Outputs (475)

Memory-constrained context-aware reasoning (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The context-aware computing paradigm introduces environments, known as smart spaces, which can unobtrusively and proactively assist their users. These systems are currently mostly implemented on mobile platforms considering various techniques, includ... Read More about Memory-constrained context-aware reasoning.

Bespoke anywhere (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on a project aimed to break away from the portability concerns of native DSP code between different platforms, thus freeing the instrument designer from the burden of porting new Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) to different arch... Read More about Bespoke anywhere.

Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper details a workshop and optional public installation based on the development of situational scores that combine music notation, AI, and code to create dynamic interactive art driven by the realtime movements of objects and people in a live... Read More about Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision.

RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication (2021)
Journal Article

Science communication is at a pivotal stage in its development due to the emergence of digital communication platforms that are not only presenting new opportunities but are also leading to new challenges. In this context, science communicators, who... Read More about RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication.

Slow violence and the Slieve Aughty Mountains (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The purpose of this presentation is to examine the cyclical methodologies of field work, deep mapping and printmaking employed to investigate the changing land use of the Slieve Aughty Mountains located in the West of Ireland. Landscapes subjected to... Read More about Slow violence and the Slieve Aughty Mountains.

Adivasi life and folklore event (2021)
Digital Artefact

Seral Murmu is an Adivasi filmmaker from Jharkhand in India whose films draw on oral Adivasi narratives, magical realism and experimental cinematography. His film Sondhayni (2019), for example, is a modern folktale that critiques the exploitation and... Read More about Adivasi life and folklore event.

Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this talk, Laura will discuss her design-led research on innovative digitally-driven surface treatments for colouration, 3D finishing and surface design of materials. She has developed multiple new opportunities to harness infrared laser irradiati... Read More about Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design.

Multimodal Representation Learning for Place Recognition Using Deep Hebbian Predictive Coding (2021)
Journal Article

Recognising familiar places is a competence required in many engineering applications that interact with the real world such as robot navigation. Combining information from different sensory sources promotes robustness and accuracy of place recogniti... Read More about Multimodal Representation Learning for Place Recognition Using Deep Hebbian Predictive Coding.

Fungal architectures (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

"Fungal architectures" arts exhibition presents works inspired by protocognition of fungi and slime moulds and fungal materials. Fungal Architectures is a new cross-disciplinary research project that seeks to develop a fully integrated structural and... Read More about Fungal architectures.

The dark side of an online learning ecosystem during the Covid 19 Pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Touch: Reflections on handling but not touching during the making process (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation provides reflections on an ongoing research enquiry which explores the clay extrusion process. A particular challenge in the project is the handling of the soft extruded shapes. The presentation outlines the challenges of minimising... Read More about Touch: Reflections on handling but not touching during the making process.

Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.

Artists Books' Projects, as artist-in-residence in Bristol universities. Scandinavian Artists’ Books Partnership Project SABPP symposium (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Angie Butler (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK) talks about artists books' projects, as artist-in-residence in Bristol universities and libraries. Scandinavian Artists’ Books Partnership Project SABPP symposium... Read More about Artists Books' Projects, as artist-in-residence in Bristol universities. Scandinavian Artists’ Books Partnership Project SABPP symposium.

Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books (2021)
Journal Article

I spoke with Jennie Hinchcliff, Exhibitions and Events Manager at the San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. SFCB was established by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in 1996, to serve west coast and internati... Read More about Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books.

Making colour break, bend and bounce (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Goma-zuri is a printing technique in Japanese woodblock which is characterised by specks of pigment that form a spotty rather than a flat layer of colour. Sometimes regarded as a beginner’s mistake, the Sosaku-hanga (creative print) movement of artis... Read More about Making colour break, bend and bounce.

Studio archaeology (2021)
Physical Artefact

Spatial imagination, free-hand and digital drawing, model making and diagramming, modelling techniques, theoretical position, are a particular focus, this year, to focus upon the human occupation of space, the loss of social space correlating with th... Read More about Studio archaeology.

Drawing at art school (2021)
Physical Artefact

Drawing at Art School was a symposium that took place in November 2019, with speakers discussing their experiences and views on the role and value of drawing within the Art School.
The Symposium was organised by UWE Drawing Research.

Meeting with book friends (2021)
Digital Artefact

We have dearly missed the exuberant and stimulating atmosphere of the Small Publisher’s Fair – the publishers, readings, book launches exhibitions and the new books. However, like many of you, we have used the changed circumstances since 2019 to inve... Read More about Meeting with book friends.

IMPACT Printmaking Journal Issue Four (2021)
Journal Article

Journeys: The Healing Arts Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

As part of the Drawn in Residence II project at Chelsea and Westminster hospital, Reportage artists Olivier Kugler, Tim King, Emily Thomas and University of the West of England Drawing research group members, Anouk Mercier, Lucy Ward and Gary Embu... Read More about Journeys: The Healing Arts Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.