Pauline van Mourik Broekman
Pauline van Mourik Broekman is an artist, writer and scholar based in the Slade School of Fine Art’s BA Art and Technology at UCL East, London, where she convenes year 1 and 2 modules on the histories of art and technology. She also works on the Digital Media MA at the IOE's Knowledge Lab, where she is a dissertation supervisor and a member of the ReMap centre. Her research and teaching has developed largely out of Mute magazine and MayDay Rooms, organisations which she co-founded and which explored art and politics in the wake of the internet. Having trained as a painter, the way digital technologies affected conditions of creative production, distribution and display interested her immediately; the financial crisis, as well as the austerity and cultural disinvestment that followed it, forced comparably existential questions for culture – particularly when considering the vulnerability of historical material and ‘memory institutions’. She later reframed these considerations through a doctorate on the legacies of Soviet film director, Dziga Vertov – a documentarian often understood as the first database filmmaker. ‘Chronicle of a Practice-Based Thing: Network optics, epistemic crisis and the fabrication of voice’ narrates the contemporary crisis of facticity through the faltering progress of a feminised student-worker in the neoliberal university, drawing on the latencies of scholarly, autoethnographic and creative writing conventions. Its central output is the book-length poem, Inventions of the Mother: A Waking Dream. Her art, research and teaching draws on all these strands of activity and is indebted to histories and theorisations of intermedia, post-media, experimental publishing, archiving, poetry and artist books. (2025)
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