Professor Felicity Colman

Biography

Felicity Colman is Professor of Media Arts.

Felicity serves as Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts London. Situated at the UAL East Bank campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, Felicity is responsible for leading the London College of Fashion's local and global intersections of research innovation, industry impact, and community collaboration. Felicity is the Chair of the UAL Professoriate. Externally, she sits on multiple review boards for commercial, public, and government funding bodies, including the UKRI's AHRC Peer College since 2009. Felicity is an editor for the New Materialisms book series for Edinburgh University Press.

Felicity’s research focus is on screen media forms, creative philosophies, feminist philosophy, ethics of technology, the learning environment with ML and AI, and the metaphysics of creativity in the algorithmic condition. Recent publications include "Feminising politics: notes on material and temporal feminist modal logics in action" (2020, Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research), “Quantum Feminicity” (2023, Technophany: Journal for Philosophy and Technology), and an edited volume with Iris Van der Tuin, Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms (2024, EUP).

Felicity was educated in Australia on the central and eastern lands of the Wanamara people of Queensland, the Bindal people of the Wulgurukaba nation, Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation, and the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Theory and History of Art from the University of Queensland, a Bachelor (Hons) Fashion and Textile Design from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, a Master of Arts in Australian Art from Monash University, and a PhD in Art History and Screen from the University of Melbourne. Felicity worked in the creative industries as a curator and writer, and she has taught and worked in Higher Education in Australia and in the United Kingdom for over 20 years.

Felicity welcomes students for PhD research supervision in both practice and theoretical research in the areas of art, cultural studies, political modalities of fashion, feminist practice, film, media theory, and ethics of technology.