MacAvon Media Productions

About Us

MacAvon Media Productions is a business partnership which was formed in 1996. We are based in the West Highlands of Scotland — a remote coastal area in the north-west of the United Kingdom. Brief CVs are given below; for more detailed information about the different aspects of our work please visit the other pages of this site.

Scottish West Coast scene

Nigel Chapman

Nigel Chapman is a well-established author of major textbooks on digital media and programming languages, and a Web developer and designer. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at University College London and a Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland).

Ph.D. in Computational Science, The University of Leeds
Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
M.A. in Engineering, University of Cambridge

Jenny Chapman

Jenny Chapman is a professional artist, co-author of textbooks on digital media and Web design, and a visiting Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art. She is currently working mainly with miniatures; the new MacAvon Miniatures Web site will go live in summer 2008. Her short experimental multimedia films have won awards in film festivals around the world.

M.Des. in Visual Communication, Edinburgh College of Art
B.A. (Hons) in Visual Communication, Edinburgh College of Art
B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and the History of Art, The University of Leeds