Gary Hall

Gary Hall is a London-based cultural and media theorist working on new media technologies, continental philosophy and cultural studies. He is Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University, UK. He is the author of Culture in Bits (Continuum, 2002) and Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minnesota UP, 2008) and co-editor of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (Fordham UP, 2007). He is also founding co-editor of the international open access journal Culture Machine, series editor of Berg’s Culture Machine book series, director of the cultural studies open access archive CSeARCH and co-founder of the Open Humanities Press. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Studies, Parallax and The Oxford Literary Review. In 2009/10 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University.