Prior to Ecole européenne supérieure de l'image (EESI), Newcastle, Sussex, and VUW university roles: contract teaching at Université de Picardie Jules-Verne (art history); Université de Lille - École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage (theatre architecture, scenography); École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique, Marne-la-Vallée (performance studies, scenography); Ecole supérieure des Arts et Techniques, Paris (scenography).

EESI (Angoulême-Poitiers): creation, teaching, supervision of ‘Arts numériques’ MPhil.
Newcastle University (UK): Music, Art History teaching and post-graduate supervision.
University of Sussex: Art History teaching; creator and convenor of ‘Sound Environments’ MA course; post-graduate supervision.

Supervision proposals related to sonic arts, embodiment and expressive gesture, art and technology, transdisciplinary research, cultural policy are welcome.


Current PhD supervision:

Fergus Fry, 'The Missing Compositional Middle Class: Exploring sustainability informed initiatives to stimulate creative practice in the New Zealand Compositional Landscape', lead supervisor, NZSM/ VUW

Shannon Pittaway, 'Interpretation, gesture and rehearsal practice in the art of conducting', lead supervisor, NZSM/ VUW

Miguel de Albuquerque Araujo, 'Autonomous puppetry - autonomy, control and theatricality in robotic controlled puppets', primary supervisor Luís Miguel Barbosa da Costa Leite, co-supervisor Rui Pedro Amaral Rodrigues, external advisor role, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade de Porto

Hibiki Mukai, 'An Interactive and Digital Puppeteering Interface for new musical expression', primary supervisor Gilberto Bernardes de Almeida, co-supervisor Luis Miguel Barbosa da Costa Leite; external advisor role, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade de Porto

Completed PhDs:

Zak Argabrite, PhD, 'Waste Networks: Towards a web-based, e-waste inspired art practice', co-supervisor (10%) with primary supervisor Jim Murphy, secondary supervisor Dale Carnegie, New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī, VUW, completed 2024

Birgit Bachler, PhD, 'Hello (more-than-human) World. Prototyping an Internet of Things for water with the project wildthings.io', with Anne Galloway (primary supervisor), School of Design, VUW, completed 2021

Danny Bright, 'Ghosting Sonic Heritage: How can sound and music works interrogate sonic memory and temporality in relation to ruined, disused and re-purposed industrial or post-industrial space?', co-supervised with Ed Hughes, Music, School of Media, Film & Music, University of Sussex, completed 2019

Joe Watson, 'Growing cybernetic ears: transduction and performativitiy and the analogue and digital what have you', co-supervised with Thor Magnusson, School of Media, Film & Music, University of Sussex, completed 2020

Wesley Goatley, ‘Critical data aesthetics: Towards a critically reflexive practice of data aestheticisation‘, co-supervised with Caroline Bassett, Kate O'Riordan until transfer at my 2017 departure; Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, completed 2019

Ian Grant, 'Analogue to Digital Puppetry: Translations and Transformations', co-supervised with Kirk Woolford, School of Media, Film & Music, University of Sussex, completed 2018

Daniel Hignell-Tully, 'Scoring Other: The Social Function of Art-Making', co-supervised with Ed Hughes, School of Media, Film & Music, University of Sussex, completed 2017

Micheal O'Connell, 'Arts as "Artificial Stupidity"', co-supervised with Blay Whitby/ Chris Thornton, School of Media, Film & Music, University of Sussex, completed 2016

Merrie Snell, 'Lipsynching: Popular Song Recordings, Musicking, and the Disembodied Voice', co-supervised with Will Edmondes, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University UK, completed 2014

Nicholas John Williams, 'Resistant Environments: Technologically Mediated Empowerment Networks in Extradisciplinary Performance', co-supervised with Bennett Hogg, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University UK, completed 2012

John Robert Ferguson, 'New Relations for the Live Musician?', co-supervised with Bennett Hogg, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University UK, completed 2010

Sher Doruff, The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram, University of the Arts London, completed 2006