All Outputs (10)

Collaborative composition, writing and performing (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, A. (2014, November). Collaborative composition, writing and performing. Presented at SIMPOM (Brazilian Simposium for postgraduates in music), Rio de Janeiro

This was one of the invited lectures delivered at the 2014 Simposium for Postgraduate Students in Music in Brazil (SIMPOM), held at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The lecture described a variety of collaborative approa... Read More about Collaborative composition, writing and performing.

The tapeless revolution consolidated (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Durie, F. (2014, November). The tapeless revolution consolidated. Presented at Challenging Media Landscapes, Mediacity UK

The broadcast and media sectors are now on the cusp of evolving and witnessing fundamental changes driven by a combination of technological advances, new and emerging delivery platforms, new methods of distribution and an increasingly global marke... Read More about The tapeless revolution consolidated.

"Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Flanagan, M. (2014, October). "Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC. Presented at Transitions 5 (Conference), Birkbeck University of London

Paul Cornell’s work for the ‘big two’ U.S. publishers transfers a distinctly British (mainly, but not exclusively, English) sensibility into a field where the centre of cultural gravity, in terms of tropes and iconography, tends to be the USA. Corne... Read More about "Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC.

The anime authorship criticism. Visions of the "Anti-Disney Ethos" (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2014, September). The anime authorship criticism. Visions of the "Anti-Disney Ethos". Presented at Discussing Disney, University of Hull

Animation Studies has provided an interesting example of how the concepts of genre and authorship can usually be considered as antithetic, and how these concepts might be discussed for a better understanding of modern Media Industries. In this sense,... Read More about The anime authorship criticism. Visions of the "Anti-Disney Ethos".

Making new : encounters through new technology in performance (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2014, September). Making new : encounters through new technology in performance. Presented at TaPRA Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University

This paper engages with the key issue of newness in the field of performance and ‘new’ technology, arguing through that rather than simply engaging with new technology, this is rather a field of performance which by its nature and predominant inclina... Read More about Making new : encounters through new technology in performance.

Resisting stratification? : arts practice and older adults (2014)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2014, August). Resisting stratification? : arts practice and older adults. Presented at IFTR Annual Conference, University of Warwick

According to recent government figures, 10 million people in the UK are over 65 years old. The latest projections are for 5½ million more elderly people in 20 years’ time and the number will have nearly doubled to around 19 million by 2050. These st... Read More about Resisting stratification? : arts practice and older adults.

Formation and cut : the distinct stratification of live media performance (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2014, July). Formation and cut : the distinct stratification of live media performance. Presented at International Federation of Theatre Research Annual Conference, University of Warwick

This presentation uses the theme of stratification in relation to Karen Barad’s ‘agential cut’ (in Kember and Zylinska 2012: 81) to argue for a discrete understanding of live media work within the field of intermediality. Live media performance encom... Read More about Formation and cut : the distinct stratification of live media performance.

Fast forward through the rear view mirror. Navigating disruption (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Peploe, G. (2014, June). Fast forward through the rear view mirror. Navigating disruption. Presented at Digital Humanities, 4th Annual Research Conference., Nottingham & Trent University, UK

The future is creative, digital, collaborative & very very messy. “The next 30 years will be the most disruptive we’ve ever seen.” Mark Stevenson. Companies fewer than 2 years old with less than 20 employees can bankrupt titans who’ve existed... Read More about Fast forward through the rear view mirror. Navigating disruption.

What they think in Worktown : using photography to create a participatory archive (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2014, May). What they think in Worktown : using photography to create a participatory archive. Presented at Anthropology and Photography Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum

In 1937 Mass Observation went to Bolton to study ‘the cannibals of the north’. Photographers and artists worked alongside trained and untrained participant observers to create an ‘anthropology of ourselves’. Whilst artists were accorded the status o... Read More about What they think in Worktown : using photography to create a participatory archive.

What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2014, April). What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton. Presented at Recording Leisure Lives 2014, University of Bolton

In 1937 Humphrey Spender photographed leisure in Bolton for Mass Observation’s Worktown study. MO recruited local people as participant observers but community involvement was fairly limited and the project has been subsequently characterised as a po... Read More about What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton.