Robert Jones

Senior Lecturer
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Background

Rob has taught at UWTSD since 2008. His interdisciplinary background spans mathematics, music, and photography, which converge through his research and creative practice in moving image. He has specialist knowledge in visual effects, post-production, sound design, and music for screen.

He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Film, Moving Image, and Visual Communication, with a focus on VFX, creative coding, and motion design. His teaching bridges storytelling and technology, combining contextual theory with studio practice to support both conceptual development and technical fluency.

Rob’s research sits at the intersection of media theory, environmental humanities, and posthumanist philosophy, with a focus on visual culture, networked ecologies, and experimental moving image. He is committed to interdisciplinary approaches that unite theory and practice, contributing to dialogues around ecological media, speculative computing, and posthuman visuality. 

Specialist Subjects

  • Moving Image, 3D Animation, Film, VFX
  • Creative Coding and Motion Design
  • Contextual Practice and Theory within Art & Design

Professional and/or Research Experience

September 2017-2020 External Examiner BSc (Hons) Film Production – Greenwich University
September 2015-2019 External Examiner – BA (Hons) Animation, VFX, Games Huddersfield University
September 2017 – Contributor/Consultant Skillset – VFX Core Skills Handbook
Sept. 2014 Panel Member - Skillset Creative Provision Conference, Bangor University
April 2014 External Validator – Postgraduate Framework for Animation and VFX, Bournemouth University

Qualifications

  • HEA Fellow, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
  • MA Contemporary Dialogues (Photography), University of Wales Trinity Saint David
  • BMUS (Hons) Music, Goldsmiths College (University of London)
  • PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education), Institute of Education
  • BSc (Hons) Maths & Computing, North London Polytechnic

Languages Spoken

English

Academic Teaching

Professional Publications

  • Stalking the Sublime: Nature and Affect in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
  • In The Cinematic Sublime: Negative Pleasures, Structuring Absences, ed. Nathan Carroll.
  • Bristol: Intellect Press, October 2020.
  • Shimmering Bodies: Matrixial Entanglements, Ecohorror and Posthuman Becoming in Annihilation (2018) In Cinema and Posthuman Bodies, ed. Asijit Datta. Bloomsbury Publishing. Forthcoming September 2026.
  • A Silent God and the Holy Fool: Existential Themes in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky In ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky. Edinburgh University Press. Final Chapter Draft submitted February 2021.
  • Matrixial Space-Time and the Alien Sublime: Trauma, Translation and Temporality in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016)
  • In ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve. Edinburgh University Press. Final Chapter Draft submitted December 2022.
  • The Shimmer of the Posthuman Sublime: Meeting the Universe Halfway in Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) In From Annihilation to High Life: Feminist Posthumanism and Postfeminist Humanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film. Bloomsbury Press. Final Chapter Draft submitted September 2023.
  • The SOLAS Project: An Ocean of Data
  • Gowerhaus: UWTSD 28th November 2018
  • The Politics of Space in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
  • Conceptions and Perceptions of Time and Space: International Conference – Birkbeck College University of London – 16th -17th February 2019
  • The SOLAS Project | What has Photography become in the Networked Age?
  • Digi-Mediated Culture Symposium – UWTSD - 10th May 2019
  • The SOLAS Project | Mycelium as Metaphor for Evolutionary Networks in the Anthropocene Art and the Anthropocene: An International Conference at Trinity College Dublin – 7th-9th June 2019
  • Teaching Contextual Practices: Towards a Posthuman Pedagogical Framework
  • Wales Nexus Conference 2019 – UWTSD - 11th July 2019
  • Towards the Quantum Image. The SOLAS Project | light as data | data as light
  • Illumination: Perspectives on the Way of Light: International Conference - Birkbeck College University of London - 14th March 2020
  • The SOLAS Project | Mycelium as Metaphor for Evolutionary Networks in the Anthropocene
  • SCAR Symposium: Until You Touch It, UWTSD 6th December 2023
  • The SOLAS Project | Mycelium as Algorithm: Digital Composting and the Metabolic Image
  • Digital Ecologies III: Bath Spa University 24th-25th July 2025
  • The SOLAS Project
  • Mission Gallery – Ephemeral Coast Exhibition – February - March 2018
  • The SOLAS Project
  • Digi-Mediated Culture Symposium – UWTSD - 10th May 2019