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Between tracks
Journal Article
Fletcher, B. Between tracks. Interface,

Magazine Article/Exhibition Review/Interface

Soundcloud page
Other
Williams, A. Soundcloud page

Collection of tracks and sets - please follow link below to visit the page.

From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’ : the emergence of the Edwardian municipal park in Manchester, 1902 - 1912
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’ : the emergence of the Edwardian municipal park in Manchester, 1902 - 1912. Urban History, 40(1), 136-155. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926812000673

This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the highly regulated and formal space of the Victorian park. It takes as a case study Heaton Park in Manchester purchased in late 1901 and suggests that this... Read More about From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’ : the emergence of the Edwardian municipal park in Manchester, 1902 - 1912.

The social shaping of packaged software selection
Journal Article
Howcroft, D., & Light, B. The social shaping of packaged software selection. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 11(3),

As organisations increasingly engage in the selection, purchase, and adoption of packaged software products, how these activities are carried out in practice becomes increasingly relevant for researchers and practitioners. Our focus in this paper i... Read More about The social shaping of packaged software selection.

Class composition: John Axon, cultural debate and the British left
Journal Article
Harker, B. Class composition: John Axon, cultural debate and the British left. Science and Society, 73(3), 340-356

This article presents influential BBC documentary radio programme The Ballad of John Axon (1958) as a text which refracts, recodes and intervenes into anxious debates within the late 1950s British left about shifting class formations, working-class i... Read More about Class composition: John Axon, cultural debate and the British left.

‘The Manchester Rambler’ : Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass
Journal Article
Harker, B. ‘The Manchester Rambler’ : Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass. History Workshop Journal, 59(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbi016

Best known for his post-war work in theatre, radio, folk music and song writing, Ewan MacColl was born in 1915; the 1930s was a key decade in terms of his political and cultural development. It was in the 1930s that he cut his teeth as a Young Commun... Read More about ‘The Manchester Rambler’ : Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass.

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.

Electronic literacy, reading skills and non-native speakers: issues for EAP
Journal Article
Jarvis, H., & Pastuszka, L. Electronic literacy, reading skills and non-native speakers: issues for EAP. CALL-EJ on-line, 10(1),

Competent reading skills in an electronic environment are vital elements to successful academic study at many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). For non-native speakers of English (NNS) this necessitates not only a command of the English languag... Read More about Electronic literacy, reading skills and non-native speakers: issues for EAP.

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.

Syntactic variation in French: diglossia and language change
Presentation / Conference
Rowlett, P. Syntactic variation in French: diglossia and language change. Presented at 19th International Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Manchester

In this talk I shall (a) review the history of the study of syntactic variation in French, (b) briefly comment on the use of the Internet in variationist syntactic research, and then (c) consider the notion that syntactic variation in modern metropol... Read More about Syntactic variation in French: diglossia and language change.