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Books of the future (2019)
Journal Article

Artists’ books have built and aligned their status according to the value of the printed book, so will arrive at their fate in parallel. If digital reading is going to be the majority method of the future, then how will physical books survive? And w... Read More about Books of the future.

Digging up the past (2019)
Journal Article

A new series of collaborative artists' books by Tamar MacLellan & Philippa Wood explores the contents of our gardens

A move into drawing (2019)
Journal Article

This article presents part of the process leading to the large-scale three-dimensional drawing entitled Weaving Lines/Looming Narratives (2013), through a series of three images. The project engaged with questions of presence and representation in th... Read More about A move into drawing.

Fetlar (2019)
Journal Article

This article rehearses the history of attempts to account for the name of the island of Fetlar in Shetland. It is concluded that explaining it as pre-Celtic is beset with philological difficulties, and that it is probably, after all, Scandinavian, th... Read More about Fetlar.

An annotated homecoming (2019)
Journal Article

Review of The Poems of Basil Bunting edited by Don Share. Faber & Faber, 2016.

Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare (2019)
Book Chapter

My subject in this paper is the analysis, speculation and recommendations for the future development and deployment of lethal autonomous robotic systems such as they appear in reports, studies and presentations emanating from what is still aptly call... Read More about Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare.

From DotA to MOBA: The emergence and crisis of playful co-creativity in multiplayer online battle arena games (2019)
Thesis

The Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre represents one of the most popular, dynamic and influential spaces of digital play. Since the genres first commercial release in 2009 with the title League of Legends (2009 – present, Riot Games), MOBA... Read More about From DotA to MOBA: The emergence and crisis of playful co-creativity in multiplayer online battle arena games.

Monuments remain (2019)
Exhibition / Performance


Ian Chamberlain - Monuments Remain - 16 November to 7 December 2019

Ian Chamberlain’s work reinterprets man-made structures as monuments placed within the landscape, that act as architectural metaphors of past and current technological achieveme... Read More about Monuments remain.

Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK (2019)
Journal Article

The decline of commercial letterpress printing and technological advances in industry were major influential factors with respect to the establishment of independent small presses in the United Kingdom (UK). Although unlike work from commercial, pri... Read More about Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK.

Read With Me (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

An automatic drawing experiment took place on Thursday 14th November 2019 at Arnolfini bookshop. Participants were invited to attend or to conduct the experiment remotely. The drawings were exhibited at Bower Ashton Library December 2019 and will fo... Read More about Read With Me.

Liminality in narratives of integration: Articulation of digital ethnicity in social media use by migrants to Sweden (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Given challenging conditions in different parts of the world, it is no wonder that people undertake journeys to regions where they may feel secure, seek refuge, be able to acquire a livelihood, as well as carry on a type of living. Migration is there... Read More about Liminality in narratives of integration: Articulation of digital ethnicity in social media use by migrants to Sweden.

The politics and myth of the Untold Story: From personal liberatory practice to decolonial discourse (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk will discussed a journey in creative practice and deconstructing motivations of making - from the personal to the political and the blurs inbetween. Sobers discussed modes of using creative culture to challenge to the colonial centre, and e... Read More about The politics and myth of the Untold Story: From personal liberatory practice to decolonial discourse.

Idaho Booker’s Dozen (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

The Idaho Booker’s Dozen is a biennial, travelling juried
exhibition of artists’ books featuring works from Idaho and
around the USA, and those of international artists from
The Netherlands and the UK.

Idaho Booker’s Dozen, touring exhibition o... Read More about Idaho Booker’s Dozen.