Culture Lab Newcastle

Staff Profile

James Davoll

Technical Manager

Background

 

Profile

James Davoll is an award winning film maker and artist working across creative digital media, video installation, film, photography and sound.


Based in Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK. His practice explores specific landscapes asking questions of their contemporary role, relevance and our emotive response to them. He seeks to investigate our complex and contradictory relationship with the natural world. 


 

Qualifications

Fellowship HEA - 2018

MRes Digital Media, Newcastle University - 2012

PGCE in Post Compulsory Education, Sunderland University - 2008

BA Contemporary Photographic Practice, Northumbria University - 2006

 

Committees

University Technician Commitment Steering Group

School EXEC

Faculty Health and Safety

Culture Lab Steering and Working Groups 

Athena Swan Steering Group


External

Specialist Advisor NationalTechnician Development Centre

Member of the Arts Territory Exchange

 

Research

Research

I'm interested in the following themes:

  • How the viewer experiences and contributes to the artwork and how this role is continually evolving with changes in society and technology
  • Landscape, migration and place
  • Soundscape Ecology
  • Environmental Sound Art

Current Project Include:

  • Experiences of Polluted Leisure where the River Tees meets the Sea
  • Recording the liminal spaces of the Northern      Ireland/ Ireland border
  • Investigating the Sonic Potential and Heritage Sounds of Dorothea Slate Quarry

 



Selected Projects, Exhibitions, Conferences and Festivals

Laurus Film Festival, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus. 2021 (Semi - Finalist)


Etnovideográfica Film Festival, Zamora, Spain, 2020 (Nominated Jury Prize)


Winner, Wales international Film Festival, Swansea, Wales, 2019


Spaces of Intervention, Culture Lab, Newcastle, 10/2019


Put This in Your Window and Think of Me, Cambridge, 2019


Skeiôaráhlaup Festival, Iceland, 2019


Winner Best Experimental ReelHeart Film Festival, Toronto Canada, 2019 (Nominated Best Editing)


Bound iii, Alchemy Film Festival, England, 2019


Bound ii, Allenheads Contemporary Art, England, 2019


AnthropOcean, Congresso da Associaçåo Portuguesa de Antropologia, Lisboa, Portugal, 2019


Finalist, Camarthen Bay Film Festival , Wales, 2019


Wales International Documentary Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales, 2019


Short to the Point Film festival, Romania & Moldova, 2019


Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2019



Honourable Mention, Canada Short Film Festival, 2018


Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair Exhibition and Performance, Foundation Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, France 11/ 2018


Bound i, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/2018


Sounding Nature, selected contributor, Cities and Memory Project, Online Archive, 2018


GeNErosity Festival, 10/ 2018


6mm Film Festival, 10/ 2018


TRACE, Radio Series, ResonanceExtra, 2018


Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair in Blue Spaces, XL Gallery, 09/ 2018


ASA18 Conference: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology with Dr Adam Doering and Dr Clifton Evers, Oxford University, 2018


1205, Fuse, Bradford, 2018


Gwyl Lechi Bro Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Slate Festival 2018


CAMP Residency, France, 2018


CAUTHE Conference 2018 Collaboration with Dr Adam Doering, Dr Clifton Evers, Prof. Kumi Kato, Simon Wearne, Australia 


Sustaining the Seas Conference 2017, Polluted Leisure, Collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Australia


Sydney Ideas Festival 2017, Polluted Leisure, Collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Australia


Paths Across Waters, North Shields, 2017


The Dark Outside and Sanctuary Lab, Contributed work, Talnotry, 2017


Adlais, Dorothea Quarry, Gynedd 


Chwarel, Taysarn, Wales, 2017 


Murmur, Collaboration with David De la Haye, Prof. Julieanne Preston, Newcastle, 2017 


AHRC Commons, Common Ground, York, 2016 


Bridges, Collaboration with David De la Haye, Tyne Bridge, 2016


Seasons, Field Camera, Cumbria


Loops, Lines, Layers, Newcastle, 


Things Not Seen Archive, Ex Libris


Cloud 9, Kirkley Hall, Northumberland


FutureEverything Festival, Manchester


Render3, CultureLab


Emblematic Project, Newcastle


LandeScape, Hatton Gallery


Wield Allotments Residency, E.Sussex


Brighton Biennial, Brighton


Change, Queenstown, New Zealand


Helios, Biscuit Factory


Mise-en-scène, Gallery North


 

 

 

 

 

 


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