Matthew Poole
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to my work as Interim Department Chair of the Department of Communication & Media, my office hours are by appointment (in-person or ZOOM). Please email me at: matthew.poole@csusb.edu to book an appointment.
Matthew Poole is a curator and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. His practice involves producing exhibitions, publishing artists’ projects, writing on topics related to the relations of production and distribution of art, and teaching. Poole is a professor of art history and theory in the Department of Art & Design at California State University, San Bernardino. In 2022-23 and 2023-24 he is seconded as the Interim Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at CSUSB, and from 2015-2021 he was Chair of the Department of Art & Design at CSUSB. Prior to moving to California in 2012, Poole was a faculty member in the Department of Art History & Philosophy at The University of Essex, Colchester, UK, where he ran the post-graduate curatorial programs.
His most recent published written work includes:
"Infrastructure, Ideology, Hegemony", by Matthew Poole, chapter in El Baroni, Bassam (ed.), Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art, [Boston, Mass./Berlin, Germany: MIT/Sternberg Press, 2022].
"Allography and the Baroque Agency of the Objectile", by Matthew Poole, chapter in Beech, Amanda & Mackay, Robin (eds.), Construction Site for Possible Worlds, [Falmouth: Urbanomic Press, 2020].
"Marcel Duchamp’s Diagrammatics of Love, Sex and Erotics", by Matthew Poole, in Glass Bead Journal Site 2: Dark Room – Somatic Reason and Synthetic Eros, published April 2019 [Paris, France: Glass Bead, 2019].
Education
1996-97 MA Fine Art, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.
1993-96 BFA (Hons.) Fine Art, Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford, UK.
Courses/Teaching
AH 1103 Art History Methodologies I
AH 1104 Art History Methodologies II
ART 1150 The Language of Art
Specialization
Curator of Contemporary Art & Curatorial Theorist.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Modern and contemporary art history and theory.
- Curatorial history and theory.
- Museology and curatorial studies.
- Political and socioeconomic ramifications and influences of the production and reception of art.
- European and US modern art 1900 to the present.
- Post-Fordist labour models, Post-Taylorist management structures, and neo-liberal 'governmentality' and their relationship to subjectivity modulation and art production/reception.
- Post-Marxian political theory as pertaining to art.
- Materialist philosophies pertaining to art.
- Speculative, neo-rationalist, and realist epistemologies as pertaining to art.