recent work :
Blue
Roads
book
cover for author, David Baboulene - out in August 2006
novel about experiences in Merchant Navy. Client wanted something that
reflected humour but was stylish and interesting.
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HERE TO VIEW
K-scope
website
for musician: the client wanted a Flash based site
that included a facility to print flyers, give a sample of his music etc.
He wanted to be able to update the site regularly himself wihout ever
learning either Flash or Dreamweaver. This was achieved via xml and html.
The client can add tracks and album covers to the Flash mp3 player and
he can update all information sections and flyers.
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HERE TO VIEW
Flash: mixed medium - (click to view-recommended for broadband)
Where
are you? - CDrom (click to view-recommended for broadband)
practice
based research project
Drumbeat
Media - web design
Flash and Dreamweaver site
design of
flash interaction for site
Weightzone
- 60 sec screen stings
for in-store scales - using Flash and
Adobe AfterEffects
(
recommended for broadband)
click here for example 1
click
here for example 2
Wheel
of Astrologers - web design
in collaboration with partner
- astrologers site
Outskirts
- web design
in
collaboration with partner
- artists
site
Consultancies:
City College Brighton and Hove
Spring
term 2006
HND Multimedia - Cultural & Critical Studies
Design Futures - BA (Hons) Top up degree
Professional Practice BA (Hons) Top up degree
Interactive Design BA (Hons) Top up degree
Dissertation Supervision BA (Hons) Top up degree
End of year show BA & HND
City College Brighton and Hove
Autumn
term 2005
Course Leader
Cultural and Critical Studies - BA (Hons) Top up degree
City College Brighton and Hove
Autumn
term 2005
Cultural & Critical Studies HND Multimedia yr.2
Sussex Downs College - Lewes
Autumn/Spring
term 2005/6
Lead Tutor Cultural & Critical Studies
Foundation Degree Multimedia yr1
HND Multimedia yr.2
Centre For Continuing Education - Sussex University at The Lighthouse Media Centre
Multimedia
- stage 2 - Developing Interactive Perceptions
Image optimisation, Flash, Dreamweaver.
City College Brighton and Hove
Spring
term 2005
HND Multimedia - Professional Practice
Design Futures - BA (Hons) Top up degree
Professional Practice BA (Hons) Top up degree
Interactive Off Screen BA (Hons) Top up degree
Dissertation Supervision BA (Hons) Top up degree
City College Brighton and Hove
Autumn
term 2004
Course Leader
Cultural and Critical Studies - BA (Hons) Top up degree
City College Brighton and Hove
Autumn
term 2004
Cultural Interpretations - HND Multimedia yr.2
Centre For Continuing Education - Sussex University at The Lighthouse Media Centre
Multimedia - stage 1
Sussex University - Media Studies
Summer Workshops
Dreamweaver
Creative use of Bitmaps and Video in FlashMX
MA
Digital Media - Postgraduate
workshops
for final projects
Spring
Term 2004
MA Digital Media - Postgraduate
Flash MX
Avid Xpress video editing
Support
for Theory and Practice of Media Production (yr 2) animation
Flash MX
Adobe Audition
Autumn
Term 2003
Media Practice and Theory (yr 2)
Web Authoring - Photoshop and Dreamweaver
MA
Digital Media - Postgraduate
Image manipulation and Web Authoring using
Dreamweaver MX
The
Lighthouse Media Centre
Summer
2004
Dreamweaver
2 days
I
have always maintained a keen interest in the current popular culture
and its effects on contemporary art, both digital and non-digital. As
my background is very much in the pioneering days of digital design I
have always had a fascination with digital art and an interest in the
new technologies developing within this culture; however I maintain that
a good designer is one that has the ability to create artwork off-screen
and use the medium as a tool. It is not software skills that make a good
designer, but an innovative and creative designer can push the boundaries
of the ‘tool’ to enhance his abilities. I have looked at the
changing role of the designer in the work place, in an age of advanced
technological production, and along with questioning the 'authenticity'
of the images he produces, I have questioned whether the skills used to
produce digital artifacts can be classified as 'craft'.
click here to read paper (word doc)
click here to read paper
(pdf)
Video/sound installation
Bill Viola
A current area of interest lies in looking at notions of disembodiment in cyberspace and issues of identity. I’m not sure that culturally, practically we are ready to accept disembodiment theories. To some extent, although the net takes place in a virtual space, I think that we still attach faces (and bodies) to the works that we see there. Do we attach identities to strangers for the work we see/read; like one does when one talks to a stranger on the phone? Could the type of work one sees on the net, or the way one navigates through the web influence the type of identities one builds up, both for strangers and for ones self? In practical terms this involves some programming that would take different features and merge them together to form an identity, according to which buttons are pressed, or according to where we go; this could be fun for user, but outcomes would depend on issues that come up in research; would this identity be random? Or would a fairly stereotypical image be produced according to the type of buttons one choose to press or according to the way in which one navigates through cyberspace?
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