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
We are pleased to announce that David Swann has been awarded a Professorship in Design. David is a double graduate of the Royal College of Art (MDes Industrial Design 1991 and PhD 2011). His design research is grounded in global healthcare challenges. In 2014, David won the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design’s World Design Impact Prize. In the […]
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The Problem of Perspective is a series of screenings illuminating a distinctly northern perspective on the history of artists’ moving image in England. The project surveys an array of production strategies deployed by video artists and filmmakers across Yorkshire and the Humber, the North East and Cumbria from the ‘60s to the early 2000s. This edition of the project includes […]
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Professor Lise Autogena and frequent collaborator Joshua Portway will deliver a keynote presentation at the symposium Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam on 27 – 28 January 2017. Agents in the Anthropocene Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, Netherlands 27 – 28 January 2017 The symposium will explore the […]
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Professor Lise Autogena will present at the Data Publics: International Research Forum, at Goldsmiths University’s Department of Visual Cultures on 26-28 January 2017. The theme of the forum is Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy and takes as its starting point an active understanding of the participation of today’s populations in data generation and the shaping of new […]
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Shoes That Walk Alone, a short film by Annie Watson, has been nominated for the Best Experimental Film at the the London Short Film Festival. The film was shown at the London Short Film Festival 2017 at the ICA in London on 08 January, within the programme Experiments: Leftfield & Luscious. Shoes That Walk Alone was filmed on a GoPro […]
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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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