Archive for: March, 2023

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Proud Pink Sky Redfern Jon Barrett | 26 April 3-5pm 2023 Grand Parade 202

Redfern Jon Barrett presents their work Proud Pink Sky which breaks down the binary between utopia and dystopia—presenting an ambitopian vision of the world’s first gay state. A glittering metropolis of 24 million people, Berlin is a bustling world of pride parades, polyamorous trysts, and even an official gay language… Challenging assumptions of sex and gender, Proud Pink Sky questions how much we must sacrifice to find identity and community. All welcome! Grand Parade Building City Campus Room 202. This CORE CTSG event is free but registration via is required via this link    

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Brighton International Animation Festival | 16 April 2023

Details provided by Kate Jessop. This is now an Arts Council funded cultural event. Note that the: Queer As F++K screening on the Sunday link here https://www.brightoninternationalanimationfestival.com/copy-of-sunday-schedule-1 Festival highlights include: The first major UK retrospective in recent years of Emmy and Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning animation director Joanna Quinn, who will also be joining us for the whole festival sitting on the jury (*heart beat doubles speed of every animation person in the room* 😉 ). Masterclass from celebrated puppet animation legend Barry Purves (Mars Attacks, Wind in the Willows) who will also be joining us for the whole festival sitting on the jury. Specially curated programmes from submissions from all over the world including anidocs, narrative, artists film and music videos from countries including Taiwan, Czech Republic, Canada, Uruguay and more. A 360 life drawing class (classic animation class to help inform character turn arounds).  Also the festival […]

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Exploring drawing as method in research and practice – Drawing research group | 29 March 2023

A day of drawing: exploring drawing as method in research and practice – Drawing research group | 29 March 2023 Grand Parade, City Campus (various) Held by the School of Art and Media  & the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing 29 March 2023 10.00 – 10.15 Philippa Lyon, M2 Grand Parade Welcome and introduction to the day 10.15 – 11.15  Matt Adams, M2 Grand Parade Pavlov and the kingdom of dogs: Storying experimental animal histories through arts-based research 11.15- 11.45  Tea and coffee break, M2 11.45 – 13.00 Sarah Stevens & Terry Meade, G63 Grand Parade Drawing without boundaries 13.00- 14.00  Lunch break 14.00 – 15.30 Zoe Boden-Stuart and Vanessa Marr, M2 Grand Parade Drawing and phenomenology 15.30-16.00 Tea and coffee break, M2 16.00-17.00 Giulia Ricci and Duncan Bullen, M2 Grand Parade  Lines of Empathy Image: Jane Fox Witterings -Wind flag drawing (cropped)  

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Important changes for UK research council grant (UKRI) applications

Dear Colleagues For anyone applying for UKRI/research council grants I encourage you to register to attend one of these briefings – as described in the Staff Central news story this week. https://unibrightonac.sharepoint.com/sites/home/SitePages/Important-changes-for-UK-research-council-grant-applications.aspx The changes will affect your ability to apply for grants if you are not up to date on the changes and transition plans from the Je-S system to The Funding Service.  We would therefore encourage as many people as possible to register for these briefings – one at each campus – between 3rd – 6th April 2023. Thanks very much. Best wishes Duncan   Summary: Important changes for UK research council grant applications  If you are planning a research grant application to any of the UK Research Councils, important changes have been announced regarding a new funding application portal. Researchers are encouraged to book now to find out more at specific briefings in April. By the end of 2023, the […]

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Film screening & research event with artist and filmmaker Barbara Loftus | 17 May 2023

Film screening and research event with artist and filmmaker Barbara Loftus | Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories (brighton.ac.uk)   Film screening and research event with artist and filmmaker Barbara Loftus Wednesday 17 May 2023, 17:00 pm-19:00 pm, Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade University of Brighton City Campus   Hildegard under the table ©Barbara Loftus All are welcome to this event, jointly hosted by the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories (Visual Culture, Memory and History strand) and the Centre for Design History. This in-person event, introduced by Dr. Megha Rajguru, includes the screening of Barbara Loftus’ forensic documentary Across The Land and The Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch (2021, 60 minutes) about the lives of family members known to the artist only through photographs and letters. After the screening, Barbara Loftus will be in conversation with Dr. Julia Winckler about the film and her latest book, The Distanced Observer, a two volume […]

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Bookings are now open for the first university-wide Research and Knowledge Week | 17 to 21 April 2023

Dear colleagues, Please share this with other colleagues and PGR students in your areas.   Colleagues can participate in activities throughout the week, and select the sessions that interest them the most to create their own tailored programme. The week will culminate in a celebratory event to showcase research and knowledge exchange at the University.​​​​​​​   You can view the full programme, read workshop descriptions and reserve your place by clicking through to the booking website. View the full programme and book your sessions here   Also note that deadline for the poster competition is the 31 March 2023 – so get your posters in!   If you have any queries, please email Researcherdevelopment@brighton.ac.uk.   Best wishes, Lauren   Lauren Greenslate Research Culture and Environment Officer Research and Knowledge Exchange University of Brighton Watts 422 – Moulsecoomb campus, Lewes Road, Brighton Tel: +44 (0) 1273 644594 Email: l.greenslate@brighton.ac.uk   Book now for Research […]

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Welcome to the new SAM RKE Website

Dear colleagues, Welcome to the new website blog School of Art and Media Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) which will replace the Newsletter. This will continue to provide a
round up of information and updates in relation to School and University Research and Knowledge Exchange activities and opportunities. The website contains the previous Newsletter for your convenience. 

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Workshop on the slang language of POLARI – Lee Campbell | 13 March 3-5pm Grand Parade or Zoom

At this workshop participants (students and staff) will be invited to learn about Polari and its sociohistorical significance, engage in a creative writing exercise using Polari at its base, and develop skills in sharing your writing in an informal, non-judgemental way. This workshop is being held by Dr Lee Campbell who is an artist, performance poet, experimental filmmaker, writer, Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London, and curator/founder of Homo Humour, the first of its kind project on contemporary queer male film and moving image practices that explore humour and LGBTQ+ storytelling. Lee’s experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals since 2019. Lee had his first solo exhibition in North America of his poetry films, SEE ME: Performance Poetry Films at Fountain Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A in July 2022. His film SEE ME won Best Experimental Film at Ealing Film Festival 2022. He has recently […]

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White Sight – Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness | Tuesday 14 March 2023

Join us at the Sallis Benney Lecture Theatre, Grand Parade,  Brighton, BN2 0JY for a conversation and Q&A with Professor Nick Mirzoeff (New York University) and Olu Jenzen (University of Brighton) about the recent publication of Nick Mirzoeff’s White Sight: The Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (2023). This event is jointly organised by the Institute of Development Studies, the University of Sussex and the School of Art and Media University of Brighton. All welcome!

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Supporting practice research: Arts & Humanities Research Council Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

A summary of our understanding of the place of practice research in our funded portfolio and our future plans to support. One of the principles for change set out in the UKRI strategy 2022 to 2027 is to support a multiplicity of ideas, people, activities, skills, institutions and infrastructures as part of a rich portfolio of research and innovation activity in the UK.

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Mixing it Up Moderated by Cynthia Rubin and Sue Gollifer

Mixing it Up Moderated by Cynthia Rubin and Sue Gollifer | Zoom March 31, 2023 9:00 pm Event Date/Time: Los Angeles, USA Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 1:00 pm PDT Denver, USA Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm MDT Chicago, USA Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 3:00 pm CDT New York, USA Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 4:00 pm EDT London, United Kingdom Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 9:00 pm BST Paris, France Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 10:00 pm CEST Sydney, Australia Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 7:00 am AEDT Register Now for the Session: Click for Zoom Link Session Description  Digital Imaging has evolved to become the ultimate assemblage medium, providing the space for artists to move among various software and physical processes in creating innovative work.  Traditionally artworks are classified by medium. As Digital Artists, we uniquely positioned to break down these arbitrary barriers in our practice. Is […]

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The Rez Project | Lance Dann

Lance Dann and Martin Spinelli’s  (of the University of Sussex) podcast project (The Rez) is heralded as helping to alleviate the media-induced mental health crisis among children. The Rez has become the first podcast to be used as part of the school curriculum. It is a children’s sci-fi adventure series that has been endorsed by the PSHE Association, the charity that supports teachers and schools with resources for teaching personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education. It has also been downloaded over 300,000 times by children around the world. There’s a lot of interest in this project Lance was on BBC Radio Wales talking about the project recently, The Rez project was featured in an article in Independent (20/2/23): https://inews.co.uk/news/media/from-syrian-fields-to-uk-classrooms-the-power-of-the-podcast-revolution-2159129 and it has just been nominated for the University’s One Brighton Awards (in the Research and Knowledge Sustained Impact category). The team behind The Rez is looking for ways of growing the project, including using their techniques to reach out to children in vulnerable […]

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Exhibition: The New Art Gallery Walsall | John Beck & Matthew Cornford The Art Schools of the West Midlands 16 February – 2 July 2023

The Art Schools of the West Midlands – is at The New Art Gallery Walsall from 16 February 2023 and runs until the 2 July 2023. The many art schools established in the West Midlands in the nineteenth century are indicative of the industrial power of the region at this time. Support for training in art, crafts and design was seen as good business and as a civic benefit, training workers and enriching the cultural life of the community. John Beck and Matthew Cornford have set themselves an ambitious task of identifying, researching and documenting all of the art schools across the country. In this exhibition they present a photographic survey of thirty-seven West Midlands art schools, or the sites upon which they stood, along with related archival material. A few are still in operation, many have been re-purposed and some have been abandoned or demolished.

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EXHIBITION: Brighton CCA Dorset Place | Martin Seeds Romper Room 2-18 March  (Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm, and by appointment) 

Brighton CCA Dorset Place University of Brighton 6 Dorset Place, Brighton, BN2 1ST   In Romper Room, Brighton CCA Dorset Place Gallery becomes a space that explores Northern Ireland’s history of community enforced punishment beating and intimidation. A Romper Room was a place where terrorist organisations, in Northern Ireland, would take their victims to be punished or interrogated by beating and torture. Romper Room was also the name of a children’s TV show watched by the artist as a child, in the family home, in 1970s Northern Ireland.    In this installation a tarred and feathered dining table and chairs sit in the centre of the gallery. The walls and floor have been lined with protective sheeting The dining table and chairs acknowledge the everyday space of a family meeting place, however their solid familiarity is betrayed by the tar and feather surface. During the troubles In Northern Ireland, tarring and feathering […]