All Outputs (26)

Five corners of reggae music (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A personal exploration of what reggae music means to me, from the perspective of five areas of life - Cultural/ Educational, Spiritual, Political, Entrepreneurial/ Resourcefulness, and Social.

Speech given at the Afrika Eye Film Festival, 12 Novem... Read More about Five corners of reggae music.

At the edge of the curatorial gaze: A critical reflection of a photographic exploration of museum storage spaces (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will draw on my ongoing photographic study of museum backstage spaces, and discuss the representational characteristics of what happens when objects are ‘performative’ and on display, verses when they are ‘resting’ and in storage. Material... Read More about At the edge of the curatorial gaze: A critical reflection of a photographic exploration of museum storage spaces.

A review of the Malaysian film industry: Towards better film workflow (2016)
Thesis

Abstract
This thesis investigates the existing film workflow processes in Malaysia and aims to explore, review and reflect on the expectations, experiences and preferences and problems experienced by practitioners in the Malaysian film industry. Par... Read More about A review of the Malaysian film industry: Towards better film workflow.

Indivisible: New American Documents (2016)
Exhibition / Performance

Indivisible: New American Documents was a large-scale contemporary photography exhibition, curated by Aaron Schuman, for FOMU: Fotomuseum Antwerp (Belgium) in 2017-18. It featured extensive installations by three of the most important and prominent c... Read More about Indivisible: New American Documents.

Storytelling in the newsroom: An investigation into practice-based learning methods in the training and employment of tomorrow’s journalists (2016)
Journal Article

Abstract:
In order to prepare students for a career in journalism, teaching must be done through practice-based learning. The integration of theory, practice and reflection as advocated by Kolb (1984) provides a solid pedagogical framework for cours... Read More about Storytelling in the newsroom: An investigation into practice-based learning methods in the training and employment of tomorrow’s journalists.

Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Using the tools of discourse analysis, this research identifies the competing and sometimes contradictory public discourses around the requirements for the next generation of journalists... Read More about Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice.

Creating resilient subjects: The coexist project (2016)
Book Chapter

“Resilience” has become a new lingua franca for how we should live in realms as diverse as climate change, global urbanization, organizational change, community building, and personal development. In its broadest sense, it signifies the nature of liv... Read More about Creating resilient subjects: The coexist project.

Feature - School Portrait Rwanda (2016)
Digital Artefact

Travelling to Rwanda in early 2015 with the charity Friends of Rwandan Rugby, I undertook a personal project; making portraits of the children that I met and photographing the school buildings and environments we visited. In this project I am interes... Read More about Feature - School Portrait Rwanda.

Outside and inside television: a dialogue on ‘value’ (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an exchange on questions of value from two distinct but overlapping perspectives on television. Among other things, it looks at the differences between academic and industry appr... Read More about Outside and inside television: a dialogue on ‘value’.

Cinema and authenticity: Anxieties in the making of historical film (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The practice of representing history on film brings the filmmaker into collision with a cluster of concerns around the authentic. While recent articles have considered the historical doc... Read More about Cinema and authenticity: Anxieties in the making of historical film.

Invading Europe. Netflix’s expansion to the European market and the example of Germany (2016)
Book Chapter

REACT report 2012-2016 (2016)
Report

The REACT Report distils our learning from the past four years, and celebrates the great potential of collaboration between universities and the creative sector. It offers valuable insight to policymakers, stakeholders in the arts, Higher Education... Read More about REACT report 2012-2016.

Personal filmmaking and social change (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The speech introduces the importance of personal expression through film and how the individual viewpoint can influence how others see and think, sometimes leading to social change.

Editor for an Hour (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Practice as research in the making of historical film drama (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper focusses on the practice of costume design, and the role of costume in the semiotics of historical drama. Addressing the issue as a filmmaker and scholar, I investigate the clothes that the actors wear and how their significance impacts i... Read More about Practice as research in the making of historical film drama.

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.

Shenasnemeh (2016)
Book

Six years ago, I was waiting in a reception room, holding the birth certificates of my mother and me. We looked similar in our ID photographs. That same day my fingerprint was fixed next to my image, and my mother’s fingerprint next to her image. Des... Read More about Shenasnemeh.

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.

Garden Stories (2016)
Book

Published by Blue Sky Gallery to coincide with a Solo Exhibition at the gallery in 2016, this series of unintended or ‘accidental’ still lives, made around the gardens and outbuildings of an English country house, seeks to make visible the unseen and... Read More about Garden Stories.

Garden Stories (2016)
Exhibition / Performance

Shown at Blue Sky - Oregon Centre for the Photographic Arts, during Portland Photomonth 2016. This series photographs depicts unintended or ‘accidental’ still lives, made around the gardens and outbuildings of an English country house, seeks to make... Read More about Garden Stories.