Academic work I have 8 over years teaching practice working with BA and Ma Students on a range of courses from BA Fine Art through to to MA Documentary Research. I worked Part Time on a visiting lecturer basis at UWIC, (University of Wales, Institute Cardiff) between 2002 and 2007 teaching first of all in 'Photo Visual' and latterly 'Time Based Media'. My responsibilities ranged from delivering lectures, workshops, tutorials and seminars to marking students work, developing timetables and teaching structure and attending parity and course meetings. At UWIC I developed workshops and programmes around site specificity and place paying attention to developing skills around developing & processing ideas, working collaboratively, professional practice, presentation of work for exhibition in gallery and non- gallery situations and documentation of projects. I have been regularly invited to give guest lectures and workshops on my practice and have worked at universities including: Dartington, Plymouth, UWE, Newport College of Art, Camarthen College of Art, Aberystwth on Fine Art and Performance studies courses, London College of Communication on the Documentary Research MA, Swansea school of Art, Philosophy & Religion BA, Cardiff University. Next Semester I will be continuing to work as thesis lecturer at University of Plymouth, I have been invited to give a series of lectures at Chelsea College of Art, "Reading the city". Presenting a range of contextual lectures, seminars, practical workshops around site based practice and looking at ways of approaching and interpreting place. I am now based in London and developing modules in areas of study which are exploring places, site, location. My interests cover a broad range of possibilities from workshops in documentary, social sciences, human geography, architecture and town planning to a range of Fine art mediums including photography, sound art, drawing, site specific writing and time based processes. I am keen to develop work with students which explore the possibilies of experiential mapping, representation of place, documenting and recording place. I have regularly run practical workshops with students from a range of backgrounds which help them to rediscover or open their eyes to ways of experiencing place within a critical discourse, social or fine art context.
Recent Symposiums & Conferences:> Presented 'Nutopia' at the Engage Conference 2009 >‘Society for European Philosophy conference’ Presenting and showing ‘The Museum of the Moment’. > Sound Diaries, Oxford, June 4th >Walking Workshop, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences. www.cardiff.ac.uk/gradschools/fundingresearchstaffactivities/08-09.html >"Society for European Philosophy conference", 27-29 August 2009, where I will pesent "The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary" www.sepfep2009.wordpress.com/art-and-philosophy/ Recent papers: "Nutopia" is a symposium that I organised in April 2009 around town planning and architecture with a line up of international academics and artists presenting work. I am currently developing a book based on the symposium with Malcolm Miles at the university of Plymouth. Cityscapers / Porosity Studio: Cardiff Chimera 2020 ~ presented a range of projects/ participated in discussion. (www.britishcouncil.org/wales-cityscapers-cardiff-chimera-2020.htm) BosArts, Cornwall. Spoke about my work as part of an 'AN publication seminar series' Futuresonic, Manchester, 2008 I was invited to present the STAR Radio project. (www.futuresonic.com/08/ideas/)
Partnerships: My work lends itself to working in academic partnerships and I have collaborated in the past with people from the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University (Dr. Tom Hall and Dr. Brett Lashua) and also invited people to work with me on projects, John Punter, Adam Sharr and Elaine Davy all helped with the making of 'The Museum of the Moment.'
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