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No full textA site responsive installation at Danielle Arnaud Gallery London that brought together films and mixed media interventions relating to my research into women, architecture, abstraction and politics
The March of Time: News Documentaries and The Dramaturgy of Modern History as it Happens
Get PDFIn the present article, I undertake an in-depth elaboration on the dramatic and narrative conventions of news documentary series The March of Time (1935-1951) and their intertwining with popular forms of modern historical representation (Koselleck 2002), which in turn reveal the character of liberal mass media’s engagement with political culture. The focus is on the iconic representation of political personalities as embodiments of nations and the identification of historical forces in emotionally-driven dramatic structures. Thus, I argue on the importance of a dramaturgy that emphasises political personalities and disruption in the rhetorical construction of history in news documentaries
Illustrating Pirates: Illustration Consultancy at the National Maritime Museum
No full textPaper presentation at the 14th International Annual Illustration Research Symposium, 'Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures'
Editorial Design: Print and Digital Third Edition
Get PDFThird edition of this researched book including three new chapters. This edition is solely authored by Cath Caldwell and features interviews with practitioners from the US and UK.
Editorial Design is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to the latest processes of editorial design for both print and digital formats. It presents designers with everything they need to know to create their own layouts, connecting editorial design history with current practice to enlighten and inspire the beginner as well as the more experienced designer.
The third edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments in visual journalism, with over one hundred new images showcasing the very best in contemporary editorial design. New chapters have been added dedicated to independent magazines and the seamless integration of print with digital.
This fully illustrated revised edition includes case studies, practical exercises and tips, along with profiles of leading designers in the field, who share their expertise and offer invaluable advice. The book design has been refreshed in a larger format for easy legibility of images, captions and text
Unfixing Violence: Photography and Oblivion
Get PDFThis essay considers the relationship between the first photographs, which no longer exist because they could not yet be ‘fixed’, and the kinds of disappearance that characterise contemporary violence. From the status of those whose deaths are seen but subsequently deemed invisible by evolving global news cycles, to social media Stories that are made to disappear, these examples demonstrate the fraught and contradictory power of photographic memory as it resists the pull of oblivion, but often fails. Visible and invisible images from two current conflicts – in Ukraine and Gaza – are considered, raising the question of ‘fixity’ as a political issue within the global economy of media and memory. As regular power blackouts render Gaza increasingly invisible, we must rely on the photographs made in preceding days, showing us its future in the past in a way that photography can rarely do. In a recent conversation, I discussed with renowned war photographer Lynsey Addario the biggest challenge of photographing a full-scale invasion now in its third successive year: to constantly find ways of renewing its visibility, fixing it in the eyes and minds of the world rather than letting it slip away
A Nose, The Nose, Mr. Nose
No full textA collaborative poem, a cut-up of Gogol's short story, The Nose, developed in collaboration with Vik Shirley, for and performed at the European Poetry Festival Latvia, 2024
Wrap Your Head Around It: Brazilian Users' Algorithmic Imaginaries of Spotify Wrapped
Get PDF‘Spotify Wrapped’ is a promotional initiative offered by the music platform consisting of a summary of each user’s yearly listening habits. Although Spotify is generally classified as a streaming service, initiatives such as Wrapped have a clear component of sociability (Hagen & Lüders 2017) – in this case, not only because they are based on the harvesting of users’ behavioural data but also because they are created to be shared on platforms such as Instagram and Twitter/X. Indeed, Spotify Wrapped has acquired its own role in digital popular culture, inciting anticipation and excitement from users worldwide and becoming an 'algorithmic event' (Annabell & Vindum Rasmussen 2023) in and of itself. In this paper, we propose to scrutinise how this algorithmic event is perceived and understood by Brazilian users, whilst also identifying and unpacking the platform affordances and algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017) that inform those interpretations and their associated performances of taste and identity (Airoldi, 2019, Prey, 2018). We explore in particular how users negotiate the tensions between algorithmic personalisation and individuation and the possibilities for shared experience to emerge during this event. Through a mixed-method approach, we argue that the 'eventness' (Frosh and Pinchevski, 2018) of Spotify Wrapped is distributed, clustered but sparsely connected, and marked by fleeting, fluid and ephemeral feelings of shared experience and recognition rather than by enduring communities, which in turn reflects and extends previous theorisations of affective publics (Papacharissi, 2014) and social media liveness (Lupinacci, 2021
You hear me, are you listening? Reflections on positionality and performative change in INGO representation
Get PDFIn their substantive work, Ademolu and Crombie delve into the ethical complexities of humanitarian storytelling, focusing on the impact of fundraising communications for UK African diasporic communities and those featured in these materials. They explore ways to responsibly negotiate these complexities and empower disenfranchised communities in representation practices. This article reflects on their research within broader calls for representational change, examining positionality and performative change in INGO representations. It highlights challenges and opportunities in shifting power dynamics in INGO content creation, aiming to inspire a more accountable approach prioritising the voices of marginalised communities in shaping representation practices. The discussion also engages with the messy realities and challenges that determine whether, and if so, how, this change happens in practice
Illustrating Heritage
No full textPaper presentation at the ACHS Galway 2024 conference, which explored ideas in the recently published book 'Illustration and Heritage' (Taylor, 2024)
An (Research) Enabler? 'A Person who Encourages or Enables Negative or Self-Destructive Behaviour in Another'
Get PDFA brief critical reflection on the term ‘Research Enabler’ within the context of the developing UK national agenda to broaden and deepen the collective understanding of research communities and cultures within higher education and whether that is a helpful term to support the development of healthy research cultures. The term ‘Research Enabler’ refers to a broader set of occupational groups beyond research administrators to include academic librarians, IT staff, knowledge exchange professionals, technicians, and estates staff. This paper will reflect on the term from the perspective of a research administrator.
An enabler is a person or thing that makes something possible. However, within taxonomies of addiction the term ‘Enabler’ has more negative connotations as someone who encourages or enables negative or self-destructive behaviour in another. This is not to characterise researchers as addicts and research administrators as negative enablers but to draw attention to the language being used having potential negative and dualistic interpretations for an occupational group who often self-report ambiguity and duality as inherent in their complex roles