• ☼ Sam Skinner
    About
  • ♖︎ Torque 2
  • ☁︎ The New Observatory
  • ☺︎ Opticon
  • ☂︎ Typemotion
  • ☜︎ Torque 1
  • ✲︎ Furtherfield
  • ✄︎ Brighton Greenway
  • ☯︎ The Grundy
  • ♘︎ Thamesmead Festival 2015
  • ♥︎ Algorithmic Condition
  • ✏︎ Publishing
  • ⚘︎ Moorings Underpass
  • ⅋︎ RTM.fm
  • ✌︎ Branch Lines
  • ✎︎ Bruchstückes

Hello!

I'm an artist and curator – my practice is focused on relations between technology, media, and community. I employ a range of processes from historical research to printmaking, curation to mural making, publishing to workshops.

I recently relocated to Oxford where I'm working on a number of new projects including: exploring the realtionship between the senses and books for a forthcoming exhibition at the Bodleian Library; researching the long term impact of social distancing and how the arts may be used as part of a restorative process; curating a library themed exhibition at Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool School of Art; and a project investigating AI, decentralisation, and publishing.

I co-direct Torque, an experimental digital literacy and publishing project. Our most recent book was Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain produced in collaboration with Furtherfield. I was co-chair of Working Group 1 of the COST Action on New Materialism, between 2014-18, and co-edited the project almanac, which I'm developing for the new Matter journal, based at the University of Barcelona. My most recent paper entitled 'Community' co-written with mirko nikolić was published in Philosophy Today. I was research associate at Kingston School of Art for the Algorithmic Condition project, and have taught at Ravensbourne and Lancaster Universities.

In 2019 I completed a PhD based between Manchester School of Art and FACT, Liverpool, which investigated the history of the old Liverpool Observatory. My research translated into a group exhibition entitled The New Observatory at FACT, co-curated with Hannah Redler of the Open Data Institute, and an artist book, Obs, published by Broken Dimanche.

I previously lived and worked in Thamesmead, South East London, where I collaborated with TACO! to develop RTM, a new community radio station in the area. I also produced a number of projects with Peabody locally, including a culture guide, arts participation survey, arts festivals in 2015 and 2016, and a tile and lighting installation.

I have a BA (LJMU) and MA (Sussex) in Art History.

For further details and up-to-date info please get in touch.

mail@samskinner.net
@samwskinner

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