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He has worked both as a TV producer and a media academic. In 1982 he was one of the first independent producers commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK, making their Visions series through Large Door. The company continued in production until 1999 and during that time he served as vice-chair of the independent producers\u2019 association PACT.\u00a0His books on TV and cinema include Visible Fictions (1982), Seeing Things (2000) and Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation (2012). He has led several research projects into television, culminating in the ADAPT project for the European Research Council (2013-8) which studied how television used to be made using an innovative method outlined in our book Hands On Media History (Hall & Ellis, 2018). Currently Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway University of London, he lead a team in the StoryFutures project devoted to improving the flow of metadata in audio-visual production. He chairs Learning on Screen which runs the UK\u2019s largest streaming archive of digitized UK TV, Box of Broadcasts for UK education, and he is an editor-in-chief of VIEW, the online journal of European TV history.<\/p>\n
> At the ZDOK Special conference<\/strong>, John Ellis will join the panel discussion with Mirjam von Arx<\/a>, Ohad Landesman<\/a> and Christian Frei<\/a>, moderated by Christian Iseli (head of the research project Gadgets, Phones and Drones).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He has worked both as a TV producer and a media academic. In 1982 he was one of the first independent producers commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK, making their Visions series through Large Door. The company continued in production until 1999 and during that time he served as vice-chair of the independent producers\u2019 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511129,638,593942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaeste","category-referate","category-zdok-special-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}