Outputs (50)

Blueboard: Story of a creative media residency project: 4 companies / 11 schools (2008)
Book

This publication offers an introduction to some ways in which partnership work between creative media practitioners and schools, can enhance the learning opportunties of children and young people. The Blueboard publication aims to share the key lear... Read More about Blueboard: Story of a creative media residency project: 4 companies / 11 schools.

Hedgewitch (2008)
Digital Artefact

'Digital Decay' (2008)
Journal Article

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 Decay'.

A conversation on the efficacies of the game engine to address notions of sacred space: The digital songlines project and transgressions of sacredness (2008)
Book Chapter

A conference paper exploring issues arising from the experimental use of a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.

Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies (2008)
Journal Article

The changes in traditional patterns of media production and consumption brought about by digital technologies in their networked form pose challenges to both practitioners and theorists. As the practices of mass media dissolve into the processes of t... Read More about Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies.

A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2008)
Journal Article

This is a 2,500 word book review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s co-written book, Objectivity, Zone Books, New York, 2007. I emphasise how they explain objectivity as a virtue, and use descriptions of scientific practices. I explain their dis... Read More about A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity.

MeiGeist (2008)
Other

The Alternate Reality Game funded by this AHRC Knowledge Catalyst Award presented a science-fiction narrative, set in the present day, in which the audience plays a key role in progressing and participating in the story. The audience or 'players' con... Read More about MeiGeist.

The stinking fish of suicide contagion (2008)
Journal Article

Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative (2008)
Journal Article

This article outlines work in progress in relation to a collaborative project between me as a multimedia designer and Oxford anthropologist, Professor Wendy James. The aim of the collaboration is to explore new possibilities for using digital media t... Read More about Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative.

Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy (2008)
Journal Article

This article will discuss the way children across three schools in Bristol, United Kingdom have been engaged in a unique short film experiment. The video project they were involved with aimed to inspire the young participants to actively consider not... Read More about Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy.