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
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Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016
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
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: “Rules to (perhaps) live by: Samuel Richardson and 18th century educational writing”
BY BONNIE LATIMER One of the funniest texts of the mid-eighteenth century is Jane Collier’s acerbic An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753). Collier sardonically imagines that most people’s true goal in life is ‘to plague all their acquaintance’. She helpfully lays down rules for doing so, encompassing masterpieces of passive aggression—for example,… Continue reading Feature: “Rules to (perhaps) live by: Samuel Richardson and 18th century educational writing”
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
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
Feature: “Composing Music with Dark Matter”
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”
Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016
BY TERI BAILIE AND JAMES HARPER We arrived at Plymouth University on 5th February 2016 for a postgraduate Practice Research Symposium, organised by Natalie Raven and Steven Paige who are PhD students in the Performance.Experience.Presence research group. We were excited to attend our first ever symposium and we were full of questions. How is a… Continue reading Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016
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
Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”
BY ROBERTA MOCK In the UK, we are moving from a position in which the doctoral thesis, programme, research and examination are largely homogenous and singularly focused to one in which they are increasingly divergent, in order to meet a variety of external drivers. This shift has significant implications for the ways that arts & humanities PhDs are… Continue reading Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”