I am a London-based scholar of postwar art and visual culture, specialising in experimental film and media. My research is interdisciplinary and bridges art history, film & media studies, and visual studies.
I am currently a Lecturer in Lens and Time-Based Art Histories at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and in 2023-24, I will be the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford.
From 2018-2023, I was Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Culture at the University of Idaho and Executive Editor of Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus.
Past publications include Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s (Duke University Press, 2022), which I co-edited with Timothy Stott (Trinity College Dublin), as well as articles and reviews in academic journals, including Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Camera Obscura, Millennium Film Journal, Art Journal, Critical Studies in Media Communication, MIRAJ: Moving Image Review and Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, Radical History Review, Journal of Art & the Public Sphere, amongst others. I’ve also contributed chapters to a number of edited collections, including the German/English language anthology, Black Mountain College as Multiverse (Verlag Kettler, 2022), Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 (Yale UP, 2019), Experimental and Expanded Animation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 2015).
My current project is a book on the queer American artist Ray Johnson, which received an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital.
Beyond academic scholarship, I also enjoy writing for broader audiences in museum catalogues, including an essay for Call it Something Else, an exhibition on Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press opening at the Reina Sofia in September 2023, four essays for Ray Johnson c/o at the Art Institute of Chicago (2021-22), and the concluding essay in Bruce Conner: It’s All True at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art (2016).
You can contact me via email at johanna.gosse [at] courtauld [dot] ac [dot] uk.