Dr Daniel Rubinstein
Title
Reader
College
Central Saint Martins
Email address
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Researcher Research

Biography
Daniel Rubinstein is reader in Philosophy and the Image. Internationally recognized for his work on the digital image in the context of contemporary philosophy, modern science and online platforms, his research spans the entangled dimensions of art, media and bio-politics. He is the founding editor of the journal Philosophy of Photography, co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) and Course Leader of MA Photography at Central Saint Martins.My research broadly concerns the conversion of bits of matter into bits of data, with a specific link to desire, memory and images. Translated into several languages and internationally renowned for challenging orthodoxies around image technologies in the media age, my research details how lens based media emerges simultaneously as a new type of discipline and a new art form, one that stands at the cross-roads of visual arts, contemporary philosophy and media technologies.
My research into new forms of visual practice and the links between art and philosophy allowed me to establish a groundbreaking MA Photography course at Central Saint Martins that deeply integrates research into the curriculum. My teaching practice focuses on the links between photography, philosophy and the aesthetics of the digital image, and emphasizes practice as research and research as practice. This trans-disciplinary approach to photography is informed by the understanding that the current visual environment is central to both social and political dimensions of contemporary life and it is explored in my book 'On the Verge of Photography:; Imaging Beyond Representation' (ARTicle Press, 2013).
Grants and awards
(Figures indicate amount awarded to UAL)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Application of Non-Representational Theories to The Digitally Produced and Circulated Photographic Image, £31,723.00, (2012-2014)
External Links
Research Outputs
Article
- Rubinstein D. Techniques of The Self; On the art of Cindy Sherman from Untitled Film Stills to Instagram (2018)
- Rubinstein D. Failure to engage: art criticism in the age of simulacrum (2017)
- Rubinstein D. Value of Nothing (2017)
- Rubinstein D. Assassination of Experience by Photography (2016)
- Rubinstein D. What is 21st Century Photography? (2015)
- Rubinstein D. Digital Image (2014)
- Rubinstein D. Discourse in a coma; A Comment on a Comma in the Title of Jean François Lyotard’s Discourse, Figure (2013)
- Rubinstein D, Sluis K. Notes on the Margins of Metadata; Concerning the Undecidability of the Digital Image (2013)
- Rubinstein D. GIF Today (2012)
- Rubinstein D. Digitally Yours; The Body in Contemporary Photography (2009)
- Rubinstein D. Towards Photographic Education (2009)
- Rubinstein D, Sluis K. A Life More Photographic, Mapping the Networked Image (2008)
- Rubinstein D. Re-visiting Anti-Oedipus
Book
- Rubinstein D. How Photography Changed Philosophy (2023)
- Rubinstein D. Fotografie nach der Philosophie (2020)
- Rubinstein D. Philosophie nach der Fotografie (Philosophy after Photography) (2019)
- Rubinstein D. Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in Digital Age (2019)
- Rubinstein D, Golding J, Fisher A. On The Verge of Photography: Imaging Beyond Representation (2013)
Book Section
- Rubinstein D. The Diogenes complex: sublime living in irrational times (2020)
- Rubinstein D. Graven images: photography after Heidegger, Lyotard and Deleuze (2019)
- Rubinstein D. The New Paradigm (2019)
- Rubinstein D. Photography after Philosophy (2019)
- Rubinstein D. The Cynic's Guide to Political Practice (2019)
- Rubinstein D. Keeping up with the Cartesians: on the culture of the selfie with continual reference to Kim Kardashian (2018)
- Rubinstein D. Posthuman Photography (2018)
- Rubinstein D. Post-representational photography, or the grin of Schrödinger's cat (2017)
- Rubinstein D. Nothing to see here: Fractal Photography and the politics of invisibility (2016)
- Rubinstein D. Gift of the Selfie (2015)
- Rubinstein D, Sluis K. The Digital Image in Photographic Culture; Algorithmic Photography and the Crisis of Representation (2013)
- Rubinstein D. The Grin of Schrödinger's Cat; Quantum Photography and the limits of Representation (2013)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
Show/Exhibition
- Naldi P, Rubinstein D. The Death of the Image and the Birth of Photography (2018)
Teaching
Current research students
- Lydia Beckett, Chaos Politic – Art as a site of Ecological Encounter (Lead supervisor)
- Sara Buoso, 'What Does Light Frame? Investigating the Material and the Practices of Light in Contemporary Arts'. (Lead supervisor)
- Anamarija Podrebarac, The Sensuality of Data; Performative Practices of Embodiment as the Lived Experience of Code (Lead supervisor)
- Niloofar Taatizadeh, Gender crisis,Then and Now (Lead supervisor)
Past research students
- Andrea Muendelein, (AHRC funded) 'Contemporary metropolis and representation of stranger in photography'. (Lead supervisor)
- Shinsuke Nakano, 'Fashion, Memory and History: fashion practice as remembering through craft and digital media'.