During February, we have three events by run by Comics REG memebers Muna Al-Jawad, Jeremy Redvan, and Elle Whitcroft…
Wednesday 12th February – “Drawing as Sense-Making in Difficult Times” – Responses to Violence in Gaza.
Dr Muna Al-Jawad will be running a session on “Drawing as Sense-Making in Difficult Times” as part of an evening mini-conference on Responses to Violence in Gaza:
for medical students, doctors and university staff. Muna has been encouraging Brighton and Sussex Medical School students to use drawing as part of the self-relection on practice, and this session extends that activity into the wider area of responding to trauma taking place in international awar-zones.
The conference starts at 5pm, with Muna’s drawing session starting at 6.40pm – please download the full event programme here, and book tickets via eventbrite here.
Wednesday 12th February 2025, 6.40pm-7pm
Location: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex Campus
Wednesday 19th February – HSS Seminar: Myriorama and AI film editing.
19th Century Myriorama cards by John Heavside Clark
Jeremy Redvan will be talking about his current research into how the gameplay of the Nineteenth Century Card Game format Myriorama can be used as a methodology to approach reediting of short films made using AI.
Myriorama is a format where cards that depict a landscape can have their order changed to create myriad variations that create new juxtapositions between parts of a larger panorama.
Jeremy is interested in the recent phenomenon of ‘fake’ film trailers that reimagine existing films as if they had been made by different directors (e.g. Star Wars directed by Wes Anderson), or in different eras (e.g. The Matrix, if it was made in the 1950s), using AI to achieve this, and how the content of these may be randomised due to the current ability of AI to only generate short clips. In these AI trailers, each clip is followed in quick succession by another, and the order seems like it could be randomised in the style of a Myriorama…
Wednesday 19th February 2025, 1pm-2pm
Location: Mithras City Lab, Mithras House, Moulsecoomb Campus TBC / More info via Teams
Friday 21st February- “We’ve always Been Here” – LGBTQ+ intergenerational connections via collage, comics, zines, and other artistic expressions.
We’ve Always Been Here Flyer
Dr Elle Whitcroft will be talking about her recent UKRI-funded research project and wellbeing intervention.
“We’ve always Been Here” explores what intergenerational LGBTQ+ communities look like and how can we bridge the gap between older and younger LGBTQ+ groups?
Elle’s research was designed to encourage LGBTQ+ intergenerational connection using a variety of collage, comics, zines, painting, creative writing, and art talking groups.
This practice is designed to capture the complex, shifting, evolving nature of LGBTQ+ identities and histories.
Sponsoreed by the Centre For Transforming Sexuality and Gender
Friday 21th February 2025, 12pm – 1pm.
Location: Checkland A402, Falmer Campus
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