Sydney Hart is an artist, art critic, and lecturer in the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He received a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) and an MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University (London, UK). Previously, he studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Concordia University. Sydney’s research interests focus on a re-examination of modernist legacies through the contemporary, aesthetic dimensions of data and information. His critical writing on art and digital media has appeared in magazines including C Magazine, ESPACE art actuel, and Esse arts + opinions, and in journals including Synoptique, PUBLIC, and Intermediality. He has worked in various editorial roles, notably co-editing the journal livedspace and the book Weaving Histories. He is based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver.
Contact: sydneyhart@ecuad.ca