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Total place - Discussion paper
Report
Dhar-Bhattacharjee, S., Baldwinson, T., Roy, S., & Thomas, A. Total place - Discussion paper

Total Place – Pooling public money Total Place was a Labour Government initiative which started last year in April 2009 in Bichard’s work Operational Efficiency Programme, which looked at the scope for efficiency savings in the public sector. It in... Read More about Total place - Discussion paper.

Bell in the ball
Digital Artefact
Peters, L., & Brown, G. Bell in the ball. [CD]

Danny was blinded in a fight on New Year's Eve 2008. He's angry about it - in fact he's angry about everything. So his long suffering girlfriend suggests he joins a blind cricket team. It's surprisingly competitive and skilful. There's only one probl... Read More about Bell in the ball.

Liberate your avatar
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. Liberate your avatar. Presented at Creating Second Lives Conference, Bangor University, Wales, UK

The merged realities of 'All Saints Gardens' on Oxford Road, and its online three-dimensional counterpart in 'Second Life' will, for the first time, allow 'first life' visitors and 'second life' avatars to coexist and share the same park bench in a l... Read More about Liberate your avatar.

Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space. Presented at Object and Identity in a Digital Age (CHArt 2009), CHArt COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART Seeing, Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture CHArt twenty-fourth Annual Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

My work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of a user-determined narrative by bringing remote participants together in a shared telepresent environment. Through the use of live chroma-keying and videoconferencing technology, two pub... Read More about Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space.

Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked. Presented at Digital Art & Culture 2009, University of California Irvine

This paper brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in a collaborative interactive installation that investigates new forms of social and political narrative in multi-user virtual en... Read More about Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked.

Urban picnic
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. Urban picnic. [Interactive Media Art Installation]. (Unpublished)

Following the success of ‘Picnic on the Screen’, presented at the Glastonbury Festival 2009, Paul and Charlotte were recently invited to develop a new version of this interactive public video installation for the MOVES10 Media Arts Festival at venues... Read More about Urban picnic.

Avatarium - A consumer paradox
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Avatarium - A consumer paradox. [Interactive Second Life Installation]. (Unpublished)

The British artist Paul Sermon, who is visiting Istanbul as a guest of Istanbul Digital Culture and Art Foundation, will exhibit his new interactive public art installation, AVATARIUM - A Consumer Paradox in City's shopping mall between 11 to 16 Nove... Read More about Avatarium - A consumer paradox.

Telematic vision - Permanent installation exhibit for Experimenta Science Museum
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Telematic vision - Permanent installation exhibit for Experimenta Science Museum. [Interactive Art Installation]. (Unpublished)

Two identical blue sofas are located in dispersed remote locations. In front of each sofa stands a video monitor and camera. The video camera in each location sends a live video image to the other location. The two images are mixed together, via a vi... Read More about Telematic vision - Permanent installation exhibit for Experimenta Science Museum.

Trad jazz in 1950s Britain—protest, pleasure, politics—interviews with some of those involved
Other
McKay, G. Trad jazz in 1950s Britain—protest, pleasure, politics—interviews with some of those involved

These are transcriptions of interviews and correspondence undertaken as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Board (now Council)-funded project exploring the cultures and politics of traditional jazz in Britain in the 1950s. The project ran throu... Read More about Trad jazz in 1950s Britain—protest, pleasure, politics—interviews with some of those involved.

Raul Ruiz Interview 1: 30/10/09
Digital Artefact
Goddard, M., & Ruiz, R. Raul Ruiz Interview 1: 30/10/09

This is the first of two interviews with the filmmaker Raul Ruiz undertaken for my forthcoming monograph on his work. Ruiz discusses his recent projects, places and people he has worked with and the concepts of synaesthesia and cryptosthesia

‘Need keeps the book of dying open’ : negative capability in Gil Ott’s The Whole Note
Presentation / Conference
Thurston, S. ‘Need keeps the book of dying open’ : negative capability in Gil Ott’s The Whole Note. Presented at Ambiguity and the search for meaning : English and American studies at the beginning of the 21st century (Eleventh International Conference), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

This paper was delivered at the Conference 'Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning' at the Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Philology, Krakow, Poland, April 2008. It explores the work of Gil Ott (1950-2004): poet, writer and publisher asso... Read More about ‘Need keeps the book of dying open’ : negative capability in Gil Ott’s The Whole Note.

Community music: a handbook
Book
Mckay, G. P. Moser, & G. McKay (Eds.), Community music: a handbook. Lyme Regis: Russell House

A book of ideas, a catalogue of experience, a mass of personal stories, a collection of inspiring musical exercises and a historical perspective. Community musicmaking is exploding across Britain and this book will help you develop new insights into... Read More about Community music: a handbook.

Enhancing communication between academic staff and students to undergraduate degree level with a particular focus on assessment requirements
Report
Thomas, A., & Nixon, M. Enhancing communication between academic staff and students to undergraduate degree level with a particular focus on assessment requirements

The way that academic staff make their requirements known to students is varied - for students of Art and Design this is usually a written brief, supplemented with a verbal briefing. All assessment in Art and Design is by course work in a variety o... Read More about Enhancing communication between academic staff and students to undergraduate degree level with a particular focus on assessment requirements.

Yodel species: a typology of falsetto effects in popular music vocal styles
Journal Article
Wise, T. Yodel species: a typology of falsetto effects in popular music vocal styles. Radical musicology, 2,

This article presents a classification system for falsetto vocal effects commonly occurring in popular music. This typology developed from my research into yodelling and related vocal phenomena, which took as its starting point an analysis of yodel t... Read More about Yodel species: a typology of falsetto effects in popular music vocal styles.

If your face don't fit: an investigation into ethnic minority employment in the North West media
Book
Palmer, G. If your face don't fit: an investigation into ethnic minority employment in the North West media. Salford, UK: University of Salford

In 2004 the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford was awarded an ESF (European Social Fund) grant in order to investigate the representation of ethnic minorities in media employment. This report entitled ‘If your face... Read More about If your face don't fit: an investigation into ethnic minority employment in the North West media.

Jazz in Britain: interviews with modern and contemporary jazz musicians, composers and improvisers
Other
jazz musicians, composers and improvisers

I undertook these interviews in 2002-2003 as part of the research project I was working on, Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. The primary outcome of the project was a book of the same title (published by Duke University Pr... Read More about Jazz in Britain: interviews with modern and contemporary jazz musicians, composers and improvisers.

Clasp
Physical Artefact
Lyons, K. (2007). Clasp. [sculpture]

'Piano for a blind rat': residency and solo exhibition May-July 2001
Exhibition / Performance
Lyons, K. (2001). 'Piano for a blind rat': residency and solo exhibition May-July 2001. [Exhibition brochure]. (Unpublished)

Artist residency and solo exhibition at Artists Unlimited Gallery in Bielefeld, Germany. The exhibition, a series of 3 installations and an exhibition of drawings, was the culmination of a 3-month residency at Artists Unlimited