Rod Dickinson

Lecturer: Cultural and Media Studies
Research: New Media



Rod Dickinson teaches digital media production across all three years, specializing in interactive and hypermedia.

He is a practicing multimedia artist whose artwork mostly takes the form of video installations and live events. Recent projects use detailed research into moments of the past and present, to make a series of meticulously re-enacted events and simulations that represent both the mechanisms that enable belief, and the social systems that make belief systems function. In 2002 he recreated Dr. Stanley Milgram's infamous 1961 social psychology experiment Obedience to Authority at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow: www.milgramreenactment.org

Other recent work re-imagines the effect of a little known terrorist attack on Greenwich Observatory in 1894, had it succeeded. www.setproject.ca

Since 2002 my work has been reviewed and profiled in The Observer, The Guardian G2, Art Monthly magazine, Frieze magazine,Matters magazine, Mute magazine, De Morgen (Belgian broadsheet), The Age, (Melbourne Broadsheet), Bergens Tidende BA (Norwegian paper), the Sunday Times (Scotland), Trouw, (Dutch Broadsheet), the Herald (Scotland), the Big Issue (Scotland) and The Scotsman (Scotland).

Recent exhibitions include:

  • The Western Front Gallery, Greenwich Degree Zero, Vancouver, Canada
  • Witte de With, Life Once More, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Lse, London, State of Mind Exhibition
  • Bergen Kunsthall, Versions, Norway
  • Science Museum, Pain, London, England
  • ICA, London, UK, The Waco Reenactment, (multimedia performance)
  • Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
  • ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne, Australia

Rod.Dickinson@uwe.ac.uk

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Recent and Past Projects :

Greenwich Degree Zero at Kunst-Werke Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin - 17 November 2007 - 13 January 2008
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Greenwich Degree Zero
Review in The Guardian, Saturday March 4, 2006
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The Waco Re-enactment, ICA London, September 2004
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The Milgram Reenactment, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow on February 15th, 17th 2002.
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