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Laser Shibori: A digital moulding technique supporting circular textile design in three dimensions (2018)
Journal Article
Morgan, L., Kane, F., Tyrer, J., & Shen, J. (2018). Laser Shibori: A digital moulding technique supporting circular textile design in three dimensions. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 6(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2018.1493836

This paper considers the potential for digital laser technology to facilitate sustainable innovation in the field of textile design and manufacture, enabling transition towards a circular economy. Using recent design research as a case study, it disc... Read More about Laser Shibori: A digital moulding technique supporting circular textile design in three dimensions.

Untitled: Women’s clothing and ageing femininity in the portraits of Chaim Soutine (2018)
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Franklin, L. (2018). Untitled: Women’s clothing and ageing femininity in the portraits of Chaim Soutine. Clothing Cultures, 5(3), 315-332. https://doi.org/10.1386/cc.5.3.315_1

Chaim Soutine’s (1893–1943) representation of clothes in his portraits has attracted very little scholarly or curatorial attention to date. For the first time in the near century of literature that has accumulated about the artist, this article discu... Read More about Untitled: Women’s clothing and ageing femininity in the portraits of Chaim Soutine.

Black to Black (2018)
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Parraman, C. (2018). Black to Black. Printmaking Today, 27(108), 32-33

A technical review of specialist black printmaking papers, where to find them and how to use them.

High-Performance Graphene-Based Natural Fiber Composites (2018)
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Sarker, F., Karim, N., Afroj, S., Koncherry, V., Novoselov, K. S., & Potluri, P. (2018). High-Performance Graphene-Based Natural Fiber Composites. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(40), 34502-34512. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b13018

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Natural fiber composites are attracting significant interest due to their potential for replacing synthetic composites at lower cost with improved environmental sustainability. However, natural fiber composites suffe... Read More about High-Performance Graphene-Based Natural Fiber Composites.

Fear filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level (2018)
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Dickinson, R. (2018). Fear filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.43

Fear Filter is a digital artwork comprising of a mobile phone photo filters application for Android / iOS platforms and a digital photo stream. The photo filters are created by gathering current and historical information about the UK Threat Level fr... Read More about Fear filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level.

Listening around: Sonic extractions of the electromagentic spectrum (2018)
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Dillon, T. (in press). Listening around: Sonic extractions of the electromagentic spectrum. Journal of Sonic Studies,

This paper opens with sound 0018 HF-pc lookingforwifi, taken from Martin Howse and Shintaro Miyazaki’s online archive Sonic Archaeology. The number (0018) refers to the order in the catalogue and the sound of the high frequencies (HF) that were picke... Read More about Listening around: Sonic extractions of the electromagentic spectrum.

Sampling molecular conformations and dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality framework (2018)
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O’Connor, M., Deeks, H. M., Dawn, E., Metatla, O., Roudaut, A., Sutton, M., …Glowacki, D. R. (2018). Sampling molecular conformations and dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality framework. Science Advances, 4(6), eaat2731. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat2731

Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved. We describe a framework for interactive molecular dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality (VR) environment, combining rigorous cloud-mounted atomistic physics simulations with commodity VR hardware,... Read More about Sampling molecular conformations and dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality framework.

Development of a morphing wingtip based on compliant structures (2018)
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Wang, C., Haddad Khodaparast, H., Friswell, M. I., Shaw, A. D., Xia, Y., & Walters, P. (2018). Development of a morphing wingtip based on compliant structures. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 29(16), 3293-3304. https://doi.org/10.1177/1045389X18783076

© The Author(s) 2018. Compliant structures, such as flexible corrugated panels and honeycomb structures, are promising structural solutions for morphing aircraft. The compliant structure can be tailored to carry aerodynamic loads and achieve the geom... Read More about Development of a morphing wingtip based on compliant structures.

Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings (2018)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2018). Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings. Grabado Y Edición Print and Art Edition Magazine, 30-43

The article discusses the curatorial premise and collaborative studio practices behind the Just Press Print exhibition curated by Dr Paul Laidler. The Just Press Print exhibition title draws attention to automated associations with digital technolo... Read More about Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings.

Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts (2018)
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Laidler, P. (2018). Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts. Printmaking Today, 27(106), 15-15

It has been suggested by a range of established commentators that digital technology may have potentially created a ‘mental change’ within the creative process of making images and objects. Although this statement is somewhat broad and our ability to... Read More about Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts.

Satisfaction Guaranteed™ (2018)
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Laidler, P. (2018). Satisfaction Guaranteed™. Beneficial Shock, 3, 78-83

A written and illustrated article. Science fiction films have presented us with numerous visions of machines programmed to satisfy our every need. In some instances these needs have been considered in relation to the intimate and physical relations... Read More about Satisfaction Guaranteed™.

Read to me: A psychometric collaboration with objects (2018)
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Bodman, S. L. (2018). Read to me: A psychometric collaboration with objects. Axon: Creative Explorations, 8(1),

‘Read to me’ is an experiment made by the artist in the UK, in collaboration with a psychometric reader in The Netherlands, to transmit the emotional content of selected narratives through a series of physical objects. The project will be produced as... Read More about Read to me: A psychometric collaboration with objects.

Curricula models for teaching critical and contextual studies (2018)
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Rintoul, J. (2018). Curricula models for teaching critical and contextual studies

This article is a review of my book ‘Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design: possibilities for post-compulsory education’, in which I examine, at post-16, the relationship between studio practice and critical and contextual stu... Read More about Curricula models for teaching critical and contextual studies.

Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects (2018)
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Glowacki, B. R. (2018). Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects. InterActions, 25(2), 58-63. https://doi.org/10.1145/3178556

Young children tend to use mobile devices for solitary media consumption, yet they develop through social interactions. The presence of tangible objects in Bear Abouts invited imaginative play in a triangulation between device and child, and between... Read More about Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects.

Collective dynamics in dispersions of anisometric pigment particles (2018)
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May, K., Stannarius, R., Kang, K., Challa, P. K., Sprunt, S., Jakli, A., …Eremin, A. (2018). Collective dynamics in dispersions of anisometric pigment particles. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 267, 322-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2018.01.172

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Dynamics of suspensions of solid rodlike pigment particles in a non-polar solvent were studied in a concentration range from the isotropic up to the orientationally ordered nematic-like phase. Using dynamic light scattering and g... Read More about Collective dynamics in dispersions of anisometric pigment particles.

Optical and X-ray scattering studies of the electric field-induced orientational order in colloidal suspensions of pigment nanorods (2018)
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Buluy, O., Aryasova, N., Tereshchenko, O., Kurioz, Y., Nazarenko, V., Eremin, A., …Reznikov, Y. (2018). Optical and X-ray scattering studies of the electric field-induced orientational order in colloidal suspensions of pigment nanorods. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 267, 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2018.02.003

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Under pulsed or a.c. electric fields, colloidal suspensions of nanorods can show strong electro-optic effects, such as the Kerr effect, with fast response times (a few ms), which makes them good candidates for some commercial app... Read More about Optical and X-ray scattering studies of the electric field-induced orientational order in colloidal suspensions of pigment nanorods.

Waiting for Marina: Generosity and shared time in Marina Abramovic's 512 Hours (2018)
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Johnson, C. (2018). Waiting for Marina: Generosity and shared time in Marina Abramovic's 512 Hours

This presentation examines Marina Abramović’s performance, 512 Hours (Serpentine Gallery, London, 2014) as a catalyst for thinking about forms of criticality needed to respond to contemporary conditions of neoliberal culture. I ask what kind of criti... Read More about Waiting for Marina: Generosity and shared time in Marina Abramovic's 512 Hours.