As an Assistant Professor and Course Director for MA Media Management, I have extensive experience in digital visual culture, media representations, new media art, and interactive and immersive media. My research interests cover a wide range of topics related to these fields, and I am dedicated to exploring new and innovative approaches to understanding how media shapes our world.
I am an Assistant Professor and the Course Director for the MA Media Management program at the School of Arts & Creative Industries (SACI), Coventry University. I am responsible for leading and developing the course and leading/teaching the core MA Media Management modules and MA cluster collaborative and research/final media project modules. Additionally, I lead a cluster module for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at Coventry University, which is franchised by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
As a freelance specialist, I have extensive expertise in various areas, including digital imagery, web design, web usability, web content, video production, and technology. I specialize in providing immersive and interactive content that effectively engages audiences. Additionally, I offer valuable insights on audience strategy and branding to help businesses establish a strong identity and reach their target audience more effectively.
My creative work has been showcased and aired globally in diverse commercial as well as fine art settings.
Lead and contributed to modules, lectures, seminars and workshops in Media Production, Employability and Contemporary Media Theory and Critical Studies.
Module Leader:
Media Practice in the Workplace
Dissertation Supervisor for BA , BAM and MA dissertaions.
Academic Advisor for Personal Tutor Group. Provide academic and pastoral support to students through their academic journey at NTU.
Mentor students to produce digital art and video productions within a range of social and artistic contexts that were critically and analytically rigorous.
Submit attendance reports, liaises with course lecturer to access students skills and ensure all necessary equipment is functioning properly and provide access to production studios.
Oversaw direction of technology, purchases and improvements, as well as scheduling and training of technical staff of multi-campus digital media facility devoted to creative pursuits. Provided instruction for students, faculty and staff in computer and digital media laboratories devoted exclusively to digital art making and creative endeavours for the Sam Fox School of Art and interdisciplinary collaborations within University and community.
Provided Medical illustration, Clinical photography, Photography and Digital Graphic design/illustration for the Physicians and Scientists of Washington University School of Medicine. Worked on representations for PCR and the Human Genome project.
International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, Local 514
September 1985
to December 1990
St. Louis
United States - Missouri
Represented by local 154, I was contracted by various local and statewide companies and organisations to provide live video character generation, video and photographic camerawork as well as early digital graphics.
Advanced knowlege of compression techniques and algorithms.
Understand the implications of psychological and sociological influences on web design.
Can perform web design and development, adhering to W3C web standards and can critically comment on graphic design and standards based web development.
High competence with digital audio, image and video formats and applications.
Awareness of the factors involved in Multimedia systems and the implications of multimedia formats, and types.
Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Actionscript, Javascript, Ajax and PHP.
In-depth knowledge of new & emerging modes of photographic production, graphic file types, file sizes, preparing files for all levels of resolution and postproduction distribution and consumption.
Reliable interpersonal skills in working with clients, advertisers, publishing agencies, and designers.
Patient, comforting and strong ability to place novice clients at ease.
Exceptional talent for capturing images that visualize a story or require a visual narrative of an event.
Knowledgeable of new and emerging post-production digital workflow.
Meet all deadlines on time, very fast post production workflow.
Exercise originality and have advanced technical proficiency with professional DSLR equipment.
In possession of equipment and software needed to produce work.
The Creative Practice of Selfies: Playful Expression and Subversion in Digital Culture., PhD Seminar 2019, University of Leicester, Department of Media and Communication, Bankfield House.
Routh, Patricia. 'The Politics of Transformation: Selfie Production of the Visually Marginalised' in Karatzogianni, A., Nguyen, D. and Serafinelli, E. (eds) The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere: Conflict, Migration, Crisis and Culture in Digital Networks, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018
Routh, Patricia. A poststructuralist review of selfies: Moving beyond heteronormative visual rhetoric. for(e)dialogue, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 4-14, mar. 2016. ISSN 2398-0532.
The Politics of Transformation: Selfie Performativity Beyond of the Hegemonic Visual Rhetoric', PhD Seminar 2015, University of Leicester, Department of Media and Communication, Bankfield House.
Gender Performativity and Selfie Creation: Beyond the Binaries of Heteronormative Visual Rhetoric, 2015, NDiMR New Directions in Research, University Of Leicester, Department of Media and Communication.
November 26th, 2014 - Gendering Happiness: The Power of Pleasure. "Affect and Identity in Selfie Production". University of Hull, WISE
November 13 - 15, 2014 - Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism, "Affect and Memory in Selfie Production". Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
January, 16th 2014 - The Curated Ego: "What Makes a Good Selfie? " National Portrait Gallery, London.
April11-12 2013-Conflict and Dialogue in Transnational and Digital Diaspora Networks, New Aesthetic Nostalgia as a Bridge to the Present.". University of Hull, WISE
November 7, 2012 - The Media & Memory Research Initiative (MaMRI) "New Aesthetic Nostalgia as a Bridge to the Present.".- Department of Digital Media, University of Hull, SANM
April 22-24, 2023, audio reactive live projection, "SurfSonicSymphony", Cromer Art Space , Art Deco Block, Promenade, Cromer NR27 9HE In collaboration with Adrian Palka
20 October 2022 until 30 October 2022, Now Then and What Next Projection/ Instalation 'Hotel Revenant' Cromer Art Space , Art Deco Block, Promenade, Cromer NR27 9HE In collaboration with Adrian Palka
February 21, 2020 Music, Technology & Innovation/Performance DMU, Postgraduate Concert, "Golden Turtle" audio reactive video to live performance of Golden Turtle sound composition by Susanne Grunewald.
June 12, 2018 Music, Technology & Innovation/Performance DMU, Postgraduate Concert, "Golden Turtle" audio reactive video to live performance of Golden Turtle sound composition by Susanne Grunewald.
March 22, 2017 Music, Technology & Innovation/Performance DMU, Postgraduate Concert, "Golden Turtle" audio reactive video to live performance of Golden Turtle sound composition by Susanne Grunewald.
2009-2016 – Photographic work featured regularly within Paraphilia Magazine. USA
January 2014, The Curated Ego: What Makes a Good Selfie? "The Personality Surgeon" images screened at National Portrait Gallery, London.
August 3 - August 29, Photography & Video Backdrops for Open Wide Tour, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
April 6th, 2013 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LACDA Ninth Anniversary Exhibit Los Angeles, California Featured five digital prints.
March 2013- the video, "End Begins", broadcast on FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on Berkeley TV (BTV), Ch. 28. Berkeley, California, USA
August 2012- the video, "Torch me up,with the olympics", broadcast on FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on Berkeley TV (BTV), Ch. 28. Berkeley, California, USA
March 2012 -LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, New Aesthetic Prints.
December -2011, Mobile phone photography as featured illustrations for Michael Butterworth's, "Christmas Story".
December 2011- the video, "End Begins", broadcast on FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on Berkeley TV (BTV), Ch. 28. Berkeley, California, USA
September, 2011, videos shown at Dilston Grove and Matt's Gallery , London UK . ”Something just behind your back”, ”Phil the Messenger”, “ ’and Inhabited the Spaces’ “, and “Adventures in the House of Memory”.
April 2011 - the video, "Gangster State", will broadcast on FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on Berkeley TV (BTV), Ch. 28. Berkeley, California, USA
March 2011- the video, "Jimmy Carter 1979", broadcast 4 times on FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on Berkeley TV (BTV), Ch. 28. Berkeley, California, USA
October 1, 2010 - October, 2011, the videos, "The Edge of my World", "Persephone", "Alveolus", "The Ancient Old Ones", "Mysterium Tremendum", "Lusion Plain", "Skin", "Normal", "Funky Bacon", and " Swimming Upside Down" screened on loop at the Plaza Eventi hotel in NYC, giant outdoor screen. New York , New York, USA
September, 2010, videos shown at Dilston Grove and Matt's Gallery , ”Something just behind your back”, ”Phil the Messenger”, “ ’and Inhabited the Spaces’ “, and “Adventures in the House of Memory”. London UK
July 8th – 24th, 2010 – LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; “FEEDBACK”; shown “Phil the Messenger”. Los Angeles, California, USA