Sean Cubitt

Lectures and writes about media. Born 1953 in Lincolnshire of Irish parents. He studied at Queens' College Cambridge and McGill University, Montreal. In the 1980s he worked freelance in art schools, community arts, journalism, the Open University and as National Organiser for the Society for Education in Film and Television. He spent the 1990s in Liverpool, where he became Professor of Media Arts at Liverpool John Moores University, and was involved in developing the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT). In 2000, he moved to New Zealand with wife Alison and dog Zebedee, where he was Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato. In 2002 he was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. He now holds dual nationality with New Zealand and the UK. In July 2006 he moved to Melbourne and served as Director of Media and Communications Program at Faculty of Arts of The University of Melbourne. Currently, he is Deputy Head of Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths London.

Links

• Blog
• Inaugural lecture at Goldsmiths: Political Aesthetics: Becoming Human, 2015.
• Genealogies of Digital Light research project
• Cubitt's writings at Academia.edu
• Profile at Goldsmiths
• http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/
• http://delicious.com/seancubitt