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CREAM’s international conference, Library, SOAS, the National Sound In September Cinema Eye Honors After Chantal, took place on 4-6 Archive and Black Cultural Archives. named Joshua Oppenheimer as one November to celebrate the work and of the ten decade-defining filmmakers September saw the formal launch of the legacy of feminist filmmaker Chantal and voted to include both his films, The Westminster Menswear Archive. Akerman. The event marked the Look of Silence and The Act of Killing, Housed in its own purpose-built archive anniversary of the filmmaker’s death to their (unranked) list of twenty decade- room, the archive collects, studies, and also the UK’s first retrospective defining films. conserves, and presents significant exhibition of her installation work at works of technical menswear in order to Shirley Thompson was listed in the Ambika P3, University of Westminster, connect people to creativity, knowledge Top 10 for the power list of the 100 in October 2015. Keynote and invited and ideas. Its purpose is to establish Most Influential People of African and speakers included Janet Bergstrom, and maintain a collection of garments Caribbean Heritage in Britain. Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Dominique and related artefacts to encourage Paini, Griselda Pollock, Adam Roberts, Rosie Thomas and CAMRI professor and develop the study of menswear Corinne Rondeau, Jean-Pierre Salgas Jean Seaton won the University of design from a technical and functional and Marion Schmid. Panel topics Westminster Achievement Award in the point of view, to advance the general included ‘Identities and Archetypes,’ category of Enterprise: Academic for knowledge of menswear as a design ‘Nomads and Territories,’ ‘Fiction and their prestigious Chevening South Asia discipline, and to be used as a resource Documentary,’ ‘Legacies for the Future,’ Journalism Programme. The pioneering tool to inform contemporary menswear ‘Sound, Voice and Music,’ ‘Theory scheme developed by Rosie and Jean design. and Subjectivity’ and ‘Space and since 2012 has brought fourteen Installation.’ mid-career journalists from India and Pakistan to the university for two months Mykaell Riley’s AHRC research into each year for an intensive programme the importance of Jamaican music and of lectures, seminars, visits and fieldwork its influence on British music and culture within the UK media industry, as well as officially launched in October at the introducing them to key figures in British Fyvie Hall. This significant project will politics, arts and culture. run until January 2019 and will be conducted in partnership with the British
CREAM NEWS EDITORS ISSUE 24/ WINTER 2016 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ARTS & MEDIA JULIAN ROSS ISSN 1750-4929 (PRINT) FACULTY OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGN URIEL ORLOW ISSN 1750-4937 (ONLINE) INGRID POLLARD MUCH INTERRUPTION
URIEL ORLOW EXHIBITIONS THE CROWN AGAINST MAFAVUKE
Shezad Dawood held his solo exhibition Kapwani Kiwanga. He is also exhibiting exhibition continues at The Edge, ICIA in Kalimpong in Timothy Taylor gallery, as part of the inaugural show at the new Bath (4 November - 16 December), and London, 16 September - 22 October. Berlin contemporary art centre Kindl at Turnpike Arts Centre, Leigh, and The The exhibition brought together a new and participating in group exhibitions at Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth in body of work comprising sculpture, neon, Stadtgalerie Bern and FMAC Geneva. 2017. painting, and an immersive virtual reality Stuart Cumberland exhibited eight David Bate exhibited in MIGRANTS: (VR) work set in Kalimpong, a small town paintings in his solo show Handmade What does migration mean to you? at The in West Bengal. He was in conversation Colour Pictures at Approach Gallery, Gallery on the Corner, Battersea. with Nicolas Bourriaud on 8 October. London, 10 July - 7 August. A number of His neon works were exhibited in the Sarah Pucill’s film Milk and Glass (1993) the pieces have also been included in the historical survey show Neon: The Charged was exhibited as part of ArtVerona Art internationally touring British Council group Line at Groundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Fair in Venice, curated by Giulia Casalini, exhibition The Painting Show. 2 September - 23 December. His works at Biblioteca Civica di Verona – Archivio on vintage fabric were exhibited in the Emerita Professor of Ceramics Christie di Videoarte del Veneto, 6 October – 5 group show Tantric Drawings: Sites of Brown featured in two group exhibitions November. Transformation at Drawing Room, London, in Wales this autumn: Drawing Inspirations Eileen Perrier’s new art commission for 24 November - 19 February 2017. at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, 17 September the Bush Theatre, London, was shown – 6 November, which focused on the Thomson & Craighead, which includes at WeAreW12 Photography Project. rarely exhibited drawing practices of Alison Craighead, exhibited part of their She was invited to continue her ongoing a range of makers, and Zoomorphic work, Temporary Index, at the group show Photographic Mobile Portrait Series along at LLantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art Uxbridge Road. Her work was also Cwmbran, 3 December – 28 January in the Nuclear Anthropocene at Bildmuseet shown in the group exhibition The Human 2017, which featured artists who explore in Umeå, Sweden, 2 October - 16 April Document: The Photography of Persuasion the human-animal relationship. 2017. They also exhibited at the following from 1930s America to Present Day at group shows: Tecnologías de la violència Alexa Wright exhibited her work as the Mead Gallery, Warwick University, 7 at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, 18 part of Hybrid Bodies at Kunst Kraftwerk October - 10 December. October - 8 January 2017; Monsters of in Leipzig, Germany. Her video There’s Frank Watson exhibited The Soundings the Machine, LABoral Centro de Arte y So Much More I Want to Tell You 1 from the Estuary project as a pop-up Creation Industrial in Gijón, 18 November is exhibited as part of Visions in The event at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery in - 21 May 2017; and Looking at one thing Nunnery, Bow Arts Centre, London. conjunction with The Estuary Festival on and thinking of something else: A Group Ingrid Pollard participated in three 24-25 September. He also exhibited new Show in Four Parts at Carroll/Fletcher, group exhibitions: Thinking Back: 1980s, work at the Republic Gallery, East India London, 11 November - 25 February curated by Nick Avers, at Van Abbe Docks, as part of the London Photo Month. 2017. Their work Stutter a poetry machine, Museum, Netherlands, 25 April - 16 using human genome, is on display at Mitra Tabrizian participated in the September; Now! Now! In more place Sanger Institute, Cambridge. Iran Contemporary Art Biennale at the than one place at Cookhouse Space, Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 22- From September to November, The Chelsea College of Art, 7-15 October; 31 July, and the Abadan Museum, 31 Showroom in London presented a major and Where is Here? at Museum of African August - 31 October. Her public art new commission by Uriel Orlow, Diaspora, San Francisco, 26 October - project ‘You don’t know what nights are which looks to the botanical world as a February 2017. like?,’ commissioned by the Art of the stage for politics at large through film, Chris Fry’s work manual assembly was Underground, was launched in November. photography, installation and sound. shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize Orlow also invited other artists to be part and exhibited at the Jerwood Space, of the show including David Goldblatt and London, 14 September - 23 October. The
CREAM NEWS ISSUE 24/WINTER 2016 PUBLICATIONS
Christie Brown, Julian Stair and Clare Based on conference papers presented John Wyver published his chapter on Twomey edited the book Contemporary at the Return of Twin Peaks conference, pre-World War Two television productions Clay and Museum Culture (Routledge), which Michael Goddard co-organised of Shakespeare in Shakespeare Survey, which is a culmination of the AHRC-funded in 2015, a special section ’The Return vol. 69, Cambridge University Press. His project Ceramics in the Expanded Field: of Twin Peaks and Televisual Aesthetics’ chapter on Shakespeare’s history plays Behind the Scenes at the Museum (CitEF). was published in Senses of Cinema, and the monarchy on BBC television issue 79, in July. A special section in the between 1967-1965 was also published Roshini Kempadoo published her book journal Series focusing on fan responses in The New Elizabethan Age (I.B. Taurus) Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence to the return of the series was published in and the Location of the Caribbean Figure Lucy Reynolds contributed an essay November. with Rowman & Littlefield International. ‘From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and Shirley Thompson contributed the the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative’ for David Campany published Walker document ‘Shirley J. Thompson’s Timeline the Tate Film booklet accompanying their Evans (Aperture) and Adventures in the – Towards a Legacy of African, Caribbean series on women and the London Film- Lea Valley (Hoxton Mini Press), a book of and Asian Classical Music Composers Makers’ Cooperative. photographs made with Polly Braden. He 1480-1940 for the BBC website as part of also published the following essays: ‘Still Julian Ross published his chapter their Composer of the Week on BBC Radio Point of a Turning World. Fiona Tan and ‘Curating Problems for Expanded Cinema’ 3. the photo-filmic’ in Fiona Tan: Ascent (Izu in Preservation, Radicalism and the Photo Museum Japan and De Pont Museum Christopher Hogg, in collaboration Avant-Garde Canon, edited by Rebecca Netherlands); ‘Seeing Slowly: Markus with Tom Cantrell, published ‘Returning Ferreboeuf, Fiona Noble and Tara Brunetti’s Facades’ in Markus Brunetti: to an Old Question: What Do Television Plunkett (Palgrave Macmillan). He also Facades (self-published); ‘Light and Dark Actors Do When They Act?’ in the journal published his essay ‘Expanded Cinema as Chambers’ in Todd Hido: Intimate Distance Critical Studies in Television. He published Performance’ in Japanese for American (Aperture); ‘Walker Evans: anonymous his chapter ‘Take a Look at the Lawman: Avant-Garde Movie, edited by Kaneko Yu and incognito’ in Walker Evans: Labor Interrogating Critical Responses to the US and Nishimura Tomohiro (Shinwa-sha). Anonymous (Konig Books), edited by version of Life on Mars’ in New Patterns Lucy Soutter contributed an essay Thomas Zander; ‘John Stezaker’ in John in Global Television Formats, edited by ‘Showing and Telling: Narrative Stezaker: Unassisted Readymade (JRP Karina Aveyard, Pia Majbritt-Jensen and Photography from Pictures to Parafictions’ Ringier); and ‘Doomed to See’ in Andreas Albert Moran (Intellect). in Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Gefeller: BLANK (Hatje Cantz). David Bate contributed an essay for Photography (McNay Museum). She To accompany his exhibition, Shezad 5 x 5. Photo Tracks, a comprehensive also contributed an article ‘Expanded Dawood published Shezad Dawood: reference book for contemporary photo Photography: Persistence of the Kalimpong with Sternberg Press and art and theory, published for the 25th Photographic’, PhotoResearcher, no. 26 Timothy Taylor, which included the essay anniversary of Austrian journal EIKON (Autumn), which developed out of a panel ‘Aladdin was in Kalimpong’ by Rosie (International Magazine for Photography she convened for the Association of Art Thomas. and Media Art). His essay ‘Daguerre’s Historians conference in 2014. Abstraction’ also appeared in the Summer Steve Beresford was part of the Neil Matheson contributed his essay 2016 special issue of Photographies editorial collective for the 900-page ‘Desert islands: magic and modernity in the journal. large format facsimile of all 23 issues work of Ithell Colquhoun’ for Intersections: of Musics magazine (1975-1979), and Eugenie Shinkle published her essay Women artists/surrealism/modernism contributed forewords and essays to the ‘The Universal Foreground: Ordinary (Manchester University Press), published in current volume. He also wrote sleeve notes Landscapes and Boring Photographs’ in September. for a new CD, Live in Spanski Borci, by Boredom Studies Reader: Frameworks and Sebi Tramontana and Frank Gratkowski, Perspectives (Routledge), edited by Michael released on Leo Records. E. Gardiner and Julian Jason Haladyn.
ISSUE 24/ WINTER 2016 CREAM NEWS MICHAEL MAZIÈRE THE BATHERS AND THE SWIMMERS TEREZA STEHLIKOVA TRIESTE SCREENINGS+PERFORMANCES
The 64th San Sebastian Film Festival built Shezad Dawood’s Towards the Possible on 8 October. He also performed John its annual thematic retrospective around Film was screened at MAM Screen at the Cages’ Indeterminacy with Tania Chen and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, as part Stewart Lee at the Colour Out of Space Killing and The Look of Silence, naming of the exhibition The Universe and Art, 30 festival in Brighton on 20 November. He its selection of 32 films exploring political July - 18 October. It was also screened toured New Zealand playing and directing violence ‘The Act of Killing: Cinema and at Soho House, London, on 6 July. 7669 various groups between 9-19 December, Global Violence.’ A collection of essays on was screened in the Moscow International and he continues to take part in London the films were published for this occasion. Experimental Film Festival, 22-24 July. Improvisers Orchestra as a conductor and He also served on the jury of the 73rd piano player, performing in London every Uriel Orlow’s new film The Crown Venice Film Festival. month. against Mafavuke was screened at Sarah Pucill’s new film Confessions to the Video Window in Zurich in October. Lucy Reynolds orchestrated an European Mirror screened at the 60th London Film Also in October, he presented his lecture chorus as part of the No Fun Without EU: Festival in October and participated in the performance Unmade Film: The Proposal Artists in Common event on Vyner Street, ‘Experimenta Salon’ with Ruth Maclennan at Scriptings in Berlin and in November London, on 25 September. Participants, as part of the festival. Her films Milk and screened Letters from Edna as part of including Uriel Orlow, spoke their chosen Glass (1993) and Swollen Stigma (1998) Visions in the Nunnery in London. texts in a range of different European screened as part of the Tate Modern series languages to create a cacophony of Tereza Stehlikova’s short film Trieste, From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and European noise and unity. A songbook is made in collaboration with writer Deborah the London Film-Maker’s Co-operative, 23- planned for publication. Levy, was screened at Whitechapel Gallery 25 September. She also screened her films on 1 December as part of the programme May Adadol Ingawanij was at the Magic Mirror (2013) and Confessions to Sense of Place. 3rd Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento the Mirror (2016) at Cambridge University (BIM), Buenos Aires, where she co- on 30 September for the Film and Other John Wyver produced two RSC Live from curated two screenings, including works Arts: Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Stratford-upon-Avon cinema broadcasts, by Nguyen Trinh Thi, Priya Sen, Korakrit Creativity International Research Network. Cymbeline in September and King Lear in Arunanondchai and Tad Ermitaño. She October. Michael Mazière’s Silent Film was led a roundtable including representatives exhibited in July at the BFI Southbank as Shirley Thompson’s new solo opera of the collectives La Paternal Espacio part of the programme ‘Notes from the Questions Unanswered, based on Proyecto, Laboratorio Audiovisual Underground – LFMC 50 – Is It Persisting?’, Professor Anne McLaren who led research Comunitario, Forum Lenteng, Experimenta curated by Anna Thew and Steve Farrer, towards the discovery of the IVF treatment, India and the Latin American short film as part of the 50 years of London Film- was given its premiere in August at The festival Oberá en Cortos. In October Makers’ Co-operative series. He also Book Club, Shoreditch, and ran for fifteen she also curated desiderare, a screening curated a programme for the same series, performances at the Edinburgh Festival programme for Out of Frame art festival in ‘Cinema of the Body,’ at the BFI Southbank as part of Superwomen of Science. Her Saigon. in November. His work Swimmer - The symphony New Nation Risingwas given its As a programmer of the International Bather series II (1987), was screened at Romanian premiere on 21 October with Film Festival Rotterdam, Julian Ross the Place Mazagran in Lyon, France, on the Oltenai Philharmonic Orchestra. Her presented a selection of short films from the 23 July. Christmas Carol, Love is Born, premiered festival’s 45th edition for the Other Cinema at the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, on 11 Jane Thorburn’s Bruce McLean (1987), Collective in Taichung, Taiwan, and Los December. which she directed and edited for her Otros in Manila, the Philippines. He co- Channel 4 series ALTER IMAGE, was Strange Umbrellas, featuring Steve curated ‘Game Play’ at OFFoff in Ghent, screened at the Uppsala International Short Beresford, performed two shows at Belgium. He also served on the jury for Film Festival on 24 October in special Sowieso, Berlin on 16-17 August. Steve Quezon City International Film Festival. programme Musik Nonstop. performed at Orgelpark, Amsterdam, DAVID BATE THE AFTERMATH OF PHOTOGRAPHY
AFTER CHANTAL CREAM CONFERENCE AT AMBIKA P3 CONFERENCES AND TALKS
Alexa Wright was a keynote speaker at (Graz, Vienna), on 17 November. He also York; Bard College, New York; Monica the Disability Arts and Health conference led an Office of Experiments field trip to Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New in University of Bergen, Norway, in Marenostrum Supercomputer in Barcelona Zealand; City Art Gallery, Wellington, September. where participants took part in a ‘Super- New Zealand; The Photographers’ Gallery, Scale Psychodata’ workshop, and then London; and Vienna Photobook Festival. David Bate was a keynote speaker took part in a panel with Diego Blas and at Nida International Photography Thomson & Craighead gave a lecture Sally Jane Norman. Conference, Lithuania (September), where at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge, as part he presented his talk ‘The Aftermath of Sandra Gaudenzi gave her of the Festival of Ideas. They also gave a Photography,’ addressing the current issues masterclasses ‘User entered design and lecture at the British Film Institute as part of of globalisation and the ‘artification’ of interactive storytelling’ at Universitad the ODI Summit. photography. Catloica de Santiago del Chile, 12 Andrew Groves and Robert Leach September, and ‘Creative dilemmas in Shirley Thompson was part of a BBC were speakers on an expert panel at interactive documentaires at Artevelde Radio 3 Working Party that planned and MODELBELOFTE 2016 in Eindhoven, 22 University, Ghent, 15 November. directed the conference BBC and BASCA October, as part of Dutch Design Week. Diversity in Composition at Royal Northern Lucy Soutter co-chaired the symposium Rosie Thomas gave lectures on her College of Music on 19 October. She gave Translating Photography with photographer current research project on Islamicate a keynote speech at the event. She also Mao Weidong at Lianzhou Foto Festival, influences on Indian cinema at the Freie devised, directed and produced opera and gave a talk at Zhongshan University, Universitaet and Humboldt Universitaet, workshops for Sacred Mountain: Incidents Guangzhou, to accompany the Chinese Berlin. in the Life of a Queen nanny of the edition of her 2013 book Why Art Maroons at the Edna Manley College of Photography?. Ingrid Pollard gave an artist presentation the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica, and camera obscura workshop as Kerstin Mey gave a keynote focusing 5-9 September. A staged rehearsal for the part of the BLUSH Summer season, on art as research at the Contemporary public took place on 9 September. Open Weekend, in Hospitalfields Arts, Arts Research Unit symposium in Oxford Arbroath, on 25 June. She also delivered Gillian Youngs gave the opening on 4 December. She is leading a working research presentations at Nottingham keynote paper at the DRHA (Digital group in November for the Austrian New Contemporary, as part of October Research in the Humanities and Arts) Science Board on Private Universities in Conversations, on 11 October. She also conference in Brighton in September. Her Austria, producing an analysis and policy gave presentations at Caribbean and paper ‘Innovation and Place - Making recommendations. Diaspora Culture, Creativity and Research New Connections Through Arts, Design Shezad Dawood gave a keynote symposium at University of Northumbria and Creativity’ made the case for place as speech on Kalimpong and Virtual Reality and Tyneside Cinema, on 19 October, central to fresh approaches to innovation. in FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking and at the Urban Encounters Conference at John Wyver gave an invited plenary Practice, organised as part of Asia Tate Britain and Goldsmiths University on 5 presentation at the Association of Contemporary Art Week 2016, hosted November. Adaptation Studies Conference in Oxford. at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Joanna Boehnert presented a paper He presented a seminar paper about Asia Society Museum, New York. He at ‘Data Visualisation Does Political live cinema adaptations at the World also gave a keynote at the symposium Things’ at the DESIGN + RESEARCH + Shakespeare Congress in Stratford-upon- Art Practice & Exhibition in Virtual Reality SOCIETY: FUTURE-FOCUSED THINKING Avon and a seminar paper on the arts on on 4-5 November as part of the Fulsome 2016 in Brighton. She also took part in British television 19336-39 for the School UK Biennale in National Space Centre, a panel on Design as Symbolic Violence of Advanced Study, University of London. Leicester. and a workshop on post-PhD survival in Neal White gave an invited talk at David Campany gave public talks at The the PhDbyDesign pre-conference. She Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona as part Centre for Contemporary Photography, also spoke at the Oxford Big Data and of Ramon Llull Festival, with David Pirro Melbourne, Australia; Pratt Institute, New Development symposium in September. MICHAEL MAZIERE ALEXA WRIGHT ANGER FIREWORKS SO MUCH MORE
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She presented her practice-based In December, May Adadol Ingawanij EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED ‘Mapping Degrowth’ project at Degrowth was the invited speaker at the Allan Parker and Lucy Soutter Conference Budapest 2016 in August, Transnational Art Festival and Exhibitions organised Reflect the Truth, an exhibition the ‘Relating Systems Thinking and Design in 1990s Southeast Asia, organised of works by Chinese alumni and invited (RSD5)’ symposium in Toronto in October, by Lucy Steeds and Afterall: Exhibition colleagues from the University of and the Intersectional Perspectives on Histories. In November she introduced Westminster at the China Design Centre, Design, Politics and Power Symposium in Rithy Panh’s documentary Site 2, part of London, 11-18 November. Malmo in November. Goethe London’s screening series Promised Land. Andrew Groves and Robert Leach Loraine Leeson spoke at the Labour Party co-curated the exhibition The Vanishing Art fringe conference The World Transformed, Julian Ross was invited to give a talk on of Camouflage in London Gallery West, organised by The Black-e, Liverpool, in an Japanese 1960s expanded cinema as part 21 October - 20 November. The exhibition event called The Art of the State. She also of the Meeting Point of the Museum and featured designs from Stone Island, Adidas spoke at a Co-production Practitioners’ the Moving Image: Moving Image Curation Originals, Ralph Lauren and more. Network event at the New Economics and Practice series at the National Taiwan Foundations. Loraine also presented on Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, on 13 Michael Mazière curated Stagings of Active Energy at Feeding the Insatiable: a October. He gave a talk on his current A Room By Steffi Klenz at London Gallery creative summit on arts and green energy research project on slide projectors at West, 25 November - 15 January 2017. at Darlington Hall in November. She also Los Otros in Manila, the Philippines, on David Campany curated five took part in a panel discussion on the film 16 October and the NECS conference in international exhibitions: A Handful of Dust Bred and Born (1983), directed by Joanna University of Potsdam, 27-31 July. at Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, 14 Davis and Mary Pat Leece, at Four Corners Lucy Reynolds presented ‘The Artist September - 2 December; Walker Evans: Centre for Film and Photography as part of as Filmmaker: Modernisms, Schisms and the magazine work at Adam Art Gallery, the 40 Years of Film in East London series, Misunderstandings’ at Workshop 2: Film, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 July - 18 the organisation’s anniversary celebrations. A Plastic Art for the Film and the Other September, and at CCP Melbourne, Michael Goddard co-organised the two- Arts, Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Australia, 1 October - 13 November; day symposium ‘Mapping Popular Music Creativity International Research Network The Open Road: Photography and the Scenes: Cities, Mediations, Archives’ in in Cambridge University on 30 September. American Road Trip at Detroit Institute August as part of the project ‘Creative Lucy also gave a talk introducing the of Arts, 17 July - 11 September, and at Industries, Cities and Popular Music history of video art at the Hayward Gallery Amarillo Museum of Art, 4 November - 1 Scenes: The Social Media Mapping of as part of the exhibition Infinite Mix on 5 January 2017. Popular Music Scenes’, initiated with a November. Julian Ross co-curated the exhibition CAPES/Science without Borders Special Tereza Stehlikova presented her Still Moving - an expositie van de dia-film Visiting Researcher grant. Michael research into communicating multi-sensory at Art Cinema OFFoff in Ghent, Belgium, participated in a plenary panel in the impressions in moving image at the in collaboration with Film Fest Gent on conference Radio Space is the Place, 48th Annual Visual Literacy Conference 11-21 October. He was the coordinator convened as part of the Radio Revolten in Concordia University, Montreal, in for the film compilation exhibited as part Festival in Halle in October. He also October. of Fluorescent Chrysanthemum at the ICA, presented ‘Guerrilla Television Revisited: London, 4 October - 27 November. US Access Television in the 1970s as Sarah Niblock was invited to University a Participatory Media Ecology’ at the of Oslo’s Department of Musicology in conference Challenging Media Landscape August to take part in a panel discussion in the University of Salford in November examining the critical legacy of Prince. and ‘Media (An)archeology, Machines, Techniques and Cultural Studies’ at the Cultural Studies conference in Sydney in December. ISSUE 24/ WINTER 2016 CREAM NEWS MYKAELL RILEY, WITH DELROY AND COLIN ROBINSON
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CREAM EVENTS Sandra Gaudenzi joined CREAM as Tereza Stehlikova joined CREAM as a Senior Lecturer in interactive narrative Senior Lecturer in Still and Moving Image Andrew Groves and Robert Leach and, together with David Dunkley and Production. Her research explores the co-organised the The Vanishing Art of Massimiliano Fusari, will launch the relationship between our multi-sensory Camouflage - Symposium on 7 November disLAB (digital interactive storytelling perception and embodiment and an to coincide with their exhibition at London lab) MA. Her research interests are on aesthetic experience. Her work in moving Gallery West. Speakers included Jonathan interactive narratives, user centre design image and performance uses video and Faiers, Charles Kirke, Geoff Martin, Tim and storytelling, interactive documentary, sound to evoke subjective experience. Newark and Charles Kirke. mobile experiences, serious games and Massimiliano Fusari joined as a Eugenie Shinkle co-organised, with factual VR. part-time Senior Lecturer to contribute Anna Dahlgren (Stockholm University), Michael Goddard joined CREAM as to the Interfacial Media Lab on Digital the study day Scandi Style: Exploring Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film, Storytelling in preparation for its launch Scandinavian Fashion Photography in Television and Moving Image. He is a in September 2017. He is a digital a Global Context at the University of media theorist who has researched world consultant, scholar and results-driven visual Westminster on 9 December. Speakers cinemas, alternative media, popular music, strategist with established education and included Merja Salo, Tone Rasch and Æsa noise and Italian Autonomous Marxism experience on the Muslim World. Sigurjónsdóttir. and has developed the paradigms of Neal White hosted a reunion between media archeology and media ecologies two pioneers of experimental and across several of these areas. AWARDS incidental practices, Julie Martin (Director Christopher Hogg is a television The Westminster Menswear Archive of Experiments in Art and Technology) and researcher specialising in television drama. secured £350,000 over three years from Barbara Steveni (Artists Placement Group / His research interests are television acting the Quentin Hogg Trust. O+I). This collaboration between University and the various processes of adaptation Ingrid Pollard received an Honorary of Westminster and Arts Catalyst has been at work in contemporary television drama Fellowship from the Royal Photographic developed as part of the Arts Catalyst production. season of events that mark the 50th Society in September. Lucy Soutter is Course Leader of the MA anniversary of E.A.T, titled 9 Evenings: Joshua Oppenheimer received a Photography Arts. Her research interests Theatre and Engineering Revisited scriptwriting grant from the Danish Film centre around issues of value and meaning 1966/2016. Institute for what will be his first fiction in contemporary art and photography. film. He also received a grant from Neal White joined CREAM as the Sundance Institute for his current WELCOME: STAFF Professor of Art/Science and is one of documentary project. Lucy Reynolds joined CREAM as a the university’s interdisciplinary Chairs Rosie Thomas and Jean Seaton have Senior Lecturer. Her research as a writer, appointed to help build capacity across won a competitive tender from the curator and maker is particularly focused areas where Art, Science and Technology Foreign and Commonwealth Office to on questions of the moving image, intersect. His research and research-led run the Chevening South Asia Journalism feminism, political space and collective practice concerns knowledge production in Programme for the next three years on practice. art and science, specifically relating to the the theme of ‘Good Governance in a critical role of experimental and epistemic Hena Ali joined CREAM as a Senior Changing World: Media, Politics and things. Lecturer in UG Transmedia. Her research Society.’ interests are vernacular visual languages Ike Rust joined CREAM as the Course Mitra Tabrizian’s feature film Gholam was as well as interdisciplinary sustainable Director in MA Menswear. awarded £3000 towards publicity from design innovation models. the Iran Heritage Foundation.
CREAM NEWS ISSUE 24/WINTER 2016 GEORGE CLARK ANDREW GROVES PHD NEWS SEA OF CLOUDS THE VANISHING ART OF CAMOUFLAGE Denis Soezen was an artist-in-residence October). She was an invited speaker at at Jihlava International Documentary at Public ROOM, Sarajevo, as part of the the CongRegation Technology Gathering, Film Festival, where it was in the Opus project ‘West Balkan Calling’ organised Galway (25-27 November), and at the Bonum Competition. At the festival, he by the