Nathan Jones

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art: Digital Media

Research Overview

I am an artistic research practitioner whose work explores how emerging technologies reshape language, publishing, heritage, and cultural experience. My practice spans artificial intelligence, immersive and interactive media, and post-digital publishing, with a focus on how art generates new modes of knowledge and fosters resilience in times of systemic change. I have published and presented on the conditions for language and literature in relation to AI, glitch practices, and distributed critique, while also developing projects that investigate security, resilience, and cultural innovation through artistic methods. Exhibited works range from experimental uses of speed readers and optical character recognition to recursive neural networks, VR environments, and hybrid archival machines such as microfiche readers. Current initiatives include research into virtual heritage and digital twins of cave art sites, interdisciplinary labs rethinking security through immersive art, and cross-sector cultural strategies that position art as a driver of civic and ecological transformation.

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
  • Morecambe Bay Curriculum
  • Practices