Outputs (32)

Projection hero installation (2011)
Physical Artefact

The Projection Hero installation operates as part of the Curzon Memories App or a stand alone exhibit. It comprises of a rabbit hutch-sized miniature cinema, with velvet and gold brocade curtains and hand-carved seats which can be operated via your... Read More about Projection hero installation.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
Book Chapter

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.

Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an archive of cinema projectors donated by the Projected Picture Trust. The original cinema was built in 1912 and is... Read More about Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App.

Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection (2011)
Journal Article

It has become almost axiomatic to state that the transition to digital technologies represents a momentous period of change for the cinema. As Angelo D’Alessio of the European Digital Cinema Form suggests, “the Cinema industry is confronting unparall... Read More about Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection.

Screen heritage, pervasive media practice and research: or, How does the Curzon Memories App create impact, public engagement and knowledge exchange? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reflecting on how to make the route map of research for the Curzon Locative Media Project explicit in the lead up to REF 2014 in relation to the current shift towards "Impact", public engagement and KE both within UWE and the Research Council agenda.

The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘The Curzon Memories App: Designing a Screen Heritage Experience’
Dr Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England)
Charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk

I will present a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon,... Read More about The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience.

Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014 (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This seminar will focus on the documentation and dissemination of creative arts research and knowledge exchange activities.

Initial scoping work by CDD Research Associate, Anna Farthing, has revealed that:
a) Some of the CDD schools’ existing ac... Read More about Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014.

The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This session examines the conversion to digital projection and distribution, and charts how many cinemas worldwide are converting to digital. Now that editing is almost entirely accomplished via digital means, it is unusual that digital is taking lo... Read More about The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections.

The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract for MeCCSA 2011 Conference

The Curzon Creative Technologies Project: Context Aware Media in a Screen Heritage Context

The practise-based project is based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an arch... Read More about The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context.

Digital Projections (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The fate of 35mm as an acquisition and exhibition medium is intimately connected with questions of future-proofing, archiving, preservation, and access, which are currently at the foreground of recent debates around screen heritage in the UK. In this... Read More about Digital Projections.