Staff Profile

James joined SACs team in 2023. He is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with performance, installation, sound and the digital space. Navigating through complex narratives that at first seem to have nothing to do with reality, his work creates unnerving and absurd scenarios in limbo between fact and fiction, transcending digital and nondigital realms. He also has two dogs named Kosmos and Ippolit, plus two cats Ghost and Pebble.

In 2019, James received a twelve-month fellowship and recognition for lifetime achievements in the arts from the State of Bavaria at the Internationales Kunstlerhaus Villa Concordia. He is the founding member of the band The Modern Institute and a resident artist as PROTON'S GHOST on Slacks Radio in Newcastle since 2021. He is also the co-founding member of the socially engaged Swiss gallery THE PROPOSAL.

Selected Exhibitions and Live Shows

WE PRETENDED IT WASN’T GREEN, live satelite data generative animation at The Life Science Centre, ˈbər-b(ə-)liŋ performed live at Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2022; (nɑnkəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl) performed live at GoMA in February 2022; Donor at GENERATORprojects Dundee in 2021, Anecdotes from The Abyss, in collaboration with George Finlay Ramsay, FuturShock, FOLD London/ Lahmacun Radio Budapest in 2021; dualisms_oo, Internationales Kunstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg, (DE) in 2019; A Skulk in London, London Nights Late at the Museum of London in 2018; Haha C’est La Vie at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich during Manifesta in 2016; Acclimation of dark respiration at the Voidoid Archive in 2015; Book of the Dead, A Museum for an Imagined City, Soil Seattle, USA; The Maillard Effect at Drap-Art, Festival of Recycling Art in Catalonia in 2014.

Previous scientific collaborations include ASCUS Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, Asteria Space Art & Research Group, The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Roles and Responsibilities

James provides comprehensive technical support to colleagues and students for our Digital Cultures programme and in general across the Media, Culture, Heritage (MCH) subject area. Through student's drop-in skill sessions and workshop deliveries, he provides support in student's programming and specialist computing.

Qualifications

MA Contemporary Art Practice, The University of Edinburgh, 2017/18

BA (Hons) Sculpture & Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, 2007/11