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A collection of texts and publications:

Data Ghosts – An Algorithmic Séance in the Fulldome. (coming soon)…

Hacking The (im)material. Mike Phillips. Paul Thomas (ed). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art, Volume 2: Artists and Practice 1st Edition. DOI: 10.5040/9781474207959.033

Phillips, M. 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.3082.

Present in Absentia. Tate-etc. Issue 62 — Summer 2024. Apart from the faint clicking of ultrasonic sensors, the occasional clunk of motors engaging, and the random squeak of rubber tyres on polished gallery floors, Donald Rodney’s Psalms 1997 gracefully performs its predefined figure of eight…

Phillips, M. 2022. The Academisation of Creativity and the Morphogenesis of the Practice-Based Researcher. In: Vear, C. ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research. London: Routledge, pp. 60-74.

Phillips, M., & Roberts, A. (2025). Glitch: an interview with Mike Phillips and Antonio Roberts. In V. deRijke, & R. Sinker (Eds.), Challenging Contemporary Thinking of Play Springer.

Adam ~ [Omphalos #2.0] Adam is a teddy bear constructed from lint harvested from the artists’ navel. Over a period of weeks small quantities of Adam’s body were collected and composited to constitute his cuddly form. Born from a combination of H&M black T-Shirt fibres and the artists DNA (epithelial tissue and bodily flotsam and jetsam), Adam waits patiently for the breath of life. For all his fluffy attributes Adam represents a philosophical and ecclesiastical conundrum – does Adam have a navel? Born of belly button Adam, like his biblical namesake, had no umbilical cord. Adams’ genetic makeup is, probably, around 20% human and his morphology certainly (bearly) humanesque, if miniscule in proportion. Neither natural (a genetic abomination) nor artificial (organic cotton), this hybrid offspring chronologically inverts the Omphalos hypothesis. The past is not the divine fraudulence, it is our umbilicus-less future nature (neither innie nor outie, but withoutie) that is the fabrication.

Adam ~ [Omphalos #2.0] was originally produced for NEXT NATURE Poster Exhibition at I C A C, the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece, 23/04/2015. And reproduced for the Green MAKING | MATERIALS | OBJECTS – Exhibition (01/07 – 31/08/2024) and Book: Macpherson, P., et al. (2024). Green MAKING | MATERIALS | OBJECTS – Book: OBJECTS, ZB Publishing.

Phillips, M. Wonderful Instabilities in Framing Immersion, Stories from an Emerging Market. South West Creative Technology Network Immersion Theme publication. Written by: Mark Leaver Edited by: Hannah Brady & Jon Dovey Published by: SWCTN Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX https://swctn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SWCTN_Immersion_Showcase_Publication_D.pdf. 07/2019

Phillips, M. Aga, B. Collectively Living, Working and Being, With and Through Predictive Algorithms. EVA, Electronic Visualisation in the Arts, London, Ed: Bowen, J. Diprose, G, Lambert, N. 10-13/07/2017. Pp 198-201

Sinker, M. Phillips, V. de Rijke. Playing in the Dark with Online Games for Girls. Volume: 18 issue: 2, page(s): 162-178.Article first published online: July 4, 2017;Issue published: June 1, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949117714079

Phillips, M. 2016. For Dust Thou Art. Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics. Leonardo Electronic Almanac book , Volume 22 Issue 1. Editors Lanfranco Aceti, Paul Thomas, Edward Colless. 236-243

Corino, G., Phillips, M. 2016. Thingbook: The Society of All Things (Humans, Animals, Things and Data). DigitCult – Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures. Special Issue. (n.1/2016). DOI 10.4399/97888548960245

Phillips, M. 2015. Evolutionary Operating Systems. In: Ascott, R., Molina, F. ed. Beyond Darwin: The Co-Evolutionary Path of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. Imprenta Provincial de Valencia, pp 115-125.

Phillips, M. (2015) Lab Report #4: Fulldome UK: ‘The thing’s hollow it goes on forever and oh my God it’s full of stars!’ Journal Paper. Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media. Volume 3 Numbers 1 & 2. Intellect Ltd. Pp 77–106.

Phillips, M. Ectoplasm and other Membranes. Interalia Magazine. https://www.interaliamag.org/audiovisual/mike-phillips/ 08/2015

Anders, P. (Panel Moderator), Ayiter, E., Gromala, D., Phillips, M., Thomas, P. Didactic Disruption: Roy Ascott’s Models for Arts Education and Research. Panel. The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art: ISEA2015, Vancouver, Canada. 14-19/07/15.

Kontini, K., Theona, I., Charitos, D., Phillips, M. Investigating the artistic potential of the Fulldome as a creative medium: the case of the E/M/D/L project. Long Paper. The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art: ISEA2015, Vancouver, Canada. 14-19/07/15

Phillips, Mike; Bennett, June (2014): Measuring Cultural Value.docx. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9775739.v1

Phillips, M., Speed. (2012) Ubiquity: A paranoid manifesto. Ubiquity. The Journal of Pervasive Media, 1:1. 3-6.

Phillips, M. (2012): There is no Dome?, Digital Creativity, 23:1, 48-57

Lambert, N., Phillips, M. (2012): Introduction: Fulldome, Digital Creativity, 23:1, 1-4

Lambert, N., Phillips, M. Guest Editors, FullDome Special Edition (2012): Digital Creativity, 23:1.

Aga, B., Phillips, M. et al. (2011) Human Geography v1.0. Liquid Press (i-DAT). ISBN 978-1-84102-298-7

Phillips, M. (2012): So Mote it be… Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research. 9:2&3, 97-103.

Phillips, M. Human Geography. (2011). in: Ascott, R., Girao, M., ed. Presence in the Mindfield: Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation. Lisbon, Portugal: Artshare-Universidade de Aveiro, pp. 226-230. ISBN 978-972-789-356-0

Phillips, M. Speed, S. (2010) La reificazione dei dati. REM, Ricerche su Educazione e Media. 2:2. 245-258

Phillips, M, Aga, B., Hazelden, K.(2008) “The Play Algorithm – A(n):= [r = 1,2,…..N]”. In Deiz del Corral, A. (ed), HOMO LUDENS LUDENS, Locating play in contemporary culture and society. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Gijón, Asturias, Spain: pp 244-248. (https://laboralcentrodearte.org/es/publicaciones/homo-ludens-ludens-2/)

The SwanQuake User Manual is published by Liquid Press/ i-DAT for igloo (http://www.igloo.org.uk/): ISBN Number: 978-1-84102-172-0. www.SwanQuake.com. 10/07

Phillips, M. Speed, C. Arch-OS v1.1 (Architecture Operating Systems), Software for Buildings. Engineering Nature, Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Ed Ascot, R. Intellect. ISBN 1-84150-128-X. p 177-182. (2006).

Phillips, M. Liquid Reader 3, Altered States. DVD Conference proceedings from Altered States: transformations of perception, place, and performance. A transdisciplinary conference. Ed: Phillips, M ISBN 1-84102-147-4. 22/07/2005.

Phillips, M. All that is solid… melts. The liquefaction of form. Altered States: transformations of perception, place, and performance. University of Plymouth. 22-24/07/05. Proceedings published: Liquid Reader 3, Altered States. Ed: Phillips, M ISBN 1-84102-147-4. 22/07/05.

Phillips, M. “Constellation Columbia”, prototype monument for ‘Dead Astronauts’. ZER0GRAVITY, A Cultural User”s Guide. Ed Triscott, N and La Frenais, R. The Arts Catalyst. 2005, 84-85. ISBN 0-9534546-4-9

Anders, P., Phillips, M. 2004. Arch-OS: An operating system for buildings. In proceedings of the 2004 AIA/ACADIA Fabrication Conference, Cambridge and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Nov. 8-13, 2004. pp. 282-293

Liquid Reader™ v1.1. DVD Supplement. Jointly developed by i-DAT/ Liquid Press, Performance Research e-Publications and DeMo. Liquid Reader™ v1.1 produced by the Liquid Press, an i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art & Technology) research project. ‘On the Page’ DVD supplements Performance Research Vol.9, No.2 ‘On the Page’ (2004) issn 1352-8165. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2004.10872028

Liquid Reader™ v2.1 interface (Version 2.1 for MAC OSX/Windows) were jointly developed by i-DAT/Liquid Press, Performance Research e-Publications and DeMo, and were designed and mastered by Adam Crowe, Mike Phillips and Joe Phillips. This ‘On Civility’ DVD supplements Performance Research Vol.9, No.4 ‘On Civility’ (2004) ISSN 1352-8165 / ISBN 0-415-34737-8 https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2004.10872067

Phillips M, Speed C, Montandon A, with Dent E. ‘read/write/fold’. Performance Research Vol.9, No.2 ‘On the Page’ (2004) issn 1352-8165 isbn 0-415-34737-6.

Phillips, M. Soft Buildings. Technoetic Arts, A Journal of Speculative Arts. Vol 2, Number 2 – 2004. Intellect Ltd. ISSN 1477-965X. pp 99-108.

Phillips, M. Construçóes Interativas. Redes Sensoriais. Arte, Ciência, Tecnologia. eds Maciel, K. Parente. A. Contra Capa Livraria, Rio de Janerio. 2003. ISBN: 85-86011-74-6. pp149-155. (30/11/03).

Phillips, M. (S.T.I. Consortium). The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence. 4th International. CAiiA-STAR Research Conference. Consciousness Reframed 2003. Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. ISBN 1-74067-272-0 Part of the BEAP [2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth] (02/07/02).

Phillips, M. ‘Psychometric Architecture’. V01D. Eds, Speed, C. Grinsted, G. Produced by The Institute of Digital Art and Technology, Plymouth Arts Centre, limbomedia and Digital Skin. ISBN 1 84102 087 7 (07/07/01)

Vranch, A. T., Phillips, M. and Winders, R. (1997) Wire Mediaspace: Converging technologies for distance learning in multi-media. Conference Proceedings. CAL 97. Exeter University, UK. March 23-26, 319-322.

Phillips, M. Speaking in Tongues. E.A.T. 88 (Experiments in Art & Technology 1988). AVE (Audio, Visual, Experimental) Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands. 1988.