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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.

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.

Grand Theft Hamlet, directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls

Play Your Way into Production

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

Academic staff
PhD students
  • 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)
Technical expertise
  • Daniel Slawson - Research Software Engineer in Creative Technologies
Visiting academic staff
  • Clau Nader - Visiting Lecturer in Audio Cultures and Modernities (from autumn 2024)

Publications

A selection of recent publications from members of the cluster
Networks
We're part of the Creative Coding Collective network
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