Jane Frances Dunlop

Jane Frances Dunlop (CA/UK) is a London-based artist and writer. She works through various mediums to investigate how the politics of emotion and digital technology are intertwined in daily life. She holds an BA, Honours in English Literature from York University (Toronto, Canada) and an MA Theatre & Performance from Queen Mary, University of London. She has presented her research internationally, most recently at Performance Studies international in Melbourne (2016); International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2016 in Hong Kong; Arts & Society in London (2015) and International Visual Methods 2015 in Brighton. She has essays forthcoming in Real Life and Performance Research International.

Email address: j.dunlop@brighton.ac.uk

Qualification: PhD

Timeframe: 3 years

Thesis title

When we are together: generosity, dissonance and internet-situated performance.

My research

When we are together: dissonance and generosity in internet-situated art is a practice-led PhD that focuses on how artistic practices engage with the increasing ubiquity of internet communication. Specifically, it addresses how artistic practices respond to the ways these technologies augment and extend interaction and communication between individuals. When we are together investigates what it means to be present together online and how social relations are interwoven in the on and offline sites of contemporary culture. Through a series of artworks devised alongside the written analysis, the project demonstrates the ways in which ‘internet-situated artworks’ highlight the increasing interconnectivity of a ‘social performativity’ of relation. These practices, and the relationships that instantiate them, are the basis of an investigation into the interwoven politics of the emotional and technological. The project asks: In what specific ways is the practice of art shaped and forged by the new contingencies of relations that emerge within internet-situated contexts? In order to answer this question, performance studies and feminist cultural theories are brought together to provide a new and innovative approach to digital philosophies.

Supervisors

Paul Sermon

Conall Gleeson

Hannah Macpherson