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Teaches: Video and New Media Production. Research interests: Film, DVD and digital video production, multi projection and installation work. Sound, music and moving image collaborations. Interactive and VJ software for moving image mixing and manipulation. A personal website and archive of film, video, projection and installation work, and research projects, is online at: http://www.nickcopefilm.com. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. External Examiner: BA(Hons)TV Production, University of Bournemouth; Software Systems for Arts and Media BA(Hons)/BSc, University of Hertfordshire, 2005-2010. Editorial Board member: ScreenWork DVD Media Practice as Research project, published in association with the Journal of Media Practice, Intellect Books. (http://www.bris.ac.uk/drama/screenwork/) Reviews Editor, Convergence - The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Sage Publishing). Dr Nick Cope is a senior lecturer in video and new media production at the University of Sunderland and was programme leader for the BA(Hons) Video and New Media Production undergraduate programme 2008-2012, having worked in the higher education sector for 17 years, following eight years working in the creative and media industries. He has been a practicing film, video and digital media artist since 1982, and has recently completed a PhD by Existing Creative Published Work. This locates a contemporary visual music practice within current and emerging critical and theoretical contexts and tracks back the history of this practice to initial screenings of work as part of the 1980’s British Scratch video art movement. At the heart of this work is an exploration and examination of methods and working practices in the encounter of music, sound and moving image. Central to this is an examination of the affective levels that sound and image can operate on, in a transsensorial fusion, and political and cultural applications of such encounters, whilst examining the epistemological regimes such work operates in. Work has been screened nationally and internationally since the 1980s. Collaborating with composer Professor Tim Howle since 2002, these works have been screened and presented and papers given relating to the collaboration at national and international conferences, concerts, galleries and festivals. The short film Open Circuits has been published on DVD by both MIT Press' Computer Music Journal and the Journal of Media Practice's Screenworks project. Departmental funding has facilitated conference attendance. Collaborations with regional arts development agencies in North Yorkshire funded and facilitated the realization of public arts digital media projects between 2002-2006, including an interactive site-specific installation collaboration with composer Dr Rob Mackay (http://www.create.uk.net/projectinfo.php?projectid=68&linkid=cp2). A selection of film and video projects is online at http://www.vimeo.com/nickcope As Director of Studies for Digital Arts at the University of Hull, 2001-2004, Nick set up facilities and academic programmes for the undergraduate study and practice of digital media arts funded through HEFCE. During this time he collaborated on an AHRC funding bid to digitize the Bishop of Lincoln’s archive.