Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Plymouth, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities:

Current:

2018–: Arts Council England South West Arts Technology External Reference Group.

2018–: The international Jena FullDome Festival Foundation Advisory Board

2017–: ISEA International Board (Secretary).

Past:

2020: Arts Council Virtual Roundtable - Creative Media.

2020: Creative Hub: South West & West of England Members Roundtable, Creative Industries Federation. 02/07/2020

2020: ISEA International Program Committee.

2020: SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

2020: Reviewer. Design Research Society.

2020: Reviewer EVA London (Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conference)

2019: ISEA International Program Committee

2019: Book Review, Kristian Kloeckl, The Urban Improvise, Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities. Yale University Press. 2019.

2019: Reviewer EVA London (Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conference).

2018: ISEA International Program Committee.

2018: Reviewer EVA London (Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conference).

2018: Reviewer. Design Research Society.

2017: ISEA International Program Committee

2017:ISEA International Board.

2016: ISEA International Program Committee

2016: Reviewer. Design Research Society.

2015: ISEA International Program Committee.

2015–: Research Associate at SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES [SAT], Montreal.

2014–2017: ISEA International Advisory Committee.

2013–2014: AHRC Internet of Things Advisory Board.

2013–2015: Arts Council England SW Digital Reference Group

2014: ISEA International Program Committee.

2012: Review Committee, Mutamorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty, Prague, Czech Republic.

2012: Review Committee: ISEA2012, New Mexico, USA.

2012: FullDome UK 2012 Organising Committee. National Space Centre, Leicester.

2012: Programme Committee Member: DOMe-IoT 2012, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

2012: TSB The Catapult for the Connected Digital Economy and User Driven Innovation

2012: REACT AHRC HUB Advisory Board Member, University of the West of England.

2012: Scientific Committee. Workshop in Immersive Cinema. Navegar - Foundation for Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Development of Espinho, Portugal.

2012: ISEA2012 International Program Committee (IPC).

2011: Award of Honoured Professor, Donghua University, China.

2011: Program Committee for iHCI 2011, Cork Institute of technology, Cork, Ireland.

2011: Review Committee: ISEA2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

2011–2014: Technology Strategy Board Internet of Things Special Interest Group

2010–2014: Director of PVAC (Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium - CIC)

2009: RE:Live Media Arts Histories Review Panel, 2009.

2009: Leonardo Education Forum member, an affiliated society of the College Art Association (CAA). (LEF@ISEA2009 ‘The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks’ Working Party and the Future Policy Steering Committee).

2008–: Trustee on the Jago Eliot Foundation;

2007–2009: Submerge non-executive board member.

2007: Perth DAC 2007 review panel for the 7th Digital Arts and Culture conference, Perth, Australia.

2007: Creativity and Cognition 2007 Program Committee.

2007: Hexagram Evaluation Committee, Hexagram Institute for Research / Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Montreal, QC Canada.

2007: Perth DAC 2007 review panel for the 7th Digital Arts and Culture conference, Perth, Australia; Creativity and Cognition 2007 Program Committee

2007: ISEA2006 International Program Committee.

2006–2008: Director of Plymouth Media Partnerships.

2005: Programme Committee, Altered States, Plymouth. 2005

2004: Programme Committee, Consciousness Reframed 6 Beijing China. 2004

2004: Referee for Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Australia. 2004

2004–2011: Editorial Advisory Board Digital Creativity, CADE Journal

2004–: Performance Research Editorial Board,

2003–2007: Am-I-able Network, funded by New Media Research Network fund at Canadian Heritage,

2001–2008: Extended period on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College of Assessors.

PhD Supervision:

• Current students as DoS: 12.
• As other supervisor: 14.
• Completions: 57.

(Students located in i-DAT, CODEX, Planetary Collegium (Plymouth, Milan & Zurich), Cognovo, Robotics and Geology).

PGR Examinations:

Internal Examiner:   Plymouth University: 12. Chair: 5

External Examiner:   17 [Bournemouth University: 2 / Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL: 2 / Leeds Beckett University: 1 / University of Brighton: 2 / Edinburgh Napier University: 1 / Edinburgh University: 2 / Goldsmiths, University of London: 1 / Kent Institute of Art & Design: 1 / De Montfort University: 1 / University of Salford: 1 / University of New South Wales: 1 / University of Wales Trinity Saint David: 1 / University of Westminster: 1 / University of Huddersfield: 1 /

Funding for studentships, residencies and research projects secured from: 5 F/T, 2 P/T 3D3 AHRC CDT, 3 F/T Co-I: EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN (€4.1m) "CogNovo: Cognitive Innovation" and ALErT, developing immersive geological simulations. ESF 1 F/T, Onasis Foundation 1 F/T, CAPES 1 F/T, Alban 1 F/T, British Council Artist Link Inhabit program (residency, Brazil), Canadian Council for the Arts (residency and research project), Arts Council England (Grant for the Arts and project funding), Plymouth City Council (partner funding), AHRC (Art Science Fellowship), EPSRC (RA and Project funding), ERDF (RA and project funding) as well as a variety of smaller project funds from partners and collaborators.

Director of CODEX [www.codex-research.net/] an international Postgraduate Research network operating in the volatile and dynamic space that frames new interdisciplinary art and design practices. Full-Time PhD consists of an 18-month Residency Period in the UK followed by a Mobility period in the collaborating institution: Jiangnan University, Wuxi (China National Light Industry Key Laboratory of Industrial Design and Experience Design Frontier Methodology and Technology Innovation Research Centre), Nanjing University of the Arts and Soochow University.

Main area of focus: critical, practical and creative processes required for the production of interactive digital and temporal media, data manifestation and visualization. These activities foster experimentation and conceptual understanding of interactive design processes, establishing 'Ergodynamic' design strategies and critical conceptual skills, combined with technical production skills.

Modules:

• ADA700. Postgraduate Research Methods Training
• MRes Digital Art & Technology. Project and Dissertation supervisions.
• BA/BSc Digital Media Design / BA Game Art & Design / BA/BSc Internet Design / MRes/ResM Digital Art & Technology.: Final Stage Project and Dissertation supervisions.
• DAT715: Invisible Architecture
• DAT515: Programming Audio/Visual Experiences.

Supervision of Industrial Placement students on BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design.

Previous:

2007 - 10: TQEF RiT (Research Informed Teaching) Projects ‘Development of multi-disciplinary content for the IVT’ and ‘Development of a Cross-Faculty Centre for Creative Design and Technology’ (reports submitted 04/2009, Phillips, M. and James, N.).

2000: Founder and Director of the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth. Funded by ERDF Award £11,640, HEIF/RDA Award £38,774 and ESF & HEROBIC Award £116,406.

1997 - 04: Deputy Director of STAR (Science Technology and Arts Research) PhD Supervisor / researcher. The STAR research group became i-DAT on the demise in 2004 of CAiiA-STAR Integrated PhD Programme, which became the Planetary Collegium.

1997 - 07: Interactive Media Subject Group Leader, School of Computing, Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth. Became i-DAT in 2004.

1994 - 98: Staff Development and Industrial Courses: Discovering Multimedia, Exploring Multimedia, Producing Multimedia. A variety of short courses delivered by satellite.

1989 - 92: Lecturer Media (New Technology), Full time. Exeter Faculty of Arts & Design, Polytechnic South West. Specific responsibilities for coordinating: Media Technologies, 3rd Yr Fine Art 4D.

1988 - 89: 0.5 Full time Lecturer Film, Video, Publishing, Department of Arts Communication, Exeter Faculty of Arts & Design, Polytechnic South West. P/T lecturer - Media/Time Base, North Devon College of F.E.

1987 - 89: Fellow and P/T Lecturer on: Publishing & Book Production (Postgraduate); Film & Video (Fine Art B.A.); Photo/TimeBased (BTEC); CAD, 3D (B.A.). Exeter College of Art & Design.

1985: Teaching Assistant In Narrative & Documentary Video module B.A. & M.A. students, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Massachusetts.