Commons - Arts and Humanities Research Council

The
AHRC
Commons
Common Ground
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Ron Cooke Hub: zone plan
The AHRC Commons first national event
Common Ground, University of York, 21June 2016
Common Ground is a celebration of the AHRC Commons community.
This gathering is an opportunity to share knowledge and expertise, to establish new
networks and projects, to be inspired, and to further develop the case for the
importance of arts and humanities research.
Whether you are one of the 250+ people involved in activities at Common Ground
or you are simply visiting, please wander from zone to zone and enjoy the vibrancy
and diversity of the AHRC Commons community. You might become immersed in
Innovate, find yourself delighted in Demonstrate or engaged in Debate, but don’t
spare the shoe leather – visit all the zones.
The AHRC Commons community includes researchers based in universities and
Independent Research Organisations, as well as people drawn from a range of sectors who
work together on arts and humanities projects. This community produces a resource from
which millions of people benefit in multiple ways – knowledge. The AHRC Commons aims
to develop new forums that allow this large and diverse community to gather, learn from one
another, and add ever more value to the world in which we live.
Registration: from 09:30
Welcome: 10:00 in the atrium, Ron Cooke Hub
Zone programmes: 10:20-17:30
Finale: 17:30-18:00 in the atrium, RonCooke Hub
Programme Contents:
Ron Cooke Hub
p.1 Stimulate: Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor
p.3 Collaborate: Seminar Room 204, Second Floor
p.4 Collaborate: Island of Interaction, Second Floor; Large Lake Pod
p.5 Innovate: Balcony 1: Zone A, First Floor
p.6 Innovate: Balcony 1: Zone B, First Floor; Middle Lake Pod; Digital Creativity Labs
p.7 Innovate: 3Sixty, Ground Floor
p.8 Debate: Lakehouse, Second Floor
p.9 Contemplate: Balcony 2, Second Floor
p.10 Co-Create: Exhibition Room, Ground Floor
p.11 Demonstrate: Atrium, Ground Floor; and Small Lake Pod
Theatre, Film and Television: TFTV
p.13 Communicate: Digital Cinema, Second Floor
p.14 Celebrate: Black Box, Ground Floor; Scenic Stage Theatre, Mezzanine
Stimulate is a programme of nineteen Pecha Kucha style presentations over four
Image: UCL
sessions, interspersed with three longer format talks that collectively cover a myriad of subjects.
A concluding panel discussion will provoke reflection upon, and provide challenge to, the very concept
of the commons.
Zone curated by: Simon Cane and Keri Facer (UCL / University of Bristol)
Stimulate - Ron Cooke Hub: Lecture Theatre
10:20 -11:00 The Practice of Cultural Ecology: Reporting from the REACT Creative Economy Hub
John Dovey (University of the West of England)
11:05-11:40 Rapid Fire Session 1
Empowering Design Practices:
Initial Findings of the Commons of Design and Community Empowerment
Vera Hale (Open University / University of Sheffield)
Diverse City and Universal Design:
The Everyday Experience of Being Disabled in/by the City
Rachael Luck (Open University)
It’s not Binary it’s Holistic: Inventive Pedagogical Practice from Prison to University –
Providing the Tools for Learned Creativity
Ron O’Donnell (Edinburgh Napier University)
LiverpoolArtsLab: Innovation and Experimentation
Donal Sarsfield and Panayiota Vassilopoulou (University of Liverpool)
The Vital North Partnership
(+ 19 Other Ways Seven Stories are Collaborating with Newcastle University)
Rachel Smith (National Centre for Children’s Books / Newcastle University)
Open Discussion: Responses
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11:50-12:30 Rapid Fire Session 2
Intellectual Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Megan Rae Blakely (CREATe, University of Glasgow)
From Arktoi to the Arctic: The Cultural History of Bears
Hannah O’Regan (University of Nottingham)
Mind in World: Recent and Historical Ways in which the Mind Extends Across Brain,
Body and World Miranda Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Behind the Scenes at the Railway Museum Oliver Betts (National Railway Museum)
Peace & Conflict as Legacies of the Great War Saber Dima (Birmingham City University)
Open Discussion: Responses
13:20 -14:00 Fan Riot: A Creative Project Exploring Participatory Fan Cultures and the Fan as Model
for Collective Invention, Mobilisation and Revolt
Owen G. Parry (Fan Riot)
14:00 -14:40 We’re All In This Together: Reflections on the Artist-Band
Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths, University of London)
14:40 -15:20 Rapid Fire Session 3
LiverpoolArtsLab: Communication and Publication
Donal Sarsfield and Panayiota Vassilopoulou (University of Liverpool)
Recipes for Relationships: Collaborating with Artists Leah Astbury (University of Cambridge)
Making Creative Conversations: A Programme of Events and Research on the Creative
Ecology of London Gauti Sigthorsson and Miriam Sorrentino (University of Greenwich)
Artists Working with Vulnerable Clients: What are the Risks?
Hannah West and Nicola Forshaw (The Arts Barge Project / York St John University)
LiverpoolArtsLab: Networks and Relationships
Donal Sarsfield and Panayiota Vassilopoulou (University of Liverpool)
Open Discussion: Responses
15:25 -16:10 Rapid Fire Session 4
Historic Architectural Plans for New Audiences:
Is It Possible to Sustain Academic Discipline through the Medium of Animation?
Margaret Stewart and John Lowrey (ESALA, University of Edinburgh)
A 100 Years of the Sykes-Picot Agreement & Balfour Declaration: The Arab-Israeli
Conflict Saber Dima (Birmingham City University)
In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: A WW1 Project that Challenges Conventional War
Narratives and Ideas about Europe Claudia Sternberg (Legacies of War, University of Leeds)
Conflict in the Middle East as a Legacy of WW1: Syria & the ‘Western War on Terror’
Saber Dima (Birmingham City University)
Open Discussion: Responses
16:15 -17:00 Panel ‘Power, Elites and the Commons’
Keri Facer, Josie McLellan, Hilary Carty, Gavin Butt
(University of Bristol / Co-Creatives Consulting Ltd / Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Collaborate reflects the rich, diverse, hugely imaginative mechanisms by which the
Image: Mockingbird Theatre
arts and humanities interact with each other, inform practice, generate debate and engage with publics
in creative, often unforeseen, ways. Through language, media, literature, art, craft, performance, and
food, the zone’s twenty activities all highlight collaborative possibilities.
Zone curated by: Owen Evans and Elaine Farrell (Edge Hill University / Queen’s University Belfast)
Collaborate - Ron Cooke Hub: Seminar Room 204, Floor 2
10:20 -11:20 Developing and Evaluating Research-based TV and Radio
An in-a-nutshell guide to collaborating with producers and how to evaluate the impact of broadcasts.
Lucy Vernall (The Academic Ideas Lab)
11:30-12:00 When Mockingbird Theatre met French Studies...
Tips on how academics can work with an SME, discussing a Modern Languages case study.
Louise Hardwick and Alper Dervish (University of Birmingham / Mockingbird Theare and Bar)
12:10 -12:50 How can we Research the ‘Real World’? Theoretical and Practical Challenges
This interactive workshop uses two research projects on translation to explore challenges
and suggest solutions. Joanna Drugan and Silke Luhrmann (University of East Anglia)
13:30 -14:30 The British Library: Supporting and Stimulating Research A workshop to broker new
collaborative relationships with the research community, with a focus on AHRC strategic themes.
Allan Sudlow, James Perkins, Katie McElvanney, Dvora Liberman (British Library)
14:40 -16:10 Digital Approaches to Researching and Engaging Theatre and Dance Audiences:
A Brokerage Workshop Presenting two digital audience engagement platforms to explore
potential opportunities in this area. Matthew Reason, Joslin McKinney, and Ben Walmsley
(York St John University / University of Leeds)
16:20 -17:20 Telling the Bees: The Augmented Beesuit
Challenging how we value work, pollination, reciprocity, and communication through an interactive
workshop. Debbie Maxwell, Toby Pillatt, Liz Edwards, Claire Dean, and Andy Darby
(University of York / University of Sheffield / Lancaster University)
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Collaborate - Ron Cooke Hub: Island of Interaction, Floor 2
10:20 -10:50 Mapping the Commons through Collaboration, Design Thinking, Validation Processes,
Unicorns & Free Labour
Nathan Paterson and Silvia Melgar-Higuero (Rolls-Royce / Loughborough University London)
11:00-11:30
Talk.
And, all day
drop-in
Storyknowing: Using Story to Create Collaborative Understandings of Collaboration
Hear a Myth; spend some time together with it; what do you (literally) make of it?
Juliet Forster, Matthew Reason, Cath Heinemeyer, and Imogen Godwin
(York Theatre Royal / York St John University / The Upside Down Chronicles)
11:40-12:25 British Comics for Boys and Girls, Memory and Constructions of Childhood
Explore British comics and analyse what they contain and reflect on how they could be used to
explore memory and oral history. Mel Gibson (Northumbria University)
13:30 -14:15 Join Together: Building Arts, Health and Wellbeing Networks
We discuss our experiences of building networks between academics and practitioners in community
settings. Owen Evans, Karen Shepherdson, and Nick Ewbank
(Edge Hill University / Canterbury Christ Church University / Nick Ewbank Associates)
14:25 -14:55 Youth as Creativity: Performance Poetry as a Means of Engagement
How we encourage young people’s self-confidence and self-expression to engage in research that
is significant to them. Hannah Smithson, Richard McHugh, and Chris Jam
(Manchester Metropolitan University / Wordsmith)
15:05 -16:05 Digital Modern Languages [Net]workshop
How can we collaborate across disciplines and sectors to share research and increase our impact in
Modern Languages? Caroline Ardrey, James O’Sullivan, and Tom Cowley
(University of Sheffield / Red Circle Software Ltd)
16:20 -17:20 Understanding the Medical Humanities: Re-reading Death and End of Life Care through
Literature
Exploring the value of the Arts and Humanities in the study of Medicine and Healthcare.
Morven Cook (University of Hull)
Collaborate - Ron Cooke Hub: Large Lake Pod
10:20 -12:20 Crafting the Future: Embodied and Material Processes
Making and designing, to explore how we can collaboratively reframe problems by thinking about the
social lives of materials and objects.
Daphne Stylianou and Seetal Solanki (Culture Matters Lab / Ma-tt-er)
12:40 -14:10 Artist Soup Kitchen
A creative meal format, exploring the role of food in creative discussion.
Anna Francis and Emilie Atkinson (AirSpace Gallery / Staffordshire University)
*Ticketed: vegetable soup lunch - first-come first-served basis for tickets from registration desk.
14:30 -15:50 Poetry of Place: Place Poetics
An interactive writing workshop exploring how we can understand and respond to place through
poetry.
Jennie Bailey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
16:00 -17:20 The Bareback: The Precariat Life Drawing Workshop
An art platform for performance and painting, incorporating ballet movements and poses from paintings.
Alun Davies, Miles Coote, and Gary O’Dwyer
(London University of the Arts / The Bareback Museum / The Dalston Ballet Company)
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Innovate showcases projects that not only hack, link and visualise data but also use
Image: Trammel Hudson - Inclusive Hacking
data to make and build objects. Increasingly the raw material of the arts and humanities is data:
everything from digitised medieval legal records to twitter feeds. Get down and dirty with the data!
Zone curated by: Andrew Prescott and Andrew Lewis (Glasgow University / University of York)
Innovate - Ron Cooke Hub: Balcony 1, Middle Lake Pod, and Digital Creativity Labs
10:20 -10:50 I Share Therefore I Am
Balcony 1:A A presentation of an ongoing research activity using Twitter and Processing.
Tanis Grandison and Richard Thompson (Studio Affective)
11:00-11:50 The Great Steampunk GameJam: A Reimagining of Victoriana from the Archive
Balcony 1:A A session to show and tell how archival material inspired students and designers to imagine and
create games. Simon Demissie (The National Archives)
12:00 -12:50 Inclusive Hacking
Balcony 1:A This hackathon asks people to brainstorm and design social engineering hacks to reach into
marginalized communities in STEM. Perry Phoenix (Goldsmiths, University of London)
13:20 -13:50 I Share Therefore I Am
Balcony 1:A A repeat presentation of an ongoing research activity using Twitter and Processing.
Tanis Grandison and Richard Thompson (Studio Affective)
14:00 -14:50 Finding Data in Web Archives A workshop on web archives as a data source.
Balcony 1:A Martin Steer and Jonathan Blaney (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
15:00 -16:00 Twitter Bots and AnneDroid Brontës
Balcony 1:A Join us to discuss cultural heritage bots and have a go at building one.
No programming experience necessary. Jo Pugh (University of York / The National Archives)
16:10 -17:00 Creating Collections from the Web
Balcony 1:A A workshop on creating your own web archives and working with link files.
Martin Steer and Jonathan Blaney (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
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10:20 -13:15 The Trumpet Shall Sound: Operationalizing Big Data through Writing and Making
Balcony 1:B A workshop combining data analytics and critical analysis. Caroline Bassett, David Berry, Alice Eldridge,
Beatrice Fazi, Chris Kiefer, Amelia Wakeford, Sharon Webb, Julie Weeds (University of Sussex)
14:00 -14:50 From Archivists to Architects: Great Wharton, the Imagined First World War Town
Balcony 1:B Learn how TNA built an imaginary WW1 town to explore home front stories. Maria Cieslak, Katie
Fox, Christopher Day, Eleanor Brown, Sarra Hamdi, and Simon Wilkes (The National Archives)
15:00 -15:50 Traces Through Time: Linking People Across Historical Big Data
Balcony 1:B Workshop exploring the new linked data feature on TNA’s Discovery service, and learn how to apply
emerging data-science techniques. Mark Bell and Matt Hillyard (The National Archives)
16:10 -17:10 Building Cuddly Audio-Tour Guides. Create your own ‘Cuddly Audio Tour Guide’ for your own
Balcony 1:B public space (using NFC technology).John Sear (Museum Games Ltd)
All Day
Balcony 1:
drop-in
Mobile MAKLab: Machine Demonstrations
Come and have a go with some of the equipment.
Delphine Dallison (MAKLab)
All Day
Middle Lake
Pod
A Midsummer Hack A data sprint to assemble as much information as possible about past
Midsummer rituals and celebrations. Andrew Prescott, Sarah Rees-Jones, Elizabeth Wilson, Emily
Parent, and Michael Goodman (University of Glasgow / University of York / Cardiff University)
12:00 -14:00 Digital Creativity Labs Project Demos
DCL
Showcasing world-class impact-driven research, in the areas of digital games, interactive media and
the rich space where they converge. Emma Brassington and Jane Andrews (University of York)
Innovate: 3Sixty is an immersive environment that encourages innovative and
Image: Shreepali Patel - The Crossing
impactful presentations. Our programme includes five demonstrations on themes that range from
human trafficking to anticancer drugs design. All presenters share the passion to communicate their
work through multimedia art installations that invite audiences to rethink the role of arts and humanities.
Zone curated by: Mariana Lopez (Anglia Ruskin University)
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Innovate - Ron Cooke Hub: 3Sixty
10:30 -11:30 The Crossing
Multi-screen installation investigating the exploitation of hope and the black market economy of
human trafficking.
Shreepali Patel (Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University)
12:00 -13:00 “Let’s Talk About It”: The Sound of Jane’s Story
Experience this immersive animation portraying a young girl’s experience with chronic disease.
Sandra Pauletto, Bartlomiej Walus, Amanda Jayne Mason-Jones, and Antonina Mikocka-Walus
(University of York)
13:30 -14:30 Liverpool ArtLab: Cultural Provocations, Story-telling and Knowledge Exchange
360 degree presentation showing the value of engaging with leading cultural stakeholders through
interdisciplinary humanities-driven research.
Beatriz Garcia and Chiara Zuanni (Institute of Cultural Capital, University of Liverpool)
15:00 -16:00 OpenAIR: The Open Acoustic Impulse Response Library
Acoustic environments archived in the OpenAIR Library - an AHRC-funded online resource.
Damian Murphy, Kenneth Brown, and Andrew Chadwick
(AudioLab, Department of Electronics, University of York)
16:30 -17:30 Sonicules: Designing Drugs with Sound
Immersive audio-visuals demonstrating the role of art to engage the public with challenges in
designing new anticancer drugs.
Jude Brereton, Paul Walton, Alisdair Munday, and Andrew Chadwick
(Department of Electronics, and Department of Chemistry, University of York)
Debate asks three questions: (1) Who owns the commons? (2) How do we common
knowledge? (3) How do we develop knowledges and practices to promote and develop the arts and
humanities. Presentations will stimulate, articulate and provoke. We conclude with an opportunity for
your say on a Commons manifesto. How do we move forward? Zone curated by: Dave O’Brien, Antonia
Layard, Karen Salt (Goldsmiths, University of London / University of Bristol / University of Aberdeen)
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Debate - Ron Cooke Hub: Lakehouse, Floor 2
10:20 -12:20 Session 1: Owning the Commons
10:20-10:50
Every One’s Right: Retrospectives and Prospects on Urban Common Land
Five speakers from different disciplines perform short ‘manifestos’ on common land.
Andrew Ballantyne, Emma Cheatle, John Clarke, Rachel Hammersley, Al Oswald, Alessandro
Zambelli, Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University / University of Hull / University of Brighton)
10:50-11:00
Reflection: Owning the Commons
11:00-11:30
GLAMourising Intangible Cultural Heritage: When Copyright, Technology and Cultural
Institutions Meet How galleries, libraries, archives and museums act as keepers of not just
material objects but also common intangible heritage. Megan Rae Blakely (University of Glasgow)
11:30-11:40
Reflection: Owning the Commons
11:40-12:10
Research At Your Own Risk: Is Copyright Failing the Arts and Humanities?
How copyright enables and inhibits arts and humanities research, online and across borders.
Ronan Deazley and Andrea Wallace (Queen’s University Belfast / University of Glasgow)
12:10-12:15
Whole Zone Debate: Who owns the Commons?
12:20 -13:40 Session 2: Commoning Knowledges
12:20-12:50
Everyday Poetry vs. the New Canons: Reading Thomas Sayers Ellis in 2016
Debate about poetry as a common practice and the rise of new canons in English.
Andrew Warnes and Simon Sandison (University of Leeds)
12:50-13:00
Reflection: Commoning Knowledges
13:00-13:40
Making a Collaborative Commons
Exploring how to support a collaborative network that co-produces and shares new knowledges,
from core values to possible structures. Simon Moreton and Jo Lansdowne
(University of the West of England / REACT, Watershed, Bristol)
14:10-14:40
The Identity of the Kurdish Media and Political Influences in the Middle East
The Kurdish Question regarding Identity and an independent state in the Middle East; an
ongoing geopolitical planning and power wrestling game. Bland Mahdi (University of Greenwich)
14:40-14:45
Whole Zone Debate: How do we common knowledge?
14:50 -16:40 Session 3: Knowledge & Practice
14:50-15:20
Inside The Academy: Experiments in Documentary Film Practice
How may acknowledgement of the tension between theoretical methodologies and notions of
creativity be embedded in film practice? Jill Daniels (University of East London)
15:20-15:30
Reflection: Knowledge & Practice and the AHRC Commons
15:30-16:00
Understanding Impact in the Humanities from an Early Career Researcher Perspective
A panel discussion exploring approaches to impact and knowledge-sharing in the humanities.
Simon Tanner, Alice Borchi, Liz Stainforth, and Faith Lawrence
(King’s College, London / University of Warwick / University of Leeds)
16:00-16:10
Reflection: Knowledge & Practice and the AHRC Commons
16:00-16:40
Impact or Infrastructures: Evaluating Cross-Sector Research
How might research be understood as assemblages of people, artefacts, and know-how rather than
‘impact’? Simon Bowen and Loura Conerney (Open Lab, Newcastle University / Daca Studio)
16:45 -17:20 Have Your Say: writing an AHRC Commons manifesto
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Contemplate offers a space to reflect and engage in collaborative, creative and
Image: © Sorrell Foundation & photographer Jo Mieszkowski - Pluralising
multi-professional practice in arts and humanities research. You can browse material on diverse and
highly innovative projects, talk to the teams behind the work, or get involved in lightning talks
and round table discussion. And you can leave us your ideas and comments about the day.
Zone curated by: Loredana Polezzi and Jo Angouri (Cardiff University / University of Warwick)
Contemplate - Ron Cooke Hub: Balcony 2
11:30-12:30
Talk.
And, all day
drop-in
Language and Cultural Literacy
A chance to reflect on the role of languages in education, social exchange and professional interaction.
Loredana Polezzi, Jo Angouri, and Derek Duncan
(Cardiff University / University of Warwick / University of St Andrews)
13:00 -13:30
Talk.
And, all day
drop-in
Improving and Expanding Scholarly Activities in HSS through Open Access Publishing
Find out how innovative OA and multi-media publications may improve the scope
and quality of your own research.
Rupert Gatti, Garry Hall, and Janneka Adema
(Trinity College, Cambridge / Coventry University)
14:00 -15:00
Talk.
And, all day
drop-in
People’s Knowledge
An opportunity to discuss ‘questions that won’t go away’ for those developing research
collaborations with previously excluded people.
Tom Wakeford, Asha Mohamed, Hinda Mohamed Smith, and Hugh Kelly
(Coventry University / Nations of Migration Awakening the Diaspora / Swingbridge Media)
16:00 -17:00
Talk.
And, all day
drop-in
Pluralising Cultural Education: Co-creating New Communities of Practice in Museums,
Art Galleries and Archives
Join practitioners from leading cultural organisations and researchers from University of Manchester
for a round-table discussion on how best to collaborate with BAME communities (or what not to do...)
Saskia Warren, Anna Goulding, Pearl Chesterman, and Lisa Gillen
(University of Manchester / Birmingham Royal Ballet / People’s History Museum)
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Co-create is a participatory experience! Explore the relationship between the
Image: Lindsay Perth - Telling the Bees
environment, work and communication in an interactive installation, respond to monumental legacies
in tape, challenge gender assumptions in a book hack, and watch a triptych of projected works
take shape over the day.
Zone curated by: Kate Giles and Abigail Harrison-Moore (University of York / University of Leeds)
Co-Create - Ron Cooke Hub: Exhibition Room 004
All day
Telling the Bees: The Beespoon
Challenging how we value work, pollination, reciprocity, and communication through an interactive
installation.
Debbie Maxwell, Toby Pillatt, Liz Edwards, Claire Dean, and Andy Darby
(University of York / University of Sheffield / Lancaster University)
All day
Warrior Women Book-Hack
A book hack with female ex-service personnel, to change the missing or misrepresented lives in
picture books for children.
Helen Limon and Sarah Lattaway (Newcastle University / Forward-Assist)
All day
Common[u]:ism
An interactive activity ‘drawing’ the silhouettes of Common Ground participants in tape outlines.
Nerma Cridge, Tania Lopez Winkler, and Liz Ellston
(Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University and Drawing Agency)
All day
Unbound: Terra Nullius
A parallel making event.
Tom Schofield, Gabriella Arrigoni, Alessandro Altavilla, and Sean Cotteril
(Culture Lab, Newcastle University / Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Demonstrate hosts a wealth of exhibitions showcasing innovative research
Image: Collins & Goto Studio - Plein Air
from across the UK. With various types of interactivity and engagement, and reflecting an extensive
range of disciplinary areas, this zone will provide an environment that can be experienced
and returned to throughout the event.
Zone curated by: Stacy Boldrick and Henry Chapman (University of Leicester / University of Birmingham)
Demonstrate - Ron Cooke Hub: Atrium and Small Lake Pod
All day
Atrium
The British Library: Supporting and Stimulating Research
A showcase of British Library expertise, collections and digital innovation to inspire research
collaboration across the arts and humanities.
Mia Ridge, Stella Wisdom, and Sarah Cole (British Library / TIME/IMAGE)
All day
Atrium
London’s Digital Ecologies of Collaboration
An installation encompassing three areas of critical enquiry. Geraint Wiggins, Jana Riedel,
and Alda Terracciano (Creativeworks London / Queen Mary University of London)
All day
Atrium
A Potency of Life: Analysing the Literary, Historical, Artistic and Diagnostic Properties
of Pamphlet Literature A display on pamphlets and how they appeal to their readers.
Gillian Whiteley, Catie Gill, Matthew Inglis, and Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University)
All day
Atrium
Artcasting: Digital and Mobile Engagement with Art
A mobile platform combining cultural heritage engagement and evaluation. Jen Ross, Jeremy Knox,
Chris Speed, and Christopher Ganley (University of Edinburgh / National Galleries of Scotland)
All day
Atrium
Musical Conversations: Movement, Sound and Communication in Ensembles
Demos of technologies measuring vocal parameters and synchronization. Sara D’Amario, Nicola
Pennill, and Ryan Kirkbride (University of York / University of Sheffield / University of Leeds)
All day
Atrium
YARN: Community Spaces, Community Stories
A showcase of the online storytelling resource YARN and participatory activities using the theme
‘The Sense of Space’. Simon Popple, Tom Jackson, Jenna Ng, Paul Duffy, and Alison Hess
(University of Leeds / University of York / Brandanii Archaeology and Heritage / Science Museum)
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All day
Atrium
Public Kiosk Three banners exploring the theme of Common Ground and a kiosk enabling the
exchange of opinions. Mel Jordan, Andrew Hewitt, Helena Hunter, and Roxana Morosanu
(Royal College of Art / School of the Arts, Northampton University / Tate London)
All day
Atrium
A Sick Logic An exchange of ideas around themes of the land, relearning and rewilding.
Glen Stoker and Anna Chrystal Stephens (AirSpace Gallery / Vulpes Vulpes)
All day
Atrium
Lichen Beacons An immersive installation using Raspberry Pi computers.
Tom Hall and Drew Milne (Anglia Ruskin University / University of Cambridge)
All day
Atrium
Presenting Digging into Archaeological Data
Transforming the way that archaeologists interact with online image collections.
Helen Petrie and Christopher Power (Department of Computer Science, University of York)
Fragmented Heritage FossilFinder.org and the World’s Hardest 3D Jigsaw.
Adrian Evans, Randolph Donahue, Natalie Atkinson, and Tom Sparrow (University of Bradford)
All day
Atrium
The Aggregate Accessory
Art installation exploring the common space between algae and humans through the realm of
genetics. Sonia Ali (University of Glasgow)
All day
Atrium
Storystorm Blue Plaques
Co-create a blue plaque to commemorate your future hopes or vision for the AHRC Commons.
Mel Woods, Loraine Clarke, and Debbie Maxwell (DJCAD, University of Dundee / University of York)
All day
Atrium
White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities Brokerage Hub
Research poster presentations and overview of the wide range of WRoCAH from employability
projects to student events. Julian Richards (White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities)
All day
Atrium
Priming New Research in Creativity
Presenting winning proposals for the University of York’s Creativity theme and inviting collaborations
in this cross-disciplinary work. Damian Murphy (Digital Creativity Labs, University of York)
All day
Small Lake
Pod
Plein Air: The Sound of a Tree
An experiment with human-non-human empathic relationships and technology mediated perception.
Timothy Collins and Reiko Goto (Collins & Goto Studio)
Image: Unbound: Terra Nullius (Co-Create)
All day
Atrium
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Theatre, Film and Television: TFTV
Communicate hosts researchers, academics and independent filmmakers in the
Image: Algorithms, Ian McDonald
TFTV cinema to show work and reflect on the different aspects of the relationship between filmmaking,
research and the cinematic. Non-fiction filmmaking as practice-led research is an exciting and fast
growing area within the academy. All are very welcome to Communicate.
Zone curated by: Ian McDonald and Geetha Jayaraman (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
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Communicate - TFTV: Digital Cinema
10:20 -10:30 Introduction by Geetha Jayaraman (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
10:30 -11:10 Session 1: Showcase of AHRC Winning Films
10:30-10:50
10:50-11:10
Indigenous Multilingualism in Research and Teaching: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Anna Sowa and Friederike Lüpke
(Chouette Films / SOAS, University of London / London Film School, University of Exeter)
Copyright, Creativity and Appropriation
The World Premiere of the next instalment in the award-winning animated series The Game is On!
Ronan Deazley and Bartolomeo Meletti (Queen’s University Belfast / British Film Institute)
11:20-12:50 Session 2: Filmmaking as Research
11:30-11:50
From Library to Location and Back Again
Rob Lemkin (Old Street Films)
11:50-12:10
Blurred Boundaries: Remediation of Found Footage in Experimental Documentaries
Jill Daniels (University of East London)
12:10-12:30
Haptic Visuality and the Documentary
Ian McDonald (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
12:30-12:50
Session Discussion
13:30 -15:00 Session 3: Cinematic Practice
13:40-14:00
Producing an ‘Independent’ Film in the Current Economic Crisis
What it takes for a first-time producer to make a film for cinematic release.
Geoff Arbourne (Duckin’ & Divin’ Films)
14:00-14:20
Ownership of Distribution: Finding an Audience for Independent Film…
Not a how to – but a how can. Samm Haillay (Teesside University)
14:20-14:40
Woman with a Video Camera: Theory, Practice & Intervention
Geetha Jayaramen (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
14:40-15:00
Session Discussion
15:10 -16:20 Session 4: The Cinematic Image
15:20-15:40
The Language of Colour in Filmmaking
A discussion on the role of colour in film narrative. Jason R. Moffat (Film & Restoration Colourist)
15:40-16:00
Making Things Move: The Concepts and Connections
Re-configuring a work founded in still photography into a moving image work.
Mark Chapman (Northumbria University)
16:00-16:20
Session Discussion
16:20 -17:20 Session 5: Showcase of Film Practice PhD Projects from Film@CultureLab, Newcastle
REMAKE: Cinematic Interiors Re-interpreted as New Fictional Spaces - Cecilia Stenbom
Freedom through Football - Evripidis Karydis
The Golden Record: Cinematic Zones and Essay Things - Jez Coram
Farming: The “Chinese Beautiful Countryside” Policy - Ang Gao
A Sense of Place: The Identity of Cinema as a Research Method - Louis Francis
Documentary Practice for a Film about the Religious Life - Simon Rushton
17:20 -17:30 Closing round-up by Ian McDonald (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
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Celebrate is a programme of five interactive performances involving dance, drama,
Image: Choreograms
opera, choral singing and role-playing. Each performance explores the theme of the Commons
in its own unique way. We are thrilled to bring to you these theatrical acts, which are as diverse
as the arts and humanities themselves.
Zone curated by: Mariana Lopez and Paul Long (Anglia Ruskin University / Birmingham City University)
Celebrate - TFTV: Black Box and Scenic Stage Theatre
10:30 -11:30 Choreograms: Making People Move
Black Box
A performance on how movement, song and touch can generate and modulate diverse audiovisual.
Richard Hoadley, Gwen Jones, Gregoire A. Meyer, Natacha Bisarre, Ian Mitchell, and Alison Blunt
(Digital Performance Laboratory, School of Music, Anglia Ruskin University / Turning Worlds Dance)
11:50-12:35 Performing/Researching Early Modern Theatre at York: Staging Shirley’s Hyde Park
Scenic Stage A live performance in the Scenic Stage Theatre.
Michael Cordner, Roberto del Pino, Hannah Eggleton, and Christopher Casbon
(Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York)
13:20 -13:40 Nightingale: A One-Woman Opera
Black Box
A preview of a new musical version of ‘Nightingale’, the twelfth-century lai by Marie de France.
Martin Scheuregger, Zoë Craven, Stef Conner, Neil Smith and Richard Powell
(University of York / University of Nottingham)
14:00 -14:20 Nightingale: A One-Woman Opera
Black Box
A repeat performance of ‘Nightingale’, the twelfth-century lai by Marie de France.
(University of York / University of Nottingham)
14:50 -15:50 With One Voice
Black Box
Singing together as a practical exploration of the phenomenon of group experience.
Dave Camlin, Bex Mather, Bethany Elen Coyle, Sharon Durant (Sage Gateshead / Mouthful)
16:20 -17:20 Pre-match Press Conference: A Performative Participatory Piece
Black Box
A role play to engage young people in understanding their mediatised interactions with football.
Chris Stone and Michael Skey (Football Unites Racism Divides / Loughborough University)
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10:00-11:00 11:00-12:00 12:00-13:00 13:00-14:00 14:00-15:00 15:00-16:00 16:00-17:00 17:00-18:00
White blocks denote running times of sessions or availabilty for drop-in
p.15 TFTV Black Box
p.15 TFTV Scenic Stage
p.14 TFTV Cinema
p.12 Small Lake Pod
p.11 Atrium
p.10 Exhibition Room
p.9 Balcony 2: Drop-in
p.9 Balcony 2: Talks
p.8 Lakehouse
p.7 3Sixty
p.6 Digital Creativity Labs
p.6 Middle Lake Pod
p.6 Balcony 1: Drop-in
p.6 Balcony 1: Zone B
p.5 Balcony 1: Zone A
p.4 Large Lake Pod
p.4 Island: Drop-in
p.4 Island of Interaction
p.3 Seminar Room 204
p.1 Lecture Theatre
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