Jon Dovey
Scene from room 6
JON DOVEY spent the first 15 years of his working life in video production, working through the early years of Channel Four as a researcher, editor and eventually as Producer. He worked principally in documentary and experimental video, co founding original scratch artists Gorilla Tapes in 1984, The video projects for which he was responsible gained international distribution and recognition and have now taken their place in the documented histories of UK Video Art.
Recent works include the Installation 'Ice Palace' in 'Six Small Screens' Hewlett Packard/Watershed Media Centre Dec 2000; the Installation of 'Desktop Theatre of Amnesia' in Ship of Fools group exhibition 'Losing the Plot' Pittville Pump rooms Cheltenham in Sept 2000 and the Dreamhouses Ship of Fools group exhibition of interactive installations at F Stop Bath Sept 1998. His current production research centres on rePublicof – an experiment in digital cabaret working at the intersection of dance music and art practice. Some of this work can be viewed at republicof.net.
Jon is also the Reader in Screen Media at the University of Bristol Dept of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, where he teaches moving image and digital media. His publication credits include Fractal Dreams (Lawrence and Wishart1996), one of the first collections on the politics of cyberculture to be produced in the UK, a monograph Freakshow : First Person Media and Factual TV (Pluto Press 2000) which examines popular factual television in terms of authenticity, confession and emergent forms of public subjectivities and a 40,000 contribution to New Media:A Critical Introduction (Routledge 2003) He is currently completing a book about Computer Games (co authored with Helen Kennedy, for the Open University Press due out later this year. )
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