Chris Speed

Chris Speed MA

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.