Chris Jones

Associate Professor

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Education:

BA Hons, Political Philosophy
BFA, InterMedia
MPhil, Art and Technology
PhD, Art and Technology

Bio

Chris Jones is an artist, researcher and educator whose interests are focused on the relationship between technical image media (primarily photography) and modes of knowledge production.

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Research Interests

Chris is interested in developing non-disciplinary epistemologies that recognize art as a form of knowledge. He is currently developing a book for publication entitled "A Photo is Only Ever About Itself: ontological abstraction in the technical image".


Thesis Supervision

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Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 201 26/FA

Description

This course guides students through a series of theoretical engagements to promote their abilities to articulate subject positions in support of creative practice. The course draws on a contemporary survey of unique theoretical references to investigate an interrelated set of concerns that includes: language, signification, representation, history, ideology, epistemologies, ontologies, difference, emergence, technology, and new conceptions of ecology. Students are challenged to engage course resources in terms of their own life experiences and to discover ways in which they can theorize their environments as creative practitioners.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 300 26/FA

Description

This course offers the opportunity to study a specific discipline in the social sciences. Through a study of selected issues, which will change from time to time, students will gain a better understanding of contemporary social and cultural theories and the methods of analysis in the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, or women's studies, especially as they relate to critical issues in art and design.

Each section of this course runs with a different topic. See here .

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 330 26/FA

Description

This course is concerned with photographic practices in relation to the social sciences and various ways of constructing knowledge. The course will address diverse issues such as gender, race, regional and sexual difference, and consider the ideological, institutional and cultural investments of photography. Lectures, selected readings and assignments will give particular attention to critical and theoretical positions significant to an understanding of photographic discourse and the larger issues it generates.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.