All Outputs (558)

Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, activism (2010)
Journal Article

This essay introduced the special issue of Cultural Politics (6:2, July 2010) on Bernard Stiegler. It characterises the principal theoretical coordinates of Stiegler’s philosophy of technology and assesses its relevance for critical explorations betw... Read More about Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, activism.

Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler (2010)
Journal Article

An Interview with French philosopher of technology and activist, Bernard Stiegler. The interview was conducted in November 2008 in Paris. It appears in the special issue on Stiegler in the journal Cultural Politics (6:2, July 2010), guest edited by P... Read More about Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler.

Teaching documentary to the digital generation (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy' (2010)
Book Chapter

This co-authored chapter in an edited collection on British Cinema in the 1970s recuperates from critical oblivion the BAFTA award winning film and TV director, Anthony Simmons. The article locates Simmons in the decline of the British industry that... Read More about On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy'.

The media and children's rights: A resource for journlists by journalists (2010)
Other

Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will look at the role of transliteracy in the creation of a series of texts relating to a long-term ethnographic study of displacement in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands. It will draw on a rich audiovisual archive recorded by the anthropol... Read More about Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study.

Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building on Lev Manovich’s ideas about spatial montage and interactive cinema, this paper will provide examples of the author’s approach to interactive documentary based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the anthropologist, Wendy Jam... Read More about Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary.

“Incremental Speed Increases Excitement”: Bodies, Space, Movement, and Televisual Change (2010)
Journal Article

The authors argue that both Pong in the mid-1970s and the Wii today have transformed the television set in dramatic ways that have captured the popular imagination. Through a series of case studies, the authors pay close attention to the continuities... Read More about “Incremental Speed Increases Excitement”: Bodies, Space, Movement, and Televisual Change.

Home (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

An experiential video installation that came out of the filmmaker's relationship with her mother who had been suffering from dementia for 12 years. The room where her mother sits on a daily basis is re-created here as a set, with the video projected... Read More about Home.

The Nintendo Wii, virtualisation and gestural analogics (2010)
Journal Article

This paper examines the Nintendo Wii from a perspective informed by Martin Heidegger’s existential analysis of equipmental being in order to make some claims about the signficance of the Wii’s innovative interface. The Wii enhanced the analogical, g... Read More about The Nintendo Wii, virtualisation and gestural analogics.

Spatial montage and multimedia ethnography: Using computers to visualise aspects of migration and social division among a displaced community (2010)
Journal Article

Peer reviewed journal article based on contribution to international conference on Visualising Migration ad Divided Societies, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, June 2008.

The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy (2010)
Book Chapter

This article explores the role played by ‘aging femininity’ in the biopic, The Queen, in the recuperation of the monarchy from republican tendencies that followed from the death of Diana. The article traces how the film initially establishes a binary... Read More about The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy.

Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten (2010)
Book Chapter

On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania became members of the European Union. This paper focuses on an analysis of coverage of already existing EU migration and the two new member states over several months during 2006, the year before accession on th... Read More about Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten.

The Bristol Bike Project (2010)
Digital Artefact

“The Bristol Bike Project” is a documentary film that describes a local voluntarily run organisation that accepts donations of old bicycles and refurbishes them as donations to members of the local population of asylum seekers and refugees. Through... Read More about The Bristol Bike Project.

Positioning education within community media (2010)
Book Chapter

Looking at how educational activities contribute to the broader community media sector, and discussing the impacts of involvement for young people in media arts activity.

Neurath's whale (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsid... Read More about Neurath's whale.

Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation describes the process, production and context of Re:Interpretation, a participatory media project carried out by Firstborn Creatives in partnership with the National Trust. The brief was to explore the challenging subject of transa... Read More about Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms.

Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building on Rouch’s thoughts on cinema-sincerity, this paper will interrogate new possibilities for the creation of polyphonic narratives brought about by the multiple windows environment of 21st century computing. Drawing on material recorded in the... Read More about Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity.

Still pictures, moving contexts (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will highlight ways of presenting still photographs, both black and white and colour, as well as colour slides, using multimedia methods which add fresh resonance to archival materials. Examples will be drawn from James’s ethnogra... Read More about Still pictures, moving contexts.

Expressionist film and beyond (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public Lecture in relation to The Journey out of Darkness exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester (31/10/09 - 3/05/10). The author used the New Walk’s Expressionist Art exhibition as a starting point, tracing early forms of film exhibition in Ge... Read More about Expressionist film and beyond.