Geoff Cox

I am Professor of Art and Computational Culture at LSBU, where I am Director of the Digital and Data Research Centre, and co-Director of Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI). Previously I worked at University of Plymouth, where I did my PhD (2006) and at Aarhus University (2010-) where I am Adjunct in Digital Design and Information Studies. In addition, I am adjunct faculty of Transart Institute, an independent art school registered in the New York. Previously I have held curatorial positions at Camerawork in Education/Outreach (1994-98) and Arnolfini as adjunct for online projects (2008-13) and was co-Director of MA Curating Art and Public Programmes, in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery (2020-24), and have held Visiting Scholar positions at the Computer Lab, University of Cambridge (2016), and Digital Visual Studies, Max Planck/University of Zurich (2022).

Research interests
My research interests lie broadly across the fields of software studies, contemporary art and culture, and autonomous publishing.

Published books include Speaking Code (with Alex McLean, MIT Press, 2013), Aesthetic Programming (with Winnie Soon) published by Open Humanities Press (2020), and Live Coding (with Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, MIT Press, 2022). I am an advisor for the online journal Computational Culture, and AI in Society and Culture, an initiative of Oxford University Press.

As an outcome of The Contemporary Condition research project (co-PI, Danish Research Foundation), I co-wrote The Contemporary Condition: Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art (with Jacob Lund, Sternberg Press, 2016), the first in a book series that I continue to co-edit. I am also co-editor (with Joasia Krysa) of the open access DATA browser book series published by Open Humanities Press. In collaboration with transmediale festival in Berlin, I co-run (with Christian Ulrik Andersen) a yearly research workshop/publication, and am co-editor of the associated open access online journal APRJA, published by Aarhus University, and hosted by The Royal Danish Library.

Current projects include: ServPub (co-PI), an experimental publishing infrastructure (with Aarhus, UCL Slade, Varia/CC, In-grid, and Systerserver), and related collaborative book project with Minor Compositions supported by Open Book Futures (2023-26); and "Ways of [Machine] Seeing" (PI), an ongoing public engagement project in collaboration with UCL Institute of Education, Justice Matrix and the The Photographers' Gallery on AI and visual literacy, initially funded by The Alan Turing Institute (2022-23), and since through Responsible AI and UKRI (2024-25).