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Dr Joel McKim

Positions held:
  • Reader in Digital Media and Culture, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    My work focuses on the study of digital images and the impact of digital technologies on architecture, art and design. I'm the Director of the and I'm currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the where I'm working on a project entitled "A Prehistory of Machine Vision: Exploring the V&A Computer Art Collection."

    My first book聽Architecture, Media and Memory: Confronting Complexity in Post-9/11 New York聽was published last year by Bloomsbury. I'm currently working on a second book entitled聽Rendered: Digital Animation in Art, Architecture and Design, which draws from an ongoing investigation of the rapidly expanding field of digital animation, undertaken in collaboration with Esther Leslie. This animation project has thus far included the BIH sponsored , an ongoing BIMI/Vasari sponsored digital animation screening series, and a 2017 special issue of the journal聽animation聽entitled "."

    I am currently聽the co-director of the聽.

    My previous professional experience includes web design and internet analytics.

  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    My research focuses on spaces of political communication in the urban environment and the intersection of media technologies and architectural design. I am broadly interested in tracing lines of communication across human, material and ecological systems. The research I undertake is, therefore, quite inter-disciplinary and draws together such fields as architectural and urban studies, digital media theory, memory studies, philosophy of aesthetics and communication theory.

    More specifically, I am completing a book entitled聽Memory Complex: Competing Visions for a Post-9/11 New York, which questions the relationship between architecture, media and politics in the aftermath of September 11. The book discusses the cultural and political significance of architectural sites ranging in size from the Reflecting Absence memorial at Ground Zero, to the redevelopment of the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island (the final resting place of World Trade Center debris) into a public park and wetlands conservation area.

    I am also completing research on the "mediatic infrastructure" that is increasingly underpinning our urban environments, examining the emergence of public screen technologies, creative economy initiatives and digital design practices.

    Before taking up my current position at 糖心logo入口, I was a Kenneth P. Dietrich Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and an FQRSC Post-Doctoral Fellow at McGill University in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, where I participated in the Media and Urban Life research group. I have also been a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Critical and Creative AI
    • Screen Media: History, Technology and Culture
    • Digital Design Thinking
    • Managing Digital Media
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • McKim, Joel (2025) . Dialogues in Urban Research ISSN 2754-1258.
    • McKim, Joel and Arrigoni, G. (2022) . Museum Management and Curatorship ISSN 0964-7775.
    • McKim, Joel (2021) . Photographies 14 (3), pp. 459-479. ISSN 1754-0763.
    • McKim, Joel (2019) . Unthinking Photography
    • Barton, Hannah and McKim, Joel and Eve, Martin Paul (2017) . 糖心logo入口 Events Blog
    • Mckim, Joel (2017) . Animation 12 (3), pp. 287-305. ISSN 1746-8477.
    • Mckim, Joel and Myers, N. (2017) . Animation 12 (3), pp. 350-359. ISSN 1746-8477.
    • McKim, Joel (2016) . Critical Quarterly 58 (1), pp. 46-51. ISSN 0011-1562.
    • McKim, Joel (2012) . Public 23 (45), pp. 128-138. ISSN 0845-4450.
    • Barnard-Wills, D. and Moore, C. and McKim, Joel (2012) . Space and Culture 15 (2), pp. 92-97. ISSN 1206-3312.
    • McKim, Joel (2012) . Oxford Art Journal 35 (2), pp. 301-304. ISSN 0142-6540.
    • McKim, Joel (2010) . Borderlands 9 (2), ISSN 1447-0810.
    • McKim, Joel (2009) . Inflexions 3,
    • McKim, Joel (2008) . Theory, Culture & Society 25 (5), pp. 83-103. ISSN 0263-2764.
    • McKim, Joel (2008) . TOPIA: The Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 20, pp. 231-234. ISSN 1916-0194.

    Book

    • Mckim, Joel (2018) . London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350037663.

    Book review

    • Mckim, Joel (2026) .

    Book section

    • McKim, Joel (2022) . In: Rose, G. (ed.) Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time. Cities and Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 35-56. ISBN 9789463727037.
    • McKim, Joel (2020) . In: van Gageldonk, M. and Munte谩n, L. and Shobeiri, A. (eds.) Animation and Memory. Palgrave Animation (PAANI). London: Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 163-179. ISBN 9783030348885.
    • McKim, Joel (2016) . In: Rodgers, Scott and Markham, Tim (eds.) Conditions of Mediation. Peter Lang. pp. 149-159. ISBN 9781433137297.
    • McKim, Joel (2014) . In: Boler, Megan and Ratto, Matt (eds.) DIY Citizenship. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262026819.
    • Mckim, Joel (2014) . In: The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy and Architecture. Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 133-149. ISBN 9781472512185.
    • McKim, Joel (2012) . In: Lyd茅n, K. and Wallenstein, S.-O. and West, K. (eds.) Site 31-32: Remake Remodel. Stockholm, Sweden: Axl Books. ISBN 9789186883072.
    • McKim, Joel (2010) . In: Burke, L. and Faulkner, S. and Aulich, J. (eds.) The Politics of Cultural Memory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 62-75. ISBN 9781847189349.
    • McKim, Joel (2008) . In: Kiendl, A. (ed.) Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing. pp. 190-195. ISBN 9781906155339.

    Conference item

    • Mckim, Joel (2016) . Christie's Education Conference 2016: Creating Markets, Collecting Art, 2016, London, UK
    • McKim, Joel (2011) . Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference, 2011, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
    • McKim, Joel (2011) . Cultural Studies Association Conference, 2011, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
    • McKim, Joel (2010) . Montreal Festival City Symposium, 2010, Montreal, Canada
    • McKim, Joel (2010) . DIY Citizenship Conference, 2010, University of Toronto
    • McKim, Joel (2009) . Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Conference, 2009, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • McKim, Joel (2001) . Concordia, 2001, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Editorial

    • McKim, Joel and Leslie, Esther (2017) . Animation 12 (3), pp. 207-213. Sage. ISSN 1746-8477.

    Monograph

    • McKim, Joel and Arrigoni, G. and Kane, N. and McConnachie, S. (2022) . London, UK: V&A Research Institute.

    Other

    • McKim, Joel (2022) . Animation Studies 2.0 Animation Studies 2.0.