I am an artist-researcher-curator interested in art research practices and theories, with a particular focus on its intersections with social media and free culture education networks.

I am senior lecturer in the BA (hons) in Digital Photography at the London South Bank University (Arts, Media & English Department). I also teach the theory module Thinking Practices, part of  the MA in Art and Media practice at the University of Westminster (Media & Design Department).

Research interests

- Artists approaches to archives, especially photographic archives, and counter-archival strategies

- Youth cultures, notably gender aspects, and online-offline post-subcultures  as academic and artistic/photographic subject

- Artists publications, self-publishing practices, and print on demand digital pres, especially the photobook

- Performativity and surveillance space, webcamming and web spectatorship

- Social media, the classroom of the read-write web, with a focus on social networking and micro-blogging as part of the teaching and learning tool kit

- Second life as an art/research/teaching  environmen and field work/ photographic research in immersive virtual worlds

- Digital writing, academic blogging and performative dissertations

- Research art practices, artists’ uses of ethnographic methods and auto-ethnography

Location

london se5 9pg, uk

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Performing Arts
• Visual Arts
• Education

Affiliation

London South Bank University, University of Westminster

Website

http://msdm.org.uk