Dr Christopher Horrocks
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Critical and Historical Studies
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Associate Professor and Reader
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am a writer and lecturer, and I teach Critical and Historical Studies across BA studio courses and MAs in the School. I also supervise students researching at PhD level via dissertation, practice, and publication.
I practised Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art and gained an MA in Cultural History at the Royal College of Art. I've written widely on cultural theory, art and technology, and am known for my research on Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault and Marshall McLuhan. I have also written on the art of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp and lectured internationally on aspects of Japanese and Chinese contemporary art and technology. I have been involved with hijack production company in arts documentary production, museum multi-media displays and app design (the James Watt workshop at Science Museum, London, and a NESTA-funded project on Eduardo Paolozzi's preserved studio).
My recent publications include Cultures of Colour, 2012; Genteel Perversion: The Films of Gilbert & George (2014); The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television (2018) and a chapter 'Marshall McLuhan and New Media Art ' in The Encyclopedia of New Media Art Volume 1: History & Theory (ed. Charlie Gere, forthcoming 2024). I am currently researching a book on technology and science-fiction.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
- MA (RCA) Cultural History
- PhD
Domains
Courses taught
My research is in cultural theory and visual culture. I am interested in providing new ways of conveying theoretical content to new audiences, using emergent technology and print-based media.
Publications
Notes on Jean Baudrillard and critical theory
Horrocks, Chris, 2020, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory (4), 1pp 157-179, Published
Disinterring the present: science fiction, media technology and the ends of the archive
Horrocks, Chris, 2013, Journal of Visual Culture (12), 3pp 414-430, Published
Press "Escape": the sad case of the death and virtual life of the Korean IT worker
Horrocks, Christopher, 2010, KIOSK, 4pp 58-63, Published
Was is das? Das ist der kultur-kompressor!
Horrocks, Chris, 2009, KIOSK, 3pp 20-26, Published
The joy of sets: a short history of the television
Horrocks, Christopher (2018). [Published]
Genteel perversion: the films of Gilbert and George
Horrocks, Chris (2014). Chicago, U.S.: [Published]
Cultures of Colour: visual, material, textual
(2012). [Published]
Cultures of Colour: visual, material, textual
(2012). [Published]
Introducing Foucault: a graphic guide
Horrocks, Chris and Jevtic, Zoran (2009). London: [Published]
Marshall McLuhan and virtuality
Horrocks, Christopher (2000). Cambridge, UK.: (Icon Books) [Published]
Andy Warhol and the strategic exile of the self
Horrocks, Chris (2004). In: Everett, Wendy, Wagstaff, Peter, (eds.), New York: Berghahn Bookspp 137-152 [Published]
Marshall McLuhan and virtuality
Horrocks, Christopher (2003). In: Appignanesi, Richard, (eds.), Cambridge, UK:pp 189-237 [Published]
You want to see? Well, take a look at this! Ethical vision, disembodiment and light in Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnés
Horrocks, Chris (2000). In: Lloyd, Fran, O'Brien, Catherine, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: Berghahn Bookspp 201-215 [Published]
Playing the game when the rules have been changed: the paintings of Bruce Russell
Horrocks, Christopher (1999). In: Russell, Bruce, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 5-25 [Published]
The sacralisation of sight: Brian McCann's 'Dusting the giant'
Horrocks, Chris (1999). London, U.K.:pp 20-25 [Published]
The future is tomorrow
Davis, Lennard J., Horrocks, Chris and Watson, Ben(2009). [Published]
The art of intervention: Kingston University responses: Japanese mob
Barber, Stephen, Davies, Rachel, Horrocks, Chris, Mancke, Carol and Maude-Roxby, Alice(2009). [Published]
Techno-theory: critiques of culture and technological being
Horrocks, C. W. (2011), PhD thesis [Accepted/In press]
Dora Gordine: sculptor, designer, artist
Horrocks, Christopher (2009) [Published]
The lure of the East: British Orientalist painting
Riding, Christine and Horrocks, Christopher (2008) [Published]