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
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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: “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
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
Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”
BY KATHARINE S. WILLIS The approach and focus of my book, Netspaces, published last year, is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is, how we experience and inhabit urban space. It reflects on the nature of the spatial effects of the networked and mediated world – from mobile phones… Continue reading Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”
Talking About Practice (as Research)
BY LEE MILLER It’s ten years since Practice as Research in Performance (PaRIP for short) ended its five year project. Launched in 2001 with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, PaRIP’s remit was ‘to investigate creative-academic issues raised by practice as research, where performance is defined, in keeping with AHRB and RAE documentation,… Continue reading Talking About Practice (as Research)
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?”
Plymouth University Researchers perform at INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION
After its successful premiere at this year’s Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Federico Visi (electric guitar, motion sensors, live electronics) and Katherine Williams (saxophone, motion sensors, live electronics) are performing Visi’s composition,11 degrees of dependence, this week at The International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition (iFIMPaC) organised by Leeds College of Music. … Continue reading Plymouth University Researchers perform at INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION
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