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Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope' (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, A. (2008). Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5(2), 300-317. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000381

Due to a desire to establish television as a serious medium, television drama has often been seen as a forum for writers, with names such as David Mercer, Dennis Potter and Trevor Griffiths identified by critics as the driving force, or auteur, behin... Read More about Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'.

Illumination (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Peploe, G. Illumination. 24 October 2008 - 30 October 2008. (Unpublished)

Curated and produced, Interval’s show ‘Illumination’ inviting Trace 33 former MA and MFA Media alumni from the Slade School of Art, London. To show in a blacked out non-gallery space in City Centre Manchester, UK.

Houndstooth II (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Peploe, G. Houndstooth II. [Dual screen video installation.]. 4 October 2008 - 30 October 2008. (Unpublished)

Houndstooth II, Dual screen digital video installation, 3'10" 2008. Initiating a personal and intimate encounter, the viewer is caught in the middle of a dialogue between two screens.

Surely fades away: Polaroid photography and the contradictions of cultural value (2008)
Journal Article
Buse, P. (2008). Surely fades away: Polaroid photography and the contradictions of cultural value. Photographies, 1(2), 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540760802285577

Photography has always had a precarious relation to cultural value: as Walter Benjamin put it, those who argued for photography as an art were bringing it to a tribunal it was in the process of overthrowing. This article examines the case of Polaroid... Read More about Surely fades away: Polaroid photography and the contradictions of cultural value.

HEADROOM - A space between presence and absence (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. (2008, July). HEADROOM - A space between presence and absence. Presented at ISEA 2008 Singapore - the 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, National University of Singapore

This paper represents the first theoretical account of 'HEADROOM', a site-specific interactive art installation produced by Paul Sermon in Taipei as the successful recipient of the 2006 Taiwan Visiting Arts Fellowship. This residency programme was a... Read More about HEADROOM - A space between presence and absence.

Design and sustainable development what is the contribution that design can make? A case study of the Welsh woollen industry (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, A. (2008, July). Design and sustainable development what is the contribution that design can make? A case study of the Welsh woollen industry. Presented at Design Research Society Conference, Sheffield, UK

This paper reports on ongoing research examining the contribution that design can make to sustainable development, that is … development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their ow... Read More about Design and sustainable development what is the contribution that design can make? A case study of the Welsh woollen industry.

Bruno Maag is into type (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2008, June). Bruno Maag is into type. Presented at "Bruno Maag is into type", CUBE Gallery Manchester

Presentation on typography and analysis of letterforms by Bruno Maag from type design company Dalton Maag.

Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2008, June). Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation. Presented at European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance Second Biennial Conference, ‘(Re)Regulation in the Wake of Neoliberalism. Consequences of Three Decades of Privatization and Market Liberalization’, Utrecht, Netherlands

Telecommunications provides one of the most well-developed examples of the growth of neo-liberalism. The sector is interesting since the contrast between its pre neoliberal and post neo-liberal characteristics is particularly stark. This paper expl... Read More about Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation.

Social networking and digital gaming media convergence : classification and its consequences for appropriation (2008)
Journal Article
classification and its consequences for appropriation. Information Systems Frontiers, 10(4), 447-459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-008-9105-4

Within the field of Information Systems, a good proportion of research is concerned with the work organisation and this has, to some extent, restricted the kind of application areas given consideration. Yet, it is clear that information and communica... Read More about Social networking and digital gaming media convergence : classification and its consequences for appropriation.

The emancipating possibilities of performing with cartoons (2008)
Journal Article
Oliver, M. (2008). The emancipating possibilities of performing with cartoons. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 4(1), 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1386/padm.4.1.59_1

The emancipating possibilities of performing with cartoons’ focuses on the impact and implications of performing with the cartoon double. It offers a brief history of the author’s practice and explores the creation of an original devised digita... Read More about The emancipating possibilities of performing with cartoons.

Relating urban boundary layer structure to upwind terrain for the Salfex campaign (2008)
Journal Article
Barlow, J., Rooney, G., von Hünerbein, S., & Bradley, S. (2008). Relating urban boundary layer structure to upwind terrain for the Salfex campaign. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 127(2), 173-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-007-9261-y

Profiles of wind and turbulence over an urban area evolve with fetch in response to surface characteristics. Sodar measurements, taken on 22nd April 2002 during the Salfex campaign, are here related to upstream terrain. A logarithmic layer up to z=65... Read More about Relating urban boundary layer structure to upwind terrain for the Salfex campaign.

They live (in Second Life) (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. They live (in Second Life). [Interactive Second Life Installation]. 30 April 2008. (Unpublished)

In They Live (in Second Life) Paul Sermon merges the virtual space of 'Second Life' with the real space of the festival venue, recreating an augmentation of the Futuresonic venue within Second Life, and creating a feedback loop with video feeds. This... Read More about They live (in Second Life).

From one to another (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Peploe, G., & Gaskill, K. From one to another. [Exhibiton]. 18 April 2008 - 1 May 2008. (Unpublished)

Interval present work from International artists using dual screens. Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani - Toute la Memoire du Monde Zhang Ding - Boxing 1&2 Lisa Klapstock - Field Studies - Exposure and Focus

Scottish place names (2008)
Book
Scott, M. (2008). Scottish place names. Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing

Say It in Scots is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots. The Scots language is a world of wonderful, historic and evocative words, full of a rich variety that can... Read More about Scottish place names.

Veil (2008)
Digital Artefact
Knudsen, E. (2008). Veil. [Video and stage production]

Veil is an epic and ambitious stage production created for Horse & Bamboo’s 30th year of touring theatre. Veil is a story of two young women who are brutally separated at birth, but are drawn inexorably back towards one another. The story is set i... Read More about Veil.