Talk

Dr. Lina Dencik (Cardiff University) | From privacy to power: rethinking the datafication debate The technical ability to turn vast amounts of activity and human behaviour into data points that can be tracked and profiled has led to significant changes across government, business and civil society. Whilst the documents revealed by Edward Snowden led to […]

Intimate Jewels: Surrealism, Fetish and Fairy Tales | Sabina Stent While Salvador’s Dalí’s 1940s trinkets are often cited for their great monetary value and decadence, less space and attention is given to works created by the movement’s female artists. ‘Intimate Jewels: Surrealism, Fetish, and Fairytales’ will examine jewellery and embellishments created by women Surrealists, and how […]

Dr. Michael Goddard (University of Westminster) | Guerrilla Television Revisited: US Public Access Televison in the 1970s as an Amateur Media Ecology The term ‘guerrilla’ in proximity to a range of media has come to mean nothing more than low budget or DIY practices in a range of creative industries. However, in the US, in […]

Type Talk | Phil Abel: What I’ve been doing at work: some snaps from the Hand & Eye photo album This year I decided to try to publish at least one photo a day to Instagram and Facebook. I’ll be using this visual diary to give flavour of my work and supplementing it with other […]

Talking Practice & The Exchange | David Cheeseman & John Wigley Talking Practice is delighted to team up with the Faculty’s staff talk programme – The Exchange – to welcome David Cheeseman and John Wigley, both senior lecturers in Fine Art based at the School of Art, to give presentations on their practice. Both graduates of the Royal […]

Dying to be Late: On Messiaen and Said The last years in the life of any artist tend to be an emotive subject, especially so in music, the most chimeric of arts. Last works are imbued with meanings that are often as much to do with the romantic notions of the audience as any intent […]

Dr. Tao Zhang (Nottingham Trent University) | The ‘illusionary hope’ of public intellectuals: The rise of online revolutionists discourse in China Despite its remarkable economic growth and rising international influence in the past three decades, China remains an authoritarian state and has thus far failed to make any significant moves towards constitutional democracy. Since the […]

Remnants of a Separation (HarperCollins) is an Oral History archive and the first and only material study of the Partition of India, taking into consideration those objects that refugees brought with them when they migrated across the border, those objects that were left behind in houses and lastly, those objects that were lost in the midst […]

Parallel Practices: Hacking the Enlightenment Project - Knowledge exchange through collaborative automata-making | John Grayson Talking Practice is delighted to welcome back John Grayson, for his second appearance behind the Talking Practice lectern. Do join us for his talk, chat and a glass of wine in the Vittoria Street Gallery afterwards. Parallel Practices was a collaborative project […]