Jonathan Kearney

List of exhibitions, talks, publications and research

Selected Exhibitions:

Selected exhibitions I have curated:

Talks, Publications & Research:

‘Close to the Surface: digital presence’ symposium, panel discussion member, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London – 2008

‘Towards an understanding of surface via integrity’ – published on DVD ‘The Personalised Surface. New Approaches to Digital Printmaking’ final publication of the AHRC funded research project, ‘The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking’ – 2009

‘Glue and calligraphy’ – AHRC incentive grant project awarded through the University of the Arts London, 2009 – 2010

‘Inscape on the spot, landscapes of glue’ – published in bilingual (Mandarin Chinese, English) catalogue ‘Cultivated Landscape’ by TCG Nordica, Kunming, Yunnan, China, April 2009

‘Noise in a digital environment’ – keynote talk presented at ‘Digital Noise – what place, what value?’ symposium at the University of Greenwich, May 2009

‘A physical, digital, real, connection: Britain to Brazil’ – published in bilingual (English, Portuguese) catalogue ‘Points of Contact’ by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 2009

‘Developing the use of blogs as a reflective tool’ – presented at Designs on e-Learning International Conference, September 2009

‘Towards an understanding of the spiritual and prophetic in contemporary art’ keynote speaker delivering 3 papers – Synergy Arts Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2009

‘Negotiating ‘digital noise’ as a means of embodied contemplation for both artist and viewer’ paper for Contemplations of the Spiritual in Contemporary Art – December 2010, Liverpool Cathedral, part of the Liverpool Biennial 2010

‘Art and the digital, an introduction to a western perspective’ – 2 lectures at Yunnan University, China, March 2011

‘How mobile devices enhance the learning on an art practice based Masters course’ – presented at Designs on e-Learning International Conference, September 2012

‘Sustainability in the curriculum’ – Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art & Design (CLTAD) funded research project 2013

‘Art in a digital environment’ – co-chair Lumen Art Prize symposium, Chelsea College of Arts, London 2014

‘Online collaborative learning for fine art Masters students’ – International Journal of Art & Design Education (iJADE) annual conference, Liverpool, October 2014

‘Transforming Creativity Theologically – Rethinking art – interactive ‘behaviours’’ – CODEC Durham University Conference, London, November 2014

‘East meets west, comparative creativity and learning’ Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, January 2015

‘Questions in a digital environment – fluid and alternative spaces for art’ a curated conversation with 2 MA Fine Art Digital students, Lumen Art Prize symposium, London June 2015

‘Minutely Massive Open Online Course’ – paper for Designs on eLearning Conference, London, September 2015

‘Art in the age of the internet’ – paper for International Advisory Group Summit ‘Art and Design in the age of the internet.’ Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Shanghai, China, September 2015

‘Art and the city – a collaborative approach’ – paper and workshop at Philosophy Department, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2015

‘Online learning and the international student’ – paper for International Student Experience Community of Practice, March 2016

‘Adaptable, magical ambiguity’ – essay for Computer Arts Society Journal special edition Lumen Art Prize catalogue, May 2016

‘A dialogue of with-ness’ – paper for 14th ELIA Biennial Conference, (European League of Institutes of the Arts), Florence, Italy, December 2016

‘food, with, noise’ – paper for Bright Lights Journal, UAL, January 2017

‘What happens if we push this?’ – Symposium, Tate Modern, February 2017

‘Language or medium, the malleable structure of art making in a digital environment’ – paper for sIREN Conference, Arts and Digital Practices, Edinburgh College of Art, May 2017

‘Art Awakening Creativity – interactive behaviours’ – performative talk for the Art Awakening Humanity Conference, London, October 2017

‘outside, inscape, landscape – ‘lnscape on the spot’ (就地造境)’ – paper for Contemporary Chinese Visual Arts 10th  Annual Conference, Birmingham, October 2017

‘One-to-One – shared language’ collaboration with Sigune Hamann, UAL Teaching and Learning Innovation Funded research project, Oxford University Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology department and Camberwell College of Arts – action research series of workshops, Oxford and London, October 2017 – November 2018 http://sharedlanguage.co.uk

‘One to one – Interdisciplinary discourse, Oxford University and University of the Arts London’ – paper for UAL Learning and Teaching Conference, London March 2018

‘Art Practice and Learning in Digital Time and Space: A dialogue of withness’ – invited speaker EVA Conference, London, July 2018

EVA London Conference Reviewer and South London Art Map Selector 2018-2020

‘re-imaging culture’ – panel discussion, Greenbelt Arts Festival, August 2018

Interview for the Computer Arts Society 50th anniversary archive, July 2019

‘Universities and their way to… post digital learning’, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Sept 2019

‘Escaping zoom, does synchronous typed chat provide a richer experience?’, DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) Conference, New York & online, Sept 2020

‘Shared Language – using images for transdisciplinary dialogue’, ELIA Biennial Conference, Zurich & online, Nov 2020

‘Interface: Shared Language – a cross disciplinary conversation’, Loughborough University, June 2021

‘paradox & empathy’. NAFAE (National Association of Fine Art Education) invited talk, July 2021

‘improvisation – did 17 years of online teaching prepare for covid-19?’, 2021 – UAL ExEd21 teaching and learning conference, July 2021

‘innovation – multiplication – transformation’ – talk at St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, London, Oct 2021

‘24 hours on earth – an international conversation across 7 time zones’ Experimental Pedagogies Research Group, March 2022

‘The position of the teacher in facilitating the educational experience of artist/students – a dialogue of with-ness’, APSS PGR Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, April 2022

‘Exquisite Listening and online empathy’, Central Saint Martins, What We Do seminar, May 2022

‘provoking – evoking – rethinking digital sculpture’ – talk/seminar Falmouth University, July 2022

‘The black box of AI’ – experimental making and exhibiting – Vestibule, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, January 2023

‘vestibule – ai art experiments’ – Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London January 2023

‘thin-scapes at Tremenheere’ – talk at launch of permanent augmented reality sculpture, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, March 2023

‘Creativity in Action – online art’ – ongoing research into alternative spaces for presenting art online, Nov 2023

‘Creativity in educational research’ – Doctoral workshop, Liverpool John Moores University, February 2024

‘Inspiring pedagogic activism through/with art’ – joint educational research seminar, Liverpool, John Moores University, Queen Mary University of London, Birmingham City University, October 2024

‘being–with – heutagogical attunements’ – Doctoral discussion and exhibition, March 2025

‘improvisation – juxtaposition – overaccepting’ – Psychology of creativity conference, Salford, July 2025

Academic and artist work experience:

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London: 2020 – present:
Couse Leader and UAL Teaching Scholar, MA Fine Art Digital;
Through this course I have pioneered online learning since 2004, creating a highly successful structure that allows students to fully engage from anywhere in the world.

Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London: 2010 – 2020:
Postgraduate Programme Director and Course Leader, MA Fine Art Digital;
Course Leader for the MA Fine Art Digital and Postgraduate Programme Director covering all MA courses. Reporting directly to the Dean I was responsible for the overall direction of the Postgraduate Programme including coordination with other senior staff across the college.

Tsinghua University Beijing and University of the Arts London in Beijing: 2009 – 2017
Visiting Lecturer MA preparation course

University of the Arts London: 2004 – 2010:
Associate Lecturer, MA Visual Arts with specific responsibility for the online cohort
and BA 2nd year elective programme ‘Digital Environments’

University of the Arts London, FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment) Research Group: 2007 – 2009:
Research Assistant for AHRC funded project ‘The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking’

TCG Nordica Gallery, Kunming, Yunnan, China: 2005 – 2014:
Gallery Director & Curator 2005-7
Artistic Director 2007 – 2014

House Gallery, Camberwell Church Street, London: 2000 – 2006:
Co-director

Camberwell Arts Festival, London: 2001-2002:
Director for Artsweek 8 (June 2002)

self employed: 1993 – present:
Artist
Numerous exhibitions of my own work and curated many shows across the world; locations include: ICA London, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, London, Art Electronica, Linz, Austria, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, UK and several galleries across China.