Tobias Revell
Title
Programme Director Graphic Design Communication
College
London College of Communication
Email address
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Researcher Research
Biography
Tobias Revell is an artist and designer. Spanning different disciplines and media his work addresses the urgent need for critical engagement with material reality through design, art and technology. Recent work has looked at the idea of technology as a territory, expectations of the future, rendering software and the occult and supernatural in pop culture discussions of technology.Tobias is a Programme Director at the London College of Communication, UAL. He is a co-founder of research consultancy Strange Telemetry, Founding member of Supra Systems Studio and one-half of research and curatorial project Haunted Machines who curated Impakt festival in 2017. He lectures and exhibits internationally, and has recently appeared at Improving Reality, FutureEverything, IMPAKT Utrecht, Web Directions Sydney, Transmediale Berlin, ThingsCon and Lift Geneva. He is a PhD candidate in design at Goldsmiths.
Grants and awards
(Figures indicate amount awarded to UAL)
- ICI-ECP JMP: Industrialised Countries Instrument, Education Cooperation Programme, Joint Mobiity Project, INTERACT: (Interactive Studios & Innovative Networks for Future Design Careers)
Research Outputs
Art/Design item
- Revell T, Goatley W, Peters C. Charismatic Megapigment (2019)
- Revell T, Goatley W. Augury (2018)
- Revell T. Synthesising Obama (2018)
- Revell T, Goatley W. Mephitic Air (2017)
- Revell T. No Exit in Possible/Probable Worlds (2017)
- Revell T, Goatley W. Watching Mephitic Air (2016)
- Revell T. The Finite State Fantasia (2016)
- Revell T, Kane N. Haunted Machines: Alchemy (2015)
- Revell T. The Monopoly of Legitimate Use (2014)
Article
- Revell T. The Pure Uncanny Machine (2018)
- Revell T. Seizing The Means of Rendering (2016)
- Revell T. Working Up A Sweat (2015)
- Revell T. Continuous Monuments and Imaginable Alternatives (2015)
- Voss G, Pickard J, Revell T. The Internet Of Bombs (2015)
- Revell T. Technological Territories (2014)
- Revell T. Designed Conflict Territories (2014)
Book Section
- Revell T. Exit Spaces: From Koreshan Cults to Wireless Mesh Networks (2020)
- Revell T. Playing The Game (2018)
- Revell T. Swimming With Submarines (2018)
- Revell T. The Imagination Trap (2018)
- Revell T. This Must Be The Place; Critical Design and Urban Futurity (2018)
- Revell T, Voss G, Pickard J. Valuing Utopia in Speculative and Critical Design (2018)
- Revell T, Voss G. This Must Be The Place: Critical Design and Urban Futurity (2018)
- Revell T. The Hallowed Image
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Revell T, Kane N. Designing an Ecological Alexa (2020)
- Revell T, Verhoeven E. The Global Design Studio (GDS): Playing with Trans-National Digital Design Education (2019)
- Revell T. Your Interface, My Agency (2019)
- Revell T. 5 Reasons Why Speculative Design Won't Save The World (2019)
- Revell T, Cormier D, White D. Complexity and Creativity (2019)
- Revell T, Kane N. Haunted Machines, Tentacular Festival (2018)
- Revell T. Algorithmic Bias (2018)
- Revell T. Imagining Machines (2018)
- Revell T. Body Interface (2018)
- Revell T. MA Interaction Design Communication (2018)
- Revell T, Verhoeven E. Interact Global Design Networks. Exploring Post-Disciplinary Design in a Global Context (2018)
- Revell T. Arrational Machines (2017)
- Revell T. What's It Doing (2017)
- Revell T. The Potential for Radical Politics in Rendering (2016)
- Revell T. It Came Through The Seams! (2016)
- Revell T. This Did Not Take Place (2015)
- Revell T. Smart City Dreamin' (2015)
- Revell T. Haunted Machines (2014)
- Revell T. Critical Exploits (2014)
Other
Performance
- Revell T. 88.7; Stories From The First Transnational Traders (2017)
Show/Exhibition
- Revell T, Kane N. Impakt 2017: Haunted Machines & Wicked Problems (2017)
- Revell T. Possible/Probable Worlds (2017)
Subjects
Animation, interactive, film and sound
Communication and graphic design
Creative Computing