Open letter in protest against redundancies at Visual Cultures in Goldsmiths, University of London

As faculty in the field of visual culture, we write today in appalled protest at the recently announced proposal to make eight redundancies of senior renowned colleagues in the world-class department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College. In a matter of hours, this letter has attracted over 175 distinguished signatories, whose names you should recognize (see below).

To be clear: our belief is that there should be no redundancies in this remarkable department, not that certain people should be retained, only for others to be dismissed. We have worked with staff in the department, attended and participated in conferences at Goldsmiths, and sent our students to work there: we know whereof we speak.

We understand the strictures of financial regimes in higher education and most of us have had to work with restricted budgets. This proposed action makes no sense even considered solely in the budgetary frame: to cut one of your most successful departments, one with low overhead and a high rate of international students, is to cut off your nose to spite your face.

To be clear: our belief is that there should be no redundancies in this remarkable department, not that certain people should be retained, only for others to be dismissed. We have worked with staff in the department, attended and participated in conferences at Goldsmiths, and sent our students to work there: we know whereof we speak.

Visual Culture is a relatively new field of study but one that gains in importance with every passing year as it becomes more apparent how central visual images and visual media are in every aspect of contemporary life. In the establishment of this intellectual project, it can safely be said that there has been no programme so vital and essential as Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. The work in the department resonates not only with scholars and practitioners in visual culture worldwide but with those in studio art, art history, media studies and film. To merge visual cultures into the Art Department would be to undo decades of work.

To create a vibrant and interconnected department of this kind takes years of dedicated hard work. It can be demolished with a few strokes of a pen. You may feel that the remaining staff will be able to continue. We write to tell you that the international reputation of Goldsmiths College is on the line, with the Research Excellence Framework exercise ahead in 2029, which requires “world class” output. What was thirty years ago a small cog in the machine that is the University of London has achieved international prominence precisely because of initiatives like Visual Cultures. All that is now at stake.

It is not a demonstration of weakness to reverse such proposals, which are currently said to be provisional. It would rather show that management is responsive to the international intellectual community. Please act!

Yours sincerely,

Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor and Incoming Chair, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University.

Oreet Ashery, Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Oxford.

Dame Sonia Boyce DBE RA, Professor of Black Art & Design, University of the Arts London.

Lisa Cartwright, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego.

Jill H. Casid, Professor of Visual Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, Departments of Art
History and Gender and Women’s Studies and Steering Committee Member, Center for Visual
Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

T. J. Demos, Professor and Chair, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California,
Santa Cruz.

Annie Fletcher, director, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Nicole R. Fleetwood, Paulette Goddard Endowed Professor, Department of Media, Culture and
Communication, New York University.

Jennifer Gonzalez, Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair, Professor, History of Art and Visual
Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Gayatri Gopinath, Professor, Dept of Social and Cultural Analysis, Director, Center for the Study
of Gender and Sexuality, NYU.

Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor, Vice Dean of Faculty & Research Director,
Performance Studies Grad Certificate, USC Roski School of Art and Design, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles.

Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Tara McPherson, HMH Endowed Chair for the Study of Censorship, Division of Cinema and
Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.

W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History,
University of Chicago.

Susan Murray, Professor and Chair, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New
York University.

Joan Saab, Provost and Professor of Art History, University of Richmond VA.
Vanessa Schwartz, Director, Visual Studies Research Institute, Professor of art History and
History, USC.

Marita Sturken, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication, New York University.

McKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media, The New School.

Laura Wexler, Charles H. Farnam Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and
American Studies, Yale University.

Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History, Northwestern University.

Daniel J. Nyiri, Program director and instructor, Department of Cinema Television, Los Angeles City College.

Yelena Gluzman, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta.

Margaret Rhee, Assistant Professor and Chair of Arts Writing, School of Media Studies and Creative Writing MFA, The New Earl Jackson, Chair Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Asia University.

Raka Shome, Harron Family Endowed Chair, Department of Communication, Villanova University.

Krista Lynes, Professor, Communication Studies, Concordia University.

Joshua Trey Barnett, Assistant Profesor, Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State University.

Anne-Marie Angelo, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sussex.

Judith Rodenbeck, Professor and Chair ex officio, Department of Media & Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside.

Fred Myers, Professor of Anthropology, NYU.

Jih-Fei Cheng, Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Scripps College.

Anita E. Cherian, Associate Professor & Officiating Dean School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr. BR Ambedkar University.

Richard Grusin, Distinguished Professor Emerit, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Ethan Spigland, Professor, Department of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute.

Hannah B Higgins, Professor of Art, Program Director IDEA, University of Illinois Chicago.

Emilie Goudal, Junior Professor, History of Art, Department Arts, University of Lille.

Caitlin Fisher, Professor and past Chair, Cinema and Media Arts and Director, Immersive Storytelling Lab, York University.

Johan Thom, Associate Professor and Co-ordinator Fine Art, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Andrew Culp, Professor and Director of Aesthetics and Politics Program, California Institute of the Arts.

Ronit Lentin, Associate professor Sociology (Ret.) Trinity College Dublin.

Dale Hudson, Associate Professor, Film and New Media, New York University Abu Dhabi.

Delene Human, Senior Lecturer in Art Education, Department of Humanities Education, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Ben Burbridge, Professor of Visual Culture, University of Sussex.

Alan W. More, City University of NY, Graduate Center, Alumnus.

Mathias Danbolt, Professor of Art History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lucy Davis, Associate Professor, Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art, Aalto University, Finland.

Stefanie Baumann, IFILNOVA, researcher, New University of Lisbon.

Ruth Lipschitz, HOD Design Studies, University of Johannesburg.

Luis Trindade, Researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, New University of Lisbon.

Jacob Lund, Professor, Director of Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions, Aarhus University.

Gavin Butt, Professor of Fine Art, School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

Roxy Walsh, Senior Lecturer in Art, Goldsmiths.

Dr Tom Corby, artist, writer.

Dr Alexandra Kokoli, Associate Professor in Visual Culture, Middlesex University.

Seán Cubitt, Professor of Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne.

Jairus Victor Grove, Chair of the Department of Political Science, Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, and Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

Michael Asbury, Reader in the history and theory of art, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL.

Dr Katharine Fry, Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow, School of Design & Creative Arts, Loughborough University.

Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London.

Peter Sarram, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, John Cabot University.

Jon Cairns, Critical Studies Leader, Art Programme, Central Saint Martins, UAL.

Christabel Harley, Senior Lecturer, UAL.

Taru Elfving, Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki.

Anjalika Sagar.

Anthony Gardner, Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Oxford.

Dr Margherita Sprio, Reader, School of Arts, University of Westminster.

Godofredo Pereira, Head of Programme, Environmental Architecture, Royal College of Art.

Iain Michael Chambers, Professor of Cultural, Postcolonial and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples, L’Orientale.

Stuart Elliot, Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies, Central Saint Martins.

Dr. Mark Curran, Lecturer & Postgraduate Supervisor, Department of Film & Media, Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT), Dublin, Ireland.

Jason E. Bowman, Senior Lecturer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gavin Grindon, Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries, Queen Mary University of London.

Maile Costa Colbert, Invited Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and Post Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, New University of Lisbon.

Liliana Coutinho, Invited Teacher at UBi – universidade da beira interior, and researcher at In2Past – NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal.

Martin Patrick, Associate Professor, School of Art, Massey University, Aotearoa NZ
Catherine Grant, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Kareem Estefan, Assistant Professor, Centre for Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge
Hilary Robinson, Professor of Feminism, Art & Theory, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Loughborough University
Søren Pold, associate professor, Aarhus University
Dr. Paul O’Kane, Senior Lecturer, Fine Art Critical Studies,CSM, UAL and proud alumni of Goldsmiths Visual Cultures
Stephen Cornford, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Lucrezia Cippitelli, Professor of Aesthetics and coordinator of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department, Brera Academy of Art, Milan.

Henriette Gunkel, Professor, Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Natasha Lohan
Paulo Tavares, adjunct visiting professor, Columbia GSAPP
Nagy V. Gergő, assistant professor, Film and Media Department, Sapientia EMTE
Anna McCarthy, Professor, Martin Scorsese department of Cinema studies, NYU
Dr Alexandra Anikina, Senior Lecturer in Media Practices, Department of Art and Media Technology, University of Southampton.
Asbjørn Grønstad, Professor of Visual Culture, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
Nora Sternfeld, Professor of Art Education, HFBK Hamburg
Megen de Bruin-Molé, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Practice, Department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Åsa Sonjasdotter, Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts in Artistic Practice, HDK-Valand Academy, the University of Gothenburg.
Dimitra Gkitsa, Lecturer, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Melissa Thackway, Lecturer in African Cinema, Sciences-Po & INALCO Paris
Dominic Pettman, University Professor of Media and New Humanities, The New School
Soyoung Kim, Professor, Cinema Studies, Korea Naional Univ. of Arts N
Daniela Agostinho, Assistant professor, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University
Dr Ceren Ozpinar, Course Leader for Art History and Visual Culture, University of Brighton
Joe Hill, Director, Towner Eastbourne
Devon Schiller, DOC Fellow in Cognitive Semiotics and Visual Epistemology, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna.

Jussi Parikka, Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University/University of Southampton
David J Beesley, PhD research Student, Fine Art, University of Reading
Rune Gade, Asscoiate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Boris Ondreička (curator)
Margot Bannerman, Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL
Beth E. Wilson, Lecturer in Art History, State University of New York at New Paltz
Jesse Cohn, Associate Professor of English, Purdue University Northwest
Georgia Perkins, PhD Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London
Sharon Kivland, Visiting Professor, Kingston University
Prof.Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Amsterdam. Formerly External Examiner in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths.

Erin Manning, Professor and Research Chair, Concordia University.
Xenia Benivolski, Lecturer at York University, OCAD University and and Daniels Faculty of Art and Architecture at the University of Toronto.

Claire Colebrook, Professor, Penn State University
Amanda Boetzkes, Research Leadership Chair, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Guelph
Paul Goodwin, Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity &Nation, University of the Arts London.

Korinna Patelis, Goldsmiths College Phd Media and Communications dept. 2000
Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez, Student, department of art theory and cultural studies, academy of fine arts Vienna
Joe Timothy Coleman, Ba Ma. Photography lecturer UWTSD, visual culture lecture UOG
Julie Cupples, Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh
Mark Sussman, Professor, Theatre, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society & Culture, Concordia University, Montreal.

Roger Hallas (Professor, English, Syracuse University)
Chris A. Whittey – Head, Art Department, Oklahoma State University and Professor of Art
Eric Alliez, Chaire de Philosophie et Créations Contemporaines en Art, Université Paris 8
Christopher B. Steiner, Lucy C. McDannel ’22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies. Connecticut College.

Gregory Sholette, Professor of Art, Theory, and Social Practice, the City University of New York
Max Haiven, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination, Lakehead University
Christian W. Chun, Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston
Angela Harutyunyan, Berlin University of the Arts
Irina Botea Bucan, SAIC LowRes adjunct faculty, Goldsmiths PHD candidate
Cécile Malaspina, New Centre for Reasearch & Practice and Collège international de philosophie
Cayo Honorato, Senior Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of Brasilia
Ozren Pupovac, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka
Himali Singh Soin, goldsmiths alumni, occasional tutor
Shannen Hill, Independent Scholar, Washington DC
Ami Clarke, Associate Lecturer, Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art, UAL, and founder and director of Banner Repeater gallery/public archive of artists’ publishing and Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing.

Silke Panse, Reader in Film, Art and Philosophy, University for the Creative Arts
Esther Peeren, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
Grace Ndiritu artist
Bojana Videkanic, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Canada
Zach Blas, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
Bernd Herzogenrath, Professor, American Studies, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Thomas Allen. Leverhulme visiting scholar, The American University of Paris
Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Kwame Phillips, Senior Lecturer of Media Practices, University of Southampton
Josefine Wikström (Senior Lecturer Aesthetics, Södertörns Högskola)
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair in Digital Scholarship, Assistant Professor of English and Film, Television, and Theater, University of Notre Dame.

Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art, Sheffield Hallam University
Leora Farber, Associate Professor, Director – Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg
Graham Barton, Head of UAL-wide Academic Support, UAL
Erina Duganne, Professor of Art History, School of Art & Design, Texas State University
Alex Parry, PhD researcher, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, University of Coventry
Emanuele Coccia Associate Professor at the EHESS, Paris, Centre for History and Theory of Arts (CEHTA)
Lucy A. Sames, Associate Lecturer in Visual Culture, Bristol UWE
Michael Rubenstein, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University
Nicholas Gamso, History of Art & Visual Culture, California College of the Arts
Nanna Heidenreich, Professor and Head of Department for Transcultural Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Kuba Ocean, Whitechapel Gallery
Alexei Penzin, Reader in Philosophy and Art Theory, University of Wolverhampton
Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP) Guest Professors Forensic Architecture (2023-24)
Samuel Mercer, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University
Dr Lilly Markaki, Associate Lecturer, Media Studies, RCA
Nina Hoechtl, fulltime researcher, Center of Gender Research and Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Professor, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz
Angela Sanchez-Castrillon. MA student at Whitechapel Gallery
Caren Kaplan, Emerita Professor, American Studies, UC Davis
Maria-Benedita Basto, Sorbonne université
Richard Taws, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, University College London
Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor, Univ. Of New Mexico
Laura Trafí-Prats, Reader, Education and Social Research, Manchester Metropolitan University
Anjali Vats, Associate Professor, Law and Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Norman Ajari, Lecturer in Francophone Black Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Karen J. Leader, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Arts and Art History, Florida Atlantic University
Inês Cordeiro Dias, Lecturer, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds
Sabiha Khan, Associate Professor of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso
Lennaart van Oldenborgh, Associate Lecturer Media Studies, Royal College of Art, and freelance Film Editor BFE
Dr Federica Frabetti
Mischa Piraud, chercheur associé, Université de Lausanne
Vlatka Horvat, University of the Arts London
Xalli Zúñiga, Ph.D. Independent researcher
Christof Migone, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Corina L. Apostol, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam

Dr Iain Campbell, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Professor, UCLA
Jeff O’Brien, Curator, History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gerald Nestler, Alumni, Visual Cultures, CRA
Giovanbattista Tusa, Researcher of Philosophy and Ecology, Nova University of Lisbon
Iannis (John) Bardakos, Adjunct Professor Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Technoetic Arts, co-editor Technoetic Arts Journal, member-at-large American Society for Cybernetics, Cognitive Nexus : Shanghai.

Benjamin Gerdes, Artistic Researcher funded by Swedish Research Council, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm.
Kassandra Wellendorf, associated teaching professor, Visual Culture, University of Copenhagen
Jenny Marketou Professor New Media Art and Civic Engagement
Jamiel ahmad, Lecturer, Department of English, university of kashmir
Nadja Millner-Larsen, Visiting Assistant Professor, NYU (former Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths)
Irina Aristarkhova, Professor of Art and Design and Digital Studies, University of Michigan
Sarah Gilbert, Associate Professor of Art and affiliate faculty in Gender & Feminist Studies, Pitzer College, The Claremont Jihoon Kim, professor of cinema and media studies, Chung-ang University, South Korea
Dejan Kršić, Professor, Department of visual communications, Arts academy Split (UMAS), Croatia
Mark JL Sabine, Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham
Kira O’Reilly, independant artist based in Helsinki
Luz María Sánchez Cardona, Associate Professor, Kunstakademiet – institutt for samtidskunst Fakultet for Kunst, Musik og Design Universitetet i Bergen.

Michelle Henning, Professor, Chair in Photography and Media, University of Liverpool.
Ryan Bishop, Professor of Global Art and Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Dr Hamish Gane, Practice-Based Doctoral Supervisor, Swansea College of Art, UWTSD.
Dr Sigrid Holmwood, artist.
Sarah Capel PhD student and artist, Coventry University.
Dr. Véronique Chance, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA Fine Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Silvana Carotenuto dpd human and social sciences università d nail l’orientale, Naples.
Md Tasnim Islam Patwary, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology,University of Dhaka.
Maxime Boidy, Lecturer, Visual Culture, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France.
Parul Dave Mukherji, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Dr Lucy Woollett, Associate Lecturer BA Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Art.
Ina Blom, Professor, University of Oslo and University of Chicago.
Isabel Löfgren, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University.
Bruno Verner, Associate Lecture, MA Music Production, University of The Arts.
Anders Kreuger, Director, Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki.
Manoela dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues, Art and Visual Culture Graduate Programme, Federal University of Goias, Brazil.
Jason Waite, Fellow, Panel on Planetary Thinking Justus Liebig University.
Maggie Roberts (BA Fine Art Critical Studies, Central St Martins UAL and Senior Researcher, AIDesignLab RCA, both London).
Liam Weikart, VA Tech, Sociology.
Tung-Hui Hu, Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan.
Tiziana Terranova, Professor of Cultural Studies and Digital Media, Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy.
Nicolás Rodríguez Idárraga, Lecturer in Latin American and Global Studies, University of Amsterdam
Kirstin Ringelberg, Professor of Art History, Elon University.
Bill Balaskas, Director of the Centre for Practice Research in the Arts & Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange of the School of Arts, Kingston University, London.
David McNally, Distinguished Professor, University of Houston.
Deborah Jack, Professor, Art Department, New Jersey City University.
Ylva Habel, Ph. D. in media Studies., independent researcher, affiliated with CEMFOR, Centre for interdisciplinary research on Racism, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Michael Goddard, Reader in Film snd Screen Media, MCCS, Goldsmith
Helen Rice.
Lisa E. Bloom, Scholar in Residence, Dept of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Steven Shaviro (Emeritus, English, Wayne State University).
Ashley Woodward (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee).
Dan Hicks, Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Roddey Reid, Professor Emeritus, Literature, University of California, San Diego.
Rebekka Ladewig, Vertretungsprofessorin für Kunstwissenschaft und Medienphilosophie, HfG Karlsruhe, Germany.
Caroline Deeds, Lecturer, The School of Film and Television, Falmouth University
José Filipe Costa – IADE – universidade europeia, Lisboa.
Dr Assunta Ruocco, Lincoln School of Creative Arts, University of Lincoln.
Natilee Harren, Associate Professor of Art History and Critical Studies, University of Houston School of Art.
Ross Elfline, Professor of Art History, Carleton College
Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernandez, Assist. Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, University of Nevada, Reno.
Dr Cathy Lane, Professor of Sound Arts, UAL.
David Alesworth : Assoc. Prof. : BNU.
Dushko Petrovich Córdova, Professor, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Michele Cometa, Professor of Visual Culture and Cultural Studies, University of Palermo.
Jentery Sayers, Director of Media Studies, University of Victoria.
Polly Savage, Senior Lecturer in the Art History of Africa, SOAS, University of London.
Lata Mani, Ph.D. Independent Scholar & Filmmaker.
Carl Gent, Department of Art, Goldsmiths.
Eivind Røssaak.
Lalitte Stolper, lecturer at the Institute de Philosophie Comparative, Paris.
Smadar Dreyfus, Artist.
Gaby David, PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle & Paris College of Art.
Dr Elspeth Mitchell, Lecturer, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
Joel McKim, Reader in Digital Media and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
Candice Breitz, Professor of Art, HBK Braunschweig.
Seb Franklin, Reader in Literature, Media and Theory, King’s College London
Audrey LEBLANC, EHESS, Paris.
Tim Murray, Curator of Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, and Professor of Comparative Literature and Literatures of English, Cornell University.

Renée Petropoulos, Professor Emeritus, Otis College of Art and Design, Graduate Studies, Los Angeles.
Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Independent writer and curator.
Matterlurgy Studio, Artists.
Basia Sliwinska (Researcher, Institute of Art History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).
Ine Therese Berg, Associate professor, department of art and media studies, Norwegian University of Technology and Science.
Andy Bannister, Interim Course Leader, BA and MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School
Alisa Lebow, Professor of Screen Media, University of Sussex.
Malini Guha, Associate Professor, Film Studies, Carleton University.
Lize van Robbroeck, Professor of Visual Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Nabeel Zuberi, Associate Professor, Media and Screen Studies, University of Auckland.
Marco Deseriis, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence and Pisa, Dr Owen Parry, Lecturer Fine Art Critical Studies, Central Saint Martins, UAL.
Stella Viljoen, Associate Professor of Visual Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Bibi Burger (Lecturer, School for Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town).
Anders Birger, Associated Lecturer, London College of Communication.
Sam Nightingale, Lecturer, Media Studies/ School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London.
Karen Levitov, Director, Zuccaire Gallery, Professor of Practice, Art Dept, Stony Brook University.
Griselda Pollock, Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art, Director emerita of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History University of Leeds.
Eric Prenowitz, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
Ruby C. Tapia, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Virginia.
Molemo Moiloa, independent artist.
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities, Spanish & Portuguese, New York University.
Barbara E. Frank, Professor, Stony Brook University.
Dr. Tessa Lewin, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Anna Sherbany Lecturer(retired) Fine Art Kingston University.
Liz Stainforth, Lecturer in Heritage Studies, University of Leeds.
Chantal Meng, Parsons School of Design, The New School.
Macushla Robinson.
Dr Neil Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Falmouth University.
Diva Gujral, LSE Fellow, Department of International History, London School of Economics.
Avraham Oz, Emeritus Professor, University of Haifa.
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Associate Professor of Film and Media, Seattle University
John Mowitt, Emeritus Professor University of Leeds.

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Photograph of Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Building by Artur Salisz (taken on July 11, 2012 and used here as per CC BY-NC 2.0).

JVC Magazine. “Open letter in protest against redundancies at Visual Cultures in Goldsmiths, University of London,” 17 July 2024, http://journalofvisualculture.org/goldsmiths-open-letter/