Current research interests:

Jon spent the first 15 years of his working life in video production, working through the early years of Channel Four as a researcher, editor and eventually as Producer. He worked principally in documentary and experimental video, co founding original scratch artists Gorilla Tapes in 1984. His video projects gained international distribution and recognition and have now taken their place in the documented histories of UK Video Art. After moving to Bristol in 1990 he worked at the Watershed Media Centre for two years before teaching at the University of Plymouth in 1992 and then at the University of the West of England School of Cultural Studies until his appointment to the Department of Drama in 2003. His principal areas of research are in new media and in documentary studies. He is one of the organizers of Bristol Docs, a joint UWE/ University of Bristol project to celebrate and investigate documentary.

He also maintains a creative practice as research; as Executive Producer on a number of documentary Film & TV projects, in interactive media production and gallery installations. His current production research centres on rePublicof an experiment in digital cabaret working at the intersection of dance music and art practice. Desktop video and multimedia softwares have forms of production and live performance possible that would have impossible until very recently and I am committed to their exploration. Some of this work can be viewed at www.republicof.net

Jon is interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of media theory/practice, New Media studies and Documentary Studies.