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Automatic society: Stiegler on stupidity, spirals and the end (of theory) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Crogan, P. (2017, February). Automatic society: Stiegler on stupidity, spirals and the end (of theory). Presented at Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture,University of Wolverhampton Seminar Series, University of Wolverhampton

This talk will discuss philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s efforts to promote a critical encounter with key tendencies readily apparent in contemporary globalised digital technocultural development: a spiralling stupidity, a corresponding loss of the capa... Read More about Automatic society: Stiegler on stupidity, spirals and the end (of theory).

Using the participatory patterns design (PPD) methodology to co-design groupware: Confer a tool for workplace informal learning (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Cook, J., Mor, Y., Santos, P., Treasure-Jones, T., Elferink, R., & Kerr, M. (2016, June). Using the participatory patterns design (PPD) methodology to co-design groupware: Confer a tool for workplace informal learning. Paper presented at EdMedia 2016, Vancouver, BC, Canada

This paper proposes a methodology which attempts to address the barriers to the development of successful educational design research through a process which identifies gaps in current practices and devises innovations to target them. Educational des... Read More about Using the participatory patterns design (PPD) methodology to co-design groupware: Confer a tool for workplace informal learning.

Emerson, creativity and criticism (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Greenham, D. (2015, April). Emerson, creativity and criticism. Presented at Naturally Emerson: Creative Reading, Self-Reliance and Cultural Agency, Lisbon, Portugal

The paper was a keynote. The principal argument was that Ralph Waldo Emerson's unique take on metaphor as the most significant creative literary act could be understood as a key enabler for the development of US literature, especially the symbolism t... Read More about Emerson, creativity and criticism.

Building a 21st century workforce across the creative and cultural industries (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Thomson, S. (2015, February). Building a 21st century workforce across the creative and cultural industries. Presented at Digital Bristol Week 2015, BBC Broadcasting House

Both nationally & locally the creative & cultural workforce is still not truly representative of modern Britain. Crucially, in the region our industries are missing out on the diverse range of skills, ideas & experience that are essential to the sus... Read More about Building a 21st century workforce across the creative and cultural industries.

The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Crogan, P. (2014, December). The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity. Paper presented at Remote Control: Violence, Containment, Technology, Utrecht, Netherlands

This paper assesses the political and global security implications of the use of automated weapon systems by several advanced industrial powers through a critical frame informed by the work of Bernard Stiegler, Gregoire Chamayou, Derek Gregory and ot... Read More about The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity.

Exploring afrofuturism: The last angel of history (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, November). Exploring afrofuturism: The last angel of history. Presented at Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder, BFI Southbank, UK

Panel discussion of afrofuturism with Ashley Clarke, Anthony Joseph and Zoe Whitely at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder, BFI Southbank, 30 November 2014

Disability, monsters, utopia: Some lessons from Guillermo del Toro (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, November). Disability, monsters, utopia: Some lessons from Guillermo del Toro. Presented at Disability Studies/Science Fiction, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

This keynote address draws together material from disability studies, utopian studies and monster theory through the films of Guillermo del Toro.

Drones and global technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Crogan, P. (2014, November). Drones and global technicity. Paper presented at General Organology, Kent, England

This paper (for General Organology conference, http://nootechnics.org/ ) will explore the expansion of military drone usage by Western powers in the “war on terror” over the last decade or so in relation to Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach t... Read More about Drones and global technicity.

The institute: Young people and creative/cultural sector jobs (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Thomson, S., & Thomas, B. (2014, November). The institute: Young people and creative/cultural sector jobs. Paper presented at Building a Creative Nation, Creative and Cultural Skills South West Conference, Plymouth College of Art

Paper presented as part of 'Building a Creative Nation,' Creative and Cultural Skills' South West Conference, Plymouth College of Art, 14 November 2014.

The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Crogan, P. (2014, November). The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity. Presented at Philosophy of Computer Games 8: Freedom in Play, Bilgi University, Istanbul

This is the text of a keynote presentation at the Philsophy of Computer Games 8: Freedom in Play conference held at Bilgi University, Istanbul in November 2014. It considers the implications of Bernard Stiegler's philosophy of technology for a critic... Read More about The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity.

What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, November). What we owe to La Jetée. Presented at Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, UK

Public lecture at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, 11 November 2014

Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, November). Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts. Presented at Africa in Motion, Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland, UK

Discussion with Shola Amoo, Glasgow Film Theatre/Africa in Motion, 9 November 2014

It’s about time: Science fiction, cinema, Source Code (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, October). It’s about time: Science fiction, cinema, Source Code. Presented at Public lecture, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

Public lecture at Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic, 30 October 2014

The fragmented social and the episodicity of everyday life in Kontroll (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, October). The fragmented social and the episodicity of everyday life in Kontroll. Paper presented at Research seminar, Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic

Research seminar on Nimrod Antal's film about contemporary anomie

Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, October). Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics. Presented at Future Visions from Post-War Britain, The Cube, Bristol, UK

Introduction to Nigel Kneale's sf television dramas. Part of Future Visions from Post-War Britain: Nigel Kneale, The Cube, 16 October 2014

'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education' (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Solomons, G., & Dowling, J. P. (2014, July). 'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education'. Presented at Typecon 2014: Trial & Error, Washington D.C., USA

There has been very little attention given to the importance of the referral stage in design education even though this is the stage at which students can learn the most from their mistakes in order to improve and progress. Acknowledging that stud... Read More about 'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education'.

Photography that revisits: Participatory influences in post-colonial, auto-ethnographic visual anthropology practices (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2014, May). Photography that revisits: Participatory influences in post-colonial, auto-ethnographic visual anthropology practices. Paper presented at Photography and Anthropology conference - Royal Anthropology Institute, British Museum, London

My current creative practice – of a photographic discourse which revisits and moves closer into the subject after the shutter has been pressed - brings together three distinct but (for me) related areas in my educational background; BA in film & phot... Read More about Photography that revisits: Participatory influences in post-colonial, auto-ethnographic visual anthropology practices.