CRD Centre for Research Development Faculty of Arts and Architecture Research Newsletter / Summer 2003 / Edition 6

Liz Aggiss in Anarchic Variations, photos by ‘Motion Control’ has received numerous awards Billie Cowie Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie: including The Czech Crystal at the Golden Prague a Dance for Camera International Television Awards 2002 for the best original dance and music made for Television, the Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie have received one of six Honourable Mention Paula Citron Award for prestigious £50,000 BBC Arts Council Dance for Choreography for the Camera at the Moving Camera 2000 Awards to make ‘Motion Control’. Picture Awards Toronto 2002 and most recently a Gold Special Jury Award at the 36th World The film has been screened nationally during FilmFest Houston 2003. It has been bought and 2002/2003 and most notably internationally at screened by NPS Netherlands and Finnish TV and Ultima Festival Oslo, Archipelago Festival Rome, is held at the Invideo Media Logo Archive Milan. TTV Rimini Italy, VideoDance Athens, VideoDance Thessaloniki, Naples Film Festival, Sitges “The electric movements of the dancer and International Film Spain, Los Angeles Shorts, choreographer Liz Aggiss, converted into a true Toronto Moving Pictures, IMZ Monaco, DFA New audio-visual feast of widely ranging emotions. A York ScreenDance Festival, Constellation Screen superb cinematic experiment that starts out from Change London, Shorts! Amsterdam, St the conventions of video-dance but manages to Petersburg Film Festival, Moscow Museum of go beyond them through an intelligent use of Cinema, WorldFest Houston, Mediawaves editing, colour, sound and music.” Sitges Hungary. Motion Control is one of six featured International Festival. films on the South East ‘Dance Take 7’ DVD touring the UK. Following the success of ‘Motion Control’ Aggiss and Cowie applied for a Capture 2 Award. ‘Motion Control’ specifically and uniquely Capture is an initiative from the Arts Council examines the synergy of camera and performer. Dance Department that seeks to test the market Shot on 35mm, super 8, digibeta and S-VHS at for current and emerging developments in Shepperton Studios, it is unique in its interplay screen-based dance work. The priorities for with different tape stock, use of motion control Capture are projects that aim to build expertise camera and animation techniques. This film and explore the creative potential of the chosen explores, from the camera’s point of view, the medium, develop new relationships with collabo- physical and emotional entrapment of the aging rators across disciplines, research and develop and glamourous dancer in her private and person- the use of new and existing technology in creating al spaces. This truly is a dance for the camera. screen-based dance, and enhance and challenge The film is notable for the hypersound foley work conventional notions and models of dance. There overlaid with text and electro-opera. were four awards of £20,000 and four of £5,000. CRD Centre for Research Development appointed to establish the biennial as an Arts and Humanities and important international event. As photographer and tutor at the University of , Mark the Science Research In this issue Power has remarked, “I’ve been proud to witness a sustained rise in the profile of photography Investment Fund Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie: a Dance within Brighton over the last twenty years. Now for Camera 1 the city is to host a biennial under the direction The arts and humanities will, for the first time, of an internationally recognised curator, a benefit from a new round of special funding allocated Brighton Photo Biennial 2003 2 measure of just how far we’ve come. With the to institutions to make up some of the past under- Arts and Humanities and the depth of artistic talent that exists here it’s no investment in research infrastructure, and to contribute Science Research Investment more than Brighton deserves. It really is very to its long-term sustainability. This is one of the first Fund 3 exciting indeed.” tangible results of the decision that an AHRC should be established under the aegis of the Office Dr Paul Jobling: AHRB Research The BPB have been developing - and distributing - of Science and Technology (OST). Leave Update 4 a number of projects in advance of the official Modern Alchemy? The Marriage of opening in October. These began with two The second round of the Science Research Science and Art 5 brochures that featured specially-commissioned Investment Fund (SRIF2) is a joint initiative of the work, the first by Brighton-based photographer OST, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) Developing Art and Science 6 Stephen Hughes, and the second including new and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales pictures from Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s ‘Folk and Northern Ireland. Their contributions amount in Research Student Day 7 Aggiss and Cowie received a major award of Anderson, Magali Charrier, Billy Cowie, Mim King, Archive’. Last year, the BPB in association with total to over £1 billion, to be allocated by formula to Staff News 8 £20,000 to direct and choreograph ‘Anarchic Annie Lok, Shelly Love, chaired by Director of South Brighton and Council and higher education institutions over the two years Variations’ a film that aims to confound and dis- East Dance, Linda Jasper. developed a project with Swiss artist Beat Streuli. 2004-05 and 2005-06. The formula is based on Katrin Bohn/Andre Viljoen, Senior orientate the spectator’s reality of space, scale and Streuli’s photographs, taken of some of the city’s each institution’s QR and research grant income in Lecturers, School of Architecture & sound. Shot on digibeta, Super 8 and DV, this work Stop Press: Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie have just inhabitants on its streets, were reproduced as a 2000-2003, and the indicative allocations Design 10 utilised the post production software Commotion. received a £20,000 Arts Council Capture 3 pull-out in The Argus over the period of a three con- announced by the Higher Education Funding Award to make ‘The Men in the Wall’ a 3-D secutive Saturdays, a mass-produced multiple Councils on 11th February range from nearly £64 Student News 11 ‘Anarchic Variations’ was previewed at IMZ Monaco dance screen installation. available to every reader. And this June, a new million for University College London down to New Students 12 2002, premiered at The Place International poster with a photograph taken on Brighton £20,000 for a number of small institutions such as Screenings 2002, and commenced its touring life at beach by Citibank Photography Prize winner the Norwich School of Art. Staff Funding Successes 12 MediaWaves Hungary in April 2003. ‘Anarchic Brighton Photo Biennial Boris Mikhailov will be published to coincide with Funding Opportunities 13 Variations’ is held at The National Film and Television his work being shown in the Tate’s first major The Funding Councils have asked institutions to Archive London and www.ArtsOnline.com will show The Brighton Photo Biennial (BPB), which opens in photography exhibition, ‘Cruel + Tender’. submit proposals for spending their SRIF2 alloca- Subject Centre News 14 clips from the collection. South East Dance will October 2003, will be the most important photog- tions, including a contribution of at least 10 per cent undertake a national and international distribution of raphy event in Britain. With an ambitious programme When it comes to the event in October, however, of the costs of the programme from their own Conferences 14 the collection until 2005. of exhibitions, projects, publications, talks, education the BPB will also use all the major exhibition spaces resources or from other non-SRIF funds. This Louise Purbrick: AHRB Research projects and events, the BPB will bring together the in the city - Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, contribution is reduced from the 25 per cent that Leave Update 15 Following these achievements, Aggiss and Cowie most exciting and important photography from Fabrica, Phoenix, the Gardner Arts Centre and, of was applied in the first round of SRIF funding in have given case study presentations including the throughout the country and around the world to course, the Gallery. The 2000. Institutions have been instructed that the priority Theatre & Gallery Highlights 16 BBC/Arts Council Dance for Camera Still Moving spaces in and around Brighton. This will include an gallery at Grand Parade will host an exhibition enti- should be to promote the long-term sustainability Conference at the University of Brighton 2002 and extraordinary array of works, from historical tled ‘The Inconsiderable Things’, which will bring of their research infrastructure and to address past at The NFT South Bank. Liz Aggiss curated and archives in New York, Paris, and numerous British together new work by the influential British photog- under-investment. Institutional submissions will be Liz Aggiss in Anarchic Variations, photos by Billie Cowie presented with Ross McGibbon BBC Executive Collections, to new commissions from major rapher Peter Fraser, who was subject of a major reviewed by the Funding Councils before funds are Producer, International Screenings at The Place international artists. survey at The Photographers’ Gallery last year, and released; and the presumption is that each institution London and was invited to be on the selection Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Harrison, star of the will receive its full SRIF allocation. panel with the Arts Council for the £5,000 Capture Following discussions between The University of 2002 in New York and, according 2003 Awards. Brighton, and South East Arts (now to the magazine Artforum, one of the most impor- The position of the arts and humanities in SRIF2 is Arts Council South East), the BPB was seen as a tant artists of her generation. complex, since the aim is primarily to fund infra- ‘Anarchic Variations’ was featured at the Dance for way of both acknowledging and building upon structure for science, engineering and technology Camera International screenings on Saturday 17th the strength of photographic practice developing There are many more exhibitions and events to be research. But the Government has recognised the May 2003 at The Corn Exchange. The programme within the region. This is something acknowl- announced over the coming months, and all the case for including the arts and humanities within included award-winning film-makers who initiated edged by Tate director, Sir Nicholas Serota, details can be found on the BPB (www.bpb.org.uk), the ambit of SRIF2 in the light of its decision to from the BA (Hons) Dance and Visual Art course, when he says that this is “…just the moment and including information on the ‘Open Submission’ so create an AHRC, of the findings of a review of the notably Magali Charrier (Winner of IMZ Monaco just the place for a big event which celebrates that you, too, can have the chance to exhibit as part infrastructure needs of the arts and humanities 2002), Nerea Martinez de Lecea and Annie Lok. At and examines the role of the camera in all our of the biennial. It is going to be a busy year, so keep completed early in 2002, and of the scope for this event was the Brighton Dance Film lives”. But the BPB is about much more than your eyes open. As it says in the first BPB brochure, interaction between research in the arts and Phenomena, a special event featuring presentations celebrating the local, however, important though ‘Photography is everywhere. Be prepared to see a humanities and in the sciences. But there are by local film-makers including Liz Aggiss, David that is, and in 2001 director Jeremy Millar was lot more’. restrictions. In the formula for allocating funds to

2 continued on page 5 3 CRD Centre for Research Development institutions, the Funding Councils have excluded Modern Alchemy? The the James Gardner Archive, here in the from their calculations with respect to the arts and Dr Paul Jobling: AHRB University’s Design History Research Centre. (‘And humanities, the larger part of the SRIF2 pot (£600 Marriage of Science and Art so, I ask myself, does a bird in a cage sing as million) that derives from the OST, and included Research Leave Update sweetly as a bird who is free?’ – that man only the funds (nearly £500 million) provided by The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) is Cantona, again. Oh well, he who lives by the the DfES and the devolved administrations. providing artists and scientists with the opportunity to advert dies by it, I suppose, because research is Institutions that are strong in the arts and humani- collaborate on a range of research projects, with fund- Continuing our series of featured articles, Dr Paul just as much hard work as teaching is.) And now, ties will thus receive in total less than they would ing of up to £35,000. Jobling, Academic Staff, School of Historical and in drafting chapters things begin to coalesce in have done if institutional research income in all Critical Studies, reflects on his experiences from another challenging way, and all those lifeless subjects had been treated equally. A new pilot scheme – the ACE/AHRB Arts and his recent AHRB funded research leave. notes culled from the ‘Advertiser’s Weekly’, ‘Man Science Research Fellowships - has been launched by and his Clothes’ and a myriad other professional There are also restrictions on the amounts that can the AHRB, in partnership with the Arts Council of “To sell clothing to the masculine half of humanity journals suddenly start to add up to an argument. be applied to projects in the arts and humanities, England (ACE). The scheme will support individuals is a business by itself. Men usually have very def- both by individual institutions and in each territory working in the creative and performing arts who want Fran Sutton, scraperboard illustration for Tauttex advertisement, 1938 inite ideas of their own, both as to the style of In approaching this subject as a print historian I have of the UK. For institutions, the general guideline is to engage in collaborative work with scientists. clothing in general, and for themselves in particular.” been trying to deal with what McKenzie has called that the proportion of all their SRIF2 funds that are (‘The Advertising World’, July 1912) the ‘sociology of texts’ and to analyse how the applied to the arts and humanities should not "Our engagement with this initiative is another materiality of clothing is translated into the exceed the proportion of their total research example of how we are trying to build bridges and I wrote this during one of those interminable train materiality of poster and press advertising. funding that is represented by arts and humanities understanding through targeted collaboration", journeys from Brighton to the Newspaper Library Essentially, this is quite an intricate undertaking units of assessment. For example, if the arts and explains Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Chief Executive in Colindale, at the far end of the Northern Line. since fashion ads have their own stylistic modes and humanities represent 10 per cent of an institution’s of the AHRB. "Developing the interfaces between arts These have become more periodic since January, spheres of production and consumption, involving research funding, and the SRIF2 allocation is £5 and humanities research and wider intellectual, social, but up until that time were part of my regular the interrelationship of word and image among million, then typically no more than £500,000 cultural, and economic priorities has been a key research routine – three hours there, three hours other things, yet also have to be accounted for with should be used for arts and humanities purposes. element in the AHRB's strategy, and it will continue to back on a good day. But this piece is not meant to reference to technological and social changes in At the national level, the Funding Councils in be so as we become the first new research council to be an opportunity to whinge about the vagaries of men’s wear and the impact of sexual politics. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland be created in a decade”. the British transport system, rather a progress expect that no more than 5 per cent of SRIF2 report on how my intellectual travels through the As I embarked on this research project last funds in their territories should be invested in the The Fellowships, which can run from six to twelve history of advertising men’s wear in Britain since autumn, however, one eventuality I certainly did research infrastructure in the arts and humanities. months, can be undertaken on a full or part-time basis, 1900, courtesy of AHRB-funded study leave, have not bargain for was that I would end up with more They warn that if, taken together across the sector, with funding of up to £35,000 available. Fellowships been proceeding since last October. than enough material to fill two volumes. As proposed spending on arts and humanities will be hosted by a higher education institution and things stand, therefore, I will easily use up the exceeds this benchmark, then they will have to restricted to those funded by the Higher Education Of course, with very little time to go until I return 60,000 words that Berg have allocated me dealing discuss with institutions the profile of their SRIF2 Funding Council for England. The proposed Fellow to work in SHACS the clock feels like it is ticking with the period between 1900 and 1945, and re- programmes. The AHRB will keep a close watch must be a professional working in any aspect of the away faster than ever. But the journey has been contextualising modernist work by well known on developments. creative and performing arts, who can show a com- productive and worthwhile, and the ‘freedom to designers such as Tom Purvis, McKnight Kauffer mitment to research and some experience of collabo- think, to work, to breathe’ (good old Cantona) and Ashley Havinden, as well as rehabilitating that Despite these restrictions, the extension of SRIF2 to ration. The scientists involved in the collaboration can unburdened from the exigencies of teaching and by practitioners such as Will Houghton, Rex the arts and humanities is very welcome news be working in any area of science or engineering. assessing is something that I can only describe as Osborne and Fran Sutton (see scraperboard illus- indeed, and we hope that Deans of Arts and transformative, and something everyone in higher tration, which he executed to promote Tauttex Humanities and heads of department will be “Many of the most exciting areas of research lie education should experience at least once in their waistband linings in 1938), who have hitherto making strong cases to the senior managers in their between and across the boundaries of ‘traditional’ career. Ah, the luxury of being able to visit far-flung been marginalised - or entirely overlooked – in the institutions to ensure that they do indeed benefit disciplines or subjects”, explains Professor Crossick. “In places like the History of Advertising Trust in history of graphic communications. Anyway, bon from this important new source of funding. Many 2001, the Council for Science and Technology deepest Norfolk, and places not so far away like courage and see you all again in June! institutions are aware that in previous rounds of published a report called ‘Imagination and infrastructure funding the arts and humanities Understanding’, which concluded that the greatest suffered not only by being excluded, but by having challenges for our society need to be met by a mar- their departmental allocations cut in order to meet riage of the arts and humanities with science, and we Fashion ads have their own stylistic modes and the institutional contribution towards science infra- hope these Fellowships will go someway towards structure projects. Now is the time to begin to exploring and developing this relationship.” spheres of production and consumption, involving the redress the balance. Most AHRB schemes are UK-wide but, because the interrelationship of word and image among other things, Full details of the SRIF2 allocations and of the ACE/AHRB Arts and Science Research Fellowships yet also have to be accounted for with reference to invitations to institutions to apply for the funds scheme is a result of a joint collaboration with ACE, it are in HEFCE circular 2003/06, SHEFC circular is restricted to England. For further information on this technological and social changes in men’s wear and HE/05/03. See the ELWA website at scheme, please contact: Alison Henry, AHRB www.elwa.org.uk for details of allocations Research Awards Team Leader; tel. 0117 987 6664 the impact of sexual politics. in Wales. [email protected].

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Charlie Hooker: detail from Local Stars sound & the Chaos Theory ‘butterfly effect’). Currently, he Meteorology) at Reading. This has instigated links generated within Brighton’s Faculty research light public sculpture installation for London Developing Art and Science Borough of Tower Hamlets (far left) and is working on ‘Local Stars’ (a sound and light between four departments based on the Reading groupings to other similar institutions. He is hopeful Sensitive Dependence, Economist Plaza London Charlie has recently instigated a large-scale sculpture for the London Borough of Tower campus – Music, Art, Cybernetics and that, as the project unfolds, his particular style of 1999 (remaining images) research project, linking our Faculty to others at Hamlets) and ‘Night Sky Series’ (a series of cyan- Meteorology, with further links intended through multi-media art, which, in any one project, often Reading University, to develop the aspects of art otype prints and audio CDs based on star pat- the Faculty research group ‘The Natural and brings together aspects of art, science, engineering, and science that his sound-based installations terns) which use astronomy as their starting point. Constructed Environment’ that Charlie is part of at music, photography and architecture will help instigate currently explore. The project, involving the cre- Brighton. This initial period, which has been con- seminars and collaborations between Brighton and ation of sculptures, photographic and audio-visual To carry out the theoretical research necessary to cerned with establishing contacts and preparing Reading for staff, students and the wider public. work, will be largely concerned with studying underpin these and future works, Charlie resources, will culminate in an exhibition of recent aspects of meteorological phenomena and, for approached the Meteorological department at indoor and outdoor work and a lecture and seminar much of his time, Charlie will be based in the Reading to help him to begin to understand this given in the Meteorological Department to research Research Student Day Department of Meteorology at Reading – one of natural phenomena in depth. Reading’s staff and students from the relevant departments the few departments to attain five star rating in Meteorology Department undertakes a great deal on the Reading campus in July of this year. It will The research student day, for Arts and Architecture, the last RAE. of research for industry, and has outdoor weather involve the temporary outdoor installation of a was held on Wednesday 19th March 2003 and stations, recording devices and experimental new version of the audio-sculpture ‘Sensitive was introduced by Professor Jonathan Woodham, During and since his period as Artist in equipment, together with laboratory-based digital Dependence (on initial Conditions)’ and a small Director of the Centre for Research Development. Residence at Herstmonceux Science Centre, modelling facilities concerned with predicting indoor exhibition of prints linked to ‘Twins’ and the There were three student presentations from which ended approximately a year ago, Charlie weather systems and phenomena such as global ‘Night Sky Series’. Megha Rajguru, School of Arts and has created a number of public sculptures, warming, etc. Charlie will be using these facilities to Communication, Steve Long, School of Arts and prints, temporary installations and audio works enable him to develop his ideas and this, together It is expected that the final outcome of the project Communication and Juliet Kac, School of Historical derived from current scientific thinking concerning with the contacts at Reading that Charlie already as a whole will be a series of exhibitions and seminars and Critical Studies. chaotic systems, unpredictability and natural has within the Department of Fine Art, has made it based, initially, at both universities. These will phenomena. Herstmonceux Science Centre is an ideal campus to help develop his systems-based contain installations of objects and images, togeth- Megha Rajguru presented the work she had done on the former home of the Royal Observatory and, audio-visual work. He also intends to collaborate er with a compilation of audio work. Each of these her research project ‘Bringing the Raj Home: India in while using one of the six large telescope domes with the researchers based in the meteorological will be set in context by text derived from the England’ to date and explained that this was the sited there as his studio, Charlie produced a department to help visualise aspects of the spe- research, and once this initial dissemination has working title for her thesis and that she was in her first series of sound and light sculptures concerning cialised research that they undertake so that it can been explored, the intention is to tour the visual year of study. Her current research strategy involved astronomy and meteorology – notably: ‘Twins’, be communicated to a wider audience. exhibition and publish an audio CD and text so that looking at the history and location of Indian monu- Churchill Square, Brighton (based on meteoro- it can reach a wider audience. ments within the British landscape and her personal logical ‘sunshine recordings’); ‘The Lightning During the first phase of this three-stage project, reaction to them. She explained that a subjective view Panel’, Science Museum, London (a gold panel Charlie has been involved in on-going discussions As well as his main aim of using chaotic weather was prominent at this stage in the project. Megha that sparks like lightning as the viewer approaches); between Professor Jonathan Woodham and Barry systems to help generate music, sculpture and showed a series of photographs and images that and ‘Sensitive Dependence (on Initial Barker at Brighton, Professor Stephen Buckley images, Charlie’s other intention is to look at the pos- represented her journey to the monuments and a Conditions)’, Economist Plaza, London (based on (Head of Fine Art) and Dr Ian James (Head of sibility of opening up the links and debate already map she had drawn up to symbolise this. The 6 7 CRD Centre for Research Development question and answer session afterwards raised issues at the Museum; and to write an article that critically such as the historical timeframe she was investigating examines the creation of the photographic record, and which format the project could take. the book and exhibition.

Steve Long introduced his research project Purbrick and Wylie first visited the Maze prison in ‘Representing the visual in autobiographical memory: December 2002, which enabled them to meet the an exploration of how and what we “see” when Assistant Director of Operations in the Northern remembering’. He addressed the theoretical Ireland prison service to establish how much aspects that underpinned his research project. In access to the prison was possible. Purbrick and particular he outlined ideas relating to the study of Wylie also undertook initial interviews and 35mm memory drawn from the arts (including film, photographs during this visit. External photography writing and visual practice), from psychology and and further, more detailed interviews took place philosophy. He then outlined three possible case during a second trip later the same month. The studies which he intended to carry out in order to internal photography at the prison was completed answer his research questions. The audience in January 2003. response to his presentation was positive and useful information and ideas on further research Dr Paul Hopper areas was discussed. Dr Paul Hopper, School of Historical and Critical Juliet Kac presented a comparative analysis of Studies, has written a book entitled ‘Rebuilding fine art and music through Duncan Grant's Communities in an Age of Individualism’, which is 'Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound' published this month by Ashgate Publishing 1914. This was examined in the light of Grant's Limited. The book analyses and synthesises the intentions - as revealed in his conversations sixty major developments of our time (globalisation, years after the completion of the work - along- post-industrialism and detraditionalization), arguing side Juliet's current approach to painting that that they are contributing to greater individualism at In February 2003, George gave a workshop and Sue Gollifer George Hardie: Posters by CODEsign uses music as subject matter. the expense of community life. The central concern spoke as part of ‘Tradurre/Condire’, a series of of the book is how we can maintain and revive local lectures by European designers (Werner Jeker, ArCade IV: The Fourth UK Open International communities in the contemporary period. Francesco Messina, Uwe Loesch and Leonardo Exhibition of Digital Fine Art Prints, curated by Staff News Sonnoli) at the Instituto Universitario di Sue Gollifer opened at The European Illustration In April 2003 he gave a paper at an international Architettura Venezia, and in March 2003, he Collection Gallery, Hull (EICH), University of Louise Purbrick - Material documents: photog- conference (‘Dialogue among Civilisations: The spoke on ‘Self Publishing’ at Falmouth College of Lincoln on 22nd April and it will continue until raphy in the space of conflict and containment Key to a Safe Future’) in Warsaw, which was Arts as part of an Open Forum on Authorial 28th May 2003. This exhibition was linked to the organised by the Asia-Pacific Council and Illustration (with Robert Mason, Martin Tom Diek CADE '03, Computers in Art and Design Louise Purbrick, design historian at the University of UNESCO. His paper was entitled ‘Globalization and Dr Leo DeFreitas). Education Conference and was supported the Brighton, Donovan Wylie, documentary photogra- and the Clash of Civilizations? Recognizing Faculty Research fund, by Apple Europe and pher for Magnum Photos and Patrick Henry, Curator Complexity’. The Polish Prime Minister, Leszek A commission by art director Roland Scotoni of Adobe UK. of Exhibitions at the National Museum of Miller, gave the opening address. Young and Rubicam, Zurich, has won a Silver Photography, Film and Television, are working award at the Swiss Art Directors Club and a ArCade IV is the UK's fourth open international together to produce a historical record of the now Professor George Hardie nomination for a Silver award at D&AD in the UK. exhibition of electronic prints. It provides an empty H Blocks of the Maze/Long Kesh, near The project involved a series of small posters on opportunity to see a wide range of recent original, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. In January 2003 George was one of a panel of six ‘The Art of the Kitchen’. Two of these were by limited edition, artist’s prints, which at some designers and art directors interviewed by Richard George with one each by Jeff Fisher (Australia), stage in their production have involved the use of To date, there has not been a substantial, sys- Seymour on ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll’ as part Brad Holland (USA), Seymour Chwast (USA), computers to generate and/or to manipulate tematic photographic survey of this site. Currently, of D&AD’s (Design and Art Direction of Great Brian Cronin (UK), Paul Slater (UK) and David their imagery. It will travel extensively throughout all phases of the prison are still standing, although Britain) President’s Lectures to celebrate Forty Hughes (UK). the UK, Denmark, Slovakia and Russia, during becoming derelict. Some H blocks still bear traces years of D&AD. He spoke to an audience of some 2003 and 2004. It includes work by forty-one of their former use as a political prison, with murals, eight hundred professionals in the Logan Hall, George’s first comic strip (eight pages in colour), selected and invited digital artist/printmakers graffiti, inscriptions and posters in existence. London, about his work for the music business in was published in ‘The Ganzfeld 3’, an annual from over all over the world; artists from six the 1970’s and about his current drugs of choice - journal of the graphic arts published in New York. countries, from Australia to Russia and including The aims of the project are: to produce a historical claret and allopurinol (for gout.) An exhibition ‘The Ganzfeld Unbound’ opened in Slovakia and India. The work in the exhibition

record of the H Blocks; to display selections from March 2003 at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in covers a vast spectrum of styles and a whole Image from Fourth UK International Exhibition that record; and to reflect upon the process of George also lectured as part of a two day confer- New York. George contributed three pieces to this range of new printing technologies. of Computer Generated Fine Art Prints curated by Sue Gollifer creating and exhibiting that record. There are an ence ’Drawing - the Process’ organised by Kingston exhibition, which was reviewed in the New York equal number of outcomes, which are: to produce University. Speakers included John Warwicker Times. Other exhibitors included Jim Nutt, Sue says, “I hope the Arcade IV exhibition a substantial series of photographs to be archived (Tomato), Will Alsop, John Vernon Lord and Bruce Seymour Chwast, Michael Bartalos, Peter Blegvad, demonstrates how digital fine art prints, offer the at the National Museum of Photography, Film and McLean. There was an accompanying exhibition Paul Davis, Steven Guarnaccia, Gary Panter and possibility of generating 'radically new' physical; Television; to produce a book and curate an exhibition (now travelling) and the lectures are to be published. Chris Ware. aesthetic and conceptual frameworks”.

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Design study by Bohn and Viljoen, for Munton Road Southwark, showing proposals for introducing productive urban landscapes

Katrin Bohn/Andre Viljoen, Senior Lecturers, past few years by Bohn & Viljoen Architects. to changes in the student learning experience education, the labour market and graduate School of Architecture & Design because the individuals do not have sufficient employment. The research draws on recent In order to observe urban agriculture sites first effect on the direction of the team. research studies, curriculum developments and Andre Viljoen and Katrin Bohn will make the first hand and assess their physical requirements and surveys. The author makes recommendations for presentation of outcomes from a research program relationships with adjacent landscapes and build- To improve student learning outcomes, teacher future employability strategy for the sector and jointly supported by the Faculty of Architecture ings, a field trip was made to Cuba, where urban development should be aimed at fostering a student- suggests new areas for research into employability. and Design and the Royal Institute of British agriculture has been extensively implemented. focused approach to teaching and should be The work was funded jointly by the ADC-LTSN Architects Modern Architecture and Town Closer to home, similar studies have been made, aimed at both the individual and the course team and the Employability Partnership - a consortium Planning Trust. Their paper titled ‘Productive Urban for example of the allotment sites at and occur over a sustained period of time. Staff of fourteen higher education institutions - which Landscapes’ will be presented in June at the . Comparing these studies, charac- development can lead to contextualised profes- in 1998 undertook a longitudinal study of the International Federation of Housing and Planning teristic spatial interactions between urban agriculture sional learning for teachers and outcomes which career paths of graduates in art, craft and design Conference in London. sites and other types of occupation have been benefit student learning if the unit of activity is the resulting in a report: Destinations and Reflections: From top left: King George V & Queen Mary at identified and fed back into the research on suitable course team. The course team is the major, or British Art, Craft and Design Graduate Careers - Ashtead stand; Ashtead BEE kiosk; Ashtead Bohn and Viljoen’s research defines ecologically design strategies. main, activity centre for most academic staff. The National Survey. Grey Metcalfe lion Productive Urban Landscapes, and explores how their There is growing evidence to suggest that the integration into cities would enhance environmental This stage of research will be concluded with the course and departmental focus is crucial to main- Copies of ‘Future Directions for Employability sustainability, while simultaneously adding new publication of a book titled ‘Productive Urban taining the impact of change in line with the Research in the Creative Industries’ are available on qualities to urban areas. Their work contributes to Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for department level culture. request from the Subject Centre and will shortly be an on-going debate about appropriate strategies Sustainable Cities’ commissioned by the downloadable in PDF format from the website. for improving urban sustainability. This debate is Architectural Press and due for publication Three different cases of course teams in develop- Contact: Sarah Harwin or Alison Percival via the ADC- mainly focused on the merits of compaction or towards the end of 2003. ment are identified to illustrate the discussion. LTSN email address: [email protected]. de-compaction as guiding principals, which the These course teams are working on developing presented research is questioning. Linda Drew, ADC-LTSN learning and teaching as part of a department/course focus for LTSN development Student News Katrin Bohn has worked on strategic proposals for Linda presented a paper at the SEDA/SRHE activities. The ADC-LTSN is the subject centre for the full integration of productive landscapes into Conference 2003 held at the University of Bristol Art, Design and Communication. The evaluation Jenny Hill full-time MPhil/PhD student in the existing cities by testing issues such as the layers, in April entitled ‘The Learning Laboratory: impact activity or ‘Learning Laboratory’, is modelled on School of Historical and Critical Studies occupancy and networks of open urban spaces. evaluation of the professional learning of teach- activities designed by Engeström (1987, 2001) to Andre Viljoen has concentrated on examining ers’. The paper discussed a methodology for closely observe the professional learning of work The second half of Jenny Hill's article on ceram- urban agriculture, the main socio-economical ongoing impact evaluation of the professional teams as socio-cultural activity. For a copy of the ics at the British Empire Exhibition appears in the component of the new landscapes. learning of teachers, which acknowledges the paper please contact Linda on 3964 or spring issue of the Exhibition Study Group social, cultural and contextual aspects of that [email protected] Journal. It includes a section on Ashtead Potters, While the social and environmental benefits of learning experience. Most teachers work in a a firm founded by Sir Lawrence Weaver to give urban agriculture are receiving considerable attention, course team. Most, but not all, educational Linda Ball, ADC-LTSN employment to ex-servicemen disabled in the the design implications and possibilities arising development is targeted at the individual through 1914-18 War. Sir Lawrence was Director of the from its integration into cities are not. One major accredited programmes (SEDA, ILTHE). The eval- Linda has published a paper – ‘Future Directions UK section of the British Empire exhibition, so focus of the research is therefore to explore the uation of those development activities is there- for Employability Research in the Creative ensured that Ashtead received good press cover- potential of Productive Urban Landscapes for fore also targeted at the individual and either Industries’. This working paper reviews the current age and that King George V and Queen Mary urban regeneration, which is presented in the during or immediately after the activity. and future position for preparing students for were photographed visiting the Ashtead stand. form of several design studies undertaken in the Sometimes individual development does not lead employment in the light of changes in higher The lion was designed by Percy Metcalfe. 10 11 CRD Centre for Research Development

from the British Library's Reaching the Regions Madeleine Strindberg, School of Arts and support the conference ‘Politics, Culture, Craig Koomeeta “Crocodile” 2002 cast aluminium New Students programme in 2003/04. This new project, Communication, received an FRSF award for her Resistance: Globalisation and its Discontents2’. Nina Dimitriadi – F/T MPhil/PhD, School of Arts & entitled ‘Our Saturdays: Sounds & Visions from project ‘artinheaven’. As part of this year's Brighton Communication started April 2003 the South East’, will produce a DVD that will Festival, ten Roman Catholic churches in Brighton combine silent archive films from SEFVA and the exhibited contemporary art and Madeleine Funding Opportunities Wessex Film & Sound Archive with audio Strindberg's paintings were shown in two churches Staff Funding Successes material from the British Library Sound Archive. during the project. Arts and Humanities Research Board Using the theme of Saturday afternoons, the Professor Mike Tucker DVD will present a range of ‘sounds and visions’ Tony Benn, School of Arts and Communication and Small Grants in the Creative and Performing

from across the South East in the twentieth cen- currently studying for a PhD in the Centre for Arts The Small Grants in the Creative and From top: Dream Traces Larrakitj collection Congratulations to Professor Mike Tucker who was tury. As an interactive, it will have either one or Research Development, received an FRSF award Performing Arts scheme provides awards up to a March 2002 Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala; Brighton, 1957 by John King, SEFVA; recently awarded £25,000 from the Arts Council more audio channels for each film with relevant for his project ‘Wild Flower’. Flower painting and still maximum of £5,000 to meet the costs directly related Mick Kubarkku “Yawk, Yawk” 1989 acrylic on England, South East for the exhibition 'Dream popular songs, music, oral histories, poetry and life in general were regarded as one of the lowest to advanced research projects in the creative and bark Traces - A Celebration of Contemporary Australian natural sounds. Two thousand copies of this new forms of painting in the hierarchy of the Academy, performing arts only. The aims of the Small Grants Aboriginal Art’, which the University of Brighton is public resource will be produced and distributed as it seemed to offer no possibility of historical and in the Creative and Performing Arts scheme are to presenting in association with the Rebecca across the South East to libraries, local history cultural importance. Using this as a starting point, support research activity of the highest quality Hossack Gallery, London. This was the largest pres- centres, record offices, HE and FE libraries and a to paint weeds in the garden, Tony Benn's project conducted by individual scholars across all areas of entation of Aboriginal Art in Britain since the 1993 selection of secondary schools. The production aimed look at something almost irrelevant in order the creative and performing arts and thereby to ‘Aratjara: Art of the First Australians’ show at the work will be undertaken by Media Facilities at to investigate how we look at paintings. enable them to realise their potential to improve the Hayward Gallery, London and features a wide range the University of Brighton. There will be a web- depth and breadth of our knowledge of human culture of paintings, batiks, sculpture, printmaking, video site to promote the DVD and the work of the Also from the School of Arts and Communication both past and present; to enable individual scholars and photography. partners. This is SEFVA's first project with the Mark Power has received an award for his project to pursue well-defined small-scale projects, or parts British Library. ‘Beyond the Fringe’; Duncan Bullen received an of larger projects, that are likely to bring advances The show was been developed with the approval of FRSF award for his project ‘From Silence’; Jim in creativity, insights, knowledge or understanding the Australian High Commission and was opened by Awards from the Faculty Research Support Fund Cooke received an award for the completion of his of interest and value both to the research community His Excellency, Mr Michael L'Estrange, the High project ‘Re-placing Arcadia’ and Charlie Hooker and to a wider public; to maximise the value of Commissioner, on Wednesday 23rd April 2003 and Peter Seddon, School of Arts and Communication, received an FRSF award for his project entitled ‘An research outcomes by facilitating and promoting ran until 24th May. The exhibition is also part-funded received an FRSF award for his project investigation into Artistic and Scientific their dissemination both to the research community by the Faculty's Research Support Fund. ‘[email protected]’. The title refers to both an Interpretations of Meteorological Phenomena and to as broad a public as possible. exhibition at Rochdale Art Gallery and a book through audio-visual art’. SEFVA published by the Centre for Contemporary Visual The next deadlines for AHRB funding will be pub- Art timed to coincide with the exhibition. This is the In the School of Historical and Critical Studies, lished over the summer and circulated by the The South East Film & Video Archive (SEFVA) is outcome of two years of research into the histori- David Green received an award for his project Centre for Research Development. The deadline for pleased to announce that it will receive £30,000 ography of civil war images and paintings. ‘Photoforum’ and Tom Hickey received funding to the small grant scheme is likely to be Friday 31st 12 13 CRD Centre for Research Development October 2003. A full list of publication dates for Assessment is instrumental in developing AHRB research support schemes including the effective learning (e.g., Laurillard 1984, Ramsden, the ‘Giving and Receiving’ directive are complex small grants, research leave, large grants, fellow- 1988) and to be effective the assessment should Louise Purbrick: AHRB collective text, combining recollections of the ships and research centres will be printed in the be aligned to the stated learning outcomes correspondents’ own experiences of gifts and next issue and will appear on our website (Biggs, 1996). However, the assessment of out- Research Leave Update marriage, statements about what constitutes www.brighton.ac.uk/arts/research/. comes is not unproblematic, particularly when appropriate forms and levels of consumption as they are related to grading criteria. (Woolf,1995). well as original documents, including wedding With the increasing use of learning outcomes for Dr Louise Purbrick, lecturer in the School of lists and photographs. The amount of written Subject Centre News assessment in Art, Design and Communication it Historical and Critical Studies, is approaching the material generated by the ‘Giving and is important to obtain a clear picture of the con- end of eight months research leave, partly funded Receiving’ directive is much greater than that The PRAAG (Pedagogic Research in Arts & ceptions of both the learner and the teacher by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The used to support conventional studies of consump- Architecture Group) seminar series has held two when using outcomes for assessment. What do project, which was successful in the AHRB’s tion patterns, which use either general surveys successful meetings so far, with presentations from students really think is happening in assessment match-funded Research Leave Scheme, is entitled or small studies. At one level ‘The Wedding Frances Corner ‘Learning to teach: qualitative and what do tutors need to do to improve their ‘The Wedding Present: design and meaning of Present’ is just another conventional study of research into fine art undergraduate programmes’ use of assessment as a learning tool? The domestic objects in Britain 1945-2000’. Here, contemporary material culture only on a larger and David Clews ‘The Imaging in Education project’. researchers have used a phenomenographic Louise Purbrick gives some background to her scale. It considers the construction of the Details of the remaining seminars are as follows: methodology to investigating the students’ project, how it was initiated and how, with the domestic environment, widely recognised as accounts of their experience of assessment, help of funded research leave, it has developed. the key site of consumption, examining the 15th May - Paul Martin, Centre for Higher which identifies the differences and the internal objects and practices used to establish the Education Practice, Open University. ‘Challenging relationships between their experiences. The ‘The Wedding Present’ began five years ago when home in Britain between 1945 and today. the perceptions of adult learners in fine art’ seminar will present the findings to date and I commissioned and co-wrote part of a Mass- However, it also foregrounds the issue of what encourage discussion of aspects of methodology Observation directive, an open-ended questionnaire, counts as evidence of everyday life and reflects This seminar, based on doctoral research, and the findings themselves. entitled ‘Giving and Receiving Presents.’ The Mass- upon the relationship between the individual explores learning in the discipline of fine art and Observation Archive, based at the University of life and social experience. So, unlike many highlights problems for mature learners and 10th July – Linda Drew, ADC-LTSN at University of Sussex, collects the writings of ‘ordinary people’. studies of consumption which are charac- artist/teachers when learners are challenged to Brighton ‘Ways forward for pedagogic research in Nearly three thousand people, recruited through terised by a lack of methodological reflection explore their socially constructed views on the Arts & Architecture’ the local and national media have responded to its and avoid the question of how specific practices nature of reality. A major barrier to learning for ‘Contemporary Project’ directives. Around four function within any wider context, ‘The The final seminar this term will take the form of hundred are on the Mass-Observation ‘panel’ at Wedding Present’, hopefully, will open up a George Hardie spoke to an audience of an open discussion around some themes led by any one time. Two hundred and fifty-four people debate about methods of cultural inquiry. My Linda Drew. All staff in the faculty and wider subject replied to my directive, giving details of types of project, furthermore, sets out to challenge the some eight hundred professionals about his communities of the University who are involved wedding presents, how they were received, current critical orthodoxy about the power or interested in engaging with pedagogic whether they were requested, where they have attributed to consumption practices. Rather than work for the music business in the 1970’s research are encouraged to take part. Themes been kept, how they have been used. assuming that consumption inevitably produces include: future PRAAG seminar series - ideas and individual identity, I am concerned with the lim- and about his current drugs of choice - offers of contributions; PRAAG as a conduit for Mass-Observation correspondents use direc- itations imposed by the social contexts in being research active with a focus on pedagogic tives in their own way and their responses to which consumption occurs. claret and allopurinol (for gout.) research; consideration of capacity building issues i.e. support for novice researchers and See Staff News, George Hardie researchers wishing to expand their experience our lives. Yet why, how and to what effect we Questions to be addressed might include one or of research; collective activities e.g. projects; distinguish between public and private are issues more of the following issues: students in the field of Fine Art is the extent to funding of pedagogic research, sources and much less frequently discussed. which their established perceptions can inhibit resources. This seminar's proceedings will form • How do the different scales implied by the their ability to transform their understanding. To the basis of a PRAAG manifesto and activities for This symposium aims to explore our manifold terms ‘urban’ and ‘domestic’ interact and transform perceptions it is necessary to challenge the coming academic year. ways of making such distinctions by focusing on interfere? existing frameworks, but such challenges can the complex of relationships between the urban • How do ideas of the urban suggest ways of have dramatic psychological and social conse- and domestic realms. Its concern is to examine inhabiting the domestic, and vice versa? quences both for the student and the Conferences the ways in which the multiple interactions • How have different representations of the artist/teacher. In an education system where between private and public, urban and domestic, domestic and the urban been interpreted, by quality is increasingly focused on the consumer The Intimate Metropolis: Domesticating the are manifested in architectural and urban form or whom, and how have they influenced subse- and measured by the 'happiness' of the student Urban, Infiltrating the Room at the Architectural through other structures of representation. quent practices? learning experience, the position of transforma- Association, London 31st October and 1st tive educators is in question. November 2003 We seek papers that examine built and imaginary Please send paper abstracts of 250-300 words constructions and their modes of use and inhabitation, together with a brief CV including name and 12th June - Alison Shreeve & Jonathan Baldwin, That there is a distinction between ‘public’ and that focus on blueprints or conceptual frameworks, contact details by 6th June 2003 to Marina London College of Fashion & ADC-LTSN at ‘private’ seems self-evident. It is entrenched in that look at extensions of the domestic into the Lathouri ([email protected]) at the Architectural University of Brighton ‘You say assessment… and I our value judgements, our systems of legislation, urban sphere, or that investigate what happens Association School of Architecture, 36 Bedford say assessment… Variation in student conceptions and the structuring of our physical surroundings; when an urban totality or fragment is brought into Square, London WC1B 3ES. Speakers will be of assessment using learning outcomes in design’ it has direct consequences for the way we lead a smaller, more intimate, compass. notified by 11th July 2003. 14 15 CRD Centre for Research Development The British Constitution - Can We Learn From Nuffield College, Oxford Ferdinand Mount, former History? Time: 7.00 to 8.30pm, Wednesday 18th editor of the Times Literary Supplement; Peter June 2003. Venue: The British Academy, 10 Riddell, The Times; Diana Woodhouse, Professor Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. of Law and Politics, Oxford Brookes University; Chairman and Lord Wilson of Dinton, former Invitation to the British Academy Panel Cabinet Secretary. Discussion This event is held to launch the British Academy Centenary Monograph on ‘The This event is free and open to all. If you would like British Constitution in the Twentieth Century", to attend it is essential that you register beforehand. edited by Vernon Bogdanor. The speakers on the Please contact the British Academy Meetings panel are: Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Department: Telephone 020 7969 5263 Email Government, Oxford University; David Butler, [email protected].

11am – 1pm Gospel Choir, Soul Choir, Capeoira Theatre & Gallery Regional (open to all levels of experience). Samba Hip Hop (Intermediate level with some Highlights experience and own instrument required)

2 – 4pm Drilling body percussion, rap, breakdance Burt, Brill & Cardens Graduate Show (open to all levels of experience). Orchestra Saturday 21st - Thursday 26th June 2003 (advanced, three year minimum experience and own instrument required). The University of Brighton’s reputation as a hotbed for groundbreaking artists includes Red Zebra Omniculture Night Saturday 24th ex-graduates Rachel Whiteread and recent May 9pm – 2pm £5/£4 concessions (free entry Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson. With accolades for Omniculture workshop participants) from such as these, it is no surprise that the University the Dome Box Office 01273 709709. organises one of the biggest graduate shows outside London… the annual Burt, Brill & A night of non-stop sensory exploration! Don’t Cardens’ Graduate Show. miss the debut performance of the UK’s largest Hip-Hop Orchestra. Workshop leaders Red Zebra Omniculture Workshop Saturday have co-created a piece of music that will 24th May 11am – 4pm £7/£5 concessions from form the material used in each of the work- the Dome Box Office 01273 709709 shops held earlier in the day. Only when brought together in the evening will the Would you like to be a part of the UK’s largest Orchestra be complete - creating an exciting, Hip-Hop Orchestra? Whether you’re a complete unique and experimental live performance. For beginner or an experienced musician, you will all your chance to be a part of this… come along have a part to play. The following workshops are to the Omniculture workshops happening available, followed by an evening show. during the day.

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