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Theolux is a lighting control interface I designed as part of my PhD research, to implement some of the concepts I developed as part of the research process: Both the concepts and the practical realisation of Theolux are described in detail in the documentation I…

You can find a list of my research publications on my Academia.edu page, including articles, book chapters, conference papers and projects. Academic publications are often only accessible to other academics who have access through their institutions. To make my work accessible to a wider audience,…

Passages was a devised performance created to develop, test and demonstrate aspects of my PhD research. Following the principles developed through that research, I undertook the role of 'lighting artist', creating the lighting throughout the rehearsal period using a bespoke lighting control system I designed…

I completed my PhD in 2011. My mixed-mode thesis was titled "Repositioning the Role of the Lighting Artist in Live Theatre Performance", in which I proposed a series of changes to the process of theatre lighting to give greater emphasis to creative decision-making in the…

‘What’s the Small Idea?’ is a research investigation that seeks to ‘stage’ a series of dichotomies to do with seeing. Theatres are machines for seeing, and the word theatre derives from the Greek theoria, to contemplate – both to gaze upon and to think about…

Traces is an interactive light installation by Nick Hunt and Hansjörg Schmidt, initially created for the Performing Light symposium at the University of Leeds in 2017. Since its initial appearance in Leeds, Traces has been recreated in a variety of forms, changing in scale and…

My research often engages with the history of technical theatre, not simply for its own sake, but also because knowing about the past is essential if we are to understand the present and how we got here. This in turn enables possible futures to be…

Light, Warmth and the End of the Age of Tungsten Since humans first learnt to control fire a million years ago, people have created artificial light through heat. For most of that time, the naked flames of open fires, candles and oil lamps have illuminated…

One of my long-term research interests is stage lighting control - not just the evolving technology used but, perhaps more importantly, the philosophy of how and why we choose to control light on stage in particular ways, and what this means for the art of…

Photoscenography is an ongoing research 'meta' project investigating the relationship between photography and scenography. The project has multiple elements, loosely interlinked, each of which approach the intersection of photography and scenography from a different perspective. At present, photoscenography has three elements - click the image…