21st April 2017: Heritage Research Symposium

13.30-17.00, Room 108, Mast House The Arts Institute and School of Humanities and Performing Arts will be hosting a symposium around the theme of Heritage Research Programme 13.00-13.30: REF and Research Update (James Daybell) 13.30-13.45: Introduction and overview of ‘Cornerstone Heritage’ (James Daybell, History and Daniel Maudlin, History) 13.45-14.45: Session 1 Diana Walters (International Museums… Continue reading 21st April 2017: Heritage Research Symposium

29 March 2017: Artistic Research Seminar on Painting & Performance

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome! Papers on Painting & Performance by Jeremy Diggle & Helen Billinghurst Wednesday 29th March, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building RLB308, Plymouth University Professor Jeremy Diggle: “The Performance of Painting” Jeremy Diggle is Honorary… Continue reading 29 March 2017: Artistic Research Seminar on Painting & Performance

Adam Benjamin featured in new book about international dance leadership

Adam Benjamin, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, is one of six international dance artists featured in a new publication entitled Dance Leadership: Theory into Practice by Jane Alexandre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) This “what is”—rather than “how to”— volume proposes a theoretical framework for understanding dance leadership for dancers, leaders, and students of both domains, illustrated by… Continue reading Adam Benjamin featured in new book about international dance leadership

Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 28th March 2017 at 12.30pm, Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) 213 – Helen Walter on The Body and Design, a Design Knowledge seminar 29th March at 3pm in Rolle Building 018 – Embodied… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

Feature: “Waiting for a cure: Oskar Kokoschka’s Portraits of Tubercular Patients”

By GEMMA BLACKSHAW The modern period has been historicised as one of heroic advancement in the visual arts, a time marked by artists’ experimentation with new materials and methods, and representation of new ways of seeing. What is less acknowledged in this history is the role played by medicine, a field which was also marching forwards… Continue reading Feature: “Waiting for a cure: Oskar Kokoschka’s Portraits of Tubercular Patients”

29 March 2017: ‘Embodied Disturbance’ Artistic Research Workshop

Thomas Baugh, 'Appropriate Movement,' Filmic floor projection

Embodied Disturbance Wednesday, 29th March 2017, 3-6 pm in Rolle 018, University of Plymouth This workshop, which is organised by the Artistic Research Cluster at Plymouth University, seeks to bring together researchers drawn mainly from the artistic fields, but also invites researchers from across all domains that have cognate interests in, what might broadly be described as, embodied disturbances.… Continue reading 29 March 2017: ‘Embodied Disturbance’ Artistic Research Workshop

Eduardo Miranda publishes pioneering Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music

A pioneering new book, edited by Prof Eduardo Miranda, has just been published by Springer, on musical applications of unconventional computing. Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music (2017) explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging,… Continue reading Eduardo Miranda publishes pioneering Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music

Plymouth University PhD candidate wins Syngenta Photography Award 2017

Yan Preston, 'Forest 7' (2013)

Yan Wang Preston, who is a PhD candidate in Photography at the University of Plymouth, is the winner of the prestigious Syngenta Photography Award 2017 in the ‘Professional Commission’ category. The prize focuses on photography that explores global challenges. Yan is a British-Chinese artist primarily interested in how landscape photography can challenge myths and reveal hidden complexities… Continue reading Plymouth University PhD candidate wins Syngenta Photography Award 2017

Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 21st-30th March 2017, Plymouth Arts Centre – How We Behave (part 3), film screenings from Moving Image Arts (MIA) research group. 21st March at 1pm in Roland Levinsky Building 213 –… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

22 March 2017: Research Seminar on Performance, Intimacy and Emotion

Ruth Way & Russell Frampton, 'Blind Torrent' (2012)

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome.  Papers by Ruth Way and Eugenia Stamboliev Wednesday 22 March 2017, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building, room 308 “Clearing A Path: Somatic transformations in the Opening of Hearts and Spaces, Dances of Self-Agency and Empathic Response” Ruth… Continue reading 22 March 2017: Research Seminar on Performance, Intimacy and Emotion