Bio
Dr. Andy Weir is an artist, writer and educator, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea UAL, London. His research explores relations of art to deep times and futures of the underground, drawing on materialist philosophies, myth and planetary politics.
Recent publications and projects include the co-curated symposium Fiction Machines 4; writing in Journal of Visual Culture; Politics of Design Reframed and Beyond Modernity: Alternative Incursions into the Anthropocene. Recent exhibitions include Splitting The Atom, Vilnius Art Centre; The Work of Time, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; Neuhaus, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, and Perpetual Uncertainty, Malmo and Umea Art Museums.
He completed his PhD at Goldsmiths, Uni. of London, focusing on art and long-term isolation of radioactive waste. He is a peer-reviewer for various publications including Journal for Artistic Research, and member of Nuclear Culture Research Group. He is editor of the art research journal Self Moving Matter and is currently working on a book on Deep Time Now bringing together recent research, planned to come out with Intellect in 2026.
Stills from Polymerized Flow Snag 2023
Andy Weir