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Profiles
Dr Andrew Prior
Associate Professor Digital Art & Technology
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
Associate Professor Digital Art & Technology
Subject Leader of Digital Design Group
Digital Design incorporates: BA/BSc Digital Media Design, BA Game Arts & Design, MA Game Design and MA Experience Design, i-DAT and CODEX PhD Programmes.
Digital Design incorporates: BA/BSc Digital Media Design, BA Game Arts & Design, MA Game Design and MA Experience Design, i-DAT and CODEX PhD Programmes.
Qualifications
PhD (2016) 'Medialities of Noise - The Onto-Epistemology of Noise, Media Archaeology and Post-Digital Culture' University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DenmarkPost Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (2006) University of Plymouth, Plymouth.
MA Digital Futures (2004) University of Plymouth, Plymouth.
BA (Hons) Fine Art (2000) University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC). Cardiff.
Art & Design Foundation (1996) Trowbridge College, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
MA Digital Futures (2004) University of Plymouth, Plymouth.
BA (Hons) Fine Art (2000) University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC). Cardiff.
Art & Design Foundation (1996) Trowbridge College, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Professional membership
AdvanceHE Fellowship
Roles on external bodies
Advisor to APRJA Journal
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Digital Art, Creative Coding, Composition and Sonic Art, Website Design, Design, Interactivity and Technology, Cultural History & Theory, Arts Practices, Popular Culture and Transdisciplinary Research
Staff serving as external examiners
BA (Hons) Digital Media at the University of Gloucester. 2019 - 2023
Research
Research
Research interests
My research interests are concerned with issues revolving around contemporary culture: concepts of high/low art and how these feed off one another; the rapid rate of cultural and technological change which leads to obsolescence, ephemerality and an increasing fluidity of meaning, all figure highly within this practice.
Mirroring the dissolving boundaries in contemporary culture and academic disciplines, my work has straddled fine arts, design, computing, performance and writing as a practitioner, teacher and working within industry. At the core of my research practice is the idea that these seemingly opposing models of creative practice in which one either works for oneself, for an education institution or for a client are of course not mutually exclusive.
Digital arts necessarily transcend traditional borders and require that I engage with a wide variety of cultural issues from an equally broad range of disciplines. In particular I am currently involved in exploration of multi-channel sound pieces, exploration of the borders between the public/private that contemporary media forms problematise draw and psychogeographical research from the likes of performance artists Blast Theory or the dutch dotWalk experiment. I draw on developments that have grown from the avant garde musical composition from the thirties onwards with Cage, Musique Concrete, Soundscape, Plunderphonics and more recently turntablism and circuit bending.
Mirroring the dissolving boundaries in contemporary culture and academic disciplines, my work has straddled fine arts, design, computing, performance and writing as a practitioner, teacher and working within industry. At the core of my research practice is the idea that these seemingly opposing models of creative practice in which one either works for oneself, for an education institution or for a client are of course not mutually exclusive.
Digital arts necessarily transcend traditional borders and require that I engage with a wide variety of cultural issues from an equally broad range of disciplines. In particular I am currently involved in exploration of multi-channel sound pieces, exploration of the borders between the public/private that contemporary media forms problematise draw and psychogeographical research from the likes of performance artists Blast Theory or the dutch dotWalk experiment. I draw on developments that have grown from the avant garde musical composition from the thirties onwards with Cage, Musique Concrete, Soundscape, Plunderphonics and more recently turntablism and circuit bending.
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2019) 'Temporal Poetics in Thomson and Craighead’s The Time Machine in Alphabetical Order' Passepartout Skrifter for Kunsthistorie Vol. 21, (No. 39) 157-172 Publisher Site Open access
Chapters
(2019) 'The Crackle of Contemporaneity' in Schwab M; de Assis P Futures of the Contemporary: Contemporaneity, Untimeliness, and Artistic Research Leuven Leuven University Press 97-114 Open access
(2017) 'Ghost Factory – posthuman executions' in Tyżlik-Carver M; Snodgrass E; Pritchard H Databrowser 6
Conference Papers
(2012) 'Glitching Paralogy' in Soren P; Cox G; Ulrich Anderson C Researching BWPWAP Luneberg, Germany 1-/-1/20127-/-0/2013Aarhus/Berlin Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (Aarhus University), transmediale and reSource for transmedial culture. Publisher Site
(2011) 'Noise at the Interface' Public Interfaces 1-/-0/20111-/-0/2011Aarhus Aarhus University Press Publisher Site
(2011) 'Quicktime Web-Jockey - Trailblazing the Archive' WroArts Media Arts Biennale 5-/-0/20115-/-0/2011Publisher Site
Performances
11/02/201111/02/2011What Happens. Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
16/01/201116/01/2011What Happens. Merkin Hall, Ecstactic Festival, New York
13/12/201013/12/2010What Happens. Kings Place, London
Compositions
'3 Movements (Le Thibeuf Mix)' Publisher Site
'Lateral Branches' Publisher Site
'St Peter’s Harmonics' Publisher Site
'Eden'
Exhibitions
Personal
Personal
Conferences organised
Digital Research in Humanities and the Arts (DRHA) - 2017 - DataAche
Society of Artistic Research - 2018 - Artistic Research Will Eat Itself
Links
aprior.info My home page - you can find out about various projects, research interests etc. here. I am a member of i-DAT (the Institute of Digital Art & Technology)