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photo of Lecturer Jamie Gledhill standing with hands in pockets and smiling at camera with short light brown hair and a loose patterned blue shirt

Jamie Gledhill teaches creative computing and creative technology. As an educator, he is particularly interested in helping students develop the skills, knowledge, and ambition necessary to develop their own distinct forms of innovative digital creativity. Jamie is also a practising digital artist whose works have been shown regionally and nationally. His practice is situated at the intersection of audio-visual experimentation, narrative and interaction design and often features non-contact interactivity using motion tracking sensors.

As a digital practitioner, I’m particularly interested in the transformative power of art and technology; the way in which playful and often meaningful experiences can be constructed; how physical, emotional, social, and personal spaces can be mediated through the agency afforded by interactive technology. For example, the way in which playful interactive experiences can be used to create and explore relationships between strangers in public spaces.

It seems that human beings’ attraction to new technology can sometimes lead us to abandon social norms and engage with others in previously unthinkable ways. This is a phenomenon I set out to explore in my own practice, within which playfulness and co-interaction are recurrent themes. I often choose to work with interface technologies such as gesture and movement tracking in order to construct interactive experiences that are performative and intuitively controlled. I have collaborated with a number of UK arts organisations interested in technology including FACT in Liverpool, Metal in Peterborough, and Collusion in Cambridge.

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View more of Jamie’s work on the Norwich University of the Arts Research Repository and his website

Course Leader, BSc (Hons) Creative Computing Course Leader, BSc (Hons) Creative Technology Course Leader, Introduction to UX Design (Level 6) Course Leader, Basics of Creative Coding (Level 4)

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