Jim Hobbs BA, BFA, MFA

Jim Hobbs began teaching at the University of Greenwich as a Visiting Lecturer in 2009, where his role had been the development of visual communication approaches across the departments of Architecture and Design. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer within CPDA where his role has been expanded to include teaching across all the years and acting as an artist-in-residence. He has a strong interest in the role that Fine Art plays within the Digital Art and Design fields in particular how Fine Art approaches can be incorporated into these areas to blur the boundaries.

As an artist, Hobbs' work utilises a variety of media including 16mm film, digital video, installation, site-specific work, drawing, sculpture, sound and photography. Currently his work and research investigate the personal and social implications of loss, oblivion, history, memory and the subsequent acts of remembrance/memorialisation. The work bears particular focus on how the use of architecture and monuments become a type of physical manifestation of that which is absent, and how these "stand-ins'' can be used, manipulated, etc. More recently, his work has moved into the realm of filmic installations, utilising film and video as a time based material and medium to investigate these concerns. Intrinsically interlinked with this is a constant questioning of the role of the analogue within the digital age & how it functions, if it can override associations with nostalgia, and notions of the quality of image and how that relates to memory.