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Christoph Cox

Dean of the Faculty, VP for Academic Affairs, Professor of Philosophy & Art Theoryat Hampshire College
Amherst,
United States
Focus area: Art History, Art Theory, Critical Theory, Computer Music, Electroacoustic Music, Sonification, Cultural Practices, Social Practice, Digital Culture, Experimental Music, Music, Musicology, Photography, Science Theory, Philosophy, Sound, Acoustics, STEAM, Pedagogy, Education, Visual Culture, Visual Studies, Writing, Literature, Poetry

Christoph Cox is a philosopher, critic, and curator of visual and sonic art. He is Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the Faculty, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hampshire College, where he teaches modern and contemporary philosophy and art theory. Cox is also a member of the Graduate Committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is the author of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California Press, 1999) and co-editor of Realism Materialism Art (Sternberg, 2015) and Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Bloomsbury, 2017; Continuum, 2004). The recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, Cox is editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in October, Artforum, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Wire, Journal of Visual Culture, Organised Sound, The Review of Metaphysics, and elsewhere. He has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Kitchen, The Artist’s Institute, CONTEXT Art Miami, New Langton Arts, G Fine Art Gallery and other venues.