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Dr Karen Cunningham

Course Leader MA Film Practice (Online)PhD, MFA, BA (Hons)
Email me: kcunningham@aub.ac.uk

Overview

I am an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, UK. I hold a First class degree in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art including exchange study at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA. I have an MFA from Glasgow School of Art and recently completed my practice-based PhD World-making and Un-doing: Looking at minor cultural forms through moving image practice at Edinburgh College of Art.

My films and artworks have been shown nationally and internationally including The Filmmakers Coop, NYC; Forum Stadtpark, Graz; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China and The Showroom, London.

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Contact:

Name: Dr Karen Cunningham she/her
Email: kcunningham@aub.ac.uk

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • PhD Practice-based Contemporary Art (Edinburgh College of Art and University of Edinburgh)
  • MFA Contemporary Art (Glasgow School of Art)
  • BA (Hons) Photography (Edinburgh College of Art and The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore)

Teaching

I am the Course Leader of the MA Film Practice (Online) course, a vibrant and engaging degree with students from around the world working across narrative fiction, moving image, documentary, experimental film, and hybrid projects. I have been involved in teaching and pedagogy within higher education for over 15 years. Prior to my role as Course Leader at AUB, I was a regular visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in contemporary art practice, design and contemporary cinema at Edinburgh College of Art.

Courses

  • MA Film Practice (Online)

Research

Research Interests and Projects

Focusing on marginalised or liminal places and events my work is concerned with how contemporary art practice, specifically moving image works, can employ conceptual and physical processes of ‘undoing’ to engage with overlooked and undertheorised sites, events, images, and individuals.

Professional Engagement

Commissions include:

  • The Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh and The A. G. Leventis Foundation, Greece: co-commission of solo exhibition
  • LUX Moving Image London and Collective gallery, Edinburgh: co-commission of short film
  • Legion TV, London: commission of short film

Residencies include:

  • Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Art/Researcher residency with Collective, Edinburgh
  • Arts Council Artist in Residence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Summer School, Cove Park, Scotland
  • British Council/New Media Scotland Residency in Split, Croatia
  • Visual Artists in Residence at Villa Walberta in Munich, Germany

Collections:

  • The Filmmakers' Coop, NYC
  • The Centre for Research Collections University of Edinburgh
  • LUX Moving Image
  • Private Collections

Memberships

Professional Memberships

Invited member of the online research group 'Decentring through Digitality'