Gradcam
Michael O’Hara is an artist and a researcher at GradCAM (Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media). He is Assistant Lecturer in Sculpture at the Technological University Dublin and is an Associate Researcher at GradCAM with both the Aesthetics and Digital Studies Seminar groups. His research is concerned with the relationship between digital technologies and perception and the impact of such on embodied existence. Specifically he is interested in how new digital technologies mediate object relations and production and the resulting effects on political and social discourses.Mick O’Hara is a DIT Fioraigh Scholar (2015-2022)- Supervised by Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick.
Publications:
| Date | Information |
| Forthcoming 2018 | “The Ontological question of Exteriorization” Digital Studies Journal,Book Chapter,
Palgrave, |
| Forthcoming 2018 | Michael O’Hara & Connell Vaughan “‘Caveman stuff’: Ireland’s Soccer Struggle with Identity, Style, and Success”, The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in Transnational Perspective;Book Chapter.
Routledge |
Conferences:
| Date From – To | Information |
| Forthcoming June 2018 | “The Algorithmic Regime: Decoding the digital image”The Inhuman Gaze Conference
Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 Rue des Irlandais, 75005, Paris
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| Forthcoming June 2018 | “A Post-Digital Aesthetics of the Inhuman Gaze: Reflections on I See Birds Flying Over the White House”The Inhuman Gaze Conference
Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 Rue des Irlandais, 75005, Paris |
| November 2017 | “Club versus Country: Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Contemporary Game”
The Football Collective Annual Conference University College Limerick |
| July 2017 | “The spectre of Mourinho and the measure of success; Most goals scored, least goals conceded. Not Total Football but TOTAL SUCCESS!”
“The Beautiful Game” Workshop Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA. |
Exhibitions & Art Outputs
| Date From – To | Information |
| October 2017 | “I See Birds Flying Over the White House” Performance with The Aesthetics Group
Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale
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| November 2016 | PhylumSolo Exhibition, Signal Art Gallery. |
