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Critical Media Practice
The early adoption of the video camera, the computer, and sound based media by artists, designers and experimental practitioners can be traced from its developments in the cold war context of late modernism to fluxus/ inter-media through the anti-media positioning of the Situationsite Internationale to tactical media and post-media practices today. Critical Media Practice research examines media forms and practice that operates within the legal, moral, social, ethical and political dimensions of media aesthetics, society and culture.
Areas of research include: tactical media, media activism, socially engaged practice and open source culture, experimental geography, media aesthetics, historical forms of experimentation with media and the manifestations of political aesthetics of media and video art within the international discourses of contemporary art.
Research is conducted through practice-based research including placement in archives, in the development of field research, the development of new resources such as databases and through collaborative academic and artistic partnerships.
We welcome applications for PhD research through a Critical Media Practice and have studentships available through AHRC funding in Film, Digital and Media Production.
Key contacts- Neal White, Associate Professor of Art and Media Practice
- Dr Stephen Bell, Senior Lecturer (Affiliate - VRG)
