Robyn Cook
Senior Lecturer & Course Coordinator, MA Communica
School of Film & Television
Falmouth University
United Kingdom
Biography
Robyn Cook was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since graduating, she has worked as a designer at a number of small award-winning studios, such as Disturbance, and as an art director for larger agencies including Ogilvy & Mather. After almost 10 years in industry, Robyn moved into academia, teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Johannesburg before moving to Falmouth University. Robyn's research interests include post-Marxism, creative economies, and institution-building in the arts. She also runs the Sober & Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art with co-founder Lauren von Gogh (since 2011). Sober & Lonely are currently working on a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel, The Last Unstitute, in association with Botkyrka Konsthall (Sweden).
Research Interest
Research topics Social Aesthetics Artist-run initiatives Institution-Building Post-Marxism Memetic Aesthetics Participatory Design
Publications
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2014 'Questions of Independence', Visual Arts Network of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
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2016 'A Crash Course in Empathy: Design Thinking 101', ACT Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Cook, Robyn (2016) The Parking Gallery: Experimental practice and the artist-run initiative in South Africa. De Arte, 51 (1). pp. 57-73. ISSN 0004-3389 Item availability may be restricted. [img]
