2010–14 Board Election
2007 CAA Board of Directors Election
Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton
Statement: CAA is a pioneering organization that promotes, facilitates, and speaks for all practitioners of art, art history, and visual studies. The next four years will be an exciting but challenging period, providing fresh opportunities for artistic culture. As a senior academic in the visual arts at the University of Brighton, a leading research university in the UK that also embraces humanities, the history of art and design, critical theory, and art practice, I feel that I can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience through both my research activities and a disciplinary awareness gained through membership on various international boards and committees. In particular, I would like to address CAA’s future strategy for advocacy and communications by encouraging international partnerships through exchange, collaboration, and outreach.
Biography: Sue Gollifer is principal lecturer in fine art at the University of Brighton. She is a course leader for the MA programs in digital-media arts, printmaking, and professional practice; she is also a PhD supervisor in digital processes in fine-art practice.
A professional artist and printmaker for more than thirty years, Gollifer has exhibited her work worldwide and been collected by major international public institutions. A pioneer of early computer art, she has continuously explored the relationship between technology and the arts and has written extensively on this subject. Gollifer has participated on a number of international conference panels, and her writing has appeared in fifteen scholarly publications and refereed journals.
Since 1995 Gollifer has played a significant role in an international conference, Computers in Art and Design Education (CADE). She was also curator at ArCade I–IV, a series of exhibitions of digital fine-art prints held in conjunction with the conference. She is assistant editor of the journal Digital Creativity and curator of its visual section, “Artist Space,” which includes images by artists and printmakers who use digital technologies in their work.
In 2004 Gollifer was appointed art gallery chair by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) for the 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Techniques, held in Los Angeles. She is standing for director at large for SIGGRAPH’07. Gollifer also serves on a number of national and international committees: she is a director for the Design and Artists Copyright Society in the UK and a member of CAA’s Professional Practices Committee and the New Media Caucus, an affiliated society. She previously served on CAA’s Education Committee, and is currently a branch officer for the University and College Union in the UK.
