Who

The Arts | Media Net research group consists of two practicing artists and members of academic staff at Canterbury Christ Church University, Department of Media and Department of Art, working across two campuses in Canterbury and Broadstairs.

Tim Long

A practicing artist with a commitment to interdisciplinary practice employing new and traditional technologies, Tim’s films and works on paper has been shown in a solo exhibition at the Eagle Gallery in London (2002) and at the Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, where Tim was also invited to be artist in residence during August 2006. During 2002 Tim was invited to exhibit digital prints at the Galeria de la Casa Guayasamin, in Havana, Cuba and at the Espaco Anexo, in San Paulo, Brazil.
In 2005 Tim won the best sound award for his film The Splitting, in the 2 Days Later Film Competition at the Community Pharmacy Gallery, Margate.

Research interests: Tim is registered for a MPhil/PhD at the Slade School of Art, University College, London.

Tim has supervised a number of initiatives concerned with research into psychogeography, in Cardiff and Canterbury.

Tim is a member of the department of media’s Research Group and contributes regularly to the research seminars held in the department: in December 2003 Tim presented Naked City, his research into psychogeography and in June 2006 Tim presented The Invasion of the Grotesque, concerning the Grotesque Image and Imagination, the subject of his PhD.

Bryan Hawkins

Bryan teaches across the Art and Media Departments and is constantly engaged in the production of drawings, paintings, prints and artefacts. He is developing a new degree Programme Creative Visual Media – based at the Broadstairs Campus. Bryan is currently involved in a range of creative, research and curatorial projects and has completed substantial research in Post-modernism and Neo-romanticism.