Jack Bo

Jack is a PhD student in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media. His research interests lie at the intersection of phenomenology, material and economic history, media theory, philosophy of technology, film editing, artificial intelligence and political theory.

His academic and professional practice brings together theoretical inquiry and hands-on experience in filmmaking. Alongside his academic research, he has extensive professional experience in film and television production, working as a film editor and location manager across feature films, independent films, documentaries, television series, television and online shows. His professional experience covers the full post-production workflow, from digital imaging and media management through to picture lock, as well as experience in production coordination and contract negotiation. His editing work has received recognition at international film awards, including the Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards 2024, the European Short Awards 2025, etc. This practical background informs his practice-based research, allowing him to approach editing not only as an aesthetic and technical practice, but also as a means of investigating broader questions concerning perception, temporality, technology, and contemporary politics and culture.

Beyond research and practice, he is also committed to establishing a small community spanning multiple social spheres. This community, forged by shared lived experiences, aims to continuously reconfigure the survival conditions of contemporary people from within by establishing an action-based cyclical mechanism linking academic discourse production, creative industry management, traditional industrial production, financial markets and political practice.

Description of Research

His research focuses on phenomenology, the practice of film editing, and political theory. As a form of practice-based research, it traces how action is historically constituted and culturally over-determined through technologies of power and discourses, and how action, in turn, continuously reconfigures power relations and relations between subjects and objects. The research examines this process at the boundary between order and disorder, stability and instability, where temporary forms of individuality and collectivity emerge within artistic, social, and political relations.

The project develops the concept of temporal tension as a central analytical framework, through which editing is approached not simply as a technical or aesthetic practice, but as a site where perception, temporality, action, technology, and power intersect. Its historical and experiential scope extends across the Beat Generation, poetics, modernist painting, early twentieth-century Vienna, jazz, and post-war American experimental cinema.