Andrew Hugill: Profile

Andrew Hugill MA PhD (b. 1957) is a composer and writer, professor and researcher. He is Director of the Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University Leicester, UK, where he also founded the Music, Technology and Innovation programme in 1997.

He is an Associate Researcher at the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2006 he was Highly Commended for the Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning by the Times Higher Education Awards.

Hugill's research crosses several disciplines. His work in Cultural History includes studies of aspects of literary and artistic Modernism, in particular Dada and Surrealism. He has published extensively on 'Pataphysics and is currently working on a book on that subject for MIT Press (due 2012).

In Music, he is a widely published composer and researcher. His writings include the book The Digital Musician (Routledge, 2008; 2nd edition due 2012), and important essays on 'Digital Musicianship' (CSP, 2012), 'The Origins of Electronic Music' (CUP, 2008) and 'Internet Music' (CUP, 2006). His web project with the Philharmonia Orchestra - The Sound Exchange - was nominated for the 2004 BT Digital Music Awards. His compositions have been performed and broadcast worldwide.

In 2006, he founded the Institute of Creative Technologies, which has housed over 100 transdisciplinary projects that cross the boundaries between science and technology, the arts and humanities. His own work has included software developments and multidisciplinary projects in areas of digital heritage, health and artistic practice. He has supervised more than 20 PhD students, and he started the MA/MSc in Creative Technologies that is co-taught across three Faculties.

He has been awarded research and capital grants in excess of £3 million by EPSRC, AHRC, HEFCE, the DTI, and Arts Council: England. He has been a consultant for the Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC 21st Century Classroom project, the National Grid for Learning, and the Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester.