James is Executive Dean for the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Professor of Film and Animation, and Investigator in the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. James was previously Chair for the Department of Film, Games and Animation at Swinburne from 2014-2021. His screen-based creative practice research interrogates the nexus between the real and screen-based representations of reality, particularly focusing on technological mediation. His most recent screen-based research, in collaboration with Cancer Council Victoria, is screening at ACMI in Melbourne as part of The Story of the Moving Image exhibition.
