Subject: Faculty Research Group in Digital Cultures

Description: Based in Culture Lab, the Digital Cultures Research Group will focus on the place for creative digital practice in questioning, engaging with and transforming academic research at Newcastle University. In particular we will centre on creative digital practice in the following areas:

· Creative use of archives and collections

· Creative art and design practice in the Digital Humanities [understood in the term’s broadest sense]

· Emerging technologies in moving image

· Music, sound art and performance

· Experimental web technologies

· Maker-hacker culture and its relationship to academic research