I'm an educator, writer, occasional translator, and on-again, off-again cultural worker and programmer. I'm part-time faculty at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manahahtáanung/New York, where I teach art history, literature, and critical theory. I've previously worked at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, the Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Aga Khan Museum, Centre des arts actuels SKOL, and the Fonderie Darling.
My current book project, Surrounded by Me, explores the discursive, artistic, and clinical lives of video feedback in the hands of artists and psychotherapists in the 1970s. Its follow up, Mad Media, examines the encounters between Mad liberation, digital technology, and critical theory in the 1980s and 1990s. In collaboration with the Williams family and musician and writer Alexander Moskos, I coordinate the preservation, research, and presentation of the life work of Trinidadian Canadian artist, poet, and musician Carlyle Williams.
Write to me at robin.b.simpson@proton.me