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The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Solomons, G. (2017, November). The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication: Branded. The Semiotics of Branding in Culture and Context, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus

While product displacement, shop-dropping and murketing are all methods used to skewer or criticize our heavily branded world, fictional branding is often used in an effort to re-inforce the connection between the fan and the movie world created, dem... Read More about The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement.

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, October). Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art. Presented at Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway

Aesthetics of Repair (Migratory Art) Invited Panel at Screen City Bienalle Migrating Stories, Stavanger 12-31 Oct, 2017 Stavanger, Norway From cultures to aesthetics of repair: departing from the notion of cultures of repair (Peter Weibel, Glo... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Listening to the user's voice: Designing a museum application for children with autism (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Magkafa, D., & Newbutt, N. (2017, June). Listening to the user's voice: Designing a museum application for children with autism. Poster presented at Innovative Technologies for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ITASD), Valencia

This study seeks to understand the design requirements reported by two autistic groups by co-designing an ‘app’ with the aim of delivering a meaningful museum experience. The objective of engaging an autistic group in the co-design is due to a lack o... Read More about Listening to the user's voice: Designing a museum application for children with autism.

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).