Bio
Gary Hall is a London-based cultural and media theorist working on new media technologies, continental philosophy and cultural studies. He is Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University, UK. He is the author of Culture in Bits (Continuum, 2002) and Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minnesota UP, 2008) and co-editor of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (Fordham UP, 2007). He is also founding co-editor of the open access journal Culture Machine, director of the cultural studies open access archive CSeARCH, co-founder of the Open Humanities Press and co-editor of the OHP's Culture Machine Liquid Books series. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, Parallax and The Oxford Literary Review. He is currently developing a series of politico-institutional interventions - recently dubbed 'deconstructions in the public sphere' - which use digital media to creatively perform critical and cultural theory. In 2009/10 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University.
