19 April 2016: Renee Verhoeven ‘Talking Live in Design Lab’

Renee Verhoeven will be ‘Talking Live in Design Lab’ 19th April 2016 at 2pm – Free. All welcome. Roland Levinsky Building Room 213, Plymouth University Whether or not you are concerned with the importance of cryptography and surveillance issues, the digital world frequently asks us to prove our identities to grant us access to our data.… Continue reading 19 April 2016: Renee Verhoeven ‘Talking Live in Design Lab’

19 April 2016: Guest lecture by political photomontage artist Peter Kennard

Peter Kennard in his installation The Boardroom, part of Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist, at Imperial War Museum London.

You are welcome to attend this free guest lecture by PETER KENNARD Tuesday 19th April 2016, 5-7pm in the Davy Building Main Hall at Plymouth University. Peter Kennard abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of new forms of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience. This search has resulted in… Continue reading 19 April 2016: Guest lecture by political photomontage artist Peter Kennard

Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016

Artwork by Helen Billinghurst

Crossing England an exhibition by Helen Billinghurst at the Arial Centre, Totnes Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4pm and Saturdays, 9.30am – 12noon (normally, please see below) ALL WELCOME – FREE ADMISSION Crossing England features artwork made in response to walking the twenty-first century landscape. Traces of history, memory, personal mythology, childhood games and stories… Continue reading Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016

Artist Film Screening by Steven Paige, 5-14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre

Steven Paige Let’s Go Bowling 5 – 14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre Free entry Steven Paige employs re-enactment and performance to examine relationships between film, instruction, leisure and individuality. His latest moving image project, made as part of his PhD research, is a reworking of a 1950s film featuring American bowling techniques. Through a process… Continue reading Artist Film Screening by Steven Paige, 5-14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre

9 April 2016: Seminar on film and narrative in St Ives for professional artists, led by Dr Anya Lewin

Installation view of Anya Lewin's Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip (2013) at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth.

Professional Development Seminar: Artists’ Film and Narrative April 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives This professional development seminar for artists will explore the use of narrative in artists’ moving image work and will be led by artist and filmmaker Anya Lewin. Although there has been a trajectory of artists working… Continue reading 9 April 2016: Seminar on film and narrative in St Ives for professional artists, led by Dr Anya Lewin

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: 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

10 March 2016: Lunchtime Talk on Sound and Music in Science

“Can we really listen to the Higgs Boson? Sound and music in science”  Speaker: Nuria Bonet Filella (PhD Candidate, ICCMR) 10 March 2016, 1 – 2 pm in the Portland Square Building Room C1 at Plymouth University ALL WELCOME! FREE! (Cake & tea provided!)   At Plymouth we have a vibrant postgraduate student community that… Continue reading 10 March 2016: Lunchtime Talk on Sound and Music in Science