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Neurath's whale (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, December). Neurath's whale. Paper presented at The Afterlife of Animals, Manchester University, UK

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsid... Read More about Neurath's whale.

Rome at the Poetry Society (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dean, J. (2009, November). Rome at the Poetry Society. Paper presented at The Eagle Document: A Performance/Events Symposium, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

The eagle document: The new collection of enumerated things (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Oechsler, M. (2009, November). The eagle document: The new collection of enumerated things. Presented at The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

The symposium was composed of presentations and live performances by Pil and Gallia Kollectiv, Ruth McLeanan, Wayne Lloyd, Judith Dean, Monika Oechsler, Anita Ponton, Uriel Orlow, Jonas Ranson-Christina Mitrentse and concluded with a panel discussion... Read More about The eagle document: The new collection of enumerated things.

Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2009, November). Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms. Paper presented at Slavery and the British Country House, London School of Economics

This presentation describes the process, production and context of Re:Interpretation, a participatory media project carried out by Firstborn Creatives in partnership with the National Trust. The brief was to explore the challenging subject of transa... Read More about Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms.

Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, November). Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity. Paper presented at International Jean Rouch Symposum, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Building on Rouch’s thoughts on cinema-sincerity, this paper will interrogate new possibilities for the creation of polyphonic narratives brought about by the multiple windows environment of 21st century computing. Drawing on material recorded in the... Read More about Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity.

Still pictures, moving contexts (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J., & James, W. (2009, November). Still pictures, moving contexts. Paper presented at The Image Relation: Towards an Anthropology of Photography, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

This presentation will highlight ways of presenting still photographs, both black and white and colour, as well as colour slides, using multimedia methods which add fresh resonance to archival materials. Examples will be drawn from James’s ethnogra... Read More about Still pictures, moving contexts.

SweetTalk 38 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dowling, J. P., Anderson, I., Mochnacz, M., Council, A., & Solomons, G. (2009, November). SweetTalk 38. Presented at Creative to Creative Lecture series, The Watershed, Bristol

Bristol design blog typenowhere.com join forces with CandyCollective to bring SweetTalk to Watershed. SweetTalk is a creative-to-creative live event, bringing together local creative talent with international luminaries in a relaxed, social environme... Read More about SweetTalk 38.

The Battle of Algiers: Terrorism as a tool of political persuasion (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bacon, T., & Dickman, G. (2009, October). The Battle of Algiers: Terrorism as a tool of political persuasion. Presented at Africa Eye Film Festival 2009 Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK

A symposium given as part of the Aftica Eye Film Festival, 2009.

Conference panel chair (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Partington, M. (2009, September). Conference panel chair. Presented at Impact 6 Print Conference, Council House, Bristol

Chair of the Applied Arts Panel at the Impact 6 Print Conference organised by the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The speakers were Steve Brown, Cathy Treadway/Charlotte Hodes and Maristela Salvatori... Read More about Conference panel chair.

Situations: A combined model of research and commissioning as a method of unknowing place (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Doherty, C. (2009, September). Situations: A combined model of research and commissioning as a method of unknowing place. Paper presented at Dare No.4: Urban Knowledge: How Fine Art and Design Perspectives could contribute to understand and rethink our current urban environments and their complexities, MaKHU/ Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design

This paper presented at Situations is a model of commissioning and research programme through an analysis of its projects and events as responsive to a notion of situation, rather than site, to unknowing rather than knowing a place. These projects, i... Read More about Situations: A combined model of research and commissioning as a method of unknowing place.

Film strip (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Lloyd, W. (2009, September). Film strip. Paper presented at Framing Films Conference, University of Winchester

The paper discussed the use of information relay as an improvisational space, and what happens when the process of retransmitting a narrative involves the reshaping of the communication of facts and knowledge. Artists have amalgamated and enhanc... Read More about Film strip.

My recent research (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, September). My recent research. Paper presented at Symposium of International Experts on Otto Neurath and Isotype, University of Reading

This was a symposium of international experts on Otto Neurath and Isotype, I gave a half-hour talk on my findings in the various archives in Vienna, Haarlem and Reading. The aim was for partipants to network and share expertise and to visit the Readi... Read More about My recent research.

Database narrative, spatial montage and the cultural transmission of memory: A case study from the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, August). Database narrative, spatial montage and the cultural transmission of memory: A case study from the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands. Paper presented at ISEA2009, The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, University of Ulster, Belfast

A peer reviewed paper presented within the Interactive Storytelling theme of an international conference on Engaged Creativity and Mobile Environments.

The London Coffee Bar of the 1950s - teenage occupation of an amateur space? (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Partington, M. (2009, July). The London Coffee Bar of the 1950s - teenage occupation of an amateur space?. Paper presented at Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space (Interior Architecture Conference), University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton

London coffee bars of the 1950s quickly became recognized social spaces described in books, magazines and films of the period. This paper critiques the received view of a homogeneous, generic coffee bar ‘type’. By contrast, this paper emphasizes c... Read More about The London Coffee Bar of the 1950s - teenage occupation of an amateur space?.

Imagining post-war happiness: Otto Neurath and Britain in 1945 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, May). Imagining post-war happiness: Otto Neurath and Britain in 1945. Paper presented at After the War: Post-War Structures of Feeling, Birkbeck College, London

In this paper I outline what Otto Neurath understood by planning for happiness, and show some of the ways in which post-war happiness was being imagined by Neurath and his correspondents in 1945.

The politics of presentation (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Lloyd, W. (2009, May). The politics of presentation. Presented at A Series of Talks and Discussions to Launch the Exhibtion Lap Dogs of the Bourgeoisie at the Arnolfini, Arnolfini, Bristol

The talk addressed the role of the alternative space in Bristol, and how various art groups operate. The idea of the art collective has become associated with activities that engage with avant garde ideas, that rebel against the gallery system and pr... Read More about The politics of presentation.

Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, S. (2009, May). Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher. Paper presented at The Shadow of Thatcher: Women, Feminism, Politics and Culture 30 Years On, Arnolfini, Bristol

The paper looks at a TV medical drama broadcast in Britain in 1983 during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s who famously declared that ‘there is no such thing as society’. I investigate the ways in which the economic and ideological... Read More about Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher.

First space: On 'being' a researcher (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2009, April). First space: On 'being' a researcher. Paper presented at Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, ASA09: Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future, Bristol

All anthropological and archaeological knowledges or ‘facts’ are mediated by at least one researcher before their dissemination to an audience, and the impact of this mediation on the resultant texts must be understood if the potentially solipsistic... Read More about First space: On 'being' a researcher.

The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2009, April). The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary. Paper presented at Dun Laoghairefilmsense: A Symposium on Film and Education, National FIlm School, Ireland

This paper looked at teaching documentary production as an integrated process of practice, theory and pedagogy. It attempted to outline an established but necessarily flexible methodology for teaching documentary production that encompasses purpose... Read More about The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary.