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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Joanne Lee (Graphic Design) collaborates on multi-lingual collective writing project ‘Replay’ in Finland – August 2017

Image taken from Pro Artibus 'Replay' page

Update: 24 August 2017 Yleisradio (YLE), having now studio recorded all of the participants reading the texts written during this project, are developing a documentary for broadcast in the coming months. A video of the public reading in the town square of Ekenäs/Tammisaari (as the area is bilingual Swedish/Finnish the town has two different names) can be found here. The […]

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Prof Virginia Heath’s ‘From Scotland With Love’ screenings at former jute mill in Dundee – Friday 20 October 2017

Composite image of From Scotland With Love, directed by Professor Virginia Heath

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]

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Block Party – Exhibition opens 15 September displaying Peter Krashes’ work in New York’s James Gallery – Co-organised by Professor Keith Wilson

Summer Streets by Peter Krashes

Block Party is an exhibition linking the practices of painting and of activism points out the problematic of actions that can be consumed, ignored, and considered irrelevant by those in official political power through displaying the work of Peter Krashes. The exhibition has been organised by Professor Keith Wilson of Sheffield Hallam University’s Art & Design Research Centre in collaboration […]

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‘Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory’ Professor Lise Autogena to speak at colloquium on 30 September 2017

Banner image of Earth Lab - presented by Proving Grounds at University of Westminster

Professor Lise Autogena has been invited to participate in Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory, a colloquium bringing together a number of artists, inventors and thinkers who re-imagine the earth, sea and sky from a bottom-up, post-anthropocene position, in a wide-ranging, broad-brushtroke survey of current thinking about Earth as a living laboratory. The speakers will consider the […]

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‘Still Loved’ documentary produced by Colin Pons (Filmmaking) wins Award of Excellence in Impact DOCS Awards

Still Loved - logo and award symbol (Award of Excellence Winner at Impact DOCS Awards)

Sheffield-based Debbie Howard of Big Buddha Films has won a prestigious Award of Excellence, from The Impact DOCS Awards Competition. The award was given for Howard’s compelling documentary Still Loved, which explores the complexity and reality for families surviving baby loss – giving an unexpected voice to bereaved fathers, who speak candidly for the first time providing an additional perspective […]

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The Goldilocks collar – just right for improving patients’ quality of life

Head Up: The Goldilocks collar

The University of Sheffield’s Neuroscience Institute blog includes an update on they are calling the Goldilocks collar – something just right for improving patients’ quality of life. The ‘Head Up‘ collar was developed by a team including designers from Lab4Living within the Art & Design Research Centre. Professor Chris McDermott, head of the interdisciplinary research team at the University of Sheffield, […]

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Rose Butler’s digital short ‘Box’ to be screened on Visual Container TV from Wednesday 26 July 2017

Still from Rose Butler's short film 'Box'. Property of Rose Butler. Image shows a view from a window, in black and white.

Sheffield Hallam University Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar in Fine Art Rose Butler will have her digital short Box screened online on VisualContainerTV. The short will screen between 26 July and 01 September Photographed on a 1920’s box camera and created from a film printed in its entirety – including the gaps between the images. This animation includes all the […]

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‘Simulated Heritage Laboratory’ at KH7 Aarhus – exhibition by Michelle Atherton and TC McCormack open until July 24

Image of the exhibition space at KH7 Aarhus for Dirty Magic by Michelle Atherton and TC McCormack. Image courtesy of TC McCormack.

Michelle Atherton (Fine Art, SHU) and TC McCormack (Fine Art, SHU) in collaboration with Danish artist Jette Gejl will be resident at KH7artspace in Denmark for a period of eight days working on a new project entitled the Simulated Heritage Laboratory. Simulated Heritage Laboratory KH7 Aarhus, Denmark 2.30PM – 4PM daily 17 July 2017 – 24 July 2017 This is […]

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Virtual Reality Prosthetics: Body and Mind exhibition at Sheffield Winter Gardens 8-10 August 2017

The Virtual Reality Prosthetics: Body and Mind exhibition (funded by a Wellcome Trust Award) looks at the current technological, social and ethical contexts of upper limb prosthetics. It was co-developed by a multidisciplinary group from Sheffield Hallam University and young people from Sheffield University Technology College. The exhibition has its origins in a multidisciplinary project that used virtual reality technology […]

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