All Outputs (1085)

Wootton Bassett
Exhibition / Performance

Looking through the eyes of machines as Students
Digital Artefact

‘There truly are many forms of imagery nowadays that are modern, and unique to this period. We’re surrounded by systems, devices and machines generating heaps of raw graphic novelty’ (B. Sterling, 2012)

Curated by Paul Laidler the exhibition offer... Read More about Looking through the eyes of machines as Students.

Informal peer learning between contemporary artists in Bristol and selected UK cities outside London. How do contemporary artists learn from their peers outside of formal education and what motivates them to do so?
Thesis

This research has been carried out as part of a collaborative doctoral award with partners Spike Island Art and Design Centre and University of the West of England. It employs a mixed methods approach, including participatory action research, reflexi... Read More about Informal peer learning between contemporary artists in Bristol and selected UK cities outside London. How do contemporary artists learn from their peers outside of formal education and what motivates them to do so?.

Playful interactions: A critical inquiry into interactive art and play
Thesis

My practice-based doctoral research explores how I, as an artist, can create conditions and possibilities for playful interaction in and around interactive artworks. Using practice- based research methods four artworks were created, presented and exa... Read More about Playful interactions: A critical inquiry into interactive art and play.

Keynote conference presentation. ‘Firm and Hard: Old age, the “youthful” body and essentialist discourses’
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote conference paper explores the ideological work of Hollywood stardom in the normalisation of 'successful ageing' discourse and its manifestation as the 'firm and hard body' of cosmecutical culture; and how gender cuts across stardom's em... Read More about Keynote conference presentation. ‘Firm and Hard: Old age, the “youthful” body and essentialist discourses’.