Jon Dovey Professor of Screen Media | UWE

Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media at the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Jon worked with video as a writer, editor and researcher in broadcast TV for the first half of his career, and co-founded original scratch artists Gorilla Tapes in 1984, exhibiting internationally for ten years. He works in theory and practice in technology and cultural form. In 2008 he launched the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE. In 2012 he became the Director of REACT (Research and Enterprise for Arts and Creative Technologies), one of four Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the AHRC. He was also Co-Investigator on the AHRC Connected Communities Creative Citizens Project and Co-I on ‘Bristol and Bath by Design’, evaluating the design ecology of the region. Jon is currently leading the Ambient Literature Research Project into new forms of contextually responsive literary experience, UWE’s new Masters programme for Creative Producers and developing a Creative Economy research unit.