Key details
Chris Speed
Lecturer in Games
Chris Speed is a London based audio visual artist, DJ and educator working at the intersection of art and digital technology. His practice uses real-time performance instruments consistent across music videos, live visuals and immersive installations. Chris’s artworks have been exhibited internationally at new media art venues and music festivals such as Peckham Digital, SOUND/IMAGE, Watermans, Arebyte Gallery, ArtFutura, Firstsite, CURRENTS, Amsterdam Dance Event and Digerati Experimental Media Festival. In terms of academia, Chris has collaborated with a variety of collectives including the Greenwich based SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre.
Responsibilities within the university
Module Leader
- COMP1872 Shader Programming
Instructor / Lab Support
- COMP1871 Game Audio
- COMP1925 Physical Computing
- COMP1869 Group Project
Awards
Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Award 2017
Research / Scholarly interests
Research interests in Chris's work have included musical memetics, virtual bodies and experimental game design.