The research bulletin Rooney, J

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the school of art + design Research Bulletin08 10 Welcome to the August research bulletin from The School of Art and Design at the University of Salford. If you have any comments or would like to submit work for inclusion email Deborah Woodman here

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Designed by John Rooney, 10 School of Art & Design Jill Randall Centre Report Contemporary Fine Art & Critical Theory

Forthcoming Events Ongoing Events and Seminars. Karen Heald has won a Stiwdio Safle Award Theresa Wilkie is developing a research project to work in the NHS Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Jill Randall has recently been selected to take about Brookhouse Estate in Peel Green Eccles, Department at Wrexham Hospital. part in the survey show of European sculpture- now seen as a ‘sink’ estate, the outcome of which “European Sculpture-Diversity and difference in will be exhibition/artists book and coinciding with Other Activity practice”, Martini Arte Internazionale, Turin, Italy the Eccles Festival or exhibition in the Eccles Sept -Nov 2010. Sam Ingleson is developing the pilot project community gallery or The Hub, examining ‘space’ www.sculpture-network.org “Wearpeace”,as part of the AHRC Knowledge and ‘walls’ as a topic. Transfer Fellowship in collaboration with Recent Events Professor Paul Haywood, employing art, fashion Publications and Research Outputs and design to counter issues of gun ownership in “Between Kismet and Karma”, South Asian Professor Paul Haywood has had a paper Mosside, . Women respond to conflict- major SHISHA accepted for the International Conference “Arts in national exhibition tour, directed by Dr Jacques Society”, Sydney, Australia, in July. Paper is titled Rangasamy, and related events took place in “Art in Communities-the Arts in a civil society April and May at venues including Leeds Art and cultural democracy”, and will involve the Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Cornerhouse, dissemination of his AHRC Knowledge Transfer Manchester and South Bank Centre, London. Fellowship Project. Melissa Marselle & Andrew Wootton

Recent Events The Design Against Crime Solution Centre HEFCE & UnLtd Higher Education Social 16 June 2010 Crime & Security @ Salford has won the Higher Education Social Entrepreneurship Development Award Entrepreneurship Development Award. The £15,000 The Design Against Crime Solution Centre Development Award will enable the Solution hosted an event highlighting the University’s Centre to roll-out the Youth Design Against important research contribution in crime and Crime community programme to all 10 local www security to the Chief Constable of Greater authorities of . Youth Design http://culturegroup.co.uk/Hefce_Website/ Manchester Police. The purpose of the event was Against Crime is a community programme to raise awareness at a senior level of GMP and development_awards.html that engages vulnerable young people in a strengthen the professional relationship between creative ‘design against crime’ process, in order the two institutions. Vice-Chancellor Martin to generate innovative design solutions that Hall welcomed Chief Constable Peter Fahy. address crime and anti-social behaviour issues Research presentations were given from Design in their local neighbourhood. The award reflects Against Crime Solution Centre, the Sociology the Solution Centre’s dedication to socially and Criminology Directorate, and the School of responsible design. the Built Environment. This follows a similar event on 20 May with GMP’s Deputy Chief Constable Simon Byrne, wherein the Solution Centre presented. Theresa Wilkie

Recent Events The paper was very well received and provoked The Hive in the Cliff will ultimately develop a RSA International Conference, some interesting and useful debate about proposal to the Heritage Lottery Fund to fund Pecs, Hungary community engagement and social cohesion the regeneration and conservation programme within the context of ‘creative cities and cultural in East Salford. With this key aim, The Hive The Hive in the Cliff, a VC Iconic capital’ in the Cliff lays the groundwork for significant Project, aims to create social and economic development in East Salford. It aims to obtain renewal in the East Salford community through At the heart of this programme is the the funds, lead the partnerships, and provide the development of a culturally-led conservation and revitalisation of an iconic building at the centre of support and knowledge-base needed to action a regeneration programme. the community: St. John the Evangelist Church, variety of formally-identified needs and ambitions. Higher Broughton, which closed in 2007. The Three members of The Hive in the Cliff team, Furthermore, a successful lottery application Hive in the Cliff would support the restoration Samantha Bowker, Sarie Mairs Slee and Theresa would lead to truly iconic developments in East of this vacant building and its redevelopment as Wilkie, took part in the Regional Studies Salford: physically, socially, and economically. a community centre for creativity, culture and Association International conference in Pecs, the arts. In addition, this community centre, The Hungary between 23rd and 26th of May and Hive at St. Johns, will act as a partner site for presented a paper entitled ‘The Hive in the the university and its surrounding community Cliff: an innovative case study for culturally led, to interface formally and informally through cross sector approaches to sustainable socio- educational activities, cultural exhibitions, and economical development’. creative projects. Charlotte Gould & Paul Sermon

Recent Events and interact while simply passing through or urban picnic scene. Merging live camera views Urban Picnic for the MOVES10 Festival, relaxing having lunch. This playful environment of remote audiences together and placing Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool, April 2010 merged two public spaces together, creating a them within a computer illustrated environment, third otherworldly space on screen where people together with computer animated elements that Following the success of ‘Picnic on the Screen’, interacted with others across the city at a virtual are triggered and controlled by the audience presented at the Glastonbury Festival 2009, Paul picnic table, allowing the audience to explore through a unique motion tracking interface and Charlotte were recently invited to develop alternative networked spaces. integrated within the installation. Charlotte and a new version of this interactive public video Paul also worked with Alastair Swenson from the installation for the MOVES10 Media Arts Festival The piece explored the potential for interactive School to develop the motion tracking and flash at venues across Liverpool. The installation was works to engage the public and in this way programming in this installation. billed as one of the leading artworks at this year’s the audience make a creative contribution to Festival, building on the theme of ‘framing motion’ the installation through the development of Supported by Arts Council and used to link public audiences between unique narrative events. The works encouraged the Bluecoat Gallery Garden and locations visitors to be playful, interacting with others www in Liverpool, for the first time via a telematic and the environment in a way that they would http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/ videoconference connection. not otherwise have done. Utilising the latest paulsermon/urbanpicnic/ This work was shown in Liverpool town centre, blue screen and HD videoconferencing and, simultaneously, in the gardens of the technology the installation brought together Bluecoat Gallery, allowing the public to engage public participants within a shared telepresent Recent Events The act of writing personal memories into places Tapio Makela Affective Fabrics: Technologies of Location and recalling them during a live presentation Affect of Place in Mobile Ars Memorativas is called Ars Memorativa, the art of memory. This memory technique from ancient Greece My current research project Technologies of and medieval Europe was a key motivation for Location paraphrases Jonathan Crary’s classic development of the PC desktop metaphor at The book Techniques of the observer: on vision MIT Medialab in the 1970s. In locative media art a and modernity in the nineteenth century. It can place metaphor does not vanish, but it is matched be argued that technologies of location and with physical locations, where stories, images and networked surveillance have extended the project impressions are written and recalled on site, often of modernity. Use of technologies like GPS, are as a group. In Bio Mapping works by Christian according to Caroline Bassett about remote Nold experiences of urban situations are graphed sensing, which suggests profound transformations according to biofeedback of the participants. in human sense perception, part of a broader Affect of place in his work is configured via an series of (technologically influenced) shifts that emergent proximity, not controlled remoteness. are having an impact on everyday life. The geolocation dot does form a trace, but it Taking embodiment and an affective experience remains an ephemeral signifier often unable to of place and its social configurations as starting grasp the affect of sociability, mobility, and place points, I want to challenge the view point that that participants in network practices experience. space could be rendered as living processes Like the time code that marks video and film, through locative remote sensing. In Urban and that dot becomes relevant only insofar the play or Social Tapestries by the UK based Proboscis, interaction around it, the media or the narratives location based media becomes a tool and a attached to it are able to create an affect of place, platform for experimental ethnography. In or an affective temporaneity and mobility. Feral Robots, ecological neighbourhood data is collected using a furry robot car. Much in the tradition of community arts, collective narration of places using various storytelling techniques and spatial annotation offer a place related communication and a memory platform, where place experience is social and complex. John Rooney

Research Recent Events The project will posit a question of how to visualise the creative gesture. The subject will Typography Film May 5 2010 Musical Acoustics Network Event be curated from recordings of past and present House of Calson Research Presentation narratives. Data will then be transposed using This is a short animation about the life, work Art Promotes Science, Science Promotes Art digital technologies with the aim to present a and influences of Birmingham’s typographic Salford University June 23 2010 gallery of coded interconnected palimpsests, alumni: William Calson. For this I scanned the emotional information that is revealed from the words of the Pop Art Manifesto (eg Witty, Big Electronic visualisation and the arts content of a creative space. Current research business etc) set in Caslon and then processed Research Presentation Research Workshop uses software designed by Dr Ian Drumm in audio format. (the original US declaration of London of Acoustics, designed to record the audio independence was set in Calson) July 5 2010 signature of an image. In this research a typeface is fed into the programme that then created a www PARC Northwest sound file. When this sound file is fed through a Research Presentation http://www.uktype.com/index.php?house-of- sonogram, the sound wave pattern is revealed as MMU Manchester caslon-2 a letterform July 7 2010 Paul Sermon

Recent Events Step into a living room lovingly created within of a series of telecommunication art works Paul GloNet Front Room for the FutureEverything the GloNet venue, sit on a comfortable armchair, Sermon has produced since the early 1990s, Festival, Contact Theatre Manchester, May 2010 and see someone on the other side of the globe using customised videoconferencing technology magically transported into the chair next to you. as a means of bringing geographically remote Artist Paul Sermon uses virtual-studio technology audiences together in a shared telepresent to bring remote festival participants into a interactive and performative setting. simulated domestic ‘living-room’ setting, by World Premiere. GloNet Front Room is created augmenting participants into the comfort of specially for FutureEverything 2010 and is an ‘armchair seminar’, bringing geographically supported by the University of Salford, British remote audiences together in a shared Council and Northern Net. telepresent interactive and performative setting. Supported by Arts Council England GloNet Front Room ran between Manchester and Sao Paulo and involved both programmed and ad hoc interaction. A World Premiere and www was created specifically for FutureEverything http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/ 2010. This installation follows the development paulsermon/frontroom/ Mathias Fuchs

Research The conference brought together experts from 6 Ludic Interfaces Conference European countries to discuss the emerging new field of Ludic Interfaces. Issues of transcultural differences in the understanding of ludicity, historic roots of the notion and the relevance for the creative industries were discussed. There was also scope for investigating the potential of cooperation with Media Centres and media fesitvals. An excursion to MediaCityUK, lead by Patti Holmes, presented to the conference delegates one of the most relevant developments in New Media sites in the UK. Melting-pots of industry, art, research and the community like the one in Salford will need to be networked to sister-developments in Austria (ars electronica centre), Spain (City of Science and Industry in Valencia) and Germany (Transmediale in Berlin). www http://ludicinterfaces.com

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