welcome click the arrow above ‘augustjordandavis.tumblr.com’ aka ‘august jordan davis, phd on-line’ is a directory of my on-line lives. each of the photographs on this blog will direct you to a different site of my on-line presence. return to the home page of this blog and click on the photos* to start the tour… *NB: the photos have click-thru links opening other sites in new windows, but be sure to scroll down as the photos also have caption boxes which often contain additional links… +about: i am an art historian from Dallas, Texas, but have lived for more than 15 years all over England.  after six years in London, I relocated back to Dallas (may 2010 - october 2011). however, i am once again based in England, now in Winchester, Hampshire.  my doctoral thesis was on American artist and activist Martha Rosler’s photomontage series “Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful” (1967 - 1972) and “Bringing the War Home: New Series” (2004 - 2008). presently, i am senior research fellow at the winchester school of art, university of southampton, working within our research centre winchester centre for global futures in art design & media (aka Global Futures). (oct. 2012) there are more updates to come soon… (28 feb. 2013) i’ve updated as much as poss, for now ;-)

welcome

click the arrow above

‘augustjordandavis.tumblr.com’ aka ‘august jordan davis, phd on-line’ is a directory of my on-line lives.

each of the photographs on this blog will direct you to a different site of my on-line presence.

return to the home page of this blog and click on the photos* to start the tour…

*NB: the photos have click-thru links opening other sites in new windows, but be sure to scroll down as the photos also have caption boxes which often contain additional links…

+about: i am an art historian from Dallas, Texas, but have lived for more than 15 years all over England.  after six years in London, I relocated back to Dallas (may 2010 - october 2011). however, i am once again based in England, now in Winchester, Hampshire.  my doctoral thesis was on American artist and activist Martha Rosler’s photomontage series “Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful” (1967 - 1972) and “Bringing the War Home: New Series” (2004 - 2008). presently, i am senior research fellow at the winchester school of art, university of southampton, working within our research centre winchester centre for global futures in art design & media (aka Global Futures).

(oct. 2012) there are more updates to come soon…

(28 feb. 2013) i’ve updated as much as poss, for now ;-)

drawings this is a blog of my drawings - speaks for itself…
music ………………………… http://mixmasterajdphd.tumblr.com/ ………………………… as much as i love the visual arts (including film, of course), i always have been passionate about music.  mix master ajd phd is my blog of music compilations / ‘mixtapes’ / (video)playlists, just begun in january 2011.  but i have been both a receipient and maker of mixes since 1981! ………………………… they have played a big part in my life, its (aural) textures, the soundtrack of daydreams and the music by which decisions (important, major, life-changing decisions no less) have been taken.  i hope to continue making - and sharing - them for years to come…  Oct. 2012 update: here are some playlists I added to Spotify: ‘Answer to Yourself’ (Jan. 2011): http://spoti.fi/R8Jclm ‘Bang Bang’ (Summer 2012): http://spoti.fi/WjYSHi ‘Radio on the TV’ (Summer / Autumn 2012): http://spoti.fi/Qe8CxD
friendface* social networking …………………………………………………….. twitter: @augustjordan …………………………………………………….. academia.edu: Dr August Jordan Davis  …………………………………………………….. Linked In: August Davis …………………………………………………….. pinterest: augustjordan …………………………………………………….. blip.fm: @augustjordan …………………………………………………….. i’m also on facebook* …………………………………………………….. there is also one extant music video i made in 2006 on youtube ………………………………………………. *friendface is facebook on Graham Linehan’s (UK) Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd 

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social networking

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twitter: @augustjordan

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academia.edu: Dr August Jordan Davis 

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Linked In: August Davis

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pinterest: augustjordan

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blip.fm: @augustjordan

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i’m also on facebook*

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there is also one extant music video i made in 2006 on youtube

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*friendface is facebook on Graham Linehan’s (UK) Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd 

observations http://augustjordanobservations.tumblr.com/ fran lebowitz spoke about artists and outsider, observational positions - it inspired this blog which houses my little observations: the ones too big for twitter but too small for sites holding more lengthy pieces.
art history http://augustjordanarthistory.tumblr.com/ at 15 in autumn 1989 i made the life-changing decision to pursue art history seriously - it has become a way of life building on my life-long love of all things art, music, books, thoughts, daydreams, painting, messing, creating, etc. this blog is just a side-line channel for sketches of ideas, unpublished review(s), transcript from my opening remarks at CAA 2013 “Art & ‘the war on terror’: 10 years on” session, and other such miscellaneous art history items not yet comprising articles of mine… 
Point and Shoot London http://pointandshootlondon.tumblr.com/ is a blog of two series of photographs I made in London, September 2010
Photography http://augustjordan.tumblr.com/ is a blog devoted (mainly) to my photography (c. January 2010 to present [focusing mainly on 2010 to 2011]) and collections ‘10 - ‘12 is another tumblr site featuring my more recent photography  (mainly from March 2011 to March 2012)
Published Chapter “Martha Rosler’s Fighting Legions: Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975/2003) - Performance and the (Video) Document” is the chapter I wrote for Prof. Jonathan Harris’s anthology of texts: Dead History, Live Art? Spectacle, Subjectivity and Subversion in Visual Culture Since the 1960s
Association of Art Historians (AAH) I have delivered papers at four AAH annual conferences: Nottingham, 2004: “In the Place of the Public: The Psychogeography of Martha Rosler” Bristol, 2005: “A Woman’s Work is Never Done” Belfast, 2007: “Spectres and Spectacles: The Visual Culture of Martha Rosler” Milton Keynes, 2012: “Stars Wars: Return of the Sixties (or why Martha Rosler brought the war home yet again”
The Art Book I wrote multiple book reviews for the journal The Art Book (published through Blackwells / Wiley online; affliated with the [British] Association of Art Historians).  These can be found on-line. Although The Art Book has ceased publication, the Founding and Executive Editor Sue Ward is starting, along with fellow editor Frances Follin, a new on-line arts magazine Cassone, for which I will be contributing future reviews.
“Tweeting Art Historians include modernist August Jordan Davis”
ajd by others e.g.: University of Southampton: My staff profile page this is my staff profile as senior research fellow at winchester school of art, part of university of southampton …………………………………………………………………………………………….. My Academia.edu (and its CV pdf) and LinkedIn profiles show all my most current conference and publications information… …………………………………………………………………………………………….. CAVA PhD students: http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cava/Phd_Students.htm this is my abstract / bio on my doctoral research conducted at University of Liverpool under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Harris (Dec. 2002 - Jan. 2010; with a 9 month break in ‘08/’09) …………………………………………………………………………………………….. Peer Esteem exhibition at Five Years Gallery, East London: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/150317/1/archive2/pages/017/pages/017.html this was an exhibition in which I showed four collages in 2007 ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 2007 Surrealism Centre Conference, held at Tate Modern: http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/documents/Symposium2007.pdf i gave a paper on the collages of artists martha rosler and max ernst (also see: http://surreal.web.its.manchester.ac.uk/news/events.htm )

ajd by others

e.g.:

University of Southampton:

My staff profile page

this is my staff profile as senior research fellow at winchester school of art, part of university of southampton

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My Academia.edu (and its CV pdf) and LinkedIn profiles show all my most current conference and publications information…

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CAVA PhD students:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cava/Phd_Students.htm

this is my abstract / bio on my doctoral research conducted at University of Liverpool under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Harris (Dec. 2002 - Jan. 2010; with a 9 month break in ‘08/’09)

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Peer Esteem exhibition at Five Years Gallery, East London:

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/150317/1/archive2/pages/017/pages/017.html

this was an exhibition in which I showed four collages in 2007

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2007 Surrealism Centre Conference, held at Tate Modern:

http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/documents/Symposium2007.pdf

i gave a paper on the collages of artists martha rosler and max ernst

(also see: http://surreal.web.its.manchester.ac.uk/news/events.htm )

http://augustjordandavis.blogspot.com/ my second blog (c. 2007/8 - 2010)
http://augustjdavis.blog.co.uk/ my first blog (c. 2005 - 2007) although in 1997 i had a website attached to a photographic project i created for my MA in Visual Arts in Contemporary Culture at Keele University (conducted with Alan Schechner, Jonathan Harris and Francis Frascina)