Peter Ride
B.A. (Hons.) (Australian National University), Ph.D. (University of Westminster, UK)
Email: pride@mun.ca
Phone: (709) 637-6223
Office: FA 414
Peter Ride comes to Memorial having formerly been Principal Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, UK, (2001-2021), where he was the Program Director for the MA in Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture and for the MA in Visual Culture. He was also a member of University of Westminster’s Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM). His additional academic experience includes Adjunct Faculty, MA Museum Studies, Johns Hopkins University (2011-2019).
Born and educated in Australia, Ride has worked in a wide range of arts organisations in the UK including The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Cambridge Darkroom Gallery; The Arts Technology Centre (Artec), London; and DA2 Digital Arts Development Agency, Bristol.
He is the co-author, with Professor Andrew Dewdney, of ‘The New Media Handbook’, (Routledge: 2006) and the ‘Digital Media Handbook (Routledge: 2013) and he has published widely on new media projects in museums and galleries and on participation in the arts, including Ride, P. ‘Participation in the Art Museum: Defining New Models for Public Engagement at Tate Exchange’, Tate Papers, no.34, 2020.
His Doctorate studies at the University of Westminster, were in Visual Culture with a PhD titled, Putting It Together- examining new media arts and creative practice (2013).
Research
Academic publications
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2020 Ride, P. ‘Participation in the Art Museum: Defining New Models for Public Engagement at Tate Exchange’, Tate Papers, no.34, 2020. Link.
2018 Eardley, A. F., Dobbin, C., Neves, J. & Ride P. E. ‘Shoes-off, Hands-on: Multisensory tools enhance family engagement with an Art Museum’ Visitor Studies. 21 (1), pp. 79-97.
2018 Ride, P. ‘Suspended: Art in the Threshold’ in Parry, R. Page, R. & Moseley, M. (eds.) Museum Thresholds: The Design and Media of Arrival Routledge Research in Museum Studies, London: Routledge. ISBN 10: 1138646032.
Research creation: curated exhibitions and public engagement events
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2024 We are Here, curated photography exhibition with Association for New Canadians, Grenfell Art Gallery, Newfoundland.
2023-4 What is Somewhere, curated program of public events exploring place, arts, and identity; collaboration with OCADU, Center for Research and Innovation, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
2022 Private Lives in Britain, curated exhibition at Lianzhou Festival of Photography, China
2019 The Museum of Things that Don’t Stand Still, curated public events programme Tate Exchange, Tate Modern 14-17 May 2019
2018 Make or Break, public events programme Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 26 March-1 April 2018
Grants and funded research
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2020 Quintin Hogg Trust, Principal Investigator: Ride, P. Face the Public, community engagement at Tate Exchange.
2019 Quintin Hogg Trust, Principal Investigator: Ride, P. Exploring Culture Via Cartoons, Collaboration with the Cartoon Museum, London.
2019 Museum of London, Principal Investigator: Ride, P. Narrative Structures Research
Conference papers
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2024 Exploring the ancestors in China: family photographs colonialism and reconciliation, Lianzhou Festival Conference, Lianzhou Festival of Photography, China
2018 Ride, P. ‘Multisensory engagement and the transcultural object’ ICOM-ICME 51st Annual Conference, Re-imagining the Museum in the Global Contemporary Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia, Oct 2018
Professional affiliations
2019-2024 Board member, ICOM-ICME International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography, International Council for Museums