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London South Bank University, Arts Media and English Dept: Senior Lecturer BA Digital Photography
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University of Westminster, Media Art & Design Dept: Module Leader Theory and Project Supervisor, MA Art and Media Practice.

teaching blogs:
photographic index
BA Digital Photography, year 1/semester 2: Photographic Index is a unit that examines the nature of the photographic image through historical analysis and practical experimentation. It will focus upon understanding of archival practices both in terms of the material aspects of photographic collections and the social constructs and conventions involved. It will also examine some of the social functions photography archiving performs in terms of social representation of the other and everyday life, focusing on snapshot photographs and found images.

photographic art
BA Digital Photography, year 2/semester 2: a unit that examines the nature of photographic art through historical and theoretical analysis and practical projects. It focus upon the understanding of representational strategies developed in the context of surrealism, both in terms of the material aspects of photographic practices and the psychological and social constructs involved. It also examines contemporary photographic work develop in dialogue with surrealism, in terms of representation of the everyday and the self. In the course of this unit participants also look at the relationship between photography and other visual media such as fine art, moving image and synthetic world.

practice in context
BA Digital Media Arts, year 2/semester 2: This unit is designed to deepen the understanding of the critical and cultural contexts for research-based practice in digital and new media art. It explores a range of concepts and themes associated with digital art, focusing on developments in digital technology that have a large impact on teaching, learning and creative production within higher education.This will involve examining social networking tools for working collaboratively in an online environment, and the impact of this for digital and new media art research practices.

theory seminar MA Art and Media Practice, semester 1 & 2: This seminar provides a forum to enable students with diverse educational and experiential backgrounds to collectively encounter and debate a range of theoretical and cultural issues, and to provide them with grounding in key ideas relating to twenty-first century art and media practice.

from web 2.0 print ,workshops at the Wimbledon College of Art (April and May 2007) with the Fine Art: BA (Hons)Print and Digital Media.
The purpose of this project is to explore how the web 2.0 can be used as a creative space for print making, with a focus on the convergence between web 2.0 and printed matter. The aims for the workshops are: to introduce the web 2.0 concepts and practices and present some options for artists, present the network as a database for sourcing and a platform to share your own collection, an finally create a blog for personal publishing and/or integration into printmaking strategies.
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photocultures
BA Digital Photography, year 2/semester 1: Photographic Cultures is a unit that explores how photographic practices can be deployed as a bridge between the public history of a place and the urban future of the city. Using utopian services and scenarios, the group examines photo-participatory practices as models of engagement with the social and the communities.

we pod: we publish on demand
BA Digital Photography, year 3/semester 1: We publish on demand is the brief-led project that surveys thhttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gife practice of photo publication (book, serial and blog) and examine it as a 4th space between mass media, the screen and the gallery. The unit
examines print on demand (pod) and electronic publishing as independent curatorial spaces for photographic practices that pose critical questions about visuality and the role of photography in contemporary visual culture. Throughout the semester, participant develop online research, initially publishing it in a blogging format, and finally preparing the material for a publication using the print on demand model.

Teaching and research interests intersect new media studies, critical spatial practice and the implications of emerging technologies for redifinitons of public space.
Current research: photo-sharing environments and online visual cultures. Additional topics include: IP (intellectual property), photography and the city; experiments in free culture, and open source; cultural memory and post-tourism; civic performance and performative installation; emerging locative technologies such as gps (global positioning system) and arphid (radio frequency identification).