Bryan Hawkins is curating Dialogic Imaginations, a series of practice-based research events within the School of Media Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University. The first two events are:
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Research Seminar 5 October 2016: Andy Birtwistle
Dr Andy Birtwistle will give the first of the School of Media Art and Design research seminars for 2016-17, on the materiality of recording media.
Canterbury Christ Church University
School of Media Art and Design
Research Seminars 2016-2017
5 October 2016
1.00pm-2.15pm
Noise, Agency and the Art of the Audio Cassette
Speaker: Dr Andy Birtwistle (CCCU)
In a recently published collection on materiality in art, Petra Lange-Berndt asks, “what does it mean to give agency to the material, to follow the material and to act with the material?” Andy Birtwistle’s presentation aims to consider this question, focusing on the creative use of sounds produced by obsolete – or near obsolete – technologies of sound recording and reproduction.
Every sound technology has the capacity to generate as well reproduce sound: that is, the sounds usually referred to as “noise”. In the case of the cassette tape, noise is created by the oxides that coat the tape’s surface and which encode the magnetic patterns constituting the recording itself. Similarly, the distinctive surface noise of vinyl is produced by an encounter between two materials, as the needle scrapes along the walls of the recording groove. We might think of these sounds as the sound of technology itself – a sounding of the medium’s material and technological bases.
Andy Birtwistle’s presentation explores what the political potential of the sound of (obsolete) technology might be, explored through a discussion of material agentiality in his own creative work with audio cassettes.
Andy is Reader in Film and Sound in the School of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University and is the author of Cinesonica: Sounding Film and Video (Manchester University Press, 2010).
Powell Building – Pf06
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road Campus
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
— All welcome —
Feel free to bring your lunch!
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The Empty
Dr James Newton’s short film The Empty will be screened in the ‘thriller’ category as part of the RATMA Film Festival in Keighley in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on October 8th. It has also been selected as part of the inaugural Two Cliffs International Film Festival in Ramsgate, and will be screened in the ‘local film’ category on October 14th.
James, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, shot The Empty in a single day across locations in Canterbury. More information about the film is included in the following blog post – https://jamesedwardnewton.com/2016/01/15/the-empty-2016/
For more details on the Two Cliffs Film Festival visit: http://www.twocliffsfilmfestival.co.uk/
James Newton is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Theory and his research interests include anarchism in popular culture, radical communities (and the role of digital media in shaping them), political cinema, horror and exploitation, westerns, and documentary. His PhD thesis, entitled The Anarchist Cinema, was completed in 2015. He has previously taught film studies at the University of Kent, film and video production at East Surrey College, and media production at South Kent College
Close to Home: Exploring ‘Only In England’
Dr Karen Shepherdson, Reader in Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University, is giving a talk on the photographic work of Martin Parr and Tony Ray-Jones.
The Beaney, 15 September 2016, 6.00pm-7pm
Tony Ray-Jones was born and trained in Britain, but was inspired by the street photography he found when he went to Manhattan in the early 1960s. He brought this sensibility back to England and he specialised in photos which make the everyday seem strange, especially in his take on familiar English seaside scenes – men and women in deckchairs, mods asleep in Margate and so on. Many of his photos were taken in East Kent, including Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Margate and Herne Bay. Martin Parr curated a collection of these photographs, originally shown at the Media Space at the Science Museum and currently on display in the Beaney. Parr has long stressed the importance of Ray-Jones in his own practice, which also includes trips to the seaside and the English at leisure.
Dr Shepherdson will offer an opportunity to (re)consider this influence and explore the legacy both these important photographers have had on contemporary seaside and street photography. She is
a writer, curator, photographer and Director of the UK’s South East Archive of Seaside (SEAS) Photography and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures. Her research focuses on the seaside as site of photographic practice and has presented findings at a number of international conferences. Karen has curated several festivals and exhibitions, including the recent SALT: Festival of the Sea & Environment (Folkestone, UK 2015)); Reframing the Sunbeam Photographic Collection Exhibition at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, UK (2014) and co-authored Beyond the View: New Perspectives on Seaside Photography (Burton Press: 2014). She co-edited the four-volume Routledge major collection on Film Theory and has a forthcoming publication: Reframing Commercial Seaside Photography with Oxford University Press scheduled for 2017.
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Practices and Processes of Practice-Research: Interdisciplinary and Methodological Critique
The Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts is pleased to invite colleagues to a half-day symposium titled: Practices and Processes of Practice-Research: Interdisciplinary and Methodological Critique on 1st June 2016 from 1-6pm.
This will be an interdisciplinary event focused on the issue of developing Practice Research methodologies. Position papers will be delivered by distinguished speakers Professor Paul Whitty (Music, Oxford Brookes University), Dr Rachel Hann (Theatre, University of Surrey) and Professor Erik Knudsen (Visual and Digital Culture, Bournemouth University).
The panel represents practitioners with experience of large-scale funded practice research projects, the REF2014 panels for practice submissions and the publication and peer review of practice research. Responses to these papers will be delivered by members of the Centre, and the day will conclude with a round table involving the speakers and representatives of public-facing organisations such as the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury.
The event will take place on the North Holmes Road campus.
It is free to attend for all members of the Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts and costs £10 for external guests.
Booking is essential and tickets can be purchased here: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/event-booking/book.aspx?event=64201
More details, timetables and abstracts will be available shortly via our website: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/cpbra/centre-for-practice-based-research-in-the-arts.aspx and blog: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/practiceresearch/
For further details contact Dr Lauren Redhead.
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
CT1 3QU.
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Research Seminar: 10 February 2016 Charles Williams
Canterbury Christ Church University
School of Media Art and Design
Research Seminars 2015-2016
10 February 2016
4.15pm-5.30pm
Improvisation, Form and Narrative
Speaker: Charles Williams, CCCU
Charles Williams, Senior Lecturer for Painting in the Fine and Applied Art programme, is putting together a PhD (PAR) proposal, looking at his studio practice and theoretical background. The areas he is looking at specifically are Observational Drawing in his training background and its role in determining the realisation of form in his work, the role of improvisation in the studio process, and the layering of narratives in the work. Charles will present a slide show of the work and supporting imagery and would welcome suggestions and comments on these elements.
Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, Charles Williams was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London. He was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1996 and in 1999 was a founder member of the Stuckist group. He has shown his work in London, the UK and abroad, including a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. He is the author of Basic Drawing (Robert Hale, 2011) and Basic Watercolour (Robert Hale, 2014).
Powell Building – Pf06
North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 3QU
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
— All welcome —
Glitch 2015
Powell Building, North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU, UK.
On Monday 14th December the Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts will be hosting a one-day interdisciplinary conference entitled Glitch 2015 – the politics of failure, error, disorder and noise.
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Performance Lecture: November 25: ‘You Say You Want A Revolution…?’
- 25 November 2015
- 6.00pm – Pg05 – Powell Building – North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, CT1 1QU
- Paul Skinner and Mark Almond
- November, 11
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Research Seminar: In Situ: Work-in-Progress Discussion Group
- 18 November 2015
- 4.15pm-6.15pm – Powell Building – Pf06, North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, CT1 1QU
- Speaker: Dr Lauren Redhead (Centre for Practice-Based Research in the Arts, CCCU)
- November, 6
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Research Seminar: The Microscopic and Invisible Visible as Space (and More)
11 November 2015 4.15pm-5.30pm
Powell Building – Pf06, North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, CT1 1QU
Eddie McMillan (CCCU) Bryan Hawkins (CCCU)
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