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Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a new approach to the fabrication of soft dielectric elastomer actuators using a 3D printing process. Complete actuators including active membranes and support structures can be 3D printed in one go, resulting in a great improvement in fab... Read More about Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics.

Early cinema, animal death, virtual presence: Measuring the ethical charge of Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
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An analysis of the representation of electrocution and animal death in Thomas Edison’s Electrocuting an Elephant.

The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War
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The blurring of public/private space, or front line/home front, during the Second World War, had the effect of privileging the female voice and experience by redrawing loci of work and home, or by politicising the domestic. In doing this, some of the... Read More about The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War.

Beyond digital
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Printmaking with Extreme Technology Panel
Chair: Erik Brunvand
Panelists: Stephen Hoskins, Edward Bateman, Mike Lyon

Printmaking is an art form that celebrates and embraces new technology in a way that other media do not. This panel gathers an... Read More about Beyond digital.

Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998)
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This paper suggest Solondz’s film materialises Lacan’s claim that there is no (logical) sexual relationship between the sexes and then critiques this claim via a reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The figures that emerge from the model of su... Read More about Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998).

Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer
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Paper given at the Dark Side of Color panel. Current technologies are designed to capture a pictorial image by reflectance of light upon the sensor, in order to create the potential to render a colour image pixel by pixel, which can then be re-render... Read More about Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer.

On determining the color gamut of N-ink printers
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Paper given at Session 7: Spectral Imaging [7241-32].
With the development of digital printing technologies, increasing number of primaries are adopted in colour reproduction systems aiming to improve the quality of the print, in particular, to achi... Read More about On determining the color gamut of N-ink printers.

Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War
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Plays of the Second World War can be described as middlebrow. They work through a process of ‘the pleasure of familiarity’, where the choice of genre, whether of family comedy, domestic drama, or thriller, make them the perfect medium through which t... Read More about Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War.

Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940
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This paper explores how the interwar plays of female dramatists like Muriel Box, Clemence Dane, G. B. Stern and Dodie Smith, show the existence of a tension between, on the one hand, the damaging effects of the First World War, and on the other, its... Read More about Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940.

Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war
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Middlebrow drama has long been dismissed as unrealistic and unchallenging. Ultimately, this led to the rejection by critics (though interestingly not by audiences) of the middlebrow for confrontational and experimental drama in the post-war period. T... Read More about Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war.

Reflectance, illumination, and edges in 3-D Mondrian colourconstancy experiments
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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

Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice
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"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.

Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment
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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.

The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives"
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Paper exploring the local and community documentary theatre work of Peter Cheeseman at the Victoria and New Vic Theatres in Stoke-on-Trent, and the Living Archive Project/Stantonbury Drama Group in Milton Keynes, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Particul... Read More about The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives".

The eagle document: Installation
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This interdisciplinary conference explores the contemporary processes of subject formation through encounters with non-human 'otherness'. Though the focus of the conference will be on animals, the becoming-animal, the emphasis will be placed on art p... Read More about The eagle document: Installation.

The death of the animal in European cinema: Metaphor and analogy
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An analysis of the representation of animal slaughter in European cinema, particularly in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons and Olmi’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs (both 1978).

Co-creative production
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This presentation makes a number of proposals about how the current notion of 'co-creativity' (associated with the impact of digital media) supports new approaches to the analysis of visual culture and methodologies in media studies.

The future of publishing
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Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden were invited by Tate Shaw, organiser of the event, to present research into the future of the contemporary artist’s book in the digital age from their AHRC funded project. In an arena including digital and traditional arti... Read More about The future of publishing.

The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception
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The paper considers the relation between the art and science of colour perception and how computational procedures, which mimic our visual system, have been developed to advance digital imaging techniques for the enhancement of colour and image quali... Read More about The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception.

Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An early version of my chapter for neo-noir, discussing humour and irony in film noir and neo-noir. It claimed dark ironic humour was more readily identifiable in these texts than in the original cycle, particularly the double coding and surreal rep... Read More about Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir.