Dr Gregory Minissale

PhD (SOAS, London), MA (SOAS, London), MSc (City University), BA (Sussex)

Associate Professor

In: Humanities » Faculty of Arts

Biography

Gregory was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and studied Art History and Italian at the University of Sussex. He completed his masters and PhD in Art History at the School of African and Oriental Art, University of London on the subject of cross-cultural encounters in art. He has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA USA and London Metropolitan University.

Research | Current

The psychology of art
Critical theory
Contemporary art and visual culture
Mughal art

Teaching | Current

ARTHIST 204 Ways of Seeing Contemporary Art

ARTHIST 334 Ways of Seeing Contemporary Art

Postgraduate supervision

PhD

Velazquez and Foucault
Time and Contemporary Art [VC’s Best Thesis]
Inter-subjectivity and choreographic practice
Art in the City, the City in Art
The Crisis of the object
Thinking Matter
Bio Art
Irony in Contemporary Indian Art

Sculpture and Heidegger
Art and Representations of AIDS/HIV
Art and Trans Bodies
The Archive and Contemporary NZ Art
Susanna+Bathsheba: The Male Gaze 1250-1650
Feminist Approaches to Digital Art
Historiography and Contemporary Art
Menstruation in art
Urban Art
Sonic Art
Misogynist Responses to Tracey Emin's Art.
Fiona Connor
Cosmography in art
Entomology in art
Dance and Art
Authenticity in Contemporary Art
Neon Art
Peter Greenaway’s Last Supper

Distinctions/Honours

2013 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award

Areas of expertise

Contemporary art and theory
Psychological and phenomenological approaches to art and materiality

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Art History's Representative on the Humanities Research Committee

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Sindhwani, S., Minissale, G., Weber, G., Lutteroth, C., Lambert, A., Curtis, N., & Broadbent, E. (2020). A Multidisciplinary Study of Eye Tracking Technology for Visual Intelligence. EDUCATION SCIENCES, 10 (8)10.3390/educsci10080195
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Shyamli Sindhwani, Anthony Lambert, Elizabeth Broadbent
Law, M., Minissale, G., Lambert, A., Nater, U. M., Skoluda, N., Ryckman, N., ... Broadbent, E. (2020). Viewing landscapes is more stimulating than scrambled images after a stressor: A cross-disciplinary approach. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 1010.3389/fpsyg.2019.03092
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Anthony Lambert, Elizabeth Broadbent, Mikaela Law
Minissale, G. (2019). The Queering of Action Man. Queer Objects (pp. 57-62). New York: Rutgers University Press.
Minissale, G. (2018). Global and local multistability in contemporary art. In C. Albu, D. Schuld (Eds.) Perception and agency in shared spaces of contemporary art (pp. 107-117). New York: Routledge.
Minissale, G. (2015). Problem spaces in the Walters Prize. Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture (7), 126-146.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27388
Minissale, G. (2015). Becoming-cyborg. In L. Grabbe, P. Rupert-Kruse, N. Schmitz (Eds.) Cyborgian images: The moving image between apparatus and body (pp. 164-185). Darmstadt: Buchner-Verlag.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27387
Minissale, G. (2015). The Invisible Within: Dispersing Masculinity in Art. Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 20 (1), 71-83. 10.1080/0969725X.2015.1017378
Minissale, G. (2015). Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramović’s Seven Easy Pieces. In C. Jeffery (Ed.) The Artist as Curator (pp. 131-149). Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL: Intellect.