Fine Art and Architecture Research Seminar

Fine Art and Architecture Research Seminar

Thursday 7 December
Seminar Room next to the Cragg Lecture Theatre, Canterbury
12.30 -2pm

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard’s practice explores concepts of identity through genres of documentary, landscape and portraiture. She focuses on the narratives of those relegated to the ‘margins’ and excluded from constructions of ‘the centre’. Pollard’s work ultilises popular culture – postcards, photo albums and film. She uses quasi-scientific forms of enquiry including mapping, geology and anthropology and questions the part that photography has played in the truths these systems of representation have created.

Pollard’s recent work uses a range of lens-based media in exploring these issues through working with particular geographical landscapes and social sites. The work has been shown as mixed sculptural and photographic installations.

All staff and postgraduate students welcome.

Further information: Dr Judith Rugg, Reader in Fine Art Theory, Canterbury.
01227 817343

email: jrugg@ucreative.ac.uk

AHRC Postgraduate Conference - Call for papers

Call for Papers

IN THEORY?
Encounters with Theory in Practice-based Ph.D. Research in Art and Design

AHRC Postgraduate Conference, De Montfort University & Loughborough University,
26th June 2007, DMU, City Campus

The increasing amount of students undertaking practice-based PhDs, affords the opportunity to uncover and examine some of the challenges faced when undertaking this type of research. We are seeking papers from current and completed postgraduate students, as well as researchers and practitioners, who incorporate and negotiate research through practice and theory in Art and Design disciplines. The aim of the conference is to address and discuss some of the generic, rather than discipline-specific, challenges of undertaking practice-based research.

Papers of 20 minutes duration are invited from across art and design disciplines. The one-day symposium will incorporate short papers followed by a panel discussion chaired by the keynote speakers.

Aims
To address and discuss some of the generic, rather than discipline-specific, challenges of undertaking practice-based research.
To examine the relationship between theory and practice in art and design research, and evaluate the usefulness of specific theories as well as theory in a general sense.
To identify and share knowledge of relevant research methodologies.
To highlight the challenges faced when undertaking PhDs by practice.
To increase confidence in dealing with familiar and unfamiliar theories and concepts.
To interrogate such terms as ‘academic practitioner’ and ‘practitioner researcher’.

Topics of Interest
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Practice-based research analysis and evaluation of methods used.
The development of art and design specific methodologies/models and the value/adaptation of methodologies from other disciplines.
The challenges faced whilst undertaking practice-based research informed by theories.
Discussions of relevant strategies and solutions.

Instructions for Authors
All submissions should be in English (300 words) and should include the following details: Title, Name of Author(s), and e-mail address. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their quality, originality and significance. Please email abstracts, by 19th January 2007, to Emma Rooney e.rooney@lboro.ac.uk


Notable dates
Submission of abstract: 19th January, 2007
Notification of decision: 2nd March, 2007
Submission of papers: 1st June, 2007
Conference date: 26th June, 2007

Research Without Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Humanities.

Research Without Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Humanities.

Roehampton University One day Conference
27 Jan 2007

The conference will provide the opportunity for postgraduate students from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Papers relating to cross-disciplinary issues and/or research are welcomed from PhD/MPhil students. Performing artists (live dance, theatre, and music) interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever possible.

See link above for further information

Staff Research Seminar at Farnham Nov 29

Farnham Staff Research Seminars 2006

November 29th, 13:00-15:00
Room W612

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions. All staff, MA and graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Ian Johnson, Course Leader in Arts & Media, Arts & Media

Documentary about Bruce Lacey (Working Title)

Ian Johnson will talk about his documentary on the artist Bruce Lacey and show some extracts from the film, which is still being completed. Apart from being known over the years as an eccentric, Bruce Lacey is famous for his 1960's assemblage and robot pieces, some of which are owned by the Tate, and has also been active as an alternative cabaret performer, film maker and painter.
Being something of a maverick, the film will attempt to convey some understanding of Bruce's approach and attitude, and how so much of what he was doing in the 60's and 70's was ahead of his time, eg: environmental pieces and performance which pre-shadow installation and performance art, and alternative cabaret.


Linda Brassington, Senior Lecturer, Printed Textiles

Collections as ‘biography’

Linda’s recent research was prompted by the JISC funded project to digitise the Textiles Collection. Items previously collected by the pioneering block-printers, Barron and Larcher, have been considered in relation to their textile work of the 1920s and 30s. This, together with an investigation into the education papers of Robin Tanner, founder trustee of the Crafts Study Centre, has focused on personal archives and collections as narratives in the crafts; exploring the 'stories' that emerge through objects - possessions, letters, photographs - as 'clues' to identity, and investigating their potential to reflect ideas, values and practices in the crafts.


Kathleen Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Digital Screen Arts, Farnham

Research Makes Practice

My talk will offer a view inside my work in progress applying genetics and tissue culture as an art form and introduce my process as a combination of intuitive review, associative and non-explicit, trying things out, working with materials and collaboration with a range of different discipline specialists.
During my 2005 sabbatical I travelled to Australia as visiting artist/researcher with the Tissue Culture and Art Project at the Symbiotica laboratory at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth. Symbiotica is an artist run laboratory that facilitates international artists within a cell biology department and teaches them the science and practise of lab work.

Staff Research Seminar at Farnham Nov 22

Farnham Staff Research Seminars 2006

November 22nd, 13:00-15:00
Room W05

This week will have an especial focus on definitions of research and how research changes in unexpected ways. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions. All staff, MA and graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Rosie Gunn, Senior Lecturer in Digital Screen Arts, Farnham
'a life in the day of' - knowledge transfer and/or research

Rosie Gunn will focus on her involvement in the Business Fellowship scheme, how she has benefited from creative opportunities developed, but at the possible expense of achieving her personal targets for research outputs in 05/06. She would like to discuss how the RAE can or should take account of bodies of research work in progress with no final output as yet and also whether outputs that are created as knowledge transfer can be seen as RAE assessable. All emerging researchers are encouraged to attend.


Dr Suzanne Buchan, Reader in Animation Studies, Director, Animation Research Centre
The Challenges of Sabbaticals: Drafting Animation Spectatorship

Recipient of both UCCA and AHRC research leave sabbaticals in 2005-06, Suzanne Buchan will discuss the genesis of her book manuscript on how we as spectators perceive and understand animation film and its relationships to other forms of artistic and aesthetic experience. She will also reveal the pitfalls and breakthroughs of solitude, what can arise when original aims and objectives change over extended research periods, what implications this can have on outcomes expected from funding bodies, and how an articulated journey and methodology can evolve into a puzzling labyrinth of new and unexpected ideas and disseminations.