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Expanding the scope: Presence, Visibility and Interpretation
No full textThis chapter investigates how selected contemporary artists are making work using sound technologies in ways that challenge the insistently prevalent idea of what constitutes humanness. These works question the accompanying historic colonial, binary, and anthropocentric underpinnings that have fed into the idea of the human. They each focus, in different ways, on the concerns and subjectivities of beings that might be considered ‘outsiders’ or ‘other’ to this common conception of ‘human’ and extend to the more-than-human
The Cybernetisation of Infrastructures. Artists' Moving Image in East Asia and the Sensorium
No full textTalk at The “Planetary Thinking and Infrastructures” arts and research symposium, a two-day public gathering part of the EcoFutures project co-convened by David Cross and Jessica Wan with the support of University of the Arts London (UAL) and TrAIN Research Centre.
It is led by questions such as:
How can we rethink infrastructures to support care, resilience, and planetary wellbeing?
In what ways do environmental, technological, and urban systems co-shape the worlds we inhabit?
What does it mean to consider “home” as part of the wider environment we share with humans and nonhumans?
Bringing together artists, scholars, and practitioners working in Hong Kong, UK and internationally, the symposium approaches ecology and planetary thinking as intersecting lenses: ecology invites us to consider the relationships between living organisms and their environments, rethinking “home” beyond buildings to include our reciprocal ties with the world around us, while planetary thinking situates these questions within a critical, interdisciplinary framework, attending to Earth as an interconnected system and highlighting the entanglements of local and transnational, past and present, human and nonhuman.
The programme – through a series of panels, performances, and workshops – will explore how artistic research can reveal, intervene in, and reimagine an equitable planetary futures
A Research Agenda for the Advancement of Digital Fashion
No full textThis commentary aims to define DF, pinpoint critical research areas for its evolution, and provide frameworks for academics and professionals to navigate its complexities, ultimately documenting key practices and applications to support future research
Global Sensorium: Notes on Korean Moving-Image Art and its Exhibitionary Contexts
Full text linkCatalogue essay commissioned by MASI Lugano for their exhibition for 'K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today', 2026, curated by Francesca Benini & Je Yun Moon
Feedback
Full text linkFeedback is a loop in which outputs are continually returned to the system as new inputs. Each action becomes material for whatever comes next. This January events will unfold through a series of daily interventions by different groups. Each group will activate the space and leave a prompt for the next, creating a chain of responses and transformations. The month’s activity included a programme of bookable workshops, alongside public openings and screenings. Throughout the month, we will collectively develop a publication built from the traces and remnants of these activities
Hydrothermal synthesis of BiOX/Bi2WO6/Bi2S3 ternary heterostructures for enhanced solar light photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin in aquatic media
Full text linkThe presence of trace levels of antibiotics in drinking water poses a serious concern as it contributes to the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. In this study, various bismuth-based ternary heterostructure photocatalysts were synthesized by combining BiOX/Bi2WO6 (where X = Cl, Br, or I) heterostructures with Bi2S3 at a molar ratio of 1:1:1. The X-ray deffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses confirmed the successful synthesis of BiOX/Bi2WO6/Bi2S3 ternary heterostructures with tunable band gaps, while the photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy indicated enhanced charge separation. The photocatalytic performance of these ternary heterostructures was evaluated by degrading ciprofloxacin (CFX) in an aqueous solution under solar light
Yugoslav-African Solidarity, Women and Personal Archives: The Case of Olja Džuverović’s Archive
Full text linkThis is a video of a lecture given at the Museum of African Art, Belgrade, Serbia in September 2021 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the NAM Conference in Belgrade.
As the custodian of the Non-Aligned Movement Solidarity (NAMSA) Archive, since 2021 I have been leading on the research, activation, preservation, cataloguing and the development of this archive, held at Chelsea College of Arts. The archive documents Yugoslav political relations with Sub-Saharan African countries during the period of decolonisation, in particular focussing on the country's relations with Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Angola.
This is an ongoing research initiative with no specific end date. So far, the following activities have taken place as a way of activating the archive. This is a summary of the work so far (up to February 2026) and more information can be found under individual entries.
NAMSA Activity to date:
• Created a top level database of materials in the archive (ongoing). Available as an Excel spreadsheet.
• Non-Aligned World Symposium, “Invisible Non-Aligned: Omitted History” Museum of African Art, Belgrade, panelist (Zoom presentation available online). September 2021
• Made the NAMSA archive available to MA Curating and Collections students as a teaching resource for where it has been used as a resource for Curatorial Research Labs, 2023 – ongoing, leading to displays at Chelsea.
• Formed the Yugoslav Non-Aligned Solidarity Working Group, consisting of scholars, artists and curators internationally interested in the histories of NAM, aiming to research pathways through the archive. 2022 - ongoing
• Showcased the archive as an installation at "Which Side Are You On?: On the Non-Aligned Decolonial Constellation," curated by Ivana Vaseva and Bojana Piškur at the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje, 2022,
• Showcased the archive as an installation at Art at Work - At the Crossroads between Utopianism and (In)Dependence,Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova +MSUM, Ljubljana, by Zdenka Badovinac, Ana Mizerit, Bojana Piškur, and Igor Španjol, with special sections by Sezgin Boynik and Jelena Vesić., 2023
• Participation in seminar at VanAbbe Museum - Geographies of Non-Belonging: From the Non-Aligned Movement to Counter-Colonial Art Cartographies, Lana Čmajčanin, art theorist Jelena Petrović and KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, 2022
• Workshop with the working group of the ‘Yugoslav Non-Aligned Movement Solidarity Archive, the Documents of Olja Dzuverovic’ at the The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2023
• Commissined a new artwork as part of Hope is a Discipline Exhibition (60th October Salon Biennial), by Darinka Pop Mitic with the Yugoslav Non-Aligned Solidarity Working Group* Olja, Invisible Flame: The Life Story of an Activist Through the Anti-Colonial Struggle and the Non-Aligned Movement of the African Continent, 2024
• Publication: Curating Useful Knowledge: Non-Aligned Archives – Conversation with Andreja Hribernik and Lina Džuverović. by Jelena Petrovic, GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING, Year 3 / Issue 7 / ISSN 2566-4034, 2024
Wienwoche Festival, Panel Discussion “I Would Not Be Your Comrade If I Didn’t Tell You This” With Lina Džuverović, Petra Matić And Goran Musić, The Laboratory for Anti-Imperial Solidarity as part of the artists’ collective doplgenger’s project, September 2025
• Workshop within Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) Research Weeks, University of East Anglia, December 202
Visualising Justice as a Practice-Based Model for Student Partnership and Institutional Learning
Full text linkThis working paper documents the development of the Visualising Justice initiative, a collaborative student–staff partnership project delivered through the Changemakers programme at London College of Communication in partnership with SOAS University of London. The initiative situates creative practice as a method for exploring questions of racial, social, and climate justice within higher education, while simultaneously functioning as a mechanism for institutional learning and curriculum innovation.
Emerging from the conceptual foundations of Disrupt the Discourse, the project positions student co-creation as a structural intervention within institutional systems rather than a consultative engagement activity. Through events, student-led research, and participatory evaluation processes, the initiative explores how creative storytelling and artistic practice can surface lived experiences of inequality, challenge institutional assumptions, and generate new pedagogical approaches to equity and inclusion in the arts.
Drawing on evidence from the launch events held in January and February 2026, this paper outlines the conceptual rationale, partnership architecture, and emergent themes from participant engagement. It also introduces the Situated Evaluation Framework (SEF), a participatory research methodology developed with student partners to translate creative and dialogic knowledge into institutional learning.
The paper argues that initiatives such as Visualising Justice offer a scalable model for integrating student partnership, creative inquiry, and justice-oriented pedagogy within institutional governance and curriculum development. In doing so, the work contributes to wider sector conversations about how universities might move beyond traditional staffstudent binaries toward more collaborative models of institutional change
Deconstructing Mere Presence and Audience Effect During Videoconferencing: Video versus Screen-Sharing Mediated Performance Changes
Full text linkThe study aims to understand how the impact of social presence on task performance (social facilitation effect), usually measured in face-to-face settings, can be generalised towards remote videoconferencing. The social facilitation effect is expressed in the improvement of task performance on easy tasks, and detriment on difficult tasks, during a social situation versus when performing alone. We tested which videoconferencing channels are responsible for this performance change. The interaction occurred within an experimentally controlled naturalistic videoconferencing setting. The participants performed visual-reasoning tasks as quickly and accurately as possible under several conditions: when screen-sharing their task performance, having their video on, seeing the video of the researchers’ interactive avatar, and with all these channels on or all off. Based on two social facilitation effect phenomena, we predicted that participants' performance might change when it is watched (audience effect) by the researcher through screen-sharing and when participants or the researcher co-share their videos during videoconferencing (mere presence effect). We found that having participant video visible to the companion improved participants' performance accuracy on difficult tasks, whilst task screen-sharing improved speed on correct easy tasks, with no significant effect from the researchers' visual presence. We entertain the notion of soft-presence and propose ways forward
Decolonial and Intersectional Approach to Media Witnessing: Alevi Persecutions and Political Mobilisation Through Media
Full text linkAlevis are a persecuted ethno-religious community based in Turkey whose members have settled in various European countries since the 1960s. From the early years of the Turkish Republic, the broader Alevi community has witnessed through media the massacres that have befallen some of their members. The paper analyses Alevi media witnessing through two cases: Madımak (1993) and Sürgü (2012). While witnessing the Madımak massacre through mainstream Turkish media mobilised members of the community to form the Alevi movement, witnessing the attack on a family through Alevi media enabled them to prevent the massacre. Examining the cases of Madımak and Sürgü, the paper calls for a decolonial and intersectional approach to media witnessing. Critically engaging with the concept of media witnessing, the paper argues that the political potentials of media witnessing are mainly activated through drawing on collective memories of violence and atrocities. It also demonstrates the limitations of the political potentials of media witnessing without employing an intersectional lens towards different systems of power based on gender, ethnicity and so on