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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

“Users, participants, co-designers or just pesky humans? On the challenges of human centred research in Human-Computer Interaction” – Professor Luigina Ciolfi Inaugural Lecture – Wednesday 30 January 2019

A main aspiration of HCI is to be human- and user-centred in its approach to creating novel digital interactions. But how do we engage, involve and encourage end users to participate in HCI? The field has tackled this challenge in many ways. Notably, Participatory Design has been widely adopted in order for users and stakeholders to become active part of […]

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Professor Esther Johnson’s artist film ‘Point and Shoot’ featuring in exhibition at ARGOS Centre for Art and Media in Brussels

Stills from Esther Johnson's 'Point and Shoot' with ARGOS Brussels logo

Professor Esther Johnson’s artist film Point and Shoot will feature in the exhibition Look at Me held at ARGOS Centre for Art and Media in Brussels, opening on Saturday 26 January and running until Sunday 28 April 2019. The relation between photographic and moving images is the central point in Look at Me an exhibition that is the second of a […]

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Transmission: TC McCormack and Marie-José Ourtilane – Tuesday 29 January 2019

Transmission logo and Play it as it lays Installation featuring a collection of objects and materials, video projection and audio As Much About Forgetting, a group exhibition, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark 2018 by TC McCormack

TC McCormack and Marie-José Ourtilane are developing a project that explores a principle that might be called the complex space (espace complexe), the title of a series of exhibitions through which curators and artists experiment with their relationships. ESPACE COMPLEXE implicitly refers to dialogue, to an idea developed by Edgar Morin: ‘Two principles united without duality being lost or vanishing […]

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Dr Alessandro Soranzo’s research referenced in Ars Technica feature on Mona Lisa’s smile

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Research led by Dr Alessandro Soranzo in 2015 looking to Mona Lisa’s smile has been referenced by Ars Technica, for a feature on the so-called ‘Mona Lisa Effect’. Dr Alessandro Soranzo is a Reader in Psychology within the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. Alessandro’s research interests are in the field of visual cognition and in particular colour perception, […]

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Talk by Professor Paul Seawright – Thursday 24 January 2019 at the Sheffield Institute of Arts

SEAWRIGHT Lecture (They Dropped Like Flakes, They Dropped Like Stars - Bridge #1 Pittsburgh Image

Professor Paul Seawright, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University and internationally renowned photographer, will be presenting his research over the current REF census period and talking through his perspective on the current REF landscape at a talk on Thursday 24 January 2019.  We would urge all staff who are engaging with REF […]

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‘Always in Translation’ – TC McCormack convenes salon on the metaphor of translation at Site Gallery Sheffield

Always in Translation banner image - featuring TC McCormack, at Site Gallery Sheffield

Always in Translation A day of conversations with invited artists, academics and a targeted audience. 11AM – 4.30PM, Friday 18 January 2019 Site Gallery, Sheffield The metaphor of translation has been used increasingly since the eighteenth century to describe both the activity and the end result of painting, conveying such terms as ‘reproduce’, ‘render’ and ‘express’. Charles Baudelaire used this […]

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‘Film as Cultural Heritage’: Professor Virginia Heath’s ‘From Scotland With Love’ screening as part of British Council symposium in Vietnam

Promo image for British Council's Film as Cultural Heritage symposium feat. Virginia Heath's FSWL

Professor Virginia Heath’s feature documentary film From Scotland With Love will be screening in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday 16 January 2019 as part of the British Council’s Film As Cultural Heritage symposium. This is part of the wider British Council’s Heritage of Future Past – A Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth Project, a two-year pilot initiative exploring the use of cultural heritage for growth […]

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‘MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS’: Sharon Kivland featured in exhibition

Alexis Granowsky, Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 1933

MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS: Représentations d’armées de femmes et corps collectifs féminin Éditions Incertain Sens / Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Université Rennes  17 February 2019 – 19 March 2019 Curated by Lise Lerichomme Women in battalions are often portrayed as caricatures, assigned to be only the mechanical or erotic repetition of a generic character. Yet these alignments of booted […]

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Feminist Methodologies 2019 Symposium on 01-02 April 2019 features talk by Dr Sharon Kivland

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Loughborough University’s Feminist Methodologies Symposium will take place this year on Monday 01 and Tuesday 02 April, showcasing a a multi-disciplinary range of current feminist methodologies and approaches. There will also be a PGR session as part of the programme (currently TBC) followed by evening performances. Feminist Methodologies Symposium 2019 Martin Hall, Loughborough LE11 3TU See here for ticketing. Final programme TBC. Featuring talks […]

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Centre for Contemporary Legend – Get in Touch!

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Following feedback at the successful conference in November, the Centre for Contemporary Legend research group have taken on board advice and comments from our plenary session and feedback postcards, and set up a JISC email list to promote discussion and the sharing of ideas relating to the academic study of folklore in UK higher education in its many forms: • […]

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