Deleuze/Guattari; critical intersection between philosophy, visual arts and art history; problems of art historical methodology; the temporality of art history; 16th century Italian painting.
Kamini Vellodi is an artist, writer and researcher in modern European philosophy, and lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her research spans modern and contemporary continental philosophy, the philosophy and historiography of art history, and sixteenth century painting in Italy. She specialises in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and her recent publications have focused on the conceptual, methodological and critical implications of Deleuze and Guattari’s work, and its philosophical lineage, for the practice of art history.
Her monograph, Tintoretto’s Difference. Deleuze, Diagrammatics and Art History, Bloomsbury Academic, was published in December 2018.
Kamini has a PhD in Philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, and Postgraduate and Undergraduate degrees in Fine Art (Painting) from the Royal College of Art and Chelsea College of Art, London.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internally in the UK, Europe and India and her work is held in several private and public collections.
Kamini is an editorial board member of the journal Art History.
www.kaminivellodi.com