2010/2011

Brunel University West London

Digital Performance Technologies (9 weeks, MA, co-taught with Prof. Johannes Birringer)
This lab-based course offers a combination of practical training in programming skills for interactive multimedia environments (I am responsible for Max/MSP & Jitter and Arduino programming) and engagement with critical texts in the field of technology and the humanities. Students develop their own original work in a work-process throughout the course.

University of Sussex

Media, Music, Performance, Location (15 weeks, 1st year BA)
This course consists of lectures on the history and theory of installation and performance art, alternated by practical seminars in which students develop their own original artwork. The course is assessed on the basis of students’ practical work, as well as a critical reflection in which they relate their work to relevant theories and practices.

Music, Stage & Screen (post-war avant-garde) (5 weeks, 2nd year BA)
In five lectures, directions and developments in performance and music-theatre from the 1950s until the present are discussed in context of wider cultural debates on technological change and representation of race, gender and social class. At the end of the module, students submit a 3000-word critical essay.

Approaches to Media Practice 2 (15 weeks, 1st year BA, co-taught with Kevin Clarke)
In this course, media practice students explore different approaches to sound recording technology and creative practice in sound based work. At the end of the course, students submit a collection of sound recordings accompanied by a critical essay.

In addition, I am technical support tutor for the media practice department (software: Adobe Flash / Photoshop / Audition, Pro Tools, Final Cut, Max/MSP & Jitter, Arduino / C programming)


2009/2010

University of Sussex

Site-Specific Performance (15 weeks, 1st year BA, co-taught with Prof. Nicholas Till)
This course consists of lectures on the history and theory of site-specific art, alternated by practical seminars in which students develop their own original site-specific performance work. The course is assessed on the basis of students’ practical work, as well as a critical reflection in which they relate their work to relevant theories and practices.

Further Creative Music Technologies (Max/MSP) (5 weeks, 2nd year BA)
In this five-seminar module, students learn to program sound-based interactive multimedia environments, using acoustic and video triggers, Wii-remote devices as well as hacked computer keyboards. In addition, the course introduces several key theoretical contexts for computer-based art. Students submit a finished computer program with an explanatory text.

American Musical Theatre (American avant-garde) (5 weeks, 2nd year BA, co-taught with Prof. Nicholas Till)
In five lectures, a range of American avant-garde performance practices are read from the perspective of questions of national identity and historical cultural contexts. Students submit a critical essay in response to the question ‘Is there and American musical theatre?’


2008/2009

University of Sussex

Musical Multimedia (10 weeks, 1st year BA)
Theories of multimedia and relevant artistic practices involving sound are introduced in a series of five lectures. In five practical seminars, students experiment with (digital and non-digital) multimedia technologies. At the end of the course, they show a short performance and submit a critical essay in which they contextualize their performances in relevant theories and practices in the field.

Site-Specific Performance (15 weeks, 1st year BA, co-taught with Prof. Nicholas Till)
See description above.