Norimichi Hirakawa, The Irreversible [4-Dimensional Version] 2016
Biography
Gary Hall is a critical theorist and media philosopher working (and making) at the intersections of digital culture, politics, art and technology. He is Professor of Media at Coventry University, UK, where he directs the Centre for Postdigital Cultures which brings together a plurality of media theorists, practitioners, activists and artists.
He is the author of a number of books, including A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works In Elitist Britain (Open Humanities Press, 2021), The Inhumanist Manifesto (Techne Lab, 2017), Pirate Philosophy (MIT Press, 2016) and The Uberfication of the University (Minnesota UP, 2016). In addition, he is co-author of Open Education: A Study In Disruption (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2006).
He has a history of creating norm-critical collaborative research contexts. In 1999 he co-founded the contemporary theory journal Culture Machine. In 2006 he co-founded the open access publishing house Open Humanities Press (OHP), which he still co-directs. He also co-edited OHP's Liquid Books series and the Jisc-funded Living Books About Life series. OHP is a founder member of both the Radical Open Access Collective and ScholarLed, with Hall currently being co-PI on the associated £3 million Research England and Arcadia Trust funded Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.
He has given lectures and seminars at institutions around the world, including the Australian National University, Cambridge University, Columbia University, University of Heidelberg, K.U. Leuven, Lund University, Monash University, New York University, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University in China, the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Wellcome Collection in London. With over forty peer-reviewed publications in edited books and academic journals including American Literature, Angelaki, Cultural Studies, New Formations, and Radical Philosophy, his work has been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Turkish, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian.
He is currently developing a series of politico-institutional interventions that experiment with digital media to actualise, or creatively perform, contemporary theory in relation to the city, the gig economy, and public institutions such as the art gallery, the library and the museum. He is also completing a new monograph: Masked Media: Why Liberalism Must Be Defeated - And How To Do It.