Dr Danny Butt

Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006).

Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination.