Outputs (29)

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2025)
Book Chapter

Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

Read with me - A psychometric collaboration (2024)
Book Chapter

Sarah Bodman discusses her artist's book Read With Me and the experiments that were made towards its making.

50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books (2024)
Book Chapter

Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books accompanies the exhibition of the same name, celebrating Center for Book Arts’ 50th Anniversary.

The publication features an introduction by Robbin Ami Silverberg, essays by Carole Naggar and Kinohi N... Read More about 50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books.

Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based on Wallis and Johnson’s practical, collaborative work with a number of British criminal justice heritage sites, where the majority of the personal stories interpreted for public audiences might be considered as ‘working-class’ l... Read More about Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites.

Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.

Towards robots with common sense (2024)
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This study explores the question: could a robot be equipped with an artificial “common sense” and if so, how? The study outlines a method for equipping social robots with an artificial theory of mind. The method is based on a simulation-based interna... Read More about Towards robots with common sense.

The recreation of 19th century photomechanical processes to aid 21st century research and development (2024)
Book Chapter

Imagined worlds (2024)
Book Chapter

turn the page has, over a period of ten years (2012-2022), introduced the public to the wonders of the wider book arts genre, and artists and collectors to each other, through its showcasing events, symposia and related exhibitions. To celebrate thos... Read More about Imagined worlds.

Leaving the artworld (2023)
Book Chapter

Audiences for science-theatre: Valued but under-explored (2023)
Book Chapter

Despite the growing interest in science-theatre, its audiences remain an under-researched topic within the field of science communication. Therefore, we know relatively little about audience engagement with science-theatre in this context. In this ch... Read More about Audiences for science-theatre: Valued but under-explored.

The Burden of Expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter

Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The Burden of Expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?.

Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer (2023)
Book Chapter

A response to the artwork: for RE:Making - A Documentation of Work by Angela Lorenz

With essays from over 70 scholars, collectors, librarians, curators, and journalists on book artist Angela Lorenz's work from 1989 to 2022. Includes a reflection f... Read More about Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer.

A tangible space: Letterpress printing within artists’ books and small publishing practice (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter constructs a lineage of the letterpress process within artists’ books and small publishing and locates its historical and contemporary communities of practice. First, it provides an outline of how the decline of the letterpress printing... Read More about A tangible space: Letterpress printing within artists’ books and small publishing practice.

Flexibility in cultural production (2023)
Book Chapter

Flexibility, in the context of contemporary creative industries, has become a glamorised phenomenon, a buzzword used to illustrate an
ideal working condition for cultural producers. The growth in, the use of flexibility as a concept in urban discour... Read More about Flexibility in cultural production.

The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based on research conducted under the aegis of the UK Feature Docs research project (2018-20, https://ukfd.org.uk/), a three-year study of the UK’s feature-length documentary film industry funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Co... Read More about The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID.

The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo (2023)
Book Chapter

This interview explores the pandemic from the perspective of Doc Society, the lead body for UK documentary film funding. From the outset of the crisis to the formation of the Screen Sector Taskforce and the launch of the BFI Doc Society SOS Fund, the... Read More about The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo.

Understanding VR audiences (2022)
Book Chapter

Becoming an audience member in virtual reality can be a surreal experience; like entering a pocket reality, like finding Narnia in your wardrobe, like popping through a chalk painting on the pavement. Quite distinct from our relationship with big and... Read More about Understanding VR audiences.

Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research (2022)
Book Chapter

This article is based on my keynote and accompanying workshop for the inaugural StoryBits conference in April 2021. This was ten years on from the first i-Docs symposium in March 2011, with the StoryBits conference taking a similar approach in relati... Read More about Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research.

Bonnington Square (2022)
Book Chapter

Left Cultures 1 will delve deep into the left’s cultural past to discuss gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art and poetry. Culture which has influenced and inspired an eclectic bunch of comrades to continue in this tradition by cre... Read More about Bonnington Square.

Interactive documentary: Its history and future as a polyphonic form (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at the decolonization of interactive documentary practices through the lens of polyphony. Writing as practice-based researchers from a position of privilege, the authors argue that self-reflexivity is a key requirement for “decolon... Read More about Interactive documentary: Its history and future as a polyphonic form.