About
Dr Kwame Phillips is Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices at Winchester School of Art. His work sits at the intersection of critical media studies, sound, sensory media, digital culture, Black studies and social justice.
His research explores how creative and experimental media practices can produce alternative forms of knowledge and make space for marginalised voices, histories and experiences. He is particularly interested in remix, multimodality, sound, archives and critical approaches to media infrastructures. His recent work includes the multi-sensorial project, Echoes of Care 003 (with Dr L. Gre and Olivia Ema), that was installed at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, the sound art work “…of a great Catastrophe: A Mixtape for the Nakba” and the chapter “’Where’s that gotten us?’- Horace Ové’s Pressure and the Fallacy of Respectability” in Black Image Making and Whiteness (EUP 2026).
Phillips is co-director of the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group (CIIP) and Culture, Place and Inequality lead for the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH). He also works collaboratively with artists, researchers, students and community partners through creative workshops, exhibitions, performances and knowledge exchange projects.