Ian’s teaching, including dissertation supervision, reflects his wide-ranging research interests, including painting in the post-Internet era, the aesthetics of digital culture, and the impact of digitality on the art world.
His current Honours options include Bad Painting (third year), Sexuality, Space, and Cinema (third year), and Images under Control: Aesthetics of Digital Culture (fourth year). He is course organiser of the Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions project. Ian also lectures on 'Art after the Internet' and the so-called 'End of Painting' for History of Art 2, and on the 'Post-Internet Art World' for the postgraduate course The Cultures and Politics of Display.
Ian was nominated in the category Supervisor of the Year and in the category Outstanding Commitment to Liberation in the Curriculum in the Edinburgh University Students' Association Teaching Awards (2019-20).