Digital Departures

The Digital Departures Lab will focus on the untraditional or deviant use of digital media, both in terms of practical and theoretical interventions. This might include, for instance, DIY or hacktivist approaches to digital technologies or filmmakers that explore alternatives to digital cinema by repositioning or repurposing the apparatus. It might also include historical work that explores the role of errors in computer history, art histories of movements such as net art, as well as theoretical work around the agency of media in communication and sociological work around the deviant use of technology.

The Digital Departures Lab’s aims are:

  1. To explore the potential for creative art and design when dominant media systems are repurposed or challenged
  2. To investigate how deviant media practices can create new opportunities for research
  3. To explore theoretical questions raised by deviant media practices (or deviant cultural techniques)
  4. To inquire into the history of misuse, practices of hacking, and the resistance to dominant media frameworks.

2021 Events

Associated Staff:

Professor Timothy Barker

Summary of research interests

Tim’s research involves the critical analysis of digital technology in contemporary audio-visual culture.

Professor Sarah Cook

Professor Louise Harris

Summary of research interests

Audiovisual composition, large-scale installations, music video, electronic and electroacoustic music, open-source technologies, music and sound design for narrative film, video game sound.


DDL Reading Group

2019 Events