Julian Stallabrass Author

Julian Stallabrass is a writer, photographer, curator and lecturer. He is Professor of art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and is the author of Art Incorporated, Oxford University Press 2006 (updated edition forthcoming), Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London 2003; Paris Pictured, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002; High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, London 1999 and Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, Verso, London 1996. On a senior fellowship from the Paul Mellon Foundation, he is currently researching a book about the relations between cultural and political populism.



He is the co-editor of Ground Control: Technology and Utopia, Black Dog Publishing, London 1997, Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1998, and Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1999, and Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 2014. He has written art criticism regularly for publications including the London Review of Books, Art Monthly and the New Statesman.



Killing for Show has its origins in Stallabrass’ curation of the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2008, Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images’, and has been over ten years in the making. He has published extensively in the area over this time, in forms ranging from reviews to catalogue essays, and has edited two books (both 2013) that bear on the subject: Documentary for the MIT/ Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art; and Memory of Fire, published by Photoworks, Brighton. He has also been teaching these subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the supervision of PhDs.