Staff profile

Mr Hugh Davies

Senior Lecturer, Co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Creative Arts, Co-Director of the Centre for Creative Art

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Hued2 404, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

2009- Present: PhD Candidate, Media Philosophy, Monash University; 2003-2005: Avd Dip. Multimedia Design, Copenhagen Technical Academy; 1997-2000: BA Melbourne University, Victorian College of the Arts.

Membership of professional associations

2010 - Present: Board Chair, Freeplay Independent Gaming Festival; 2009 – present: Programing Committee, RMIT, Professional Communication; 2006 – 2012: Board Director, Australian Network for Art and Technology. (Chairman 2008 - 2010); 2006 - 2007: Committee Member, Australian Interactive Media Industry Association; 2005 - 2006: Committee Member, Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance. MEGA; 2001 – 2002: Committee Member, Seventh Gallery.

Area of study

Arts
Cinema Studies
Media Studies

Brief profile

Hugh Davies is co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Creative Arts and lectures in Networked Culture, Remix and Media Arts within the Media: Screen + Sound program.

Hugh is also a co-director of LaTrobe's Centre for Creative Arts. With a background in film, television and online production and eduction in sculpture and multimedia design, Hugh explores the tension between digital and physical realms.

Hugh has extensive history in arts management and leadership with seven years service to the board of the Australian Network for Art and Technology and he was a founding board director of Seventh Gallery in Melbourne.

He is now board chair of the Freeplay Festival and organisation.

Research interests

Fine Arts

- Media Arts

- Sculpture

- Transdisciplinary practice

Media Studies

- Games

- Media archaeology

Screen and Media Culture

- Game studies

- Gaming

- Networked culture

- Transmedia

Teaching units

  • MSS1MNC - Making Networked Culture
  • MSS2REM - Remix
  • HUS1ECM – Exploring Creative Media
  • MSS1EMA – Exploring Media Arts  

Recent publications

  • Davies.H. (2012) Entries into the Paul Virilio dictionary of terminology. Edited by John Armitage (Upcoming)
  • Davies.H. (2012) A walk through dOCUMENTA 13, Culture 360. ,http://culture360.org/
  • Davies.H. (2012) Playing with Reality, chapter for Transdiscourse: Turbulent Societies (Upcoming)
  • Carroli.L and Davies.H (2012) Hugh Davies & Linda Carroli in conversation, chapter for Uncertain Practices Unsitetly Aesthetics. Edited by Maria Miranda (Upcoming)
  • Davies.H. (2011) Immersion, Religion and the Suspension of Disbelief. Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2011. Osaka, Japan.
  • Davies.H. (2011) Weaponising Play. International Symposium Electronic Art, 2011. Istanbul, Turkey
  • Davies.H. (2010) The Invisible Interface. International Symposium Mixed & Alternate Realities 2010. Seoul, Korea. Davies.H. (2010) Presenting Deception in the Media Mainstream. MediAsia 2010. Osaka, Japan.
  • Davies.H. (2009) Ethics of Alternate Reality Gaming, International Symposium Electronic Art 2009. Belfast, Ireland. Davies.H. (2008) Physical Facebook. International Symposium Electronic Art 2008. Singapore. Singapore. Davies.H. (2007) Place as Media in Pervasive Games. IEEE Conference RMIT 2007. Melbourne Australia.
  • Davies.H. (2007) UGC as a Classroom Tool. Australian Teachers of Media Conference 2007. Melbourne Australia.

Research projects

  • Games
  • Media archeology
  • Transdiciplinary Practice
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Research activities through the Centre for Creative Arts
  • Ongoing practice under the title of Analogue Art Map
  • Completing a PhD on Alternate Reality Games