Mike Phillips. Reader in Digital Art & Technology, University of Plymouth, School of Computing, Communications & Electronics, Faculty of Technology. mike.phillips@plymouth.ac.uk.
Phillips is director of i-DAT, a ‘Centre of Expertise’ that acts as a catalyst for creative innovation across the fields of Art, Science and Technology, facilitating regional, national and international collaborations and cultural projects. As a networked organisation and ‘cultural broker’ i-DAT’s transdisciplinary agenda fosters ‘open innovation’ and knowledge exchange between companies, institutions, communities and individuals. i-DAT is developing new ‘tools’ for production, dissemination and participation that challenge traditional models of creation and consumption, and embrace the shifting relationships between audiences and cultural producers.
Phillips heads the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group [www.nascent-research.net]. Research explores the transformative potential of digital technology (hardware & software), both as a catalyst for the evolution of cultural forms and as a substrate for transdisciplinary research and innovation. Nascent Art & Technology Research is a constituent member of the A∑Tec (Art, Science, and Technology) research Consortium.
Phillips is a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium. His R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in two key research projects: Arch-OS [www.arch-os.com], an ‘Operating System’ for contemporary architecture (’software for buildings’) and the LiquidPress [www.liquidpress.net] which explores the evolution and mutation of publishing and broadcasting technologies.
These projects and other work can be found on the i-DAT web site at: www.i-dat.org.
