Postgraduate research students

Jack Wrigley

jack.wrigley@glasgow.ac.uk

Research title: Indiscernible Zones: Scottish Military Landscapes and Extended Realities

Research summary

This research examines the forms of affect and excess that emerge at the thresholds and peripheries of technical landscapes. Focusing on militarised sites in Scotland, including the edges of military training grounds, weapons-testing facilities, and key infrastructure, the project examines how landscapes are organised through technological systems of sensing, imaging, simulation, and control. Through fieldwork, transgression, photogrammetry, virtual environments, and sound-based practice, my research explores the points at which these systems begin to reveal their limits. Rather than treating technical landscapes as fixed or totalising, the project is concerned with the ambiguities, distortions, and affective experiences that emerge at their boundaries. Through artistic practice, it asks how alternative forms of perception and encounter might become possible within spaces defined by military technologies, networked infrastructures, and systems of representation.

Supervisors

Conferences

Photography in Virtual Culture - The Photographers' Gallery and University of Westminster. May 2024

Paper Title - Indexical Encroachment and Semi-Synthetic Landscapes

 

Radical Joy - School of Culture and Creative Arts PGR Symposium. University of Glasgow. November 2025

Paper Title - The Sensorial Commons vs. Directed Energy Weapons

 

In The Wild - Interdispilinary Research Festival. University of St. Andrews. March 2026

Performance - All Ghillied Up, Wavetable Synthesis and Landscape

 

Something Like University. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Jan 2026.

Paper Title - The Sensorial Commons vs. Directed Energy Weapons

 

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Film and Television Studies - Screen Analysis - FTV1011 2025

Virtual Landscapes and Radical Performance. Theatre Studies BA Hons. Three hour workshop. 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Film and Television Studies - Screen Experiences - FTV2001

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Theatre Studies - Theatre and Society - Theatre1002 

Visiting Artist Lecturer - Documentary Practice and Ethics - Arts with Community - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - 2026

 


Jack Wrigley