Selected Writing

Exhibition Catalogues

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2020 Para-Site-Seeing essays by Prof Sarah Cook, Donna Holford-Lovell, Ali Floyd & Holly Yeoman, Rod Dillon, Jen Southern. Wellcome Centre for Anti Infectives Research. ISBN 978-1-8381710-0-1

2017 Mobile Utopia: Art and Experiments catalogue. Southern, J., Rose, E., O'Keeffe, L. & Buscher, M. Lancaster University ISBN 978-1-86220-339-6

2016 Homing Southern, J. & Thulin, S. with essays by Speight, E., Smith, D, Gillen, J. Preston: In Certain Places. ISBN 978-0-9930498-2-8

Journal Articles

Southern, J & Dillon, R 2023, 'Living with deadly mobilities: How art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite.', Mobilities, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 391-407.

Southern, J, Barry, K, Baxter, T, Blondin, S, Booker, C, Bowstead, J, Butler, C, Dillon, R, Ferguson, N, Filipska, G, Hieslmair, M, Hunt, L, Ianchenko, A, Johnson, P, Keane, J, Koszolko, MK, Qualmann, C, Rumsby, C, Sales Oliveria, C, Schleser, M, Sodero, S, Soliz, A, Wilson, LA, Wood, H & Zinganel, M 2022, 'An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm', Mobilities, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 349-373.

Southern, J. (2017) Unruly Pitch: Flows and stoppages in football, art and methods. Wi Journal of Mobile Media.

Southern, J. (2016) Locative Awareness: A Mobilities Approach to Locative Art. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue.

Southern, J, Ellis, R, Ferrario, MA, McNally, R, Dillon, R, Simm, W & Whittle, J (2014) Imaginative labour and relationships of care: co-designing prototypes with vulnerable communities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol 84, pp. 131-142.

Book Chapters

Southern, J.  & Thulin, S. (2021) Composing Fragmented Relations with Materials, Locations and Archives. Oxford Handbook on Sound Art. Oxford University Press.

Southern, J., Rose, E . & O’Keeffe, L. (2017) Art as a Strategy for Living with Utopias in Ruins. in J. Southern, E. Rose, L O'Keeffe & M. Buscher (eds), Mobile Utopia: Art and Experiments.  pp. 2-11, ISBN 978-1-86220-339-6

Southern, J.  (2017).  Reflective Assemblages: Real and imagined mobilities in locative media art, Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities. Eds Aslak Aamot Kjærulff, Kevin Hannam, Sven Kesselring and Peter F. Peters. Springer.

Southern, J. & Speed, C. (2015) Sharing occasions at a distance: the different dimensions of comobility. Moving Sites: Investigating Site Specific Dance Performance, ed Hunter, V. Abingdon: Routledge.

Southern, J. (2013)  Comobile Perspectives. Locative Media, eds Buschauer, R. & Willis, K.S. Bielen: Transcript

McHardy, J., Wolf Olsen, J., Southern, J., and Shove, E. (2010) Makeshift users. Design Research: Synergies from interdisciplinary perspectives, eds Simonsen, J., Ole Baerenholdt, J., Büscher, M., and Damm Scheuer, J. Abingdon: Routledge.

PhD

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2013 Comobility: Distance and Proximity on the Move in Locative Art Practice

Writing about my work:

Jen Southern: Skylines, Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Northumberland by Dave Pritchard for Corridor8. 24.10.2016