KURATOR  curating + research

Phil Ellis is a lecturer and PhD student at University of Plymouth.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Link:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=staffdetails&id=pellis

Phil Ellis is an artist and lecturer in BA Media Arts, Programme Leader in BA Television Arts and the forthcoming MA Media Convergence at the University of Plymouth. He is also engaged in PhD research into the relationship between contemporary and historical television, exploring how the process of reenactment might allow us to revisit the past in an insightful way and how it might influence the contemporary television user. He is will be reenacting (via webcams and an online television channel) two John Logie Baird experiments in their 80th anniversary year (i.e. before July 2011). His recent publication was: Ellis, P. (2010) ‘The body of the text: the uses of the “ScreenPage” in new media’ in Broadhurst, S. & Machon, J. (eds.), Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance, London: Palgrave Macmillan.