Cadence Kinsey

Prof. dr. Cadence Kinsey is Professor of Contemporary Art and Global and Social Challenges at Utrecht University's Department of History and Art History. Previously, she served as Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at University College London and Lecturer in Recent and Contemporary Art at the University of York.

• Current research explores post-2008 subjectivity and inequality through feminist science & technology studies and sociology
• Key expertise in digital technologies, internet culture, and social class dynamics
• Author of Walled Gardens: Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet (OUP, 2021)

Her research output spans post-internet art, digital representation, and the intersection of technology with bodily identity. Articles like Matrices of Embodiment (2014) and Fluid Dynamics (2020) reveal consistent themes of:

• Digital materiality and subjectivity
• Networked embodiment
• Platform-specific artistic practices
• Temporal structures in digital art
• Post-internet aesthetics
• Feminist technocultural critique

Active in curatorial practice through exhibitions like Exposure and Contrast (2024) at LSE, Kinsey continues to bridge academic research with public engagement. Her work appears in journals like Art History, Grey Room, and Signs.