Image credit: Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Father-land, 2018. Film Still. When stepping out of our comfort zones, creative and critical ‘outside the box’ thinking can thrive with a freedom seldom found in the everyday university context. Artist residencies create ‘field study’ opportunities for exploring and offering insights into characteristics of places. This event… Continue reading 22nd January: Investigating ‘Layers of Visibility’ – the artist residency as a space of practice-led research
21st-25th January: Research Festival 2019 – Creating an impact from local to global
The Research Festival 2019 is a week-long programme packed full of innovation, progression, and exploration of our world and everything in it. Celebrate our rich research landscape across the University, gaining an insight into the cutting edge research that impacts our world – from the social to the economic, cultural to environmental, medical and beyond… Continue reading 21st-25th January: Research Festival 2019 – Creating an impact from local to global
Brain-Computer Music Interfaces for applications that will benefit patients as well as musicians
Satvik Venkatesh, ResM Computer Music degree student, writes: Brain-Computer Music Interfaces is an Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) project, which explores the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for musical applications. Conventionally, in order to operate musical systems and instruments, we require muscular power in some form or the other. BCIs aim to… Continue reading Brain-Computer Music Interfaces for applications that will benefit patients as well as musicians
Dervish Sound Dress – wearable technology for a unique musical journey
Hedy Hurban (Postgraduate Research Student, Computer Music) writes: The realm of my thesis combines the areas of computer music, fashion design, digital art, smart clothing, biometrics, cultural traditions and performance. Dervish Sound Dress is a wearable piece of technology; a garment that is inspired by the sacred ‘turning’ experience of the Whirling Dervishes… Continue reading Dervish Sound Dress – wearable technology for a unique musical journey
22nd to 25th November: Illuminate Light Festival
Illuminate, a spectacular light festival that connects the Mayflower 400 destinations across the UK and internationally, returns to the historic Royal William Yard for four days in November 2018. The festival offers an immersive experience, with projections and light installations set out across the Yard, live performances and opportunities for audiences to interact with the… Continue reading 22nd to 25th November: Illuminate Light Festival
15th to 24th November: Being Human Festival 2018
We are delighted to be taking part in the Being Human Festival 2018. This is a national festival that promotes public engagement with humanities research. The festival features hundreds of activities across the UK, highlighting the ways in which humanities can inspire and enrich our everyday lives, exploring big questions, debates and innovative ideas focused around… Continue reading 15th to 24th November: Being Human Festival 2018
14th November 2018: 4th Mayflower Lecture
4th Mayflower lecture In search of the ancestors: Native American presences in British museums Wednesday 14 November | 18.00-20.30 | Sherwell Centre Jack Davy is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia on the AHRC funded project “Beyond the Spectacle: Native American presences in Britain”. He has a PhD in anthropology… Continue reading 14th November 2018: 4th Mayflower Lecture
The Wallflower Project – A Plymouth Splash
The Wallflower Project is continuing to create murals across the city. Over the summer a pedestrian subway running under the St Budeaux bypass at Ferndale Road was painted in collaboration with Years 5 and 6 students from Weston Mill Community Primary Academy. Entitled A Plymouth Splash, the mural was facilitated by a Plymouth… Continue reading The Wallflower Project – A Plymouth Splash
Professor Gemma Blackshaw interview on forthcoming BBC film ‘Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires’
(Image Copyright: BBC. Image Credit: Bethany Hobbs) Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History, will be talking about her research in the BBC Studios Production film Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires, which broadcasts on 10th November, 9pm, on BBC Two. Struck down by the Spanish Flu in 1918, aged just 28, in his short life Egon… Continue reading Professor Gemma Blackshaw interview on forthcoming BBC film ‘Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires’
Project gives voice to city’s refugees and addresses impact of increase in ethnic diversity
Dr Sana Murrani was recently interviewed by BBC Radio Devon to talk about ‘Creative Recovery: Mapping Refugees’ Memories of Home’, a project funded by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) to work with 15 refugees and asylum seekers from Plymouth to represent their memories of home through drawings, maps and architectural models. ‘Creative Recovery: Mapping Refugees’ Memories of Home’ was… Continue reading Project gives voice to city’s refugees and addresses impact of increase in ethnic diversity