Johnny Golding (also known as Sue Golding) is Professor of Philosophy & Fine Art, and senior tutor at the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...
, London, UK. Golding's work deals with the onto-epistemological nuances of radical matter: artificial and distributed intelligence, embodiment, and the ethical-political. Golding is Philosopher-in-Residence at the Royal Academy, London (2019). Golding also leads the PHD Research Lab: Entanglement, which includes 25 PHD researchers; co-led with artist Meg Rahaim. Most recently the lab-produced: 'Entanglement: Just Gaming' - a mixed-media approach to consciousness, poetics, warfare, and risk set across several social platforms (including Vimeo, SoundCloud, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram). From 2012-16, Johnny was Director of the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) at Birmingham School of Art (Birmingham City University), and from 2009-2012 Director of the Institute for the Converging Arts and Sciences (ICAS) at the
University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom. Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic.
The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with it ...
and Head of Theory at the
Jan van Eyck Akademie in
Maastricht
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(1998–2003)..
Personal life and work
Born in New York, Golding lived in Toronto where she completed her PhD in political philosophy at the University of Toronto, concurrently studying under the tutelage of Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau, and from 1980-84 under the guidance of Raymond Williams at Cambridge University. She was the founding President of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the first LGBT theatre company in Canada, whose humble start began in local community centres and, as importantly, local porn houses, with the first show, Drag Queens in Outer Space (written and directed by Sky Gilbert) helped shape the political agenda of gay/lesbian politics for several generations. of
Buddies in Bad Times
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, ''Buddies in Bad Times'' is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical ex ...
Theatre from 1983 to 1995. She was a regular contributor to ''
The Body Politic
''The Body Politic'' was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987. '', a monthly magazine that played a key role in the LGBT community in Canada.
In 1994 Golding moved to Soho, London. She has written and edited several books including ''Gramsci's Democratic Theory'', ''The Eight Technologies of Otherness,'' and ''On the Verge of Photography''. She produces public lectures presented in the form of sound/image installations, often in complete darkness. Head of theory at the experimental post-academic institute, the Jan van Eyck (Maastricht) from 1998-2003, working with artist Steve McQueen, art historian Norman Bryson and philosopher-artist Sarat Marharaj.
References
External links
Johnny Golding on Academia.edu
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Living people
People from New York (state)
American philosophers
1964 births