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 is a film by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Media Arts Dr Esther Johnson, telling the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories. Using […]
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Hester Reeve, artist and Reader in Fine Art in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC), has been awarded a joint residency at the Centre for Philosophy and the Visuals Arts (CVPA) at Kings College London and at Kunsthuis SYB in The Netherlands. Hester will be working at CVPA in spring term 2017, on a project exploring how thinking conceptually […]
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Hinterland, Dr Esther Johnson‘s 16mm artist film has been selected for an exhibition opening in April 2017, curated by Film and Video Umbrella for Hull’s new Humber Street Gallery. Focusing on an East Yorkshire community which live on the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, Hinterland asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes fatally threatened […]
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New photographic work by Michèle Lazenby is to feature in the exhibition In Celebration of Trees, in support of the campaign to save Sheffield’s street trees. The event at Bank Street Arts is organised by the Nether Edge Tree Group with the support of the Woodland Trust. In Celebration of Trees is an exhibition of photographs that comes at a point when trees have become an unusually divisive […]
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Virginia Heath, Professor of Film in the Art & Design Research Centre, officiated at the Sheffield Hallam University 2016 graduation ceremony at Sheffield City Hall to confer the honorary doctorate on Ken Loach. Ken was nominated for his Honorary Doctorate by SHU academic staff for his contribution to film-making and the arts. Virginia, who had talks with Ken throughout the day […]
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Professor Paul Atkinson has been invited to give a lecture about the research behind his book Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware to Masters students in History of Design at Oxford University on Saturday 26 November 2016. While most historical accounts of the development of computer design focus on specific computers or manufacturers, examining the success stories of hardware […]
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An extract from Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches, a film by artist-filmmaker Esther Johnson, is to be streamed online by NOWNESS from 24 November 2016. NOWNESS is a global video channel and a movement for creative excellence in storytelling celebrating the extraordinary of every day. Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the […]
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Professor David Swann’s invention ABC Syringe (A Behaviour Changing Syringe) has been selected by The Design Museum for its long-term collection. The groundbreaking ABC Syringe also featured in the Design Museum’s re-launch events which marked the move to its spectacular new home on High Street Kensington, London. The ABC syringe is featured in a short film commissioned for the re-launch, alongside such other […]
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Professor Heidi Probst and her colleagues in Allied Health have been working with Heath Reed of the Art & Design Research Centre to develop a revolutionary bra for use during radiotherapy for breast cancer. The new bra preserves the dignity of breast cancer patients during radiotherapy and aims to improve the accuracy of treatment by keeping the breast in the […]
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Rose Butler‘s new dual screen work The Fairs has been selected for the Swedenborg Film Festival 2016 and will be entered for an award selected by film maker Andrew Kotting. The festival takes place in London on 26 November 2016 and is curated by Gareth Evans of Whitechapel Gallery and Nora Foster, Communications Manager at Frieze and formerly Assistant Curator […]
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