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Helsinki Photomedia 2016: A conference about photographic materialities by Andrea Jaeger
Jon Malis, Installation view, Camden Arts Centre London In April, I attended Helsinki Photomedia 2016, the third international photography research conference dedicated to ‘Photographic Agencies and Materialities’, hosted by Aalto University. I presented the research...
MOB: Rhyzomatic drawing by Alberto Condotta
MOB: Mobilising Opportunity by Drawing What happens if a bunch of PhD researchers across Arts, Design and Media disciplines are asked to draw like with no restraint, akin to how a child would do? They would probably laugh and refuse. However, what if the request is...
My Brilliant Club story by Rebecca Keyte
I have currently completed a summer placement with the Brilliant Club which I found to be an exceptionally rewarding role. As part of the Brilliant Club I was making a difference to pupil’s lives in demonstrating that University was within their reach, despite their...
Finishing the year in grand style with Northern Soul by Ezinne Igwe
Whilst on a recent coach journey, I reluctantly got into a conversation with a young, pretty woman sitting beside me. I was tired (as always, my supervisor might say) from staying up most of the night and all I wanted was the warmth of a bed. But she was insistent on...
Rasha Salti: Exhibition Histories by Rawan Sharaf Khatib
In December I attended a talk at the Whitechapel Gallery presented by Rasha Salti, researcher and curator of the exhibition Past Disquiet. In the talk Salti presented the research she and Kristine Khoury undertook to unravel the history of the International Art...
Matter Matters by Mattia Paganelli
Matter Matters - a Land2 Event. School of Design, University of Leeds, 12th-13th November 2015. The Land2 Research Network (Bristol, Dundee, and Leeds University) has just organized a two days symposium on the work of Karen Barad and the question of diffraction (or...
Experimental Art Project opportunity! by Heather Connelly
Heather Connelly is a Post-Doctoral Researcher for the Centre of Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) and the Faculty of Arts, Design & Media. Title: Translation Zone: experiments in art and language I have secured funding to employ 4 Postgraduates as Student Academic...
Dyslexia and Me
An anonymous blog post by a current PhD student For me, the road to a PhD has been an un-chartered one. I’m not sure any PhD research candidate has a clear path laid out before them; after all that’s the point: an unknown path to new knowledge. One begins the journey...
My Erasmus experience: feeling privileged by Barbara Dudás
Participating in an Erasmus+ Exchange Programme during one’s PhD years is a fairly unusual choice. It either means that one of the key features of the PhD research is exactly this global flexibility – and as such, it always requires new feedback to test its validity –...
How did we play knowledge? by Alberto Condotta
Along with the other PhD students on the PGR Studio team, I was tasked with developing and organising our first PGR conference. The result was How to play knowledge: an intense and intimate one-day conference, where researchers from both within and outside academia...
How To Play Knowledge and BOOOM! by Sarah Raine
The first BCU PGR Studio conference brought together an eclectic and fascinating series of lectures and workshops from across ADM. How to Play Knowledge? invited PhD students in the Arts, Design & Media to articulate and also play knowledge in their research,...
Fashion and Textiles Colloquium: Adornment and Identity
Birmingham Fashion and Textiles Research Group Colloquium: Adornment and Identity Thursday 3 September, 10.30 – 15.00 Birmingham City University, City Centre Campus, Cardigan Street, Birmingham B4 7BD Map and directions Personal adornment involves anything worn or...
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