Research interests
My research explores the ways in which digital technologies offer extended and alternative approaches to the study and development of live performance events. From the methodological impact of visual reconstruction technologies on visual histories to the development 'simultaneous' realities (through developed sound design or augmentation), new technologies offer us different ways of seeing and opportunities to explore counter-normative proposals and voices.
Postgraduate supervision
I am happy to discuss applications in digital performance, scenography, theatre architecture, computer visualisation, sound performance and XR performance.
Current PhD supervision
Ed Grimoldby “Dance of the Necromancer - Affective Ontological Engagements with Pre-rendered Intermedia Scenographic Spaces” (first supervisor)
Sam Kite "Sound Design for Modern Theatre and Media Spaces - Ambisonics in a modern digital space." (first supervisor)
Russel Gilbert “Fighting Figures: Professional Wrestling, Kayfabe, and the Creation of New Realities” (co-supervisor)
Thandie Hlabana “Gendered Water: Women and Water Crises in Southern Africa” (co-supervisor)
Completed PGR
Ed Grimoldby “From alchemy to Artaudian 'digital double' : a practical exploration in digital scenography” (MA Res)
John Fairless” Through the use of Computer Agents, can Theatre maintain its status as a Live Art Form, in the Digital Era” (MA Res)
Liam Watt Pattison “Hypertheatre:Non-Linear Interactive Narratives And How To Actualise Them Through Live Performance” (MA Res)
Eva Danickova “Theatre Translation through Collaboration: Dramaturgical Approaches to Translations of Plays Poker Face and From the Dust of Stars in Dramatic Space “ (PhD – co-supervisor)