Dr Aline Guillermet

Dr Aline Guillermet studied philosophy in France and Germany, and holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex (2015). She has published widely on the aesthetic impact of science and technology on art since the 1960s, including her recent monograph Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). She is now working on a new research project that reassess the current moment of AI-generated art in the light of the historical backdrop of computer art and information aesthetics.

Aline has held a Junior Research Fellowship in Visual Culture at King’s College, Cambridge (2016-21), and a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York (2012-13). She taught at the University of Essex between 2015 and 2016 and, since 2016, has taught graduate and undergraduate students on a wide range of subjects at the University of Cambridge.