Outputs (160)

Productive research: Approaches and sources to uncovering the role of the film producer (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Spicer, A. H. (2009, April). Productive research: Approaches and sources to uncovering the role of the film producer. Presented at Studies beyond the Screen Symposium, University of Exeter, UK

This paper reviewed the approaches and methodologies deployed to research and write the monograph Sydney Box for Manchester University Press (2006) focusing on the use of archival material and other primary sources. It argued that film history needs... Read More about Productive research: Approaches and sources to uncovering the role of the film producer.

“Making” history in the feminine: Genealogical encounters at the Berlin Biennial 2008 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Genealogical encounters at the Berlin Biennial 2008. Paper presented at Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Manchester University

This paper explores work at the Berlin Biennial 2008 that was made by three women artists born in the 1970s in response to the Modernist practice of women artists or designers from an earlier generation (Nairy Baghramian and Janette Laverriere (b. 1... Read More about “Making” history in the feminine: Genealogical encounters at the Berlin Biennial 2008.

Early cinema, animal death, virtual presence: Measuring the ethical charge of Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Lawrence, M. (2009, March). Early cinema, animal death, virtual presence: Measuring the ethical charge of Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903). Paper presented at Udine Film Conference, Udine, Italy

An analysis of the representation of electrocution and animal death in Thomas Edison’s Electrocuting an Elephant.

Beyond digital (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S. (2009, March). Beyond digital. Paper presented at Global Implications: Southern Graphics Council Conference 2009, Columbia College, Chicago

Printmaking with Extreme Technology Panel Chair: Erik Brunvand Panelists: Stephen Hoskins, Edward Bateman, Mike Lyon Printmaking is an art form that celebrates and embraces new technology in a way that other media do not. This panel gathers an... Read More about Beyond digital.

The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War (2009)
Presentation / Conference
D'Monté, R. (2009, March). The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War. Paper presented at Women Writing Space: Representations of Gender and Space in post-1850 British Women's Writing, University of Warwick

The blurring of public/private space, or front line/home front, during the Second World War, had the effect of privileging the female voice and experience by redrawing loci of work and home, or by politicising the domestic. In doing this, some of the... Read More about The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War.

Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998) (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Tuck, G. (2009, March). Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998). Paper presented at Emergent Encounters in Film Theory, Kings College, London

This paper suggest Solondz’s film materialises Lacan’s claim that there is no (logical) sexual relationship between the sexes and then critiques this claim via a reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The figures that emerge from the model of su... Read More about Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998).

Übersong (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Buchheim, Y. (2009, March). Übersong. Presented at Übersong, Plan 9 gallery, Bristol, UK

ÜBERSONG: A night of experimental song, art, performance and open mic The event combined live performances, video screenings, DJ set, happenings and open mic to explore the culture of song. The event brought together Berlin artist/DJ Maurus Gmur,... Read More about Übersong.

Towards representative expert surveys: legitimizing the collection of expert data (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Christopoulos, D. (2009, February). Towards representative expert surveys: legitimizing the collection of expert data. Paper presented at Eurostat Conference for New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium

A consistent problem with key informant, elite and expert interviewing is the representativeness of sample populations. Since studies that employ such techniques depend on a small number of respondents, they are often classed as qualitative. The poss... Read More about Towards representative expert surveys: legitimizing the collection of expert data.

HDR and Color Constancy - new psychophysical results (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., McCann, J., & Rizzi, A. (2009, January). HDR and Color Constancy - new psychophysical results. Presented at Google Tech Talk, Online

Presentation Google Tech Talks January 22, 2009

Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S. (2009, January). Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer. Paper presented at Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Conference, Color Imaging, San Jose, USA

Paper given at the Dark Side of Color panel. Current technologies are designed to capture a pictorial image by reflectance of light upon the sensor, in order to create the potential to render a colour image pixel by pixel, which can then be re-render... Read More about Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer.