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Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture (2010)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2010). Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture

This essay takes Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon (2001) as a starting point for consideration of the impact of simulational interactive media on contemporary technoculture. The connections made in the film between virtual reality games and military research an... Read More about Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture.

Stagefright (2010)
Exhibition / Performance
Buchheim, Y. Stagefright. 7 October 2010 - 6 November 2010. (Unpublished)

The solo exhibition is the outcome of an artist-in-residency award at the University of Essex. Earlier on in the year, Yvonne Buchheim approached people all over campus and asked them to sing a song of their choice, unprepared, on the spot and in fro... Read More about Stagefright.

Keynote conference presentation. ‘Firm and Hard: Old age, the “youthful” body and essentialist discourses’ (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2010, October). Keynote conference presentation. ‘Firm and Hard: Old age, the “youthful” body and essentialist discourses’. Presented at IV SELICUP Conference: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture: Spaces and Contexts ., Palma, Spain

This keynote conference paper explores the ideological work of Hollywood stardom in the normalisation of 'successful ageing' discourse and its manifestation as the 'firm and hard body' of cosmecutical culture; and how gender cuts across stardom's em... Read More about Keynote conference presentation. ‘Firm and Hard: Old age, the “youthful” body and essentialist discourses’.

Animated science (2010)
Other
Johnson, A. (2010). Animated science. Viborg, Denmark

Production of ten short films, graphics, texts and a CD Rom aimed at science teachers and enabling them to use animation as an in-class tool for the teaching of their subject.

Holy Hiatus (2010)
Book Chapter
Buchheim, Y. (2010). Holy Hiatus. In R. Jones (Ed.), Holy Hiatus (99-109). Parthian

Holy Hiatus: performing ritual, community and place An illustrated full colour book documenting and contextualising a series of temporary public art projects called “Holy Hiatus” curated by Ruth Jones in Cardi... Read More about Holy Hiatus.

Socially engaged arts practice in the current economic climate (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2010, September). Socially engaged arts practice in the current economic climate. Paper presented at Demanding Conversations, Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol

Demanding Conversations was a conference that took place at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol on 22nd and 23rd September 2010. The conference involved practitioners, artists, policy makers, and commentators in debate about socially engaged arts pract... Read More about Socially engaged arts practice in the current economic climate.

Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Crogan, P., & Dovey, J. (2010, September). Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility

This conference was funded by the European Science Foundation and took place in September 6-9, 2010 in Linkoping, Sweden. It was co-convened by Jonathan Dovey and Patrick Crogan of UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre. Keynote speakers were Bernard... Read More about Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility.

The challenge of an increasingly interdependent world (2010)
Book Chapter
Jempson, M. (2010). The challenge of an increasingly interdependent world. In A. Anna Lindh Foundation (Ed.), Euromed Intercultural Trends 2010: The Anna Lindh Report 2010 (128-133). Anna Lindh Foundation

A range of policies and legal frameworks exist within the UK to combat discrimination and xenophobia. Nevertheless certain aspects of British press coverage of issues ranging from migration to European integration have had a negative impact upon publ... Read More about The challenge of an increasingly interdependent world.

Myths, facts and feelings: Bristol and transatlantic slavery (2010)
Book
Sobers, S., Mitchell, R., Lynas, L., Burton, E., & Cavannah, K. (2010). S. Sobers, R. Mitchell, L. Lynas, E. Burton, & K. Cavannah (Eds.), Myths, facts and feelings: Bristol and transatlantic slavery. Community Media South West

Digital Projections (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2010, July). Digital Projections. Paper presented at From Silent Screen to Digital Screen: A Century of Cinema Exhibition, Phoenix Square, De Montfort University, Leicester

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.

Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler (2010)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2010). Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler. Cultural Politics, 6(2), 157-170. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174310X12672016548207

An Interview with French philosopher of technology and activist, Bernard Stiegler. The interview was conducted in November 2008 in Paris. It appears in the special issue on Stiegler in the journal Cultural Politics (6:2, July 2010), guest edited by P... Read More about Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler.

On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy' (2010)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., & Spicer, A. H. (2010). On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy'. In P. Newland (Ed.), Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (79-91). Bristol: Intellect

This co-authored chapter in an edited collection on British Cinema in the 1970s recuperates from critical oblivion the BAFTA award winning film and TV director, Anthony Simmons. The article locates Simmons in the decline of the British industry that... Read More about On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy'.

Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2010, February). Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study. Paper presented at Transliteracy Conference, Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK

This paper will look at the role of transliteracy in the creation of a series of texts relating to a long-term ethnographic study of displacement in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands. It will draw on a rich audiovisual archive recorded by the anthropol... Read More about Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study.

Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2010, January). Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary. Paper presented at Documentary Now! 2010, Birkbeck College, London

Building on Lev Manovich’s ideas about spatial montage and interactive cinema, this paper will provide examples of the author’s approach to interactive documentary based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the anthropologist, Wendy Jam... Read More about Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary.

“Incremental Speed Increases Excitement”: Bodies, Space, Movement, and Televisual Change (2010)
Journal Article
Giddings, S., & Kennedy, H. W. (2010). “Incremental Speed Increases Excitement”: Bodies, Space, Movement, and Televisual Change. Television and New Media, 11(3), 163-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476409357592

The authors argue that both Pong in the mid-1970s and the Wii today have transformed the television set in dramatic ways that have captured the popular imagination. Through a series of case studies, the authors pay close attention to the continuities... Read More about “Incremental Speed Increases Excitement”: Bodies, Space, Movement, and Televisual Change.