Nathan Jones
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art: Digital MediaResearch Overview
I am an artistic research practitioner with a particular interest in new media, language and publishing.
I have published and presented on conditions for language and literature in the context of artificial intelligence, glitch practices, and post-digital publishing. Exhibited works include experimental applications of speed readers and optical character recognition, recursive neural nets, VR-headsets and microfiche archival machines.
Current Research
My current concerns include
- developing a method for "distributed critique", critical writing that is equal to the demands of new networked at practices, with Abandon Normal Devices festival and The New Networked Normal Programme
- working with computing and linguistics scholars to analyse AI attempts at writing, particularly textual synthesis, as a mode for speculative futurology.
- developing a book and creative project around my concept of "Glitch Poetics" combining readings of new media art and new media devices with readings of innovative and what I call media-realist literary practices.
- continuing to explore the shifts in "reading" technologies and techniques through publishing and exhibition activity with the publisher I co-direct with Sam Skinner, Torque Editions
Current Teaching
I teach on LICA's Fine Art Studio Practice modules, as one of the Digital/Performance team.
I convene Fundamentals of Arts and Design, 2nd year Fine Art Studio Practice, and a module called What is the Contemporary? including lectures and practical skills around net-art and post-internet art, the post-human, embodiment, mediation and interactive technology.
Virtual Library of Great Rock Art Sites: Exploring Heritage through Digital Twins
01/05/2025 → 31/10/2025
Research
IAA: Environmental Futures and Culture in Morecambe Bay: Accelerating LICAs Artistic Research Towards Morecambe Bay Triennial
10/01/2025 → 30/09/2025
Research
Distributed Critique: working with specialist audiences for contemporary art
01/04/2019 → 31/03/2022
Research
Glitch Poetics: critical sensory realisms in contemporary language practice
30/09/2015 → 31/05/2018
Research
Torque Editions
17/01/2014 → …
Research
Unsecurities Lab 2
Symposium
Cultivating Data Natures
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Unsecurities Lab
Symposium
Cultivate: Culture Innovation in Morecambe Bay
Oral presentation
Contemporary Art as a Research Environment for the Fifth Industrial Revolution
Invited talk
Abandon Normal Devices (External organisation)
Membership of board
Texts That Could Be Otherwise: Reading the Social Effect of Contingency in Experiential Literature through GPT-3 Versions
Oral presentation
Things That Could Be Otherwise: Esoteric Reading with AI in the Post Digital Library
Invited talk
Using art to think about the hybrid library
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
BiblioTech: the postdigital library
Invited talk
Goldsmiths Press (Publisher)
Editorial activity
BiblioTech: an exhibition about libraries reading and publishing
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
BiblioTech: an exhibition about libraries reading and publishing
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Distributed Critique, Weather Engines
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Rethinking Symposia
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Hard to Grasp: Finding our Time in Critical New Media Art
Invited talk
Rethinking Symposia
Consultancy
AI and the Headline Archive
Invited talk
Electronic Literature Organisation
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain
Invited talk
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain
Invited talk
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain
Invited talk
Glitch Poetics
Oral presentation
A Crack in the Voice
Invited talk
Machine Research
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Glitch: The Contemporary Aesthetic
Invited talk
A Crack in the Voice
Oral presentation
Glitch Poetics: codecs and contemporary poetry
Invited talk
Absorbing Text
Invited talk
Syndrome
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Deans Award for Outstanding Contribution to Engagement
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Institute for Social Futures Fellow
- ISF Fellows 2019/20
- Practices