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We’re all in this together: Safety, policy and the translation of human rights into multi-person virtual environments (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As immersive technologies and spatial computing paradigms move into the mainstream, public and political interest in the ‘metaverse’ is growing.



For many, virtual spaces offer an exciting view of the future, one in which we, as a global commu... Read More about We’re all in this together: Safety, policy and the translation of human rights into multi-person virtual environments.

Exploring the use of an entertainment device in a time of trauma. A longitudinal approach to communicating the story of an Emperor in exile and the role of material culture in everyday life (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk will explore a long-running project that has evolved slowly, revealing different stages of how the project will be revealed over a long period of time. The Emperor in question is Haile Selassie I, and the material culture in question is a p... Read More about Exploring the use of an entertainment device in a time of trauma. A longitudinal approach to communicating the story of an Emperor in exile and the role of material culture in everyday life.

OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Archival repositories are results of historical narratives, but in turn, are also building blocks of new ones. This 40-minute artistic intervention / performative lecture takes the archival collec tions of mainly the Library of Congress as a starting... Read More about OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use.

UnMuseum digital heritage consultation co-producing a digital archive (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation considered how we could develop a digital media archive that prioritises community values and access. The outcome was a digital archive platform specification for the UnMuseum project. The process considered the following:
Key Obje... Read More about UnMuseum digital heritage consultation co-producing a digital archive.

Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping (2024)
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Set within an eco-feminist praxis of matter, fluidity, care and porousity, this paper considers how brackish waters, as slow sites of exchange, offer new ways of thinking about methodological ‘slow attention’ in critical photographic landscape practi... Read More about Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping.

Performing AI stories: Unfinished AI experiments (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Unfinished AI stories illustrating the worldmaking potential of subcultures of technology development.

What do policymakers need to know about harassment in the metaverse? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As immersive technologies and spatial computing paradigms move into the mainstream, public and political interest in the metaverse is growing. In some respects, the metaverse offers an exciting view of the future, one in which a global community can... Read More about What do policymakers need to know about harassment in the metaverse?.

Let’s play together (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Throughout 2022-23 Watershed (cultural cinema & creative technology centre) have been working with an architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their building for the Climate Emergency. Watershed leads within its communities with a proud... Read More about Let’s play together.

Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place (2023)
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This presentation explores the concept of a 'media city'. It begins with a definition: media cities are a planned, highly structured intervention that is part of a transformational change in the urban landscape. The presentation then discusses a part... Read More about Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place.

Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Beyond our most basic needs, Maslow, posited belonging (alongside love) as our most significant psychological need.
Belonging noun
“the feeling of being comfortable and happy in a particular situation or with a particular group of people, and bein... Read More about Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
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In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining (2023)
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Patterns in Practice (PIP) is a qualitative study investigating how practitioners' beliefs, values and emotions shape their interaction and engagement with the use of machine learning (ML) and data mining across three contrasting domains-science, edu... Read More about Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference (2023)
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Centred on voice as a lens through which we conceive of a social alterity that undermines current ideological dominance, 'When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference' would like to invite proposals from academics, practitioners and activists... Read More about When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference.

Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual (2023)
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With the proliferation of devices that display augmented reality (AR), now is the time for scholars and practitioners to evaluate and engage critically with emerging applications of the medium. AR mediates the way users see their bodies, hear their e... Read More about Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual.

Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces a novel methodology for the sonification of data, and shares the results of a usability study, putting the method- ology into practice within an industrial use case. Working with partners at Sellafield nuclear facility, we explo... Read More about Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices (2023)
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This workshop presents and explores initial findings from a pilot research study that considers ways in which young people’s emerging and developing entrepreneurial creative practices might challenge and disrupt prevailing discourses about creative a... Read More about Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices.

Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field (2022)
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This article responds to the 4th Interactive Film and Media International Conference (IFM 2022) themes of eco-media, epistemologies and listening by focusing on the role that interactive documentary can play in addressing the existential and pressing... Read More about Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field.

Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Throughout 2022 & 2023 Watershed Bristol (cultural cinema, talent development & creative technology centre) will be working with George Lovesmith, architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their grade II listed (UK heritage status) buildi... Read More about Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination.

AI and Society: Behind AI Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artificial Intelligence, algorithmic systems and machine decision making are being embedded in many areas of society – policing, justice, finance, banking, shopping and navigation just to name a few. These systems are affecting people’s lives in ways... Read More about AI and Society: Behind AI Systems.

Exploring stardom: Sean Connery (2022)
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Sean Connery was one of a select few stars who have become an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular culture and public consciousness.

Best known as the screen’s ‘first’ Ja... Read More about Exploring stardom: Sean Connery.