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

‘Remember Me’: a new AHRC-funded research network

'Memorial Gardens, Beverley. Remembrance Sunday 2015' by Liz Nicol

Liz Nicol, Associate Professor in Photography and leader of the MA Photography programme at Plymouth University, is Co-Investigator for a new AHRC-funded project with researchers at the University of Hull. The project, entitled ‘Remember Me: The Changing Face of Memorialisation’, explores the making of meaning in memorial practices in Britain. Liz’s role in the project focuses on… Continue reading ‘Remember Me’: a new AHRC-funded research network

Feature: “Composing Music with Dark Matter”

By NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (Racah Institute of Physics/The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin (STScI),G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team and ESA - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/01/image/a, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1727600

BY NÚRIA BONET FILELLA As a composer, I’m interested in finding ways to represent the world through my music. Humans have done this since the beginning of time, from imitating birdsong with a bone flute to the influence of industrial noises in Kraftwerk’s music. Every era has adapted music to incorporate developments in the environment.… Continue reading Feature: “Composing Music with Dark Matter”

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

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

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: “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

Professor Eduardo Miranda is a visiting scholar at Harvard University

  Professor Eduardo Miranda is currently on a mission to the United States as a visiting scholar at Harvard University and invited speaker at MIT Media Lab. He is working in the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) on a new composition for choir and electronics, which is scheduled for premiere at the Peninsula… Continue reading Professor Eduardo Miranda is a visiting scholar at Harvard University

Feature: “The Poems of Ossian and early Geomorphology: the start of an interdisciplinary conversation?”

BY DAFYDD MOORE James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian (1761-3) present themselves as the poetic remains of the third-century Celtic prince and bard Ossian (in fact they were inspired, as we might say, by the Gaelic heroic verse Macpherson collected in the Highlands of Scotland but were for the most part more down to him than… Continue reading Feature: “The Poems of Ossian and early Geomorphology: the start of an interdisciplinary conversation?”

22 April 2016: ‘What has stand-up ever done for qualitative inquiry’ research seminar

You are welcome to attend the following research seminar: What has stand-up ever done for qualitative inquiry? led by Jonathan Wyatt (University of Edinburgh) and presented as part of the Plymouth Institute of Education Research Seminar Series on 22 April 2016 at 2 pm in Rolle 206, Plymouth University Abstract: I am working on a book,… Continue reading 22 April 2016: ‘What has stand-up ever done for qualitative inquiry’ research seminar