A Churchill Fellowship in 1984 facilitated my research in art education. As a Fellow I visited universities and colleges in the United States and Canada and prepared a report called Computer Graphics Applications for Art and Design Education.

My Fellowship Report found that 'It was clear that the computer itself was nothing of particular interest but it did matter what students made of it'. The most important and the most difficult aspect of learning how to compute art and design at this time was learning how to make a meaningful relationship, or at least an intelligent dialogue, with a machine.

Over the next four decades I established art and design departments to catalyse innovative artistic use of digital tools and to facilitate the development of a philosophical and critical context necessary for artistic practice. In 1984 I was awarded a Harkness Fellowship at MIT, then became a founding member of the Digital Arts department at Pratt Institute and taught there from 1987 to 1993. I held the post of Senior Research Fellow at Birkbeck from 2007 to 2010 and was head of the Department of Postgraduate Studies at Ravensbourne from 2010 to 2019.