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Brian Bishop

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

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Brian is interested to hear from potential PhD students with interests that align with his practice, research, and expertise.

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20142014

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Biography
Brian Bishop (b. 1971 in Memphis, TN USA) is a visual artist and educator based between Birmingham, England and Belfast, Northern Ireland in the UK. In addition to an early curatorial career, he has taught on both the undergraduate and postgraduate level for nearly three decades.

Research Interests
His studio practice primarily explores the process wherein the photographic image remediated through the discursive and lyrical filter of painting exposes latent meaning. His work therefore interrogates the processes of translation between forms and how those conceptual and physical acts hold and shape meaning.

Whether through the production of image-objects or writing projects he is interested in the precarious state of the image in this post-photographic era when our world is increasingly populated by non-human generated images. His current research questions the teleological role of the image in the current rise of generative AI, and in the new digital economy Shoshana Zuboff dubbed surveillance capitalism. It also queries the material currency of the image in this time dominated by what Trevor Paglen refers to as “invisible images” a subset that includes images made by machines for an audience of other machines for the purposes of mediation, activation, operations, and enforcement. All the various manifestations of his research grapple with these questions and leverage the significant role the hand-rendered image holds in our mental and physical understanding of our world.

Teaching Interests

I fervently believe that the best way to prepare the next generation of artists is to blur the boundaries between not only the various art/design disciplines but to find connections through theory and the rigorous study of visual and material culture that make evident direct correlations between theory and praxis. This focus is about enabling student to look deeper by critically engaging with complex issues in an effort to hold onto the ineffable. My interest in this position stems from the opportunity to better leverage my varied skillsets and teaching interests to bring together faculty, staff, and students to respond to the changes in arts-based research and arts education in the post-internet and post-pandemic landscape.

Education/Academic qualification

MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Award Date: 19 May 1995

BFA, Memphis College of Art

Award Date: 21 May 1993

School of Visual Arts - NYC

Keywords

  • Significant Responsibility for Research
  • ND Painting
  • BH Aesthetics
  • Art Criticism
  • Art History and Theory
  • Curatorial Artwork
  • Critical Theory
  • NX Arts in general
  • Fine Arts
  • LB2300 Higher Education
  • Art and Design Education Training
  • LB2361 Curriculum

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