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James Dyer

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PhD projects

Multimedia design, critical design, transdisciplinary design, new media

20152018

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Biography

Dr James Dyer writes on design and cultural theory. Before lecturing in Graphic Design at the University of Huddersfield, he was a freelance designer and programmer. He gained his Bachelors in Multimedia Design (UK), his Masters in New Media and Digital Culture (NL), and his PhD from the department of Art and Communication (UK). His recent (generally cynical) writings on New Media and Speculative Design have lead him towards wandering projects increasingly concerned with realist accounts of everyday graphic designs. He is currently final year lead of the undergraduate course Graphic Design and Animation, in which he also leads the advanced studio and theory modules. James is currently collaborating on a project of Graphic Events. 

Research Expertise and Interests

  • design
  • graphic design
  • product design
  • cultural theory
  • philosophy
  • process philosophy
  • literary realism
  • multimedia design
  • transdisciplinary design
  • new media
  • critical design
  • new realism
  • specualtive design
  • anti-design
  • critical interaction design
  • posthumanism
  • transhumanism
  • data studies

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Research Output

Failing by Design: Self-Tracking and the Failed Individual

Dyer, J., 12 Jun 2018, The Failed Individual : Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity. Motyl, K. & Schober, R. (eds.). Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, p. 357-374 18 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

    • On Fiction: Reality is Fiction/Fiction in Reality?

    Dyer, J., 2016, EP Volume 2: Design Fiction. Coles, A. (ed.). 1 ed. Berlin: Sternberg Press, Vol. 2. p. 129-130 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

    • Quantified Bodies: A Design Practice

    Dyer, J., 1 Mar 2016, In : Digital Culture & Society. 2, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    Open Access

    • Bastard​ ​Design​ ​Practices: An​ ​Archaeological​ ​Perspective

    Dyer, J., 17 Aug 2015, In : Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. 2, 2, p. 252-254 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    Open Access

    • Activities

    • 5 Oral presentation
    • 1 Invited talk

    Through the Optic of Design: Self-Tracking and the Permanence of Change

    James Dyer (Speaker)
    13 Jul 2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

    Self-Tracking: An Everyday Creativity

    James Dyer (Speaker)
    12 Jan 2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

    Design,​ ​Archives​ ​and​ ​Genealogy

    Alex Coles (Speaker), James Dyer (Speaker)
    21 Oct 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

    Flusser’s​ ​Fiction Objects​ ​and​ ​Design​

    James Dyer (Speaker)
    26 Apr 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

    Being-As-Body: Quantification, Self-Affectivity and Resistance

    James Dyer (Speaker)
    12 Nov 2015

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation