Registration now open: On the Moors Postgraduate Research Conference

On The Moors: Performance.Experience.Presence Postgraduate Research Conference 10-11 June 2017 on Dartmoor Keynotes by Roberta Mock, Phil Smith and Claudia Zeiske Registration now open! The University of Plymouth annual transdisciplinary practice-research postgraduate conference this year takes place in Dartmoor National Park over the weekend of 10-11 June 2017, and is now open for booking.  Following the… Continue reading Registration now open: On the Moors Postgraduate Research Conference

3 May 2017: Artistic research seminar on archives and digitality

Steven Paige, "Antinous/Acrobats", 2015

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group Plymouth University, all welcome: Steven Paige: “Anxious Archives? How we might try and not forget, and it does not always have to be digital” Wednesday, 3rd May 2017, 4.30 – 5.30pm In Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) 306, Plymouth University Does the… Continue reading 3 May 2017: Artistic research seminar on archives and digitality

26 April 2017: Performance research seminar on collaboration

"miles and miles" (Karen Christopher & Sophie Grodin, 2015)

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group Plymouth University. All welcome.  Two presentations on Collaborative Performance Research Wednesday, 26th April 2017 at 4.30 – 6.00pm in ROLLE 313, Plymouth University  Green and Owens “5 Current Conditions of a Millennial Practice”  Abstract: ‘Friends share some level of intimacy, but carry the plurality… Continue reading 26 April 2017: Performance research seminar on collaboration

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

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

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

Plymouth University Computer Music PhD candidate wins French award

Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron, a PhD candidate at the University of Plymouth, has been chosen to receive one of seven Trophées des Français de l’etranger 2017, which celebrate the achievements of French expatriates and francophones around the world. Organised by lepetitjournal.com, in partnership with national government, business and media, the awards on Tuesday 7 March were attended… Continue reading Plymouth University Computer Music PhD candidate wins French award

15 March 2017: Seminar on Shakespeare’s King Henry V

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome. Wednesday 15th March, 4.30 – 5.45pm in Roland Levinsky Building room 303 at the University of Plymouth The Christian King and his English Mercuries: The Juxtaposition of Catholicism and Roman Mythology in Shakespeare’s King Henry V by Dr… Continue reading 15 March 2017: Seminar on Shakespeare’s King Henry V