“Consciousness itself can arise and become a viable fact only in the material embodiment of signs”

My research interests span two fields:
The Use of Signs for Politics in Social Movements and Social Networks.
Under this umbrella I’m interested in Graphics, Photomontage and Collage, ‘Dialogical Discourse’ and Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, Communicative Capitalism and the idea of Cultural Commons, Technology, Urban Space and Everyday Life, Creativity and Education, Democracy and Collective Production, Large Scale Public Artworks, Projections, Spectacles, Supergraphics and the Design of Protest.

As part of this practice I also collect and collate memes and online graphic forms of resistance at memerevolt.net. I am currently writing a book, Meme Revolt, based on the archive. I also collect the times where Advertising references Revolution at adrevolt.net

My second interest is:
Graphic Visuals for Music.
Under this umbrella I experiment as Effekts studio with hacked analogue and coded digital filtering and projection tools to make music videos for clients as well as perform VJ visuals live for music. An example is below, this is video that has been treated with various analogue and digital filters.

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Teaching

BA Undergraduate Classes
I currently teach classes on:
Online Flexible Graphic Visual Identity Systems.
Experimental Typography and Emojis
Ai, Semiotics, Collage, Montage and Making Meaning of Memes.
Political Augmented Reality.
Music Video VFX.
Neo-Liberalism and Contemporary Visual Culture.

I also occasionally supervise some MA and PHD students.

Work from the Courses I lead can be viewed here:
https://www.instagram.com/uniofbeds_graphicsanimation/

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