Rose Butler’s “The Fair” to be screened at Close-Up Cinema, London on Thursday 12 December 2024

Rose Butler’s experimental video The Fair will be screened as part of One Minute Volume 9, Close-Up Cinema on Thursday 12th December at 8.15pm. Over the past 16 years, artist-filmmaker Kerry Baldry has been curating and organising this innovative series of artists’ moving images, each precisely one minute in length. These experimental works thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenging traditional […]

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Rose Butler presents at the International Conference of Photography and Theory 2024

International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]

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Rose Butler presents at Improvising Care Conference – McGill/Montreal, October 5–9 2024

Chausseeestrasse; digital composite panorama, 4m x 1.2m

Improvising Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5-9th October as part of Flux experimental music festival, Arts in the Margins, Montreal. “In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy, pleasure, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks, “Workers for Artistic freedom” “Healing can occur . . . when one’s inner experience is […]

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Rose Butler takes part in ‘Archiving Care’ hosted by NeMe – September 2024

Traditionally archives perform abstractions, suggest connections and compatibilities, and offer a perspective. Although our call for speakers asked for a critical re-interpretation of archives as historically infected collections with “‘politically dubious biases, patriarchal, colonial agendas, and represent ideological modes of control,” and discuss their new challenges n the age of AI, no submission touched these themes. The call though posed […]

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UK’s first season of Vietnamese cinema announced including Professor Esther Johnson’s ‘DUST & METAL’ – 16-31 May 2024

The first national celebration of Vietnamese film in cinemas Star Nhà Ease: Vietnamese Cinema today announces its programme, introducing Vietnamese cinema to UK audiences across the country this May. The Season is supported by the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding, British Council and Longdan Ltd. Co-curated by Esther Johnson, Cường Minh Bá Phạm, and Tuyết Vân Huỳnh, Star Nhà Ease includes five feature films, a short […]

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Prof Esther Johnson’s ‘The Beacons of Hull’ featured in The Observer

3 images showing the cream coloured phone boxes in Hull and the book cover

It’s fantastic to see the photographs from Professor Esther Johnson’s ‘The Beacons of Hull’ book featured in ‘The Grid’ section of The Observer on Sunday 25th February: Growing up in Hull, Esther Johnson loved the city’s distinctive cream telephone boxes. They are cream instead of red because Hull was the only place in England where the local council ran the public phone […]

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Peter Spence, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV, presenting at Unhomed, Unhoused, Homeless: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Notre Dame, 02 March 2024

Unhomed Conference poster, University of Notre Dame

Peter Spence (Senior Lecturer in Film and TV) is presenting at the University of Notre Dame’s Unhomed, Unhoused, Homeless: An Interdisciplinary Conference, on Saturday 2 March 2024. Peter’s talk “Homelessness in the Film Work of Michelangelo Antonioni” will be presented via Zoom as part of the conference on homelessness and representation, history, activism, mediation, policy, youth, climate change, and other […]

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Prof Lise Autogena to present in Hallam’s Space and Place Group Lecture

Prof Lise Autogena will present in Hallam’s Space & Place Group’s first lecture series: Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice: Greenland – what next? Local Perceptions of the retreating ice. In Greenland, the melting glaciers is already impacting on traditional ways of life and Greenlanders are experiencing a huge influx of climate researchers from around the world who come here to […]

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Prof Lise Autogena joins Advisory Board for the Swiss Polar Institute

Prof Lise Autogena, in her role leading Narsaq International Research Station, has been invited to join the Advisory Board for the Swiss Polar Institute’s four-year flagship programme: Greenlandic Fjord ecosystems in a changing climate: socio-cultural and environmental interactions (GreenFjord).The GreenFjord programme aims to examine the impact of climate change on ecosystems in the southern region of Greenland. Scientists from a […]

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