Ghostly Transmedia: Julian House and Hauntological Audio-Vision

This chapter explores the transmedia work of Julian House, a founding member of the design company Intro and the record label Ghost Box. House’s output includes record covers, music videos, music, posters, idents, and film credits. I analyse some of the aesthetic traits that characterise House’s practice across media, including an engagement with time, history, and processes of media ageing, and relate this to concepts including retro, nostalgia, hauntology and ‘occult psychedelia’. I argue that, through his use of collage techniques and his reliance on found footage, House’s work combines higher end media practice with a lo-fi aesthetic, merging commercial and avant-garde impulses to produce a mode of “boutique transmedia.”