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Jim Wood

Senior Lecturer in Creative Technologies

Jim Wood

Jim Wood joined the department in October 2008 as a Lecturer in Creative Technologies. Before joining the University of Bedfordshire he gained 10 years experience in the education sector and had specialised in tutoring postgraduate students in interactive digital media, and developing an experimental resource lab, <XR>Lab.

Teaching Areas

  • Visual Research for Animation
  • Creative Technology Practice
  • Digital Design Media

Qualifications

  • Jim is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the Design Department. He is pursuing research developing tools and methods for digital artefacts, influenced by his interests in experimental art, digital media and craft making.
  • MA Digital Arts 1998 - Middlesex University
  • Fine Art first class BA (Hons) degree 1995 - Kingston University

Research Topics

  • Ubiquitous computing in art and design practice.
  • Near-field communications technologies and creative applications.
  • Social software networks and physical objects.
  • Digital Fabrication.

Jim has also worked freelance as a tutor of workshops on interactive prototyping, physical computing, and as a developer of systems and software for artists projects and design research, and continues to pursue his own creative practice.

Recent Project Exhibitions

  • “Truth Serum” – Neal White/ Office of Experiments, FACT, Liverpool, April 2008
  • “News Telescope”, Mediatised View Goldsmiths, London Design Festival September 2008
  • “TagPet”, Punch + Hole, Kinetica Art Fair, London & Maker Faire, Newcastle February – March 2009

Contact details

E: jim.wood@beds.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 400 400

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