Jem is a practice-led researcher specialising in multimedia, affective sound and phenomenology in post-dramatic theatre performance. Jem completed his PhD, Staging Recollections and Memoria Technica, in 2005 and continues to interrogate representational and affective possibilities for telematic and playback technologies of memory-themed theatre with his company, Repeater Performance.

Jem is developing a research interest in the documentation of performance using Internet technologies and has recently set-up www.DARVPA.com – a digital archive for research in the visual and performing arts at Chichester. He is particularly interested in the tensions that arise in telematic performance that seeks to archive itself in the moment of reception.

Jem is also a musician and composes for theatre, television advertising and writes/performs songs with The Lotus Eaters. He is completing a chapter on Station House Opera’s telematic performance, The Other Is You for a forthcoming book, Devising in Process, and noted publications include:

• ‘Pop Music, Multimedia and Live Performance.’ Chapter in Sexton, Jamie (ed.) Music and Multimedia: from the live to the virtual. Pub. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
• ‘Auditory Space: emergent modes of apprehension and historical re-presentations in Three Tales’ International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media, Vol 1. 3 (2005).

Email: jemkelly AT btinternet.com