Summary findings from EPSRC Virtual Realities research project Household Study. Peer reviewed article in Convergence Journal - in UWE Research Repository.
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non...
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Slant (2019)
Book
If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled ‘Police Reports’ – succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious ac... Read More about Slant.
Re-definitions (educational app) (2019)
Other
As a result of speaking at the National Conference for Religious Education Advisers in July 2018, Sobers was approached to speak about the Rastafari faith on the RE-Definitions app, which is an educational resource featuring key terms and definitions... Read More about Re-definitions (educational app).
Blood Sugar - Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire - A slavery connected history (2018)
Digital Artefact
This film has been made by the Nottingham based Slave Trade Legacies (STL) group with Dr Shawn Naphtali Sobers, based on a poem by Michelle 'Mother' Hubbard. STL is a mainly African Caribbean group working to gain acknowledgement of the contribution... Read More about Blood Sugar - Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire - A slavery connected history.
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins (2018)
Book
Filled with compelling images from revered photographers of the past and present, this book sheds light on marginalized communities who have traditionally shied away from the camera. At a time when individual rights are being contested and when those... Read More about Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins.
George Rodger: Nuba & Lakuta - The Colour Photographs (2017)
Book
This classic color series by legendary Magnum photographer George Rodger introduced the Western world to the Nuba peoples of Sudan. In 1949 the photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, George Rodger, learned of the Nuba tribe while traveling in... Read More about George Rodger: Nuba & Lakuta - The Colour Photographs.
Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol (2017)
Physical Artefact
The Looking For Archie Walking Tour of Cary Grant's Bristol was first developed in 2017 as part of the Being Human Festival . Cary Grant was born as Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904, but many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continu... Read More about Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol.
Lawless | Story of a Legal Sex Worker by Ellen Pearson | FIRST ACTS (2017)
Digital Artefact
Lawless is a short film about the life and views of a sex worker in Australia where brothels are legal. The filmmaker collaborated with the sex worker through giving her a stills camera to show aspects of her world. Producer and mentor Liz Banks, you... Read More about Lawless | Story of a Legal Sex Worker by Ellen Pearson | FIRST ACTS.
Folk (2016)
Book
In FOLK, Aaron Schuman explores the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow — its collections and exhibits, as well as its own distinct customs and culture — via his own personal history. In one sense, the book focuses specifically on the regional and cultural... Read More about Folk.
Red moon diaries (2016)
Digital Artefact
Red Moon Diaries is a collaborative community art film project that explores the everyday lives of women experiencing the menopause through personal diary writing and performance. Made with financial assistance from the Centre for Moving Image Resear... Read More about Red moon diaries.
Interactive documentary: What does it mean and why does it matter? (2016)
Other
Having just convened our fourth i-Docs symposium, it feels like an opportune moment to reflect on what is meant by ‘interactive documentary’ and why we at i-Docs have always seen it as a way of framing a set of possibilities, as opposed to being a sp... Read More about Interactive documentary: What does it mean and why does it matter?.
Fragile by Anna Hunter Funnell | FIRST ACTS (2016)
Digital Artefact
A short film about teenage pregnancy. Fragile was commissioned by Calling the Shots for the Random Acts scheme funded by Arts Council England and Channel 4. Liz Banks worked as producer and mentor for new director and writer Anna Hunter Funnell.
Journey Planet - Letters from Absentia (2015)
Other
An edition of the Hugo Award winning Fanzine Journey planet, which focusses on penmanship, writing and letters.
Gathered Leaves (2015)
Book
This book brings together texts by Aaron Schuman – spread across 28 large-format photographic prints – an essay by Kate Bush (Curator of Photography, TATE Modern), and facsimile versions of photographer Alec Soth’s four most celebrated American-based... Read More about Gathered Leaves.
Interactive documentary (streaming video) (2015)
Other
Professor Judith Aston discusses the genesis of her "i-doc" interactive documentary concept and its potential applications.
Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals (2014)
Book
A self-taught photographer, Duane Michals broke away from established traditions of the medium during the 1960s. His messages and poems inscribed on the photographs, and his visual stories created through multiple images, defied the principles of th... Read More about Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals.
Pervasive media cookbook (2012)
Other
The Pervasive Media Cookbook is mix of practice, ideas and inspiration, that can be read ‘cover to cover’ or opened at any page. It introduces the emerging field of pervasive media in which context aware devices deliver ‘the right media in the right... Read More about Pervasive media cookbook.
The Are You Happy? project (2012)
Other
The Are you happy? Project is the first output of the Collaborative Docs practice-based Research Fellowship. The Are you happy? Project is situated in the context of participatory media and is concerned with how documentary practice can take advantag... Read More about The Are You Happy? project.
Animated science (2010)
Other
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.
Cultural Politics vol 6., no. 2 (July 2010): Special Issue on Bernard Stiegler (2010)
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This special issue of Cultural Politics journal was guest edited by Patrick Crogan, who contributed also the introductory essay and an interview with Bernard Stiegler.