Archive for: April, 2023

Book Launch: Annebella Pollen | More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets | 11 May 2023

Annebella Pollen’s new book | More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets out on 11 May 2023. Drinks to celebrate 9 May at the Camera Museum in London Annebella Pollen researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history. Her previous books include Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians and Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain. Her new pictorial book: More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets is out on 11th May. See full details and the means to order via the publishers website: https://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/books/more-than-a-snapshot More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets is based on Annebella Pollen’s personal collection of photographic ephemera, specifically a century’s worth of photo-processing wallets and she sources these (see below) to continue to tell an alternative history of popular photography in […]

EXHIBITION: Matthew Cornford & John Beck in Hereford | 17 May 2023 ‐ 30 April 2024

Matthew Cornford and John Beck are the second commissioned artists for Meadow Arts and Hereford College of Arts (HCA) partnership project. For full details refer to the exhibition website. In summary, inspired by the fast-flowing and bold visual environment of competing signs and signals that populate the busy intersection of Station Approach in Hereford, the commission is to create a vibrant illuminated sign attached to the HCA halls of residence located there (No.1 Station Approach). The artists have taken their cue from the way art schools historically announced their presence by prominently displaying the word ‘ART’ and will create a billboard featuring collaged letters sourced from photographs of art school buildings in the West Midlands, utilising typefaces once used by HCA in its promotional literature. The word ‘ART’, in bold primary colours, will take its place among the competing signs of the neighbourhood, to call attention to the identity and purpose […]

Open Call 2 by 31 May 2023- holt journal for artistic research

Post source from email send by Fergus Heron 28/04/2023 holt journal for artistic research is extending its second call for submissions on the theme situations. We have selected Situations as our theme given the wide parameters of application. Claire Doherty, in her edited book Situations: Documents of Contemporary Art (2009, 14), poses the following question as the premise for her editorial choices, “How might we understand or describe the potential for artistic agency in specific places?” In this second call for submissions, holt seeks to revisit this question and open up new ways to address transformative practices and artist’s agency. Situations are context dependent, addressing the multiplicity, complexity and limitations of site, or offer avenues to destabilising a sense of place. We are interested in artistic and practice-led methodologies that could expand on the meaning of the term situations, as well as examine broad, local, and multiple related interpretations or […]

One Brighton Staff Awards: Colleagues won and supported

At 20th April’s One Brighton Staff Awards, two colleagues from the School of Art and Media received awards in the Research and Knowledge Exchange category. I am delighted to say that the winner for Sustained Impact was Lance Dann and the winner for Internationalisation was Nicola Ashmore. Also a big shout out for Technical Demonstrator Chris Stokes, Technical Hub Workshop Manager Ade Krumins who designed and made the bespoke awards, and thank you to all the technical staff in SAM who supported them. Finally, well done to all colleagues who were nominated in the various categories. From email of 21/04/2023 from Duncan Bullen Associate Dean: Research and Knowledge Exchange

Practice makes perfect: How AHRC is supporting practice research

UK Research and Innovation | Practice makes perfect: How Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is supporting practice research Link to summary of understanding of the place of practice research infunded portfolio and future plans to support. Practice makes perfect: how AHRC is supporting practice research Practice makes perfect: how AHRC is supporting practice research A summary of our understanding of the place of practice research in our funded portfolio and our future plans to support. A thriving research and innovation ecosystem 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. Practice research spans the breadth of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) portfolio, stretching across the arts and humanities disciplines and beyond to make connections across […]

EXHIBITION: The Queering of Photography, Asa Johanneson | 23 April – 28 May

EXHIBITION: The Queering of Photography, Asa Johanneson | 23 April – 28 May The Centre for Photography (CFF), Stockholm Asa Johanneson’s solo exhibition The Queering of Photography opens , 22 April, at The Centre for Photography (CFF) in Stockholm. Link to exhibtion and gallery here: centrumforfotografi.se/utstallningar/asa-johannesson-the-queering-of-photography/ All invited for as Asa said in her email of 21st April : If you find yourself in Stockholm this spring (and you’re into formalist queer portraiture..), do pop over to the gallery which is located on Södermalm. Photograph: Asa Johannesson

Exhibition: Things Put Differently, Dr Gavin Fry | 30 April – 10 September 2023

Things Put Differently, Dr Gavin Fry | 30 April – 10 September 2023 (Open Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm) Wolfson College, University of Cambridge Hand stitching describes both the functional and symbolic dimensions of joining and being attached, and as such it has become a daily social encounter for Gavin Fry, Lecturer in Visual Communication SAM. In the exhibition, Fry presents stitched works and ideas including works by others and found objects, the slow rhythms of hand-stitching allow the artist to carve out space for himself and make time for reflection. The embroidery here is not a rogue element but is integral to the making stages as a dialogic element that adds to both the narrative and the making process with its idiosyncratic imagery. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of having an art practice, is to use it as a trampoline to bounce around questions that might not otherwise get asked. […]

Call for papers by 1 May 2023 for Documentary Futures International Symposium

In the second edition of the Documentary Futures international symposium, we address the state of the image and the rapidly altering landscape of photographic practice in the wake of the explosion and commercialisation of Artificial Intelligence. We explore what role artists, theorists and documentarians can assume within or against the architecture of machine learning at this critical juncture in human-machine development whilst exploring the implications of big data on photography and our shifting relationship to reality as affected by technical imagery. The second aspect and panel of the symposium will seek to understand how we use documentary’s own shortcomings and blind spots in a world where fact rather than truth is debated. We discuss what methods are used by practitioners and researchers to embrace the faults, power dynamics and fictions inherent in their medium(s). In doing so we can look to engage in documentary’s speculative potential and function in imagining hopeful […]

Fashion Revolutions Week ‘Fashion Afterwards and Beyond’ | 25-28 April 2023

Posted on behalf of Rachael Taylor, Course Leader – Fashion Communication with Business Studies (r.j.taylor@brighton.ac.uk): The Fashion Communication Team have organised a series of events for the University of Brighton Fashion Revolution Week which will be running across Grand Parade from Tuesday 25th April – Friday 28th April 2023. Some of the highlights include: – TUESDAY 12.00-2.00pm in the Reading Room in the CCA Gallery (SFFS) SWAP SHOP The Sustainable Fashion Futures Society will be holding a follow-up clothes swap – bring your unwanted items to swap. (Even if you don’t have anything to swap, come and check out their items for sale at a negotiated price.) All profits will go to The Green Centre. WEDNESDAY: 10.30-12pm in the Waste House. ‘The 100-year Wardrobe’ – Material Threads | Clothes, Places & Meanings Daniela Hatfield – Fashion Communication Lecturer, will be discussing a selection of fashion objects and ephemera from her personal archive that explores […]

Open invitation to workshops in May & June 2023 What are the wellbeing benefits of ‘body mapping’ using immersive technology (Virtual Reality)?

‘Body mapping’ is an arts and health research method designed to help people communicate embodied experiences of pain and emotion, using drawing. Brighton based organisation Hatsumi (hatsumi.co.uk) have partnered with artist group Monobanda to develop Soulpaint, a virtual reality adaptation of body mapping that enables people to virtually paint and annotate on a 3d body. The aim of this is to help people express the richness of the embodied human experience. Hatsumi is now interested in further developing its network of academics, artists and activists from across a range of subjects and contexts and has been awarded funding from the University’s Centre for Arts and Wellbeing (CAW) to run two exploratory workshops. These will looks at ways to create a network of connected researchers and practitioners who may wish to apply bodymapping across their practice. All welcome! Please feel free to book on just one, or both, of these workshops via […]

Photos Studio: Callout | CCA

Photo Studio Call out for students to use Dorset Place to photograph work 03 Apr — 06 Apr 202310.00am – 5.00pm Calling all students in need of studio space to photograph work! We are inviting you to book a slot between Monday 3 – Thursday 6 April 2023 at our project space, Dorset Place. We are offering the space for two hour slots per student or student group. Dorset Place has white walls and a basic lighting rig. Students are responsible for transporting their art work to the space, installing it for the photoshoot, photographing the work and clearing the space before the end of their slot. This is a free opportunity. To find out more please email BrightonCCA@Brighton.ac.uk. Address: 6 Dorset Place, Brighton, BN2 1ST Access: The space is wheelchair accessible and there are two accessible parking bays available at the next door building, Edward Street. There is […]

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