Professor Felicity Colman

Biography

Felicity Colman is Professor of Media Arts. She also serves as Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the London College of Fashion at University of the Arts, London. Felicity is a specialist in creative technologies; encompassing time-based media forms, ethics of technology, and posthumanist philosophy. Felicity teaches and researches forms of creative media practice. She has a professional background working life in the creative industries - in art and design.

Felicity was educated in Australia on the central and eastern lands of the Wanamara people of Queensland, the Bindal people of the Wulgurukaba nation, Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation, and the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Theory and History of Art from the University of Queensland, a Bachelor (Hons) Fashion and Textile Design from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, a Master of Arts in Australian Art from Monash University, and a PhD in Art History and Screen from the University of Melbourne. Felicity worked in the creative industries as a curator and writer, and she has taught and worked in Higher Education in Australia and in the United Kingdom for over 20 years. Her current research focus is on feminist modalities, the ethics of technology, and the metaphysics of creativity in the algorithmic condition. Her latest book is Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, co-edited with Iris van der Tuin.

Felicity is the Chair of the UAL Archives, Museum & Special Collections Advisory Board. AMSCA

Felicity welcomes students for MA and PhD research supervision in both practice and theoretical research in the areas of art, cultural studies, political modalities of fashion, feminist practice, film, media theory, and ethics of technology.