Barbara Bolt is an Australian academic and artist. She is the current director of the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

which is part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

. She is a research theorist her research investigates art theory and criticism (performativity, research ethics, new materialism), art as research (practice-led research). Her art practice investigates the material possibilities of painting in a digital age and the relationship between painting and light (urban landscapes, colourfield, digital, neon). She was on the executive board of the international

Society for Artistic Research The Society for Artistic Research (SAR) is an international nonprofit, artistic and scientific society devoted to developing, linking and disseminating internationally artistic research as a specific practice of producing knowledge. SAR also aims to ...

(SAR), which produces the ''Journal of Artistic Research'' (JAR) and is a member of the editorial board of Australian Art Education. BarbBolt

Publications

* Bolt, Barbara,
Couch Grass: Ethics of the Rhizome
, in: Cecilia Åsberg and

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(eds.),
A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
'. Springer. 2018, pp. 67-80 * Bolt, Barbara, 'Socially Engaged Art as a Boundary Rider', in: James Oliver (ed.),
Associations : creative practice and research
'. Melbourne University Press. 2018 * Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds.
Material inventions: applying creative arts research
'. IB Tauris, 2014 * Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds.
Carnal knowledge: towards a'new materialism'through the arts
'. IB Tauris, 2013 * Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds.
Practice as research: Approaches to creative arts enquiry
'. IB Tauris, 2014 * Bolt, Barbara,
Heidegger reframed: Interpreting key thinkers for the arts
'. IB Tauris, 2010 * Bolt, Barbara, 'The Techno-Sublime: Towards a Post-aesthetic', in: Barbara Bolt (ed.),
Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life
. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp. 43-51 * Bolt, Barbara,
Material thinking and the agency of matter
" ''Studies in material thinking'' 1, no. 1 (2007): 1-4 * Bolt, Barbara,
Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image
'. London: IB Tauris, 2004

References

External links

Official website
(internet archive, 30 April 2017) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolt, Barbara University of Melbourne faculty University of Melbourne women Year of birth missing (living people) Living people