Mike Phillips
Mike Phillips is the director of i-DAT and heads the
Nascent research group at the University of Plymouth. Following a BA (Hons) in Fine Art - 4D, a scholarship to the University of Massachusetts he completed postgraduate studies in experimental media at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Operating collaboratively across the digital domains of pre-WWW global computer-networking and tele/kine/audio-matic performance/installation/object [such as 'UK EAT88' and Donald Rodney - ICA/TSWA 4 Cities/'Psalms' Autonomous Wheelchair], Phillips initiated and coordinated the BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts Programme
1992? with the support of Macromedia. More recently he founded the On-Line MSc Digital Futures programme and is now overseeing the development of i-DAT. Private and public sector grant funded R&D orbits digital architectures, transmedia publishing and generative media. Recent projects include: STI Project (The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence - SciArt), 'Artefact' (V&A), the �Arch-OS� architectural operating system and the LiquidPress. These projects and other work can be found on the i-DAT web site at:
