Mike Phillips

Academic profile

Professor Mike Phillips

Emeritus Professor
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Mike's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality EducationGoal 06: SDG 6 - Clean Water and SanitationGoal 08: SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic GrowthGoal 09: SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and InfrastructureGoal 11: SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesGoal 13: SDG 13 - Climate ActionGoal 14: SDG 14 - Life Below WaterGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Mike

Mike PhillipsÌýis an artist and researcher whose R&D orbits a portfolio ofÌýÌýthat explore the ubiquity of data ‘harvested’ from an instrumentalised world and its potential as a material for revealing things that lie outside our normal frames of reference – things so far away, so close, so massive, so small and so ad infinitum.

Phillips is an active member of an international transdisciplinary community that engages with immersive, interactive and performative technologies. He managed the FulldomeÌýÌý(2012-2025), a transdisciplinary instrument for manifesting (im)material and imaginary worlds and is a founding partner of FullDome UK ().

He is an Emeritus Professor at theÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½â€™s School of Art, Design & Architecture.ÌýUntil 2025, he was Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, the Director of Research atÌý, a Principal Supervisor for theÌýÌýand Co-Director of theÌýÌýPostgraduate Research Network. He has secured a portfolio of national and internationalÌýÌýfunding, including: Arts Council England (GFA’s and National Portfolio Organisation status), NESTA, AHRC, EPSRC, British Council, EU (European Culture Programme, ESF, EU FP7), as well as significant industrial support and sponsorships. Phillips has an extensive PGR supervisory experience withÌýÌýacrossÌý,Ìý,Ìý, andÌý.

Supervised Research Degrees

PhD Supervision:

  • Current students as DoS: 10.
  • As other supervisor: 18.
  • Completions: 80.

(Students located in i-DAT, CODEX, Planetary Collegium (Â鶹´«Ã½, Milan & Zurich), Cognovo, Robotics and Geology).

PGR Examinations:

Internal Examiner:ÌýÌýÌý Â鶹´«Ã½: 12. Chair: 9.

External Examiner:ÌýÌý 21 [Architectural Association: 1 / Bournemouth University: 1 MPhil, 1 PhD / Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL: 2 / Leeds Beckett University: 1 / University of Brighton: 2 / Edinburgh Napier University: 1 / Edinburgh University: 2 / Goldsmiths, University of London: 1 / Kent Institute of Art & Design: 1 / De Montfort University: 1 / University of Salford: 1 / University of New South Wales: 1 / University of Wales Trinity Saint David: 1 (MPhil) / University of Westminster: 1 / University of Huddersfield: 1 / IT University of Copenhagen: 1 / University of Greenwich: 1.

Funding for studentships, residencies and research projects secured from: 5 F/T, 2 P/T 3D3 AHRC CDT, 3 F/T Co-I: EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN (€4.1m) "CogNovo: Cognitive Innovation" and ALErT, developing immersive geological simulations. ESF 1 F/T, Onasis Foundation 1 F/T, CAPES 1 F/T, Alban 1 F/T, British Council Artist Link Inhabit program (residency, Brazil), Canadian Council for the Arts (residency and research project), Arts Council England (Grant for the Arts and project funding), Â鶹´«Ã½ City Council (partner funding), AHRC (Art Science Fellowship), EPSRC (RA and Project funding), ERDF (RA and project funding) as well as a variety of smaller project funds from partners and collaborators.

Director of CODEXÌý] an international Postgraduate Research network operating in the volatile and dynamic space that frames new interdisciplinary art and design practices. Full-Time PhD consists of an 18-month Residency Period in the UK followed by a Mobility period in the collaborating institution: Jiangnan University, Wuxi (China National Light Industry Key Laboratory of Industrial Design and Experience Design Frontier Methodology and Technology Innovation Research Centre), Nanjing University of the Arts and Soochow University.

i-DAT's Research Activity can be found here:Ìý

Teaching

Main area of focus: critical, practical and creative processes required for the production of interactive digital and temporal media, data manifestation and visualization. These activities foster experimentation and conceptual understanding of interactive design processes, establishing 'Ergodynamic' design strategies and critical conceptual skills, combined with technical production skills.

Modules:

  • ADA700. Postgraduate Research Methods Training
  • MRes Digital Art & Technology. Project and Dissertation supervisions.
  • BA/BSc Digital Media Design / BA Game Art & Design / BA/BSc Internet Design / MRes/ResM Digital Art & Technology.: Final Stage Project and Dissertation supervisions.
  • DAT715: Invisible Architecture
  • DAT515: Programming Audio/Visual Experiences.

Supervision of Industrial Placement students onÌýBA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design.

Previous:

2007 - 10: TQEF RiT (Research Informed Teaching) Projects ‘Development of multi-disciplinary content for the IVT’ and ‘Development of a Cross-Faculty Centre for Creative Design and Technology’ (reports submitted 04/2009, Phillips, M. and James, N.).

2000: Founder and Director of the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, Â鶹´«Ã½. Funded by ERDF Award £11,640, HEIF/RDA Award £38,774 and ESF & HEROBIC Award £116,406.

1997 - 04: Deputy Director of STAR (Science Technology and Arts Research) PhD Supervisor / researcher. The STAR research group became i-DAT on the demise in 2004 of CAiiA-STAR Integrated PhD Programme, which became the Planetary Collegium.

1997 - 07: Interactive Media Subject Group Leader, School of Computing, Faculty of Technology, Â鶹´«Ã½. Became i-DAT in 2004.

1994 - 98: Staff Development and Industrial Courses: Discovering Multimedia, Exploring Multimedia, Producing Multimedia. A variety of short courses delivered by satellite.

1989 - 92: Lecturer Media (New Technology), Full time. Exeter Faculty of Arts & Design, Polytechnic South West. Specific responsibilities for coordinating: Media Technologies, 3rd Yr Fine Art 4D.

1988 - 89: 0.5 Full time Lecturer Film, Video, Publishing, Department of Arts Communication, Exeter Faculty of Arts & Design, Polytechnic South West. P/T lecturer - Media/Time Base, North Devon College of F.E.

1987 - 89: Fellow and P/T Lecturer on: Publishing & Book Production (Postgraduate); Film & Video (Fine Art B.A.); Photo/TimeBased (BTEC); CAD, 3D (B.A.). Exeter College of Art & Design.

1985: Teaching Assistant In Narrative & Documentary Video module B.A. & M.A. students, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Massachusetts.

Contact Mike

Room 204, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Â鶹´«Ã½, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 586262