Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
Asunder, the award-winning film from film-maker and Professor of Film & Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University Esther Johnson, was the focus of two recent interviews Esther gave over the last couple of weeks. Asunder tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its […]
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In Quotes, an exhibition at East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, presents works by an exciting range of contemporary artists working with collage and assemblage across generations. Sheffield Hallam University Reader of Fine Art, Dr Sharon Kivland features in the exhibition as she explores the representation of women through her work MOI in which the straplines of a number […]
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Update – 16 October 2017 Sharon Kivland has now been shortlisted for the Bob Calle Prix du livre d’artiste prize. The two winners will be announced today at a reception and exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Dr Sharon Kivland‘s book A Lover’s Discourse / Un discours amoureux has been pre-selected for the Bob Calle Prix du […]
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02 October 2017 Update: Peter Macqueen, Packaging Designer with Design Futures appeared on BBC Radio Sheffield on Friday 22 September 2017 alongside Faye Savory of Bear Hugs on Paulette Edwards’ Good News Friday feature. Click here to listen. Sheffield Hallam University’s packaging design team, Design Futures, are in the running for two distinguished national titles at this year’s UK Packaging […]
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Abandon Normal Devices has been listed in the Guardian’s ‘Ten best things to do this week’ section on 15 September 2017. See the list here. Formation is a forthcoming exhibition as part of Abandon Normal Devices Festival taking place in the Peak District’s Castleton between Friday 22 and Sunday 24 September 2017, with a preview on the Thursday. The exhibition […]
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Dr David Clarke, Principal Research Fellow in Journalism in the Communications and Computing Research Centre, is an expert in government UFO files. The Great UFO Hoax This week marked the 50th anniversary of a flying-saucer hoax that caused concern across Britain and captured the imagination of people around the world. BBC Inside Out South revealed the real story behind the discovery of […]
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Update – 14 November 2017: Dr Clarke was interviewed for the Daily Star and spoke about his work and the book today. Find out more here. Dr David Clarke, Principal Research Fellow in Journalism in the Communications and Computing Research Centre, was recently invited by art book publisher, Four Corners Books to produce a book of UFO drawings. An expert in […]
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The new Saint Etienne single is called Dive and is released today. Esther Johnson, Professor of Film and Media Arts and Sheffield Hallam University, was the director, producer and editor, and shot the video last month in Scarborough. Watch the video here. “Dive is such a summery song, and when I first heard it I was reminded of days at […]
Read moreExperimenting with Social Data is a one-and-a-half day Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS) workshop at University of Copenhagen (UCPH) on 14 and 15 September 2017. The recent rise of massive digital trace datasets in the social sciences (‘social big data’) has served in part to re-actualize notions and practices of ‘the experiment’ and experimentation (including self-experimentation), as well […]
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