ProfJohn Roberts
Professor of Art and Aesthetics
Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- Professor of Art and AestheticsFaculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- 01902 32 Ext.2017
- University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT, UK
TEACHING INTERESTS
MA Fine Art:
History and theory of the avant-garde; the neo-avant-garde and contemporary art practice (Modules: ‘Studio Contexts’ and ‘Theory and Contemporary Practice’)
BA Hons Philosophy:
Immanuel Kant and racism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (Module: ‘Enlightenment’)
Immanuel Kant and aesthetic reason, Friedrich Schiller’s, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, G.W.F Hegel and the ‘end of art’, Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze and the aesthetic of anti-representation, Alain Badiou and negation, Frantz Fanon and Achile Mbembe and the critique of race, identity and modernity (Module: ‘Philosophy of Art’)
Areas of PhD Research Supervisions:
Topics
Philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art; contemporary and modern art theory; photographic theory and history; contemporary music theory; continental philosophy and culture; contemporary political philosophy and theory
Subjects supervised as DoS:
Enlightenment thought and culture (Kant, Hegel, Rousseau); Derrida, the signature, and representation; Walter Benjamin and photography; narratology and video game theory; new music, from Cornelius Cardew to George E. Lewis; political aesthetics and labour theory of culture; relational and post-relational aesthetics; participatory art and curating; portraiture and representation
As second supervisor:
Micro-politics and participatory art; Godard and Third cinema; social reproduction and digital technology
History and theory of the avant-garde; the neo-avant-garde and contemporary art practice (Modules: ‘Studio Contexts’ and ‘Theory and Contemporary Practice’)
BA Hons Philosophy:
Immanuel Kant and racism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (Module: ‘Enlightenment’)
Immanuel Kant and aesthetic reason, Friedrich Schiller’s, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, G.W.F Hegel and the ‘end of art’, Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze and the aesthetic of anti-representation, Alain Badiou and negation, Frantz Fanon and Achile Mbembe and the critique of race, identity and modernity (Module: ‘Philosophy of Art’)
Areas of PhD Research Supervisions:
Topics
Philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art; contemporary and modern art theory; photographic theory and history; contemporary music theory; continental philosophy and culture; contemporary political philosophy and theory
Subjects supervised as DoS:
Enlightenment thought and culture (Kant, Hegel, Rousseau); Derrida, the signature, and representation; Walter Benjamin and photography; narratology and video game theory; new music, from Cornelius Cardew to George E. Lewis; political aesthetics and labour theory of culture; relational and post-relational aesthetics; participatory art and curating; portraiture and representation
As second supervisor:
Micro-politics and participatory art; Godard and Third cinema; social reproduction and digital technology
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTemporality, Authorial Intentions, and Truth in Video Game Fiction’1 Jan 2018 - 1 Jan 2020
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATION'The Mediation of Abstract Labour in Yvonne Rainers Task Dance'1 Jan 2017
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONImages of people at work: the videomaking of Darcey Lange1 Jan 2017
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATION'Art as 'Artificial Stupidity' '1 Jan 2016
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATION'Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital'1 Jan 2013
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATION'Art and Revolution After the Revolution: Constituent Aesthetics in a Post-Convivial World''v1 Jan 2012
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘Between Nature and Freedom: Culture, Progress and Support for the Arts’1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2016
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video’1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2015
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘The Curator as Producer in Socially Engaged Art, 1993-2015’1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2015
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION'The Divided Seal: Reading a History of Signatures in Visual Art through Derrida’s Signature Event Context’1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2014
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘Instances of the Emergence of the Documentary Real within Relational and Post-Relational Aesthetics’1 Jan 2007 - 1 Jan 2012
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘Aura, Craft and Labour: The Critical Dialogue between Photography and Painting’1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2009
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture’1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2010