Creative technologies research cluster
We lead research and practice involving digital technology as a subject, medium and method.
Our cluster brings together the diverse range of technology-related work happening across the school – ranging from technology-mediated creative content, performance and practice through to digital interaction design for social good, and much more.
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Jonathan Hook
Professor in Interactive Media
Creative technologies research cluster lead
Projects
Our members lead York’s new CoSTAR Live Lab, part of the UK’s £75.6 million national R&D network for screen and performance technology. Other major projects include the Digital Creativity Labs, PlayOn, the Contemporary Urban Music for Inclusion Network (CUMIN), WEAVR, XR Stories and the Screen Industries Growth Network.
We support research of all types and scales, especially work driven by our thriving community of PhD students. Recent projects include:
Meal Deal, Grand Theft Hamlet, Playback, Sondheim in the Storyplex, Play Your Way into Production, Brooke Leave Home and The New Virtuality.
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Grand Theft Hamlet, directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls
Research in practice
Our research is out in the world being watched, listened to, played and engaged with.
- Your Heritage, Your Story - creating new interpretations of heritage from people building a sense of place and belonging in a new country.
- Áruló - a new production telling a story with immersive technologies as part of PlayOn. Áruló was shown at the Theatre Olympics 2023.
- Play Your Way into Production - breaking down barriers to getting into the screen industry.
Our members
- Alessandro Altavilla - Lecturer in Digital Creativity
- Anna Bramwell-Dicks - Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media
- Matt Brannan - Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Production
- Jude Brereton - Professor of Audio and Music Technologies
- Richard A Carter - Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture
- Pete Dale - Lecturer in Music Education
- Abi Evans - Lecturer in Interactive Media
- Dar'ya Guarnera - Lecturer in AI
- Jonathan Hook - Professor of Interactive Media
- Nick Jones - Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Digital Culture
- Ollie Jones - Senior Lecturer in Theatre
- Ben Kirman - Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media
- Saad Maqbool - Associate Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture
- Debbie Maxwell - Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media
- Jenna Ng - Professor in Digital Media and Culture
- Heather Niven - Lecturer in Management of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Federico Reuben - Senior Lecturer in Music Technology
- Martin Suckling - Professor of Composition
- Marian Ursu - Professor of Digital Creativity
- Fangzhou You - Lecturer in Digital Design
- Maki Wardle - PhD AHRC CDP Alternate reality games and London's archaeology
- Tania Dales - PhD iGGi
- Zulfiya Hamzaki - PhD by creative practice, AHRC-funded through the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH)
- Grace Moore - PhD by creative practice
- Sam Crane - PhD by creative practice
- Mary Stewart-David - PhD by creative practice
- Cristobal Catalan - PhD by research
- Daniel Lock - PhD by research
- Qiti Zhang - PhD by research
- Kyle Worrall - PhD iGGi
- Jiaqi Yu - PhD by research
- Mark Hanslip - PhD by creative practice
- Prasad Sandbhor - PhD iGGi
- Chenyu Gao - PhD by research
- Huilin Qi - PhD in music education
- Carolyn Bowe - PhD by research
- Stewart Jones - PhD by Research
- Andy Egerton - PhD by research funded by WRoCAH
- Ross Fifield - PhD iGGi
- Ben Eyes - PhD in digital composition
- Kolawole Ganikale - PhD in music (production, pedagogy, performance and technology)
- Daniel Slawson - Research Software Engineer in Creative Technologies
- Clau Nader - Visiting Lecturer in Audio Cultures and Modernities (from autumn 2024)
Publications
- The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections - book by Jenna Ng
- Brooke Leave Home: Designing a Personalized Film to Support Public Engagement with Open Data - proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Sonicules - Designing drugs with sound: approaches to sound design for film, audiovisual performance and interactive sonification - book chapter by Jude Brereton and Radoslaw Rudnicki
- Thinking outside the bag: Worker-led speculation and the future of gig economy delivery platforms - research paper from Design Research Society 2022
- Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond - book by Pete Dale, Pamela Burnard, and Raphael Travis Jr.
- DAX: Data-Driven Audience Experiences in Esports - proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences
Contact us
Jonathan Hook
Professor in Interactive Media
Creative technologies research cluster lead