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Hollywood remakes of iconic British films: Class, gender and stardom (2024)
Journal Article
Book review of Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom, by Agnieszka Rasmus, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 192 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4744-4878-9
Game engines: Optimising VFX, reshaping visual media (2024)
Journal Article
Game engines have emerged as a significant site of convergence for several visual media pipelines, from XR to animation and In-Camera VFX (ICVFX). However, they are a computational medium – the images they produce are the derivative by-products of th... Read More about Game engines: Optimising VFX, reshaping visual media.
Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The paper 'Exploring the Intersection of A.I. and Human Creativity: Empowering Agency in an Age of Uncertainty' will be presented at the Prisms Education Symposium, a component of ICON12 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) July 2024. This sympo... Read More about Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty.
Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home (2024)
Journal Article
As robot numbers in the home increase, creating a market for second-hand robotic systems is essential to reduce the waste impact of the industry. Via a survey, consumer attitudes of United Kingdom participants towards second-hand robots were investig... Read More about Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home.
Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
At a time of climate and ecological emergency, the importance of evaluating approaches to enhancing children’s eco-literacy cannot be overstated. This symposium explores UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 15 which relate to the protection of l... Read More about Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy (2024)
Book Chapter
Taking seriously the ‘deep time’ of American literature and the current importance of the Anthropocene, this chapter investigates an often overlooked transatlantic origin for Emerson’s conceptualisation of nature, which I also argue is a crucial mark... Read More about The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy.
APERIODIC (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
APERIODIC was a festival of art, science, music and performance which took place in Bristol. The theme was the mathematics and science of ‘aperiodic order’: the absence of regular or repetitive patterns.
Or, more simply, ‘things that almost repeat,... Read More about APERIODIC.
Revisiting paintings: Automated 2.5D capture for large planar artworks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents a practical method for digitally capturing and visualising paintings, utilising a custom 3D scanner that combines Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and photogrammetry. Focused on creating highly detailed 2.5D images, the me... Read More about Revisiting paintings: Automated 2.5D capture for large planar artworks.
Translation in transition: The Cabinet of Curiosities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Working collaboratively: digital and analogue, artist and machine, artist and artist is a constant activity of negotiation and translation – between code, language, process, matrix material and metaphor. The CFPR’s Artist in Residence programme aims... Read More about Translation in transition: The Cabinet of Curiosities.
Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Set within an eco-feminist praxis of matter, fluidity, care and porousity, this paper considers how brackish waters, as slow sites of exchange, offer new ways of thinking about methodological ‘slow attention’ in critical photographic landscape practi... Read More about Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping.
B FOR BOOK (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
An exhibition of artists' books from 28 June - 19 July at Frankenstein Press, North Street, Bristol to co-incide with BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event 2024.
B for Book (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
B for Book, Frankenstein Press, Bristol. An exhibition of 100+ bookworks selected from the archive at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol. Created by national and international artists including: Ioulia Akhmadeeva (Mexico), Craig Atkinson (UK)... Read More about B for Book.
The spatial imaginaries of creative clusters: Examining the role of R&D programmes in creative placemaking (2024)
Journal Article
Creative clusters – geographic concentrations of creative industries sector activity, its skilled individuals, organisations and institutions – have attracted significant investment globally, becoming an important driver of economic growth. In this p... Read More about The spatial imaginaries of creative clusters: Examining the role of R&D programmes in creative placemaking.
What is drawing research? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A poster presentation at Leeds School of Arts conference, Drawing Articulations.
Our poster outlined our current research project, The Handbook of Drawing Research.
Innovative laser technology for textile coloration and patterning (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Innovative laser technology has been explored for textile coloration and patterning. This laser-assisted dyeing technique allows intricate targeted surface design of textile fabrics. In this technique, the dye diffusion and reaction takes place at th... Read More about Innovative laser technology for textile coloration and patterning.
Nordic Letterpress Network NLN (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
NLN exhibition Bower Ashton to co-incide with Bristol Artist's Book Event 2024. Individual and collaborative works by founder members of the Nordic Letterpress Network (NLN): Reel Cases in B + C blocks, Bower Ashton Campus alongside BABE (Bristol Art... Read More about Nordic Letterpress Network NLN.
Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article
In this article we draw on our positionality as teacher educator and student teacher to reflect on initial art teacher education as a forum for novel disciplinary curriculum design. We describe how, without new system thinking, much taught school art... Read More about Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design.
New traditions - An exhibition of modern folklore (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
The New Traditions on Modern Folklore exhibition seeks to merge echoes of ancient lore with the pulsing grind of contemporary life, inviting select artists to contribute visions of this "future-past" through conventional and experimental interpretati... Read More about New traditions - An exhibition of modern folklore.
The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams (2024)
Journal Article
As an embodied and spatial medium, virtual reality is proving an attractive proposition for robot teleoperation in hazardous environments. This paper examines a nuclear decommissioning scenario in which a simulated team of semi-autonomous robots are... Read More about The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams.