Joanna Straczowski

Thesis title: Aestheticization and Transaesthetics: The Concept of Aestheticization and its Significance in the Digital Age

Research interests: aesthetics, philosophy of art, political philosophy, continental philosophy, modernism, postmodernism, structuralism, post structuralism, French theory, art history, Andy Warhol

Publications:

The Sublime Perfection of Machine Produced Art

Conference papers and talks:

Dutch Association of Aesthetics Annual Conference, 2015, at the University of Leuven, Belgium; title of paper: Sublime Perfection: The Sublime in Machine Produced Art

‘Philosophy in the Gallery’ Talk, in context of the Transmitting Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Liverpool, 2014, presented by the British Society of Aesthetics; title of paper: The
Superficiality of Art

European Society for Aesthetics, Annual Conference 2016, title of paper: 'What is Wrong with the White Cube? On Kant's Disinterestedness and the Aesthetics of the White Cube Gallery'

Teaching experience and qualifications:

PHIL102 — Political Philosophy — seminar tutor
PHIL107 — Reading and Writing Philosophy — seminar tutor
PHIL101 - Philosophy of Art

Higher Education Academy Fellow, Recognition Reference: PR087032

Websites:

CAVA — Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts
FACT — Foundation For Art and Creative Technology
Fifteen Minutes of Pop Art — Personal Blog

Supervisors: Dr Nikolaos Gkogkas, Dr Panayiota Vassilopoulou