About me
Dr Brian Castriota is a Glasgow-based researcher, educator, and conservator specialised in time-based media, contemporary art, and archaeological materials. He is Lecturer in Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media at University College London (2023–), Time-Based Media Conservator at the National Galleries Scotland (2018–), and Freelance Conservator for Time-Based Media and Contemporary Art at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2018–). He has previously held Lecturer positions at the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Fine Arts - NYU. He served as Supervising Conservator with Harvard Art Museums’ Archaeological Exploration of Sardis from 2018 to 2023 and has worked on various excavations in Turkey, Italy, and Egypt since 2011. His research and scholarship consider how agential realism and other new materialist, post-humanist, and post-qualitative theories and methodologies rework sedimented practices of conservation.
