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Mike Phillips is an artist and researcher whose R&D orbits a portfolio of PROJECTS that explore the ubiquity of data ‘harvested’ from an instrumentalised world and its potential as a material for revealing things that lie outside our normal frames of reference – things so far away, so close, so massive, so small and so ad infinitum.

Phillips is an active member of an international transdisciplinary community that engages with immersive, interactive and performative technologies. He managed the Fulldome Immersive Vision Theatre (2012-2025), a transdisciplinary instrument for manifesting (im)material and imaginary worlds and is a founding partner of FullDome UK (http://www.fulldome.org.uk/).

He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Plymouth’s School of Art, Design & Architecture. Until 2025, he was Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, the Director of Research at i-DAT.org, a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium and Co-Director of the CODEX Postgraduate Research Network. He has secured a portfolio of national and international RESEARCH funding, including: Arts Council England (GFA’s and National Portfolio Organisation status), NESTA, AHRC, EPSRC, British Council, EU (European Culture Programme, ESF, EU FP7), as well as significant industrial support and sponsorships. Phillips has an extensive PGR supervisory experience with 77 completions across i-DAT, CODEX, Roy Ascott’s Planetary Collegium, and 3D3.

Recent things…

Configuring Incompossible Futures: Claudia Westermann, Chris Speed, Elisa Giaccardi, and Mike Phillips

Hacking The (im)material.

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art, Volume 2: Artists and Practice 1st Edition.

“He wanted to have a wing of the Tate named after him”: remembering the groundbreaking art of Donald Rodney

Glitch: an interview with Mike Phillips and Antonio Roberts. In V. deRijke, & R. Sinker (Eds.), Challenging Contemporary Thinking of Play Springer.

Digital Ectoplasm and the Infinite Architecture of the Fulldome. Ghost Stories: Architecture and the Intangible. Edited by Baldwin, P. Volume94, Issue4, July/August 2024, Pages 110-117.