The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in June and July. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 20th June 2018, 1pm, Portland Square, Room B312 Transtechnology- Revisiting ideoplasticity: contingency, action, and imagination 23rd June 2018, 10am – 4pm, Roland Levinsky Building Design Lab Message, Design knowledge and… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events in June and July
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15th March 2018: Cornish Mining- UNESCO World Heritage Site talk
Join us at 5pm on Thursday 15 March for drinks and a talk by Deborah Boden, Director of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. Deborah will talk about the aims and operations of the WHS including its huge success attracting external funding and running projects with a diversity of partners from archaeologists to installation artists The… Continue reading 15th March 2018: Cornish Mining- UNESCO World Heritage Site talk
Arts and Humanities research events this March
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 6th March 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Dr Marcelo Gimenes: Experiments in Machine Learning of Musical Style 6th March 2018, 2pm, Rolle 015 Music- Nic Pillai (BCU) “I… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this March
Arts and Humanities research events this February
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 13th February 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Mr Jared Drayton- An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Singing Synthesis 14th February 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Roland Levinsky, Room 303 Performance.… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this February
20th March 2018: Audiences for Tate Research: Exhibitions, Archives and Publication
Rolle 211 | 3pm – 5pm Over the last decade the role of the national museums as centres for organised research has been transformed out of all recognition. The exploitation of new technologies and access to new streams of funding have encouraged these changes as has new thinking about the role of museums and of… Continue reading 20th March 2018: Audiences for Tate Research: Exhibitions, Archives and Publication
Illuminate short film released
A film of Illuminate 2017, the successful 3-day light festival held at the Royal William Yard in November, has been released by The Media Workshop. The event saw work by University staff and students on display, alongside that of other artists. Professor Chris Bennewith, Head of the School of Art, Design and Architecture is a… Continue reading Illuminate short film released
Min Wild’s review featured in the Time Literary Supplement
University of Plymouth researcher Dr Min Wild’s article ‘Print and oral performance in the eighteenth century’ has featured as a lead review in the TLS. In the piece, she examines the complex and changing relationship between print and the oral, focusing on The Invention of Books by Paula McDowell and Abigail Williams’ The Social Life… Continue reading Min Wild’s review featured in the Time Literary Supplement
Arts and Humanities Research events this January
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 3rd January 2018, 10am – 1pm, Roland Levinsky Design Lab Message, Design Knowledge and i-DAT- Design Research Seminar 3 16th January 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Dr Alexis… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research events this January
Dr Alexis Kirke presents BBC programme on Dementia, Music and Broadcasting
Following Dr Alexis Kirke’s (Senior Research Fellow, ICCMR) award-winning documentary on music and dementia, produced in collaboration with the BBC Radio Devon and broadcast in 2014 – a follow-up special is now scheduled to be broadcast between Christmas and New Year. Co-produced and co-presented by Alexis, it will air at 13:15 on Wednesday 27th December on… Continue reading Dr Alexis Kirke presents BBC programme on Dementia, Music and Broadcasting
Associate Professor wins first prize at lighting exhibition
Christopher Cook, Associate Professor in Painting, has been awarded the £10,000 first prize at the biennial New Light exhibition, which has recently opened at the Bowes Museum in County Durham. New Light is a charity formed to promote and support artists with connections to the North of England, either through birth, work or residence. The exhibition… Continue reading Associate Professor wins first prize at lighting exhibition