All Outputs (62)

Simulation games (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.

Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump (2013)
Journal Article

We present a biologically inspired actuator exhibiting a novel pumping action. The design of the 'artificial heartbeat' actuator is inspired by physical principles derived from the structure and function of the human heart. The actuator employs NiTi... Read More about Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump.

Book review: Migration Documentary Films in Post-war Australia, Liangwen Kuo (2010) (2013)
Journal Article

This is a review of Liangwen Kuo's book, Migration Documentary Films in Post-war Australia (2010), that was published in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society in 2013.

Comparing terracotta and earthenware for multiple functionalities in microbial fuel cells (2013)
Journal Article

The properties of earthenware and terracotta were investigated in terms of structural integrity and ion conductivity, in two microbial fuel cell (MFC) designs. Parameters such as wall thickness (4, 8, 18 mm), porosity and cathode hydration were analy... Read More about Comparing terracotta and earthenware for multiple functionalities in microbial fuel cells.

Viewing Jane Campion: Angels, Demons and Unsettling Voices (2013)
Book

Everything we do begins with a conversation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman was invited to give this presentation as part of the panel The Artist’s Book as a Tool for Research at the seminar Perspectivas do Livro de Artista - O livro de artista na universidade (Perspectives of the artist's book - The Artist's Bo... Read More about Everything we do begins with a conversation.

Invited lecture by Paul Laidler (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paul Laidler will talk about the development of a digital print publishing practice entitled CFPR Editions (www.cfpreditions.co.uk) and the recent exhibition that he curated entitled "just press print". This title was chosen to highlight that althoug... Read More about Invited lecture by Paul Laidler.

The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When British spaces, rural and otherwise, are full of celebrated and re-told myths and legends – from sites such as Stonehenge through to character based fables such as Robin Hood – why do some resist to allow true stories, which are no less fantasti... Read More about The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence.

Judith Dean - Phase 4 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance

Judith Dean was commissioned by the directors of Beaconsfield, London, to undertake a 6 month public facing residency, culminating in a venue-wide one-person exhibition. This was funded by the Arts Council.

Dean began the residency employing past... Read More about Judith Dean - Phase 4.

'This great mapping of ourselves’ – new documentary forms online (2013)
Book Chapter

Editorial (2013)
Journal Article

Welcome to the first issue of Clothing Cultures. The aim of this new journal is to carve out ‘clothing culture’ as a discipline in its own right, distinct from but complimentary to the work currently being developed in fashion theory, material cultur... Read More about Editorial.

Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial (2013)
Journal Article

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011-12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012-), has appeared to consoli... Read More about Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial.

Book review: The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Deborah Allison (2013) (2013)
Journal Article

This is a review of Deborah Allison's book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom (2013), which was published in Film International, Volume 11 Issue 5, DOI: 10.1386/fiin.11.5.77_5.

Chair of discussion panel: The role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Role of the Sketchbook in Contemporary Fine Art Practice Seminar.

Drawing without light (2013)
Book Chapter

Numerous videogames offer their players opportunities for the production and collection of images displayed and understood as photographs. For some the production of photograph-like images is central to the gameplay, for others it is an add-on activi... Read More about Drawing without light.

Knowledge Exchange as a practice (2013)
Journal Article

Knowledge Exchange has been a buzz phrase with the UK Research Councils for several years now. Initially this practice was called Knowledge Transfer until it came to be realized that that description was one-way only and that academia might in fact l... Read More about Knowledge Exchange as a practice.

Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service (2013)
Book

The very idea of 'public service' came under fierce attack in the Thatcherite 1980s. Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s takes the two key services, broadcasting and the NHS, and traces the heated debates and political pressures which... Read More about Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service.

Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter describes the Isotype method of pictorial statistics, invented in 1920s Vienna by the Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath, and compares it to Neurath’s own signature drawings of a cartoon elephant. Isotype was among th... Read More about Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath.

Manipulation of inkjet negative/positive transparencies to manage the image reflectance density, tonal gradation and contrast of photogravure, platinum, carbon transfer and other photographic contact printing processes. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Traditionally, positive transparencies for photogravure intaglio printing and negative transparencies for platinum and carbon-tissue transfer printing were produced from photographic film, providing continuous tone images of great detail, tonality an... Read More about Manipulation of inkjet negative/positive transparencies to manage the image reflectance density, tonal gradation and contrast of photogravure, platinum, carbon transfer and other photographic contact printing processes..

Poster presentation: Investigating letterpress as a contemporary process within book arts practice (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I am interested in examining how we learn to design and create artists’ books through letterpress; to gain an understanding of how contemporary book artists using letterpress have influenced what is produced in the field, and how this relates back in... Read More about Poster presentation: Investigating letterpress as a contemporary process within book arts practice.