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The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, P. S. (2009, December). The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development. Paper presented at International Conference on Innovation through Knowledge Transfer, Hampton Court Palace, London

A conference paper challenging the popular view of artists, spread by the media over many years is of aesthetes with no commercial acumen and a distinct lack of time management. Examples of this go as far back as 1962 with Tony Hancock in the film th... Read More about The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development.

Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Partington, A. (2009, November). Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion. Paper presented at ESRC Seminar Series: Women in Britain in the 1950s. Glamour? A New Look at Fifties Women, University of Manchester, UK

Suggesting that 'co-creativity' was always a driving force in consumer culture, and using 1950's fashion as an example, the presentation addresses issues about the development of creative practices such as fashion design, by suggesting that it is dri... Read More about Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion.

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.

Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Rizzi, A., Parraman, C., & McCann, J. (2009, November). Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment. Paper presented at MINET (Measuring the Impossible Network) Conference: Measurement, sensation and cognition, National Physical Laboratory, London

Paper given at Perception and Sensation Session 3. Colour sensation does not depend strictly of the light signal conveying colour information, but also depends on the arrangement of the visual array of all signals coming from the scene. Colour cons... Read More about Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment.

Reflectance, illumination and edges (2009)
Presentation / Conference
McCann, J., Parraman, C., & Rizzi, A. (2009, November). Reflectance, illumination and edges. Paper presented at Seventeenth Color Imaging Conference: Color Science and Engineering Systems, Technologies, and Applications, Albuquerque, New Mexico

We studied color constancy using a pair of 3-D Color Mondrian displays made of two identical sets of painted wooden shapes. There are only 6-chromatic, and 5-achromatic paints applied to nearly 100 block facets. The three-dimensional nature of these... Read More about Reflectance, illumination and edges.

Expressionist film and beyond (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2009, October). Expressionist film and beyond. Presented at Journey out of Darkness, New Walk Museum, Leicester

Public Lecture in relation to The Journey out of Darkness exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester (31/10/09 - 3/05/10). The author used the New Walk’s Expressionist Art exhibition as a starting point, tracing early forms of film exhibition in Ge... Read More about Expressionist film and beyond.

Reflectance, illumination, and edges in 3-D Mondrian colourconstancy experiments (2009)
Presentation / Conference
McCann, J., Parraman, C., & Rizzi, A. (2009, September). Reflectance, illumination, and edges in 3-D Mondrian colourconstancy experiments. Paper presented at 11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC) 2009, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

AIC 2009 Proceedings published as CD-Rom Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC 2009), edited by Dianne Smith, Paul Green-Armytage, Margaret A. Pope and Nick Harkness. CD. Sydney: Colour Society of Australia

The etching revival and the photogravure: A graphic aesthetic for photography (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hammond, A. (2009, September). The etching revival and the photogravure: A graphic aesthetic for photography. Paper presented at Impact 6 International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Bristol

This paper demonstrates the influence of the Etching Revival in Britain on fine art photography at the turn of the Century by focusing upon two photographers: Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) and James Craig Annan (1864-1946), who made photogravure (... Read More about The etching revival and the photogravure: A graphic aesthetic for photography.

Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Reid, B. (2009, September). Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice. Paper presented at Impact 6 International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Bristol

"The challenge for digital sculpture artists, however, is to work with new electronic medium without relying on it for content or presence. The virtual translated to the physical, sculpture files traveling around the world, infinite dissemination and... Read More about Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice.

High tech / low tech: The utilization of printmaking techniques in the production of contemporary enamelled jewellery (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Turrell, J. (2009, September). High tech / low tech: The utilization of printmaking techniques in the production of contemporary enamelled jewellery. Poster presented at IMPACT 6 International Printmaking Conference, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK

This poster presentation will outline the potential for printmaking techniques in the production of innovative and contemporary enamelled jewellery forms. It represents one strand of technical research within the overarching practice-led project Inno... Read More about High tech / low tech: The utilization of printmaking techniques in the production of contemporary enamelled jewellery.

Pictorialism through a plastic lens (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hill, V. (2009, September). Pictorialism through a plastic lens. Poster presented at IMPACT 6 International Printmaking Conference, UWE, Bristol

The aesthetic utilised by the early pictorialist photographers in their attempts to get artistic photography recognised as one of the Fine arts, rather than merely a method of mechanical reproduction, was one which relied on the use of soft focusing... Read More about Pictorialism through a plastic lens.

Fluency and language dominance in bilinguals (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Daller, M., & De Jong, N. (2009, September). Fluency and language dominance in bilinguals. Presented at European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), Cork, Ireland

This presentation was part of a colloqium on fluency and language dominance in bilinguals (convener: M Daller) at one of the major conferences in the field of second language acquisition (EUROSLA) with presentations from internationally renowed schol... Read More about Fluency and language dominance in bilinguals.

The creative producer: Michael Klinger (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Spicer, A. H. (2009, September). The creative producer: Michael Klinger. Paper presented at Archives and Auteurs Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland

Michael Klinger was the most successful independent producer working in the British film industry during the 1960s and 1970s. However, there has been no critical account of his work and he is barely mentioned, if at all, in standard histories of Brit... Read More about The creative producer: Michael Klinger.

The Southdean project - essaying site as memory work (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Biggs, I. (2009, August). The Southdean project - essaying site as memory work. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference

The paper links the authors Southdean Project to a range of issues connected with both Edward S Casey’s articulation of the essaying of places and geographies of memory, drawing on the work of Barbara Bender, Janet Wolff and others.

Is art making sustainable? (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S., & Risseeuw, J. (2009, August). Is art making sustainable?. Paper presented at 32nd annual Southwest Arts Conference, Phoenix, USA

Using their recent research study on Sustainability in Print Media, John Risseeuw and Stephen Hoskins provided a framework for understanding the basic science of sustainability, relating it to art materials and practice. Risseeuw and Hoskins began wi... Read More about Is art making sustainable?.

War orphans in technicolour: Joseph Losey's The Boy with Green Hair (1948) (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Lawrence, M. (2009, July). War orphans in technicolour: Joseph Losey's The Boy with Green Hair (1948). Paper presented at Colour and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics Archive, University of Bristol Conference, Arnolfini, Bristol

An analysis of the representation of the war orphan and the use of Technicolor in Joseph Losey’s The Boy with Green Hair.

Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Thirkell, P., & Hoskins, S. (2009, July). Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print. Paper presented at The Art of Appropriation & Kurt Schwitters in England, University of Chester

This paper will examine the incidence of appropriation and re-representation that emerged in fine art image and object making during the early 20th century. It specifically aims to trace the role of emerging forms of technology in facilitating new wa... Read More about Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print.