Judit Bodor (project lead)
Dr Judit Bodor is a curator specialising in performance art and artist archives. She currently works as at the University of Dundee as Programme Director of MFA Fine Art and MFA Curatorial Practice (Art&Design). With a background in art history (MA 2002) and arts management (MA 2005) and a PhD in contemporary curating from Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University (2017), she has been working independently as well as part of artist-led organisations, including Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, East Street Arts, Leeds and WAVEparticle, Glasgow, since 2000. Alongside these she has worked part-time as an academic since 2005 including at Dartington College of Arts, York St John University, Cardiff College of Art & Design, The Glasgow School of Art. Judit’s work iand research focuses on the underrepresented histories of counter-cultural, time-based and pre-Internet networked art practices. Judit’s curatorial projects growing out of her wider research on Curating Living Archives include Curating the Digital Attic Archive, a two-year multi-institutional international research project supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh to explore open-source approaches to a dispersed artist archive 2024-2026), and Alastair MacLennan: LIM(I)NAL (online, 2020). Prior to joining Dundee Judit co-curated No such permanence, only becoming, the 10th edition of the Festival of Ephemeral Art (Sokołowsko, Poland, 2019), was part of the team behind The Happenstance, Scotland’s collateral event at the 16th Architectural Biennale, 2018, and the curatorial team of Left Performance Histories (NGbK, Berlin 2018). She has been co-founder (with artists Emma Bolland and Tom Rodgers) of the small press Gordian Projects. Her writing appeared in Brill, Taylor&Francis, Routledge, Occassional Papers publications.
Adam Lockhart (co-investigator)
Adam Lockhart is a Lecturer in Media Art & Archives at DJCAD, University of Dundee, Media Artist and Musician. He is responsible for the archives and collections at DJCAD as well as the Media Preservation Lab, which he established in 2004 to digitise and preserve obsolete Media formats. He is a leading specialist in the conservation, restoration and re-exhibition of artists’ video. Lockhart has worked on a number of AHRC research projects including REWIND| Artists’ Video in the 70s & 80s, Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema with Central St Martins College of Art & Design, REWIND Italia, European Women’s Video Art & Richard Demarco: The Italian Connection. He has acted as curator and consultant for a number of screenings and exhibitions both nationally and internationally and he has written for a number of publications on media art. His current area of research is using VR/AR as a tool to preserve obsolete media artworks.
Miriam Mallalieu (commissioned artist researcher)
Miriam Mallalieu is an artist and doctoral candidate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, whose practice balances sculpture and storytelling, but also includes film, print and publication. Her doctoral research Taxonomies of Knowledge: a practice-led investigation into the organising, structuring and archiving of information focuses on ideas of ‘making sense.’ Through a methodology that she describes as ‘provocation through disruptive taxonomy’ she uses processes of reorganisation, repetition and deconstruction to draw attention to the structures by which things are understood. Her current project explores how objects in museum collections are changed through their context. Key issues include implications of active and passive objects, questions of significance, value and narrative, subjectivity and politics of collection, and how all of these contribute to form a structure that holds claim to universal or encyclopaedic representation.