I am Course Director on the MA Art & Design History, as well as a lecturer, writer and PhD research supervisor.
I practised Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art and was awarded 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 the theorist Jean Baudrillard. I have also written on the art of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp and have delivered lectures on aspects of Japanese and Chinese contemporary art and technology.
Additionally, I am involved in film production with hijack film production (www.hijackit.com), and researching and developing app-based art history tools (www.studioofobjects.com).
My recent books include Cultures of Colour, 2012, Genteel Perversion: The Films of Gilbert & George (2014), and The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television (2017).
Editorial Board, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory
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.
Horrocks, Christopher (2013) Disinterring the present : science fiction, media technology and the ends of the archive. Journal of Visual Culture, 12(3), pp. 414-430. ISSN (print) 1470-4129
Horrocks, Christopher (2010) Press "Escape": the sad case of the death and virtual life of the Korean IT worker. Kiosk(4), pp. 58-63. ISSN (print) 1755-9626
Horrocks, Chris (2009) Was is das? Das ist der kultur-kompressor! KIOSK(3), pp. 20-26. ISSN (print) 1755-9626
Horrocks, Chris (2014) Genteel perversion: the films of Gilbert and George. Chicago, U.S. : Solar Books. 104p. ISBN 9780983248071
Horrocks, Christopher [Editor] (2012) Cultures of Colour: visual, material, textual. Berghahn Books. 188p. ISBN 9780857454645
Horrocks, Chris and Jevtic, Zoran (2009) Introducing Foucault: a graphic guide. London : Icon Books. 177p. ISBN 9781848310605
Horrocks, Christopher (2000) Marshall McLuhan and virtuality. Cambridge, UK. : Icon Books. 80p. (Postmodern encounters) ISBN 1840461845
Horrocks, Chris (2004) Andy Warhol and the strategic exile of the self. In: Everett, Wendy and Wagstaff, Peter, (eds.) Cultures of exile: images of displacement. New York : Berghahn Books. pp. 137-152. (Polygons: cultural diversities and intersections, no. 7) ISBN 1571815910
Horrocks, Christopher (2003) Marshall McLuhan and virtuality. In: Appignanesi, Richard, (ed.) The end of everything: postmodernism and the vanishing of the human. Cambridge, UK : Icon Books. pp. 189-237. ISBN 1840464216
Horrocks, Chris (2002) 'Real Japanese men play crazy rock 'n roll': the gorgerous phenomenon. In: Horrocks, Chris, (ed.) Tokyoglamrock: the work of Matsukage and Ujino. London : iMMprint. pp. 52-99. ISBN 190378106X
Horrocks, Chris (2000) You want to see? Well, take a look at this! Ethical vision, disembodiment and light in Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnés. In: Lloyd, Fran and O'Brien, Catherine, (eds.) Secret spaces, forbidden places: rethinking culture. Oxford, U.K. : Berghahn Books. pp. 201-215. (Polygons: cultural diversities and intersections) ISBN 1571817891
Horrocks, Christopher (1999) Playing the game when the rules have been changed: the paintings of Bruce Russell. In: Russell, Bruce, (ed.) Bruce Russell GMT: glyphs, morphs and tropes. London, U.K. : Art Books International. pp. 5-25. ISBN 1899999094
Horrocks, Chris (1999) The sacralisation of sight: Brian McCann's 'Dusting the giant'. In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) Dusting the Giant. London, U.K. : Pale Green Press. pp. 20-25. ISBN 0951431021
Barber, Stephen [Speaker], Davies, Rachel [Speaker], Horrocks, Chris [Speaker], Mancke, Carol [Speaker] and Maude-Roxby, Alice [Speaker] (2009) The art of intervention: Kingston University responses: Japanese mob. In: The art of intervention: critical perspectives on the intersections of private and public memory; 14 Feb 2009, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Davis, Lennard J. [Speaker], Horrocks, Chris [Speaker] and Watson, Ben [Speaker] (2009) The future is tomorrow. In: The Future is Tomorrow; 21 Nov 2009, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Horrocks, Christopher [Curator of an exhibition] and Riding, Christine [Curator of an exhibition] (2008) The lure of the East: British Orientalist painting. The lure of the East: British Orientalist painting. , 4 Jun - 31 Aug 2008 , Tate Britain, London.
Horrocks, Christopher (2009) Dora Gordine: sculptor, designer, artist. (DVD).
Horrocks, C. W. (2011) Techno-theory: critiques of culture and technological being. (PhD thesis), Kingston University.
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