Mike Phillips. Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Plymouth, School of Arts & Media, Faculty of Arts. mike.phillips@plymouth.ac.uk.
Professor Phillips is director of i-DAT, a component of the Centre for Media, Art & Design Research. Phillips is a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium, a member/supervisor of the Transtechnology and Manifest Research Groups.
His R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in two key research projects: Arch-OS [www.arch-os.com] (now reincarnated in Perth WA in the form of the i-500 [www.i-500.org]), 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.
i-DAT is a Research Group 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.
