Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Art & Design Research Centre
Speaker: Dr Sharon Kivland (Reader in Fine Art) Title: Arise, wretched of the earth At a research seminar on Wednesday 06 February Sharon Kivland will talk about a recent exhibition Die Holzdiebe (ZAK, Zitadelle, Berlin 2018-9). Collectively, the animals of the forest rise up with an instinctive sense of right, gathering the alms of nature, their roots positive and legitimate. They […]
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Penny McCarthy and Terry O’Connor will present their practices and shared interests, touching on the processes of making work in relation to language, authorship, and interpretation. Their dialogue will also explore the kinds of experiences their work opens for viewers in the different contexts of its presentation. Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine Art and Course Leader for Postgraduate […]
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From Scotland With Love, Professor Virginia Heath‘s acclaimed feature documentary film will be broadcast this Burns Night (Friday 25 January) on BBC4, the seventh BBC broadcast since its premiere in 2014. Information about the screening, airing at 00:30 on Friday, can be found here – the film will also be available on iPlayer shortly afterwards. Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland […]
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Speaker: Dr Valentina Rognoli (Design, Politecnico di Milano) Hosted by: Professor Daniela Petrelli Title: New materials practices: The DIY-Materials A new approach to materials has emerged in the international design scene. Designers are choosing materials not only from material libraries, from suppliers or from the companies who commissioned the project. The designer today is more and more aware that innovation is also coming from direct experimentation with […]
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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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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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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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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 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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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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