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:
- To explore the potential for creative art and design when dominant media systems are repurposed or challenged
- To investigate how deviant media practices can create new opportunities for research
- To explore theoretical questions raised by deviant media practices (or deviant cultural techniques)
- To inquire into the history of misuse, practices of hacking, and the resistance to dominant media frameworks.
Directors
Dr Louise Harris
Dr Timothy Barker
Professor Sarah Cook
2021 Events
Associated Staff:
Professor Timothy Barker
- Professor of Media Technology and Aesthetics [Theatre, Film & Television Studies]
- Timothy.Barker@glasgow.ac.uk
Summary of research interests
Tim’s research involves the critical analysis of digital technology in contemporary audio-visual culture.
Professor Sarah Cook
- Professor in Museum Studies [Information Studies]
- Sarah.Cook@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor Louise Harris
- Professor [Music]
- Louise.Harris@glasgow.ac.uk
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.