBN 1-57027-168-2.

2002 A Coffee-House Conversation on the International Art World & its Exclusions, e-book, http://www.kahve-house.com/society/conversations/ editor, published by Kahve-Society with Autograph, ISBN 0-95411-81-1-1, 90pp.

2000 Autoicon, CD-Rom, produced with Mike Phillips, software by Adrian Ward, published by inIVA & STAR, ISBN 189984631X

1999 Guidebook: three manoeuvres by Tim Brennan in London E1/E2, co-edited book (with Tim Brennan) and introduction, published by Camerawork, 84pp. ISBN 1-871103-12-6 (associated video, 'Dislocation', with Mike Lawson-Smith).

1999 The Impossibility of Art Education, co-edited book with Howard Hollands & Victoria de Rijke (in collaboration with Middlesex University's REALL research group), published by Camerawork, 88pp. ISBN 1-871103-13-4.

1998 The Work of Art... CD-Rom and website, http://www.obsolete.com/artwork/ with Chris Rodrigues, Phaedra Stancer et al, published by Camerawork. See - Michael Rush, 'New Media in Late 20th-Century Art', Thames & Hudson 1999, p.196.

1991 In The Future... book compilation, co-edited with Jane Grant of work by 40 disabled adults on their dreams.

1982 Self-Portraits, book in collaboration with boys from McMillan Special School, Bradford.

(CHAPTERS/TEXTS)

(forthcoming 2010) 'Means-End of Software' in Soeren Pold & Christian Ulrik Andersen, eds., The Aesthetic Interface, Arhus: Aarhus University Press.

(forthcoming 2010) 'Praxis de la programmation' (with Alex McLean & Adrian Ward), in David-Olivier Lartigaud, ed., ART ++, Programmation Oriente Art, LAM (Laboratoire des Arts et Medias - Universite Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne) HYX publishing company.

2010 'Democracy 2.0', in Concept Store #3: Art, Activism and Recuperation (with Nav Haq & Tom Trevor), bi-annual journal, Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. ??.

2010 'Antisocial Notworking', in Web Studies, Proceedings of the 1st. international congress, Everardo Reyes-Garc’a & Imad Saleh, eds, Paris: Europia Productions, pp. 9-17.

2009 'Critique of Software Security' (with Martin Knahl), in Creating Insecurity: Art and Culture in the Age of Security, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 27-43.

2008 'All Property is Theft', in Nav Haq & Tom Trevor, eds. Concept Store: #1 Art, Consumerism and the Experience Economy, Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. 45-50.

2008 'Internet governance: towards a non-representational democracy' (with Martin Knahl) in International Journal of Web-Based Communities, Vol. 4, No. 3, Geneva: Inderscience, pp. 319-333.

2008 'Antisocial Applications: Notes in support of antisocial notworking', in CONT3XT ed., Curediting, Vague Terrain online journal, http://vagueterrain.net/journal11/geoff-cox/01

2008 'Perl' (with Adrian Ward), in Matthew Fuller, ed. Software Studies: a Lexicon, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

2007 'Generator: about Generative Art and/or Software Art', in Judith Rugg, ed., Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance, Bristol: Intellect.

2007 'Sub disorder(): after The Author as Producer', in Matthew Beaumont, John Roberts, Andrew Hemingway & Esther Leslie, eds., As Radical as Reality itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century, London: Peter Lang, pp. 416-430.

2006 'Software Actions', in Joasia Krysa, ed., Curating Immateriality, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 69-79.

2005 'Why Look at Artificial Animals?' (with Adrian Ward) in Roy Ascott, ed., Engineering Nature, Bristol: Intellect, ISBN 184150128X, pp. 115-119.

2005 'System Error: economies of cultural production in the network society' (with Joasia Krysa), in Malcolm Miles ed., New Practices/New Pedagogies, London: Routledge, ISBN 0415366186.

2004 'The Object of Corruption', in Julie Bacon, ed., The Suicide of Objects, Ulster: Catalyst Arts, ISBN 0-9549082-0-1

2004 'Notes Towards a Poetics of Code', in Verbindingen Junctions 7 catalogue, Brussels: Constant vzw, pp.42-47.

2004 'Coding Praxis: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Generative Code' (with Alex McLean & Adrian Ward), in Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin, eds., Read_me: Software Art & Cultures, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, pp.161-174, ISBN 87-9884440-4-0.

2004 'Cover Versions' (reprint), in Dejan Krsic, ed., What, How & For Whom: on the occasion of the 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, Zagreb: Arkzin, pp.12-25, ISBN 953-6542-84-6

2004 Email discussion, in Lucy Kimbell, ed., New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, Arts Council/Cornerhouse, ISBN 0948797886.

2004 'Anagrams of Orderly Disorder (for the New World Order)' (with Joasia Krysa and Adrian Ward), Crisis Media: The Sarai Reader 4, Delhi: Sarai & de Waag, pp. 415-420, ISBN 81-901429-4-1.

2004 'O zadaniach kuratorw wobec obiektw niematerialnych: generowanie I uszkadzanie obiektw cyfrowych' (Immaterial Curating: the generation and corruption of the digital object) (with Joasia Krysa), trans. Marta Walkowiak, in Lukasz Ronduda, ed., Zeszyty Artystyczne, no. 11, Poznan: Uniwersytet Poznanski, pp. 104-115, ISSN 1232-6682.

2003 'Art as Engineering: techno-art collectives and social change' (with Joasia Krysa), Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, ed., Art Inquiry, vol. V, 'Cyberarts / Cybercultures / Cybersocieties', Lodzkie Towazystwo Naukowe (Lodz Science Society), pp. 33-48, ISSN 0459-6854.

2002 'Generator: the dialectics of orderly disorder', conference paper, Creativity & Cognition Proceedings ISBN 1-58113-465-7, ACM Press, pp. 45-49, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=581719&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=69818884&CFTOKEN=98840885.

2002 'The International Art World and its Exclusions: a Coffee-House Conversation' in, engage: Inclusion under Pressure, issue 11, ISSN 1365-9383, pp.22-27.

2001 'Cover Versions', image/text, in, Cabinet magazine, New York: Immaterial, Autumn issue, ISSN 1531-1430, pp.85-7.

2001 'The Aesthetics of Generative Code' with Ade Ward & Alex McLean, in Eugene Thacker, ed, Hard_Code: narrating the network society, Boulder, CA: Alt-X Press, ISBN 1-931560-04-8, 24K, 22pp, http://www.altx.com/ebooks/download.cfm/hardcode.pdf

2001 'The Authorship of Generative Art' in Kestutis Andrasiunas, ed, .agon [dotagon] online journal [from Media Centre in Lithuania], http://www.o-o.lt/agon/

2000 'The Violent Silence of The Nose', chapter in Nose Book: representations of the nose in literature and the arts, edited by Victoria de Rijke, Lene Ostermark-Johansen, Helen Thomas, Middlesex University Press, ISBN 1898253277, pp. 283-298.

2000 'Erasing as Making', with Howard Hollands & Victoria de Rijke, in, Putnam, Facey, Swales, eds., Making/Unmaking, Design History Society, pp.278-293, ISBN 1-86137-2272.

1999 'The Digital Crowd: some questions on globalisation & agency', journal article in, Design Issues, volume 15, number 1, Spring, MIT Press, ISSN 0747-9360.

1998 'An Impossible Art Education Manifesto', with Howard Hollands & Victoria de Rijke, in 'Manifesto or Policy (or Logo)'?, Engage Four, pp. 12-13, ISSN 1365-9383.

1998 'The Work of Art...' catalogue essay for In-Print exhibition by Quay Art in partnership with Ferens Art Gallery 2000, http://www.in-print.org.uk/essays/cox-pp.shtml

1998 Digital Laboratory CD-Rom contribution of work in progress (from 1995), published by London Electronic Arts.

1995 'A-BAA', in 'Mediaspace' satellite broadcast & journal, Intelligent-Tutoring-Media, 3/4, 1996, Intellect ISSN 09579133.

1994 'This is Not an Essay' in, Jane Grant, Memento Mori exhibition catalogue, Spacex Gallery/Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.

1992 'Undoing Unity' commissioned essay for Shifting Borders exhibition, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.

1991 Catalogue essay on Richard Hylton, in FOUR x4 installations (curated by Eddie Chambers), Arnolfini.

1991 'A Community Practice?' article for Sheffield Media Show booklet.

1984 'Self Portraits' Article/photographs in Creative Camera, No. 234.

(REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS)

2009 'On Premediation: Interview with Richard Grusin', in Concept Store #2: Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures, journal, Bristol: Arnolfini.

2009 Leonardo Reviews, Rita Raley's Tactical Media, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2008 'Social Networking is Not Working' with Clemente Pestelli, Digicult, http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1282 (and in italian, http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1256)

10-11/2008 Das Gespenst, by Robert B. Lizek, LETO Gallery, Warsaw, http://lisek.art.pl/LisekbyKrysaCox.pdf

2008 Leonardo Reviews (May), Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker's The Exploit: A Theory of Networks, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

2007 Leonardo Reviews 40:5, Ned Rossiter's Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, 2006.

2007 Mute Review 'The Circular Story of Black Arts Policy', of Richard Hylton's The Nature of the Beast (http://www.metamute.org/en/Foreclosing-The-Nature-of-the-Beast).

1997 Review of Networking: art by post and fax, for South West Arts.

1995 Creative Camera Reviews: The Amazing Me & Simon Robertshaw's The Nature of History.


CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
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(ORGANISED)

11/2009 Who's Recuperating Who?, co-organised symposium and moderator, Arnolfini, Bristol (speakers: Brian Holmes, Esther Leslie, Janna Graham & Robert Sember, Gustav Metzger, Ursula Biemann, Peter Fend, Platform).

06/2009 Anti-Bodies, seminar, University of Plymouth (speakers: Heath Bunting, carlos katastrofsky, glorious ninth).

03/2009 The Art + Politics of P2P, seminar, Arnolfini, Bristol (Michel Bauwens, respondents: Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova).

01/2009 Hello Toy, co-organised symposium, Arnolfini, Bristol (speakers: Dylan Evans, Seth Giddings, Natalie Jeremijenko, Helen Kennedy, Claire Pajaczkowska, Victoria de Rijke, Paul Hoggett).

03/2007 Social Hacking, seminar, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery (speakers: Saul Albert, c6, IAA, Ludic Society, Mikro Orchestra, McKenzie Wark).

11/2006 Say It As It Is, series of talks with Unit 2 Gallery and Kahve-Society, London Metropolitan University (speakers: Peter Fend, John Jordan, Virginia Nimarkoh).

06/2003 Artist as Engineer symposium, introduction, co-chair (with Joasia Krysa and Armin Medosch) and co-organiser (with Joasia Krysa), as part of Interrupt: artists in socially-engaged practice, in partnership with Arts Council England, University of Plymouth (speakers: CUKT, etoy, Harwood, IAA, Natalie Jeremienko, Redundant Technology Initiative).

05/2003 Anti-Globalica: artistic and conceptual tensions in the new world disorder symposium, introduction, co-chair and co-organiser (with Joasia Krysa), as part of Globalica, WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland (including catalogue and Polish Television) [Review 'Locality, Locality, Locality' by Esther Leslie in Radical Philosophy 121 Sept/Oct 2003] (speakers: Andreas Broeckmann, Adam Chmielewski, Esther Leslie, Monica Narula, Zoran Pantelic, James Stevens, CUKT).

09&11/2001 A Coffee-House Conversation on the International Art World & its Exclusions, co-organised international symposia (with Hatice Abdullah) Istanbul and London, Kahve-Society in collaboration with Autograph, London & Osmanli Bank Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul. http://www.kahve-house.com/society/ (speakers: Meltem Ahiska, Huseyin Alptekin, Zeynep Celik, Markman Ellis, Ann Huber-Sigwart, Erden Kosova, Kevin Robins).

1994 In the Wake of Photography, organised seminar series on new media, at London Arts Board, for Camerawork, London E2 (speakers: David Bate, John Carson, Susan Collins, Andy Darley, Richard Layzell, Marysia Lewandowska, Simon Schofield, Valerie Walkerdine, Richard Wright).

(PRESENTATIONS)

08/2010 Social Media / Art 2.0, series of seminars for MFA New Media/Creative Practice, Transart Institute, Tanzfabrik, Berlin.

07/2010 From Residency to Network, presentation as part of The Future of Residencies, event organized by Visiting Arts, Tate Britain.

05/2010 Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency, symposium moderator, University of Plymouth.

05/2010 Art + Commerce, paper as part of Dematerial: Critical Debates in Digital Arts, organized by University College Falmouth & Arts Council England, Arnolfini.

05/2010 Democracy 2.0, presentation as part of Parade: Public Modes of Assembly and Forms of Address, Critical Practice, Chelsea School of Art & Design/University of the Arts.

04/2010 Democracy 2.0, as part of Aesthetic Eruptions of the Digital, Aarhus University, Denmark.

03/2010 Antisocial Notworking, conference paper for Web Studies, first international congress, Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca, Mexico.

01/2010 Discussant, Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon, Art and the City Lecture series, Arnolfini.

01/2010 Curation and Generation, presentation for Live laboratory Symposium, as part of Marina Abramovic's The Pigs of Today are The Hams of Tomorrow, Globe Theatre, Royal Marines Barracks, Plymouth.

11/2009 Software Art-Work For-Itself, Internet as Playground and Factory conference, New School, New York.

10/2009 Making-Doing, DA Fest, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.

09/2009 Digital Documentation and Performance, JISC seminar, University of Bristol.

08/2009 Making Public, series of seminars for MFA New Media, Transart Institute, Tanzfabrik, Berlin.

01/2009 UK Museum of Ordure (with Stuart Brisley), for UWE Rethinking Archives workshop, Arnolfini, Bristol.

11/2008 On Donald Rodney's work (with Mike Phillips and Keith Piper), INIVA, London.

10/2008 Respondent for What is an organisation? seminar (with What, How and For Whom), organisd by Situation, Spike Island, Bristol.

07/2008 Antisocial Notcurating, as part of panel Curating in/as Open System/s, ISEA, Singapore Management University, Singapore (proceedings, pp.490-2).

07/2008 Co-respondent for CRUMB's Blissful Dialogues: Common Ground for Curators, ISEA, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore.

07/2008 Group Effort, series of seminars for MFA New Media, Transart Institute, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.

05/2008 Antisocial Applications, panel on participation, Futuresonic festival 2008, Manchester, UK.

11/2007 Software Art Has No History, 2nd International Forum Fastforward On New Media Art, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy.

10/2007 Software Art Has No History, paper and introduction to 'Cybernetic Histories of Artistic Practices', for re:place, second international conference on histories of media, art science and technology, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

10/2007 Means-End of Software, conference paper, as part of Programmation Oriente Art II symposium, University of Paris, Sorbonne.

07/2007 Software as Metaphor, series of seminars for MFA New Media, Transart Institute, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.

05/2007 Introduction and moderator for WRO 07 12th international media art biennale symposium, Teatr Lalek, Wroclaw, Poland.

05/2007 Presentation as part of Tekne workshop 'Curating Digital Art' (with Inke Arns & Erkki Huhtamo), Arhus Kunstbygning: Center for Contemporary Art, Denmark.

05/2007 Means-End of Software, conference paper as part of The Aesthetic Interface, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark.

04/2007 Means-End of Software Art, research seminar, Interdiscipinary Centre for Computer Music Research, University of Plymouth.

03/2007 Social Hacking, as part of VAGA's Changing Cities seminar at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery.

03/2007 Response to The Nature of the Beast, book launch (with Richard Hylton & Eddie Chambers), organised by ICIA, University of Bath, Conway Hall, London (http://www.bath.ac.uk/icia/doc/Nature-of-the-Beast.mp3).

10/2006 Art on Autopilot, seminar moderator, Norwich Puppet Theatre, organised by Enter.

10/2006 Social Hacking Plymouth, presentation for B+B's Art School, Plymouth Arts Centre.

08/2006 Immaterial Research, series of seminars for MFA New Media, Transart Institute, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.

02/2006 Urban Media symposium panel moderator, transmediale, Berlin.

06/2005 Curating, Immateriality, Systems symposium and panel moderator, Tate Modern, London.

02/2005 Re. Computing 101B seminar in relation to JODI exhibition (with Christian Nold and Joasia Krysa), Spacex.

11/2004 Generating Ordure: the value of software art, symposium paper at Curatorial Strategy as Critical Intervention, Kent Institute of Art & Design.

08/2004 Coding Praxis: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Generative Code (with Alex McLean & Adrian Ward), Read_me: software art & cultures, festival and conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

03/2004 Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Generative Code (with Alex McLean) symposium, as part of Programmation Oriente Art, University of Paris, Sorbonne.

03/2004 The Object of Corruption conference paper linked to The Suicide of Objects exhibition organised by Catalyst Arts, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

02/2004 From Software to Software Art symposium panel moderator, transmediale, Berlin.

11/2003 Notes Towards a Poetics of Code symposium paper as part of On Performativity, Verbindingen/Junctions 7, Constant vzw, Brussels.

07/2003 Why Look at Artificial Animals? conference paper with Adrian Ward, Consciousness Reframed 03, University College Newport, Wales.

12/2002 Generation and Corruption, conference paper as part of Mediaterra festival, Athens, Greece.

11/2002 The Institution and the leading edge, chair of panel, Hospital Festival, organised by Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton.

10/2002 Generative Art and the Dialectics of Corruption, conference paper as part of Remaking Reality, IAMAS, Gifu, Japan.

10/2002 Generator: the dialectics of orderly disorder, conference paper, Creativity & Cognition, Loughborough University.

10/2002 The Dialectics of Generative Art, salon presentation, transmediale, Berlin.

04/2002 Generating Orderly Disorder, conference paper, Marxism and the Visual Arts Now, University College London, (in association with Birkbeck College & Historical Materialism journal).

04/2002 Generative Media symposium, organiser and chair, part of iDATA, Institute of Digital Art & Technology, University of Plymouth.

06/2001 From Hypothesis to Hyperthesis, with Mike Phillips & Chris Speed, as part of In Blue Skies: the experience of experiments, Arnolfini, Bristol.

06/2001 (Un)learning & Utopia, presentation as part of Seven Days for New Thinking, Project (Arts Centre), Dublin, Eire.

05/2001 Generative Digital Media gallery talk, in association with Angus Fairhurst's exhibition This Does Not Last More Than One Second, Spacex Gallery, Exeter.

03/2001 How I Wrote One of My Perl Scripts, or, The Poetics of Generative Code conference paper, E-Naissance: New Configurations of Mind, Body, Space, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy.

12/2000 The Aesthetics of Generative Code, with Adrian Ward & Alex McLean, Generative Art 00, international conference, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. http://www.generative.net/

10/2000 Autoicon presentation, with Mike Phillips, in, Random Selection 13: New Media projects, DNet event, Lux Centre, London.

10/2000 Search for Terrestrial Intelligence presentation with Mike Phillips, as part of Sci-Art, The Wellcome Trust, London.

09/2000 The Impossibility of Art Education joint paper with Howard Hollands & Victoria de Rijke, Making/Unmaking, Design History Society conference, University of Portsmouth.

08/2000 Manifest: Reframing False Consciousness, conference paper with Tim Brennan, Consciousness Reframed, University College Newport, Wales (proceedings ISBN 1-899274-25-1, published by UWCN), & Phenomenology conference, University College, Cork, Eire.

03/2000 Autoicon presentation (MA Critical Fine Art Practice), with Mike Phillips, Central St. Martins College of Art.

12/1999 How I Drew One of My Pictures, or the Authorship of Generative Art, joint paper with Adrian Ward/Signwave, Generative Art 99, international conference, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Proceedings published by Editrice Librerie Dedalo, Roma.

10/1999 Individual and/versus Social Creativity, panel member, as part of Creativity & Cognition, Loughborough University, ACM SIGHI international conference, ISBN 1-58113-078-3, p.37, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=317570&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=69818884&CFTOKEN=98840885; plus review in Digital Creativity.

08/1999 Agent Provocateur joint paper with Chris Rodrigues, Invencao International conference, ISEA-Leonardo-ITAU, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

07/1999 The Impossibility of Art Education, joint paper with Howard Hollands, Time for Change: new directions for art and design education conference, Homerton College and Kettles Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge & NSEAD.

06/1999 Crowd Code: Collectivity and Connectivity, paper for Living in the Material World international conference, Coventry University - proceedings ISBN 0905949846, pp.89-99.

03/1999 Autoicon: the Net Return of the Artist as Producer, paper for Creativity and Consumption, New Media Arts in Advanced Technology Culture international conference, University of Luton.

03/1998 The Digital Crowd: some questions on globalisation & agency, paper for Vision Plus4: the Republic of Information, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - proceedings.

10/1998 Contribution to BBC2's The Learning Zone, 'Film Education' on photography and history.

07/1996 Translating the Work of Art, joint paper with Ian Makgill, Futures: Visions & Revisions, Middlesex University.

05/1996 The Work of Art, joint paper with Chris Rodrigues, Split Screen: The Role of the Artist in the Digital Age, Chichester College of Higher Education.


EXHIBITIONS
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(CURATED PROJECTS)

12/2009-02/2010 Craftivism, co-curated exhibition with Zoe Shearman & Anne Coxon, Arnolfini, Bristol (featuring work by Kayle Brandon + Heath Bunting, Rhiannon Chaloner with Manuel Vason, glorious ninth, GOTO10, Rui Guerra, Christine + Irene HohenbŸchler, JODI, Mandy McIntosh, Gloria Ojulari Sule, Trevor Pitt with Kate Pemberton, Janek Simon, Stephanie Syjuco, Clare Thornton).

11/2008-01/2009 Supertoys (on play, affective machine and object relations), co-curated exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol (featuring work by Codemanipulator, Chris Cunningham, Dunne & Raby, Natalie Jeremijenko, Kahve Society, Alex McLean, Philippe Parreno, Unmask Group, and guest robots with Bristol Robotics Lab, and exhibition design with nOffice) http://www.supertoy.org/ (see Arts Review, http://www.artreview.com/forum/topic/show?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A693608)

05/2008 Antisocial Notworking, online repository for Arnolfini, http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/antisocial/ (see review on Rhizome, http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/blog.php/759 + Der Standard, http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2879603)

03/2007 Social Hacking, co-curated public art events in Plymouth, with Birgitte Aga, Anya Lewin and Joasia Krysa, at Drake Circus Shopping Centre, The Hub, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth Guildhall, with support from the Arts Council of England (including: c6, IAA, Ludic Society, Mikro Orchestra Project). http://www.kurator.org/hack/ - also DVD published by University of Plymouth Press.

04/2002-03/2003 Generator, co-curated touring exhibition with Tom Trevor, Spacex Gallery, touring to Liverpool Biennial 09/2002 and Firstsite, Colchester 02-04/2003, with support from the Arts Council of England (including: Stuart Brisley, Tim Head, Jeff Instone, Sol LeWitt, Alex McLean, Yoko Ono, Cornelia Sollfrank, Joanna Walsh, Adrian Ward), http://www.generative.net/generator/

2001-03 Vivaria, online research and development project, with support from the New Media Fund of Arts Council of England, (including 2 software commissions: 'animal.pl' by Alex McLean and 'carbon life' by Adrian Ward), http://www.vivaria.net/

1997 Gustav Metzger is My Dad, co-curated auto-destructive installation for Camerawork, on the occasion of losing its public funding, http://www.anti-thesis.net/projects/shredding/index.html

1997 Net Art projects for Camerawork: Jeff Instone's 'Kiss the Bony Structure' (http://www.backspace.org/instone/) & Akke Wagenaar's 'REQUIEM for the Car' (with Channel/Artec).

1992-98 Art Education projects in collaboration with Middlesex University: The Impossibility of Art Education (1998); Distance is the Opposite of Closeness, postcard set and website (1998); Recycling the National Curriculum (1996); This is Not the National Curriculum for Art, book and postcards (1994); Who tells you what to do? posters (1992).

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08/2010 Everything and Nothing, for Inbetween, transart collective exhibition, Concent Art, Berlin.

03/2010 Antisocial Notworking and Hello World, for After the Net v.3.0, Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca, Mexico.

03/2010 Me/Not-Me, for transart student/faculty show, Sideshow gallery, New York.

09/2009-11/2009 Antisocial Notworking and Hello World, for After the Net v.2.0, Peninsula Art Gallery, Plymouth.

11/2008-01/2009 Kahve Society's Mutant Toy Factory, as part of Supertoys, Arnolfini, Bristol. http://www.supertoy.org/

10/2008 Antisocial Notworking, as part of AHA Activism-Hacking-Artivism, S.A.L.E., Venice, http://isole.ecn.org/aha/camper/doku.php?id=antisocial_notworking

07/2008 hallo welt! transart faculty show, BV gallery, Linz.

06/2008 Antisocial Notworking, for After the Net v.1.0, as part of Observatori 2008, Valencia, http://www.observatori.com/pages/ob.php?anim=0&lang=es&tid=3#Geoff%20Cox%20/%20project.arnolfini

08-10/2005 UK Museum of Ordure's Audio Library as part of low-fi commissions, at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (see Furtherfield review, http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=157).

06-07/2004 Berlin Wall Fragment (on loan from the Museum of Ordure), as part of Footnotes on Walls, 66 East: Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam.

04-07/2004 UK Museum of Ordure's collection, as part of Trackers, at PM Gallery & House, London.

03/2004-04/2004 UK Museum of Ordure's collection, as part of The Suicide of Objects, at Catalyst Arts, Belfast.

03/2004-04/2004 UK Museum of Ordure, exhibition of dust as part of The Deceleration Project, organised by Escape Velocities, 27 Spital Street, London.

05-06/2002 Artefact (with Mike Phillips et al), as part of digital responses, (STAR/inIVA/Middlesex University), V&A Museum, London.

04/2002 Private Views, group show, London Print Studio; catalogue ISBN 1-898607-02-8, p.35.

11-3/2001-02 This paper is intentionally blank, artist bookwork (with Sophie Weeks and Victoria de Rijke), in Nothing, Touring show (curated by Ele Carpenter & Graham Gussin), Rooseum, Malmo Center for Contemporary Art, Sweden; Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre.

07/2001 Manifest, 46LiverpoolSt.org (with Tim Brennan & Adrian Ward), as part of A Timely Place, or, Getting Back to Somewhere, London Print Studio. http://www.46liverpoolst.org/ (reviewed by Stephen Bury, in Art Monthly no. 249, Sept 2001, pp.39-41).

07/2001 & 11/01 Search for Terrestrial Intelligence, STI consortium, as part of Landscape Trauma, Autograph Touring Show, Caf Gallery, London & Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery.

02/2001 Chatroom_IRL installation & website/software release, with The Digital Crowd & VX-Labs, Shoreditch Gallery London. http://www.crowd-like.net/

10/2000 Progress, internet video work, VIII Festival Mundial Do Minutoe, Cotia, Brazil (with Mike Lawson-Smith, Chris Owens, Adrian Ward), Mencao Honrosa Categoria Internet (honorary mention). http://www.jetztzeit.net/

06/2000 Autoicon, with inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts) supported by the Arts Council of England (New Media fund), London, http://www.iniva.org/autoicon/ also shown as part of Race and Digital Space, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA (04/2001), Art In Motion II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA, USA (02/2001), http://www.iniva.org/autoicon/

12/1999 Manifest: Library, public artwork, (with Tim Brennan & Adrian Ward), as part of HUB, Bishopsgate Goodsyard, Spitalfields, London E1, commissioned by Cityside & University of East London. Also 2000, shown as part of Intermedia, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Eire. http://46liverpoolst.org/manifest/

06/1999 With Wall video loop, as part of Without Walls, Plymouth Arts Centre.

03/1999 Intermission, live video link between 2 cinema audiences, The Picture House, Exeter (with Mike Lawson-Smith).

03/1999 The Work of Art... CD-ROM (with Chris Rodrigues and Phaedra Stancer et al), Camerawork, exhibited as part of Contact Zones: the Art of CD-Rom in the section Ocular Work in the Digital Age, Cornell University, USA, 1999, on tour, including Hobart & William Colleges, New York, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City & Virginia Film Festival; also, The Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/cox.html

08/1998 Star-System, auto-generative sound work (with Joe Nash), as part of Sound Factory, exhibition/workshop/audio CD, South London Gallery.

1996 Architectural Economy installation (with Alex de Rijke & Martin van der Linden), The Architecture Foundation, London.

1995 A-BAA (with Susan Derges, Chris Rodrigues, Robin Serjeant, Phaedra Stancer), live audio transmission over the internet between Devon farm and Camerawork gallery, with associated website. http://www.obsolete.com/baa/

1994 Not For Sale: video notes on Shopping and Art, workshop & video installation, Oldham Art Gallery/Spindles Shopping Centre.

1993 IT (video work), One Minute World Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1993 They Are Not My Parents (lightbox installation) project 10 00 22, Stockholm, Sweden.

1993 FAT projects, Outpost & Adsite site specific works, Edinburgh & London.

1992 Family as Factory, Whitechapel Open, Spitalfields Market/Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery.

1992 Changing Places, Ikon Gallery Touring Show, Birmingham and East Midlands.

1991 Affairs of the Heart (also residency, work/selection), Untitled Gallery, Sheffield.

1991 Millenium (open show), Untitled Gallery, Sheffield.

1990 Out of the Ordinary (lightbox installation), Metro Cinema, London.

1990 The South West Open, Plymouth Arts Centre/City Museum & Art Gallery.

1990 Split Difference (installation and city poster sites), 33 Arts Centre, Luton.

1988 The Self-Portrait Project (commissioned work), Plymouth Arts Centre.

1987 Toys - Are They Playing With You? (touring exhibition), Cockpit Gallery, London; winner of Fawcett Society Award.

1984 Artists and Projects (3 person show), Plymouth Arts Centre.


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