Co-directors
Dr Jussi Parikka
Jussi Parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. He has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and is Reader in Media Theory and History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Parikka has published a book on 'cultural theory in the age of digital machines' (Koneoppi, in Finnish) and his "Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses" is published by Peter Lang, New York, Digital Formations-series (2007). Parikka has just finished a book on "Insect Media" (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press), which focuses on the media theoretical and historical interconnections of biology and technology. In addition, the co-edited "The Spam Book: On Viruses, Spam, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture" (Hampton Press) is just out. Another co-edited volume "Media Archaeologies" (University of California Press) is forthcoming. His articles have been published eg in CTheory, Parallax, Postmodern Culture, Game Studies and Fibreculture, as well as in several Finnish journals and books.
His research interests include: biopolitics of network culture, neomaterialist cultural theory, transdisciplinary discourses and practices of knowledge, media anomalies, research/creative practice collaboration.
Webpage: www.jussiparikka.com
Jussi Parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. He has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and is Reader in Media Theory and History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Parikka has published a book on 'cultural theory in the age of digital machines' (Koneoppi, in Finnish) and his "Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses" is published by Peter Lang, New York, Digital Formations-series (2007). Parikka has just finished a book on "Insect Media" (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press), which focuses on the media theoretical and historical interconnections of biology and technology. In addition, the co-edited "The Spam Book: On Viruses, Spam, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture" (Hampton Press) is just out. Another co-edited volume "Media Archaeologies" (University of California Press) is forthcoming. His articles have been published eg in CTheory, Parallax, Postmodern Culture, Game Studies and Fibreculture, as well as in several Finnish journals and books.
His research interests include: biopolitics of network culture, neomaterialist cultural theory, transdisciplinary discourses and practices of knowledge, media anomalies, research/creative practice collaboration.
Webpage: www.jussiparikka.com
Dr Joss Hands
Dr Joss Hands' research focuses broadly on the intersection between digital technology, politics and culture. He teaches courses in communication and technology, public sphere theory, globalization, digital culture and the political economy of the media at Anglia Ruskin University. He holds a PhD in critical theory from the Manchester Metropolitan University.
His published work has explored the interrelations of new media and democracy in the context of globalisation, in terms of both formal governance as well as activism and protest movements. This has included an address to the role of new media in contributing to the emergence of a specifically 'European' public sphere, with all the issues of identity, language and mediation entailed. He has also written on local democracy and online deliberation, and on new forms of political action emerging in the network society, which includes an engagement with a range of contemporary political and critical theory.
He has written for a range of journals such as "Information, Communication and Society," "Philosophy and Social Criticism," "Cultural Politics" and "First Monday," and co-edited the book "At the Interface: Continuity and Transformation in Culture and Politics" (Rodopi, 2004) with Eugenia Siapera.
He is currently writing a book on activism in a digital culture, to be titled "@ is for Activism," in contract with Pluto press, in which he is developing many of these themes, and expanding his analysis to include the impact of technologies such as mobile telephony and digital television on digital culture and politics.
Webpage: www.josshands.com
Dr Joss Hands' research focuses broadly on the intersection between digital technology, politics and culture. He teaches courses in communication and technology, public sphere theory, globalization, digital culture and the political economy of the media at Anglia Ruskin University. He holds a PhD in critical theory from the Manchester Metropolitan University.
His published work has explored the interrelations of new media and democracy in the context of globalisation, in terms of both formal governance as well as activism and protest movements. This has included an address to the role of new media in contributing to the emergence of a specifically 'European' public sphere, with all the issues of identity, language and mediation entailed. He has also written on local democracy and online deliberation, and on new forms of political action emerging in the network society, which includes an engagement with a range of contemporary political and critical theory.
He has written for a range of journals such as "Information, Communication and Society," "Philosophy and Social Criticism," "Cultural Politics" and "First Monday," and co-edited the book "At the Interface: Continuity and Transformation in Culture and Politics" (Rodopi, 2004) with Eugenia Siapera.
He is currently writing a book on activism in a digital culture, to be titled "@ is for Activism," in contract with Pluto press, in which he is developing many of these themes, and expanding his analysis to include the impact of technologies such as mobile telephony and digital television on digital culture and politics.
Webpage: www.josshands.com
Affiliated scholars within Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Gianna Bouchard, Music & Performing Arts
- Performance and technology
- Cyber theory and post-human identity
- Bioart
Karin Brunby, (Doctoral Student), English, Communication, Film and Media
- Ethnic minorities online
- Political engagement online
- Internet based research methods
Dr Kerstin Bueschges, Music and Performing Arts
- Practice-as-research in performance work
- The body and performance art
- Autobiographical materiality and sonic art
Beverley Carpenter, PhD Student, ECFM
- moving image and public space
- artistic methods in city spaces
- urban screens
Dr Greg Elmer, Cultures of Digital Economy (CoDE) Research Fellow
- Networked politics
- Social media
- Panoptic and bio-political media
Dr Julio d'Escrivan, Creative Music Technology
- Composition in digital musics and new media
- Laptop performance (live coding)
- Media archaeology of sonic arts
Sarah Gibson Yates, Filmmaker, Lecturer in Communication, Film and Media
- Digital Film Theory and Practice
- Narrative and The Self within Digital Culture
Mick Gowar, Cambridge School of Art
- Story-telling
- Twentieth-century and contemporary poetry
- The future of book creation, illustration, writing, design, production and distribution
- Encouraging children's story making and sharing by means of narrative environments and open source software tools
Dr Tom Hall, Music and Performing Arts
- software and hardware tools for musical composition, performance, analysis and collaboration
- site-specific and radiophonic sound art
- multi-channel and binaural immersive audio
Dr Richard Hoadley, Music and Performing Arts
- Musical composition
- Algorithmic and generative processes in music and intermedia
- Physical computing, performance and the human/computer interface
Dr Eric Jensen, English, Communication, Film and Media
- Public engagement online
- Evaluating website content and functionality
- Social research methods online
Timothy Kobin, Cambridge School of Art
- Relationship between design, digital media, previsualisation and storytelling
- Production and costume design for Film, Television and Theatre
- Architectural lighting design interiors and exteriors
Dr Patricia MacCormack, English, Communication, Film and Media
- Posthuman theory, Animality and 'devolutionary humanity'
- Film Theory; Cinesexuality and Schizoanalytics
- Science Fiction; Becomings
Dr Simon Payne, English, Communication, Film and Media
- Experimental Film and Video
- Digital Media and Materiality
- Colour Fields and Contemporary Abstraction
Claire Preston, (Doctoral student), Health and Social Care
- Online public participation in policymaking
- Democratic citizenship in the digital age
- Democracy, political equality, the welfare state
Dr Samantha Rayner, English, Communication, Film and Media
- Ebooks and ereaders: textual transformations
- Transliteracy
- Capturing and analysing ephemeral artifacts of creativity
- Social networking and cultural change
Dr Paul Rhys, Music and Performing Arts
- Software for composition, sound synthesis and performance
- Aesthetics of Computer Music
Milla Tiainen, English, Communication, Film and Media
- Voice and sound in digital culture
- Digital performance, and art and politics in network culture
- Non-representational media theory
Christine Webster, Cambridge School of Art
- The Digital Interface and Desire
- Constructed Online Identity
- Teenage Social Interface Networks
