BY SIMON LOCK The term Steampunk emerged in the 1980s as a classification for a branch of fictional literature and film. It imagines a modern world, but with knowledge, skills and materials as they were during the late Victorian era. The “steam” element of the name is due to the preoccupation with steam engines as… Continue reading Feature: “Anachronistic Intervention: Steampunk, Performativity & Participatory Design”
Month: April 2016
Plymouth University researchers score feature film premiered at Tribeca
John Matthias and Jay Auborn (dBs Plymouth) have written part of the score to the new feature film, Poor Boy directed by Robert Scott Wildes. The world premiere of Poor Boy took place at the Tribeca Film festival, New York City on 17th April 2016. The film, shot in the American desert, follows the story of… Continue reading Plymouth University researchers score feature film premiered at Tribeca
28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
Thursday 28 April 2016, 6-8 pm. at the Plymouth School of Creative Arts, 22 Millbay Road Millbay, Plymouth PL1 3EG FREE – all welcome. Book your place via the Eventbrite webpage. This lecture by Professor Bob Brown is last in the ‘Remember This?’ public lecture series from The Arts Institute at Plymouth University. The series, by members of the Arts and… Continue reading 28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
27 April 2016: English research seminar on transatlantic fiction
You are welcome to attend the following seminar of Plymouth University’s English & Creative Writing research group: Wednesday 27th April 2016, 3.30-5pm in the Babbage Building, room BGB 409, at Plymouth University ‘The Chain of the Narration’: transatlantic fiction and the natural history of North America a paper by Dr Kathryn Gray.
27 April 2016: Talk about Duke Ellington in Words & Music Shakespeare Festival
“Such Sweet Plunder: Or Whose Line Is It Anyway?” On Wednesday 27th April, Dr Katherine Williams will be giving a talk on Duke Ellington as part of the 2016 Words and Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare in Plymouth. In her talk, Katherine uses Duke Ellington’s music to explore the balance of authorial power between composer, bandleader, musicians,… Continue reading 27 April 2016: Talk about Duke Ellington in Words & Music Shakespeare Festival
Feature: “The right to a parking space: the spatial state of marginality”
BY SANA MURRANI Have you ever felt that your right to a parking space has been violated when another driver decides to drive the wrong way down a one-way lane and occupies it before you can get there yourself? If yes, then read on. When it happens to me, I feel like doing this – but… Continue reading Feature: “The right to a parking space: the spatial state of marginality”
PAINTING BY MARTIN BROOKS SELECTED FOR BP PORTRAIT AWARD AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
A portrait by Martin Brooks, who is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Plymouth University, has been selected from a total of 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world for the 2016 BP Portrait Award, the most prestigious international portrait painting competition of its kind. Martin trained at the Royal College of Art… Continue reading PAINTING BY MARTIN BROOKS SELECTED FOR BP PORTRAIT AWARD AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Welcome to the Arts Institute
The Arts Institute was founded in January 2016 to enrich art and culture in Plymouth and beyond through critical thinking, writing and making. It is where arts and humanities research meets cultural ecologies and economies in south-west England. We collaborate with a wide range of organisations, other researchers and creative practitioners to provide a space… Continue reading Welcome to the Arts Institute
21 April 2016: Screening of film and discussion about mathematical thinking
You are invited to a screening of THINKING SPACE BY HEIDI MORSTANG THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2016, 17:30-20:00 JILL CRAIGIE CINEMA, ROLAND LEVINSKY BUILDING, PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY ALL WELCOME – FREE ADMISSION Heidi will be joined at this event in conversation with Stephen Huggett, Professor in Pure Mathematics, chaired by the presenter, writer and comedian, Timandra… Continue reading 21 April 2016: Screening of film and discussion about mathematical thinking
20 April 2016: P.E.P. Talk research seminar on performance and the body
Performance. Experience. Presence. You are warmly invited to attend the next in our series of PEP Talks, the seminar series for the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 20 April 2016 , 16.30 – 18.00, in Roland Levinsky Building room 309, Plymouth University. The papers will be presented by Leah Dungay and John Matthews. Abstracts and titles… Continue reading 20 April 2016: P.E.P. Talk research seminar on performance and the body