Christoph Cox
Graduate Committee
Christoph Cox is a philosopher, critic, and curator of visual and sonic art. He is Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, where he teaches contemporary European philosophy and art theory. Cox is the author of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California Press, 1999), and co-editor of Realism Materialism Art (CCS/Sternberg, 2015), and Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Bloomsbury, 2017). The recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, Cox is editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in October, Artforum, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Wire, Journal of Visual Culture, Organised Sound, The Review of Metaphysics, and elsewhere. Cox has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Kitchen, New Langton Arts, and G Fine Art Gallery, the Brick & Mortar International Video Art Festival, and elsewhere. He has written catalog essays for exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Mass MoCA, Berlin’s Akademie der Künste, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and other venues.
