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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Professor Virginia Heath’s ‘Lift Share’ wins Best Drama Short Award at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival

Virginia Heath at award ceremony at Copenhagen Film Festival, and logo

We are pleased to announce that on Sunday 16 March, Professor Virginia Heath‘s Lift Share won the Best Drama Short Award at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival. The festival, hosted in order to promote and highlight filmmakers and individuals that have contributed to the global effort of making the world a more entertaining and competitive environment for filmmaking, screened each nominated film at Huset-Biograf in Copenhagen. You can […]

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‘Voyage Around My Room’ – Sharon Kivland featured in exhibition at the Athens Municipality Art Centre from Monday 18 March 2019

Banner image for 'Voyage around my room' exhibition featuring Sharon Kivland in Athens

Voyage Around My Room Athens Municipality Art Centre Monday 18 March – Sunday 21 April 2019 Opening event on Monday 18 March, 7PM Free admittance The Voyage Around My Room exhibition embarks from Virginia Woolf’s legendary essay A Room of One’s Own, written in 1926, and its relevance to newly introduced sociological and political concepts like digital feminism and the #metoo movement. The […]

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Professor Keith Wilson interviews Lisa Le Feuvre in The Brooklyn Rail

Brooklyn Rail logo (taken from Brooklyn Rail)

C3RI Professor of Sculpture Keith Wilson was recently featured in conversation with curator and inaugural Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Lisa Le Feuvre for the The Brooklyn Rail. The two spoke about the necessity of a clear mission statement, the importance of the word “creative,” and what it means for a foundation to honour an artist’s work at the James Gallery at the […]

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Penny McCarthy’s illustrations at performance of ‘Beware the Cat’ at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts – Friday 10 May 2019

Image from Beware the Cat by Penny McCarthy

The world’s first ever English novel – a little known satire of magic and religious controversy written during a time of immense political and social change across England and Europe – has been brought to life by researchers at the Universities of Sussex, Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam. The novel, Beware the Cat, was written in 1552 before many of the more […]

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How ‘smart objects’ can bring cultural heritage to life

Banner image - Daniela Petrelli, Design Informatics

How ‘smart objects’ can bring cultural heritage to life When the first visitors arrived at Atlantik Wall, an interactive World War Two exhibition in The Hague, they were presented with an unusual choice. Would they prefer to carry around a miniature beer mug, a box of sugar, a food coupon, or one of three other items? These replicas were all […]

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‘Living Research: The Urgency of the Arts’ – Rose Butler presents research at conference at the RCA

NAFAE Conference banner - featuring Rose Butler - courtesy of NAFAE website

What does arts and humanities research have to offer in our current socio-political climate? The NAFAE (National Association for Fine Art Education) Research Student Conference takes as its focus the way arts research methods and practices might be put to use in our contemporary moment. We ask, what ‘work’ can a PhD do? By this we do not mean how might […]

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‘Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries’ – Professor David Cotterrell’s ‘Mirror III’ and ‘Mirror IV’ installed at Royal Academy of Arts festival

Banner image for Royal Academy's Alternate Language festival featuring David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera's Mirror III and Mirror IV

Professor David Cotterrell’s Mirror III: Horizon and Mirror IV: Legacy will be shown as part of the upcoming event Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries at the Royal Academy. Alternate Languages is a day-long festival taking place at the Royal Academy on Saturday 16 March 2019 that invites a critique of our relationship with one another and with our spaces. Through immersive spatial activations, artworks, performances, workshops and discussions […]

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Transmission: Julie Westerman and Lulu Quinn – Tuesday 19 March 2019

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Julie Westerman and Lulu Quinn have been friends and collaborators for twenty-five years. Inspired by each other’s practice they have combined their expertise in many an epic, entertaining, exasperating, exhilarating, and ambitious public art project, triumphing over the torrents of life-threatening flood-swollen rivers and the threat of legionella. Julie Westerman is an artist, researcher, and lecturer in Fine Art, Sheffield […]

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Professor Daniela Petrelli invited to give keynote at Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Conference

Banner image - from CHIIR2019 - Daniela Petrelli keynote

Sheffield Hallam’s Professor of Interaction Design Professor Daniela Petrelli has been invited to give a keynote speech at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Conference (CHIIR), being hosted at Glasgow’s Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre this month. The conference runs from Sunday 10 March to Thursday 14 March 2019. Online information influences every aspect of our lives: work, leisure […]

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Professor Virginia Heath’s ‘Lift Share’ nominated for Best Drama Short at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival

Poster from Lift Share by Virginia Heath and Copenhagen Film Festival logo

Lift Share, directed by Professor Virginia Heath, has been nominated for Best Drama Short at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival. The festival is hosted in order to promote and highlight filmmakers and individuals that have contributed to the global effort of making the world a more entertaining and competitive environment for filmmaking. Each film will be screened on Friday 15 and Saturday […]

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