Photography, film and sound

Chris Roberts, Digital Music and Sound Arts graduate

Chris is the founder and Managing Director of Ithaca Audio, a Brighton-based company specialising in music composition, sound design and production and re-mixing. Ithaca have created remix videos for some of the world's largest corporations and advertising agencies, including Mercedes, VW, Red Bull, Guinness and Saatchi & Saatchi. Chris is also an award-winning composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist and is a member of the British Academy of Composers, Songwriters and Authors. He has taught music production for the BBC and performed internationally.

Professor Kelly Snook

Kelly Snook is a music producer, music technologist and data sonification researcher working at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. She is one of the creators of the mi.mu gloves, which allow artists to create and perform gesturally. Kelly was a NASA Research Scientist before turning her attention to music and her research involves harmony in the solar system. She is pioneering the Fab Lab at the University of Brighton, where students and researchers can learn how to 'make almost anything', based on the successful MIT Media Lab.

Matthew Noel-Tod, lecturer

Matthew is an artist and filmmaker who teaches our Moving Image degree. His work is held in the collection of the Pompidou centre, Paris and the British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive and is distributed by LUX. His career in the field of moving image includes a Film London Artists' Film and Video Award for his film Nausea, an Arts Council England Grant for Arts award for his film BANG! and an artist-in-residency at The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw and the Chisenhale Gallery, London. He has been a visiting artist at the San Francisco Institute.

Dr Dario Llinares, lecturer

An academic, writer, cultural critic and podcaster, Dario teaches on the Digital Media, and Film and Screen Studies programmes. He is the producer and co-host of the popular Cinematologists podcast and has published on the astronaut in twentieth-century media and time travel cinema. Dario's research focuses on digital culture and its effect on mediated identity and social practice.

Julia Winckler, lecturer

Julia teaches on our photography programmes and is both a photographer and an anthropologist – she works through layers of physical and cultural geography, history and memory, piecing together fragments that establish links between our collective past and present. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has contributed to numerous books and journals.

Dr Louise FitzGerald, lecturer

Louise teaches on our film and screen studies programmes. Her specialist interests are in the politics of representation on-screen, especially with regards to race and gender. Her research has informed the modules she has devised at the university that examine film and cultural politics, screen comedy, screen histories, film theory and popular media.