Namaste! On Art, Technology and Rickshaw rules

Three CogNovo and Transtechnology Research fellows, Agatha Haines, Jacqui Knight and Eugenia Stamboliev report on their trip as University ambassadors to India with Dr Hannah Drayson.  At the end of our individual PhD projects on the interdisciplinary program CogNovo, we – Agi Haines, Jacqui Knight, and Eugenia Stamboliev, were very grateful to receive funding support towards… Continue reading Namaste! On Art, Technology and Rickshaw rules

CfP on Cognitive Innovation & Displacement for Off the Lip 2017

Call for Papers: Off the Lip 2017 16-18 August 2017 at the University of Plymouth Transdisciplinary Approaches to Cognitive Innovation A confluence of talks, exhibits, posters, films, workshops and interactive demonstrations The challenges facing society today demand innovative approaches, creative solutions and wider resonances that can only be obtained by drawing on multiple perspectives. In… Continue reading CfP on Cognitive Innovation & Displacement for Off the Lip 2017

Arts & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 24th January 2017 at 3.30pm in Scott 105 – Dr Alexis Kirke: “Music with Unconventional Computing II – Quantum Computing”, an ICCMR seminar 24th January at 12.30pm in Roland Levinsky Building… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

26 January 2017: Group Creativity & Education Symposium

Symposium: Group Creativity and Education Thursday 26th January 2017, 9:30am – 4pm Presented by Cognovo and Art and Sound Link Building, Third Floor Cognovo Seminar Space, Plymouth University This symposium brings together psychologists, creative artists and educationalists to share common practice and explore new ideas in education and group creativity. In an educational landscape in the UK which… Continue reading 26 January 2017: Group Creativity & Education Symposium

20-22 October 2016: Free interactive playful technology workshops

You are invited to participate in a wide range of workshops during Off The Lip, which takes place from 20-22 October 2016 at Plymouth University. This event arises from CogNovo, which is a multidisciplinary and international research project exploring creativity, cognition, and innovation. Among the Off the Lip workshops are: A Space to Wonder: Interactive Improvisation Workshop with Movement… Continue reading 20-22 October 2016: Free interactive playful technology workshops

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

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

‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds

CogNovo Research Fellow, Guy Edmonds, has published a podcast with Roger Malina on the very early days of cinema. It has the title “The Divorce of Eye and Ear is an Accident of the History of Technology” and is available on the international, interdisciplinary, multi-lingual online platform, Creative Disturbances. Creative Disturbances is a new Leonardo… Continue reading ‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds