Charlie Gere
Encyclopedia
Charlie Gere is a British
academic who is Director of Research at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University
.
His main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to art
and philosophy
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
academic who is Director of Research at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University
Lancaster University
Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...
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Career
- His 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 UniversityMiddlesex UniversityMiddlesex University is a university in north London, England. It is located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex from which it takes its name. It is one of the post-1992 universities and is a member of Million+ working group...
, and looked at the question of the ‘Virtual Museum’. - He was Lecturer in Digital ArtDigital artDigital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
History in the School of History of ArtHistory of artThe History of art refers to visual art which may be defined as any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview...
, FilmFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and Visual Media at Birkbeck CollegeBirkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
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… (CACHe) project at Birkbeck.
His main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
and philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
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Books
- Digital Culture (Reaktion, 2002) ISBN 978-1861891433
- Art, Time and Technology: Histories of the Disappearing Body (Berg, 2005). ISBN 978-1845201357 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 DerridaJacques DerridaJacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
, Bernard StieglerBernard StieglerBernard Stiegler is a French philosopher at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne. In addition, he is Director of the , founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, , and founder in 2010 of the philosophy school,...
, Jean-François LyotardJean-François LyotardJean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...
and André Leroi-GourhanAndré Leroi-GourhanAndré Leroi-Gourhan was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.- Biography :...
, and looks at the work of Samuel Morse, Vincent van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
and Kasimir Malevich, among others. - White Heat, Cold Logic: Early British Computer Art 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:- ‘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)