BY TERI BAILIE AND JAMES HARPER We arrived at Plymouth University on 5th February 2016 for a postgraduate Practice Research Symposium, organised by Natalie Raven and Steven Paige who are PhD students in the Performance.Experience.Presence research group. We were excited to attend our first ever symposium and we were full of questions. How is a… Continue reading Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016
Month: March 2016
Presentations on art, science & the brain by Roger Malina and Amy Ione are now online
The following keynote talks were presented at the Off the Lip Conference on transdisciplinary approaches to cognitive innovation, held at Plymouth University between 9-11 September 2015. To watch the videos, please visit this page. Roger Malina: “New Forms of Art-Science Collaboration: Case Studies” In recent years art-science collaboration has been identified as an emerging frontier of… Continue reading Presentations on art, science & the brain by Roger Malina and Amy Ione are now online
Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”
BY ROBERTA MOCK In the UK, we are moving from a position in which the doctoral thesis, programme, research and examination are largely homogenous and singularly focused to one in which they are increasingly divergent, in order to meet a variety of external drivers. This shift has significant implications for the ways that arts & humanities PhDs are… Continue reading Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”
Benjamin Pothier’s Expedition To Ngozuma Glacier
Photographer, documentary film director and anthropology researcher, Benjamin Pothier, is joining Dr Ulyana Horodyskyj, a glaciologist and climate change educator trained as a Scientist-Astronaut in the PoSSUM program, for an expedition to Ngozumpa Glacier in Nepal in May-June 2016. The team will conduct scientific research into glacier melting that could become a threat to the population… Continue reading Benjamin Pothier’s Expedition To Ngozuma Glacier
29 March 2016: “Sorcery & Desire in Performance” presentation
Thresholds: Sorcery & Desire in Performance a presentation by Christopher Danowski Tuesday 29 March 2016 at 7pm Scott Building room 109, Plymouth University (FREE – All welcome) This presentation combines live and video art, documenting three years of PhD research into performance in trance states. By offering the spectator a window into other states of… Continue reading 29 March 2016: “Sorcery & Desire in Performance” presentation
24 March 2016: “Thinking through Space in Fiction” seminar
You are welcome to attend the following talk by Dr David Sergeant (Lecturer in English) on “Thinking through Space in Fiction” Thursday 24 March 2016 at 4.30pm in the seminar room on floor 3 of the Link Building, Plymouth University (as part of the CogNovo What’s Up series) Narrative is, by its very nature, temporal,… Continue reading 24 March 2016: “Thinking through Space in Fiction” seminar
23 March 2016: Illustration Event
You are welcome to attend the following FREE Illustration Event at Plymouth University on 23 March 2016 from 12 noon – 5 pm in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Roland Levinsky Building SCHEDULE: 12:00 David Hughes’ work incorporates aspects of illustration, graphic design, photography and animation, and his satirical drawings (often on the themes of “war, politics… Continue reading 23 March 2016: Illustration Event
23 March 2016: “Freedom of Time and Space: Technological Affordances of Play” seminar
You are welcome to attend this seminar, presented by James Sweeting, and organised by the Transtechnology research group 23 March 2016 at 1pm in the seminar room on Floor 3 of the Link Building, Plymouth University. In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator… Continue reading 23 March 2016: “Freedom of Time and Space: Technological Affordances of Play” seminar
23 March 2016: Design Lab session on surf board design and surfing
Sam Bleakley ‘TALKING LIVE’ in DESIGN LAB 23rd March 2016 @1.00pm in Roland Levinsky Building room RLB 213, Plymouth University All welcome – free. Sam Bleakley will be talking about surf board design and the impact surfing has on the ‘landscape of the individual’. In this session, he will be showing and talking through his film ‘Brilliant Corners’. For… Continue reading 23 March 2016: Design Lab session on surf board design and surfing
Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”
BY KATHARINE S. WILLIS The approach and focus of my book, Netspaces, published last year, is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is, how we experience and inhabit urban space. It reflects on the nature of the spatial effects of the networked and mediated world – from mobile phones… Continue reading Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”