Outputs (360)

Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play (2011)
Journal Article

This video essay is a microethological study of the transduction of a virtual world (the PC game Age of Mythologies) into the actual world play of children with toys and water. The video is constructed from an audio recording and a sequence of still... Read More about Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play.

Projection hero installation (2011)
Physical Artefact

The Projection Hero installation operates as part of the Curzon Memories App or a stand alone exhibit. It comprises of a rabbit hutch-sized miniature cinema, with velvet and gold brocade curtains and hand-carved seats which can be operated via your... Read More about Projection hero installation.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
Book Chapter

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.

15 autobiographical moments in perpiTubeity (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

I was invited to present a personal film journey through YouTube categories. A video essay reflection on identity in YouTube and Social Media spaces.

Produced for the PerpiTube exhibition – Entertainment & Education strand. Pitzer Art Gallerie... Read More about 15 autobiographical moments in perpiTubeity.

Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an archive of cinema projectors donated by the Projected Picture Trust. The original cinema was built in 1912 and is... Read More about Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App.

Screen heritage, pervasive media practice and research: or, How does the Curzon Memories App create impact, public engagement and knowledge exchange? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reflecting on how to make the route map of research for the Curzon Locative Media Project explicit in the lead up to REF 2014 in relation to the current shift towards "Impact", public engagement and KE both within UWE and the Research Council agenda.

Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014 (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This seminar will focus on the documentation and dissemination of creative arts research and knowledge exchange activities.

Initial scoping work by CDD Research Associate, Anna Farthing, has revealed that:
a) Some of the CDD schools’ existing ac... Read More about Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014.

The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘The Curzon Memories App: Designing a Screen Heritage Experience’
Dr Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England)
Charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk

I will present a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon,... Read More about The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience.

The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This session examines the conversion to digital projection and distribution, and charts how many cinemas worldwide are converting to digital. Now that editing is almost entirely accomplished via digital means, it is unusual that digital is taking lo... Read More about The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections.

Anticipating ubiquitous computing: Logics to forecast technological futures (2011)
Journal Article

Visions of the future predict spaces apparently teaming with ever more novel and pervasive technologies. Significant amongst such forecasts is the notion of 'ubiquitous computing' (ubicomp), understood as an affordance or capacity tied (in)to people,... Read More about Anticipating ubiquitous computing: Logics to forecast technological futures.

The Biting Point (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Drama for Stage

The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract for MeCCSA 2011 Conference

The Curzon Creative Technologies Project: Context Aware Media in a Screen Heritage Context

The practise-based project is based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an arch... Read More about The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context.

'Earth jurisprudence' versus 'ecological service analysis' (2010)
Journal Article

A comparison between emerging new concepts in environmental policy and law, drawing attention to similarities and key differences

Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Co-creative design (2009)
Book Chapter

This paper is concerned with the need to understand creativity both as a general feature of cultural change (associated with the processes of cultural promiscuity and hybridisation), and as a form of cultural capital used in strategies of social dist... Read More about Co-creative design.

Co-creative production (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Co-creative design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is concerned with the need to understand creativity both as a general feature of cultural change (associated with the processes of cultural promiscuity and hybridisation), and as a form of cultural capital used in strategies of scoail dist... Read More about Co-creative design.

Intellectual capital, the knowledge economy, and the 'democratisation' of creative production (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper makes a series of observations which together suggest that, in the C21st, intellectual work needs to be understood as a means of participation in cultural life, and that the notion of the intellectual as a cultural leader has become obsole... Read More about Intellectual capital, the knowledge economy, and the 'democratisation' of creative production.

How and why do working-class women engage with the structures of (higher)education? (2008)
Thesis

The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice (2008)
Journal Article

This article is a discussion about the development of media practice both as a creative endeavour and as the collaborative interaction with audiences. It argues that innovations in media practice are dependent on the relationships between practitione... Read More about The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice.