Joe Timothy Coleman is an artist and educator based in Cardiff, Wales. His work over the last decade creates a collaborative space between author, system and audience.
Practice
An expanded photographic practice combines Joe’s background in photography with a broader, fine art practice inclusive of performance, writing, installation and programming. Thematically, Joe makes work which interrogates and challenges arts practice, digital systems, art exhibition methods and spaces and the digital. Joe exhibits work – both physical and digital – in and out of the White Cube setting, utilising digital spaces, live-streaming and social media to share and disseminate work and ideas. Read more…
Research
Joe’s research draws directly from contemporary visual imaging systems and our relationship with creativity. Commencing his PhD in 2022, he seeks to assess and analyse creativity as a more-than-human act through a Practice-based, Posthuman methodology. Intertwined with his practice Joe theorises through making, externalising concepts explored to share and develop research in a discursive process with his audience. Read more…
Teaching
Joe Timothy Coleman has taught in the UK at levels 2-7, in-person and online for over 8 years, across a broad range of modules. With particular focus on the development of visual language and analysis skills as well as the implementation of research in arts practice, education is an extension of the artists mindset. He is a permanent member of teaching staff at Swansea College of Art (UWTSD) onto Photography programmes as well as dissertation module lead at the University of Gloucester. Read more…
FEATURED WORK
Exhibitions
Cursor (2024)
Until You Touch It (2023)
Sand Time and File Space (2022)
Projects
The Harvest (2024 – ongoing)
Digital Derive (2024)
Friction/Digi-friction (2021 – ongoing)
TehachapI I (2022)
Lectures/Papers
The Digital Derive – Computer Imagined Cities (2024)
Rhizome – Noise (2024)
GenAI in creative education (2024)
Practice
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Research
Joe Timothy Coleman is a practice-based researcher, working to complete his PhD – A posthuman exploration into contemporary creative practice in a Post-Digital landscape (Title unfinished).
In an age where AI can generate images from prompts, arts funding is shifting dramatically and we come to accept that “technology is culture and culture is technological” (Dewdney, 2021), what is creativity and who is an artist? Rather than deliberation on ideas of High Art and Kitsch for example, the research conducted aims to present a philosophical and practical remediation of our attitudes towards creativity.
Posthuman research takes the decolonised, anti-Humanist, hegemonic ideals of Postmodernity and presents compelling new frameworks for thinking which refuses to place Anthropocentric ideas at the heart of our most pressing concerns. As the extractive processes of capitalism continue to commodify Humanist ideas at the expensive of the climate and those who produce for Globalisation, it is now more than pressing to consider what role the Human plays in our own future.
As such, the research questions the role (and existence) of Creativity: the human engine of the transcendental Artist’s Genius. At a time of climate emergency, turbulent geopolitics and the arrival of the techno-capitalist “New Dark Age” (Bridle, 2018) we have to question what role the arts plays in the future Human landscape. Is the lone artist known by name and stature relevant, or even helpful?
Analysis of key philosophical readings will question the sole creator and case studies will identify practice which reflects change – to collective, collaborative, disruptive and anonymous practice which challenges not only the notion of Author/creator but the systems which commodify and support the paradigm.
The research aims to develop New Methods After Creativity which synthesise the philosophical and practical implications of the research to an understanding of the arts of our Future Human.
Teaching
Joe Timothy Coleman has been teaching since 2018 achieving level 4 teaching accreditation in 2020. He has taught across levels 2 to 7 across art and design, specialising in photography and fine art. Employing a broad range of holistic, student-centred methods, an ethos of practical study supported by critical analysis and collective activity has enabled Joe to support hundreds of students to the completion of their course. Moreover, the development of these skills in students has seen them succeed in a variety of industry roles.
In his current role as Photography Lecturer at UWTSD – Swansea College of Art, Joe holds module responsibility for modules across the Undergraduate Photography degrees. These modules cover a range of subjects:
Visual studies. Students learn to read and appreciate photographs in order to improve their relationship with photography and ultimately their own practice. These sessions include lectures, seminars, practical workshops and discussion.
Practical sessions. These modules have a defined output relevant to contemporary photographic production, such as book development or community based exhibition. Students are introduced to the concept through lecture and seminar. Following this students are encouraged and supported to develop meaningful bodies of work through tutorial and experimentation.
Professional Studies.
Joe is currently External Examiner for the Ba Photography and Print course at Boom Satsuma, Bristol.
