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The Lost Paradise: Photography and Desire
No full textAn invited paper at the third conference of the ERC-funded 'Visual Trust' research project at the University of Barcelona, April 2025.
The paper problematises the historical Positivist 'trust' in photojournalism, and my interrogation of this stance in my new work in progress, an experimental piece of non-fiction writing combining a critical history of photographic seeing with a personal account of violence and anatomical 'blind spots'
Exploring how autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) enhances phygital fashion retail experiences
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Despite the growth of online fashion retailing, the ability to translate sensory experiences relating to texture and tactile responses remains an unresolved opportunity. The aim of this research is to explore the potential for the growing ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) phenomenon to be used in retail marketing content in the fashion sector to enhance sensory aspects of online customer experiences.
Design/methodology/approach:
The research took an interpretive exploratory approach, using audio-visual prompts and semi-structured interviews to provide qualitative insights into the experiences of young fashion consumers when watching retail marketing content created commercially using ASMR-related techniques.
Findings:
The findings indicate that ASMR-related content can enhance all dimensions of online customer experience and improve product and brand perceptions. The ability to create tactile-like sensations through ASMR audio-visual techniques points to an opportunity for ASMR-conscious content to be used in phygital retail environments and communications, effectively enhancing product and brand attributes.
Originality:
In this emerging field, this study represents the first investigation of ASMR within the context of digital service interactions in fashion retail. It advances understanding of the sensory and emotional dimensions of customer experience by demonstrating how cross-modal stimuli, specifically ASMR-triggering audio-visual techniques, can evoke tactile-like sensations. The study also identifies directions for future research on the potential of ASMR to enhance digital and phygital retail customer experiences
Homage: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hans Arp
No full textPaper on the creative and conceptual relationship between the Scottish artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hans Arp
Heart’s Rooted Dove
No full textA short created in a single travelling notebook, celebrating peace and resilience and cultural beauty.
Heart’s Rooted Dove (30s) – A stop‑motion short made in a travelling notebook, celebrating peace, resilience and cultural beauty. Created for @ac4pal and @joannaquinn’s “To Gaza with Love: A global Anijam” in support of @animator_haneen and the young filmmakers she mentors. More info and donations at @ac4pal
Film Specifications
Director & Animator: Kim Noce
Length: 0:30 sec
Format: 1920×1080 HD 16:9 H264
Sound: Recording pot‑banging demonstration
Colour
Vimeo https://vimeo.com/1106648190
Film Website https://filmfreeway.com/projects/3920688
Website: https://kimnoce.wordpress.com
Interactive Website https://togazawith.love
Ómur for G flute, piano, and fixed media
Get PDFÓmur is a composition for flute, piano, and fixed media that explores sound as a site of resonance, friction, and co-presence. The title, meaning “echo” or “resonance” in Icelandic, reflects the work’s attention to what persists, including breath, decay, tactile gesture, and sonic afterimage. The musical materials are shaped through focused decisions around duration, density, and spatial proximity, with equal emphasis on what is played and what is withheld.
The fixed media is conceived as an acousmatic layer that integrates with the acoustic instruments through transducers placed directly on the piano soundboard. This setup allows the electronics to resonate within the body of the piano, extending its material presence and reinforcing a shared acoustic field. Each sample is designed to hold its place within the structure, in conversation with instrumental gesture and silence.
The composition develops from a process of compositional seeding, where musical ideas are derived from speech and textual analysis. These seeds are transformed into gestural, rhythmic, and harmonic material, articulated across both instrumental and electronic layers. The form emerges through the shaping of tension, breath, and alignment. It creates conditions for a listening experience grounded in physical gesture and temporal precision.
Material is treated with restraint, not as minimal, but as deliberately bounded. It is shaped through processes of distillation, spacing, and pressure. The score creates conditions for attentive interaction between performers and systems. It allows interpretation while maintaining structural clarity. Across its sections, Ómur reflects an evolving compositional practice concerned with proximity, resonance, and the construction of shared sonic environments
Muddying Modernity: Laundering and Dirty Laundry in the Brazilian Amazon
Get PDFOrganised by Professor Maria Claudia Bonadio (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora/Post-doctoral Fellows at Universidade Federal Fluminense) and Dr Elizabeth Kutesko (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)
This one-day workshop foregrounds alternative, anachronistic, non-linear, plural, decentred and decolonial Fashion Histories in Latin America, or Abya Yala. To understand the nuances and complexities of Latin American fashion in global perspective over the past five centuries we must reject any simplistic notion of Latin American dependence on an authoritative Anglo-European-dominated fashion industry and culture. The aim is to stitch together a plurality of perspectives that use fashion to illuminate erasures and cast doubt on emphases in established historical accounts. In doing so, we draw together new research into Latin American Fashion Histories that speaks to the present, looks to the future, and interrogates the past.
What are the historical power dynamics that continue to haunt Latin American fashion and its representation in visual and material cultures? How might we construct a global and relational account of fashion and modernity from the perspective of this vast and diverse continent? How can we expel the ghosts of colonialism that cast their shadows on contemporary Latin American fashion design? What is the significance of Latin American archives and museums in revealing colonial injustices but also offering the potential to trouble authorised accounts? Where does resistance to authoritarian social structures intersect with the complexities of fashion as a lived experience in Latin America? How can we interrogate History as a critical practice in the fashioning of Latin America, whilst also acknowledging that alternative fashion histories might employ different concepts of time to those defined by Western historians?
To reflect on these questions, we draw on the writing of historian and anthropologist Lilia Moritz Schwarcz in Brazilian Authoritarianism (2022), originally published in Brazil as Sobre o Autoritarismo Brasileiro (2019). She writes:
Brazilian history [cannot] escape the fundamental ambiguities that, at the same time that it is formed of a chain of events that build upon one another and conjure substantial changes, it is also replete with selective memories and lacunas, emphases and erasures, reliable accounts and glaring omissions (2022, p. 199).
Written in 2018, in the wake of the election victory of self-styled ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Jair Bolsonaro, but translated into English in 2022 to coincide with leftist Lula Inácio Lula da Silva’s return to presidential power, Schwarcz’s argument in Brazilian Authoritarianism is persuasive: Brazil’s present is haunted by the ghosts of its past. The spectres of authoritarianism, intimately tied to 500 years of colonial violence, racism and inequality, continue to haunt its contemporary society and politics, shaping the everyday lives of Brazilians. Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery in 1888. Although Schwarcz focuses on the history of oppression and inequality in Brazil, her ideas are applicable to the wider context of Latin America, whose chequered histories reveal the shadows of colonial legacies that endure, repeat and persist over time
Afterall x Para Site, Reframing Strangeness with Michelle Wun Ting Wong
No full textIn collaboration with Para Site, Hong Kong, as part of the exhibition ‘Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen’s Motherboards and Collagraphs’ (2025), Afterall have initiated a series of conversations with artists, curators and scholars. The exhibition reframes Ha’s motherboards from functional tools to aesthetic objects. We depart from Ha’s unconventional printing practice to generate new interpretations and intergenerational conversations, extending from Hong Kong to the world beyond.
Focused on Hong Kong-based artist Ha Bik Chuen’s printmaking practice, ‘Reframing Strangeness’ stages a selection of his ‘motherboards’: a term Ha coined to designate the printing plates he labouriously assembled from wood and other found materials to produce over 3,000 editioned collagraphs. In this first episode, Afterall editors Elisa Adami and Wing Chan talk to the exhibition’s curator Michelle Wun Ting Wong. We explore how the materials the motherboards are made of can help us read Hong Kong’s history from the 1970s and its changing landscape.
Michelle Wun Ting Wong completed her PhD studies in Art History at The University of Hong Kong in 2025, exploring the modernity emerging from post WWII Hong Kong. From 2012–20 she was a researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA), focusing on Hong Kong art history and histories of exchange and circulation through exhibitions and periodicals.
Ha Bik Chuen (1925–2009) was a Hong Kong-based artist who made prints, sculptures, collage books, and was also a prolific photographer.
This podcast series is produced by Arianna Mercado and co-edited by Elisa Adami, Wing Chan, Adeena Mey and David Morris
Mapping Thresholds and Shifting Roles
Get PDFThis poster invites you to retrace your commute, reflecting on transitions between spaces and personas through drawing while walking. In response to GLAD’s question of ‘In what ways do art school practices value lived experience as knowledge production?’ this poster offers an opportunity to map the intersections of life and work. Reflect on how these transitions influence your creative and pedagogic processes. How much of yourself do you bring into the classroom? What happens in these liminal spaces
The Materiality of Digital Comics
No full textThe Materiality of Digital Comics asks how we can speak meaningfully about digital comics, and how we can do so in a way that remains meaningful as time passes and technology changes. In Part I, the book proposes a model for the study of digital comics that is founded on a material understanding of the form. Across three chapters, the book explores what digital comics are, in physical terms, and how we might structure our understanding of digital comics using six key terms: identifier, file type, software, firmware, hardware, and producers/readers. Each of these elements is explored individually before the relationships between them are discussed. The second part of the book develops this framework across three key areas: economics, histories and geographies. Chapter 5 explores the sales of digital comics and highlights a variety of costs and risks in digital comics that do not apply straightforwardly to print comics. Chapter 6 considers questions of histories as they pertain to digital comics, framing the discussion around four stages in the “life cycle” of a digital comic: creation, maintenance, movement and destruction. Chapter 7 addresses geographies through four topics: localities, nationalities, languages and law. Central to this chapter is the argument that digital comics are physically located things. The book concludes with a discussion of how the model presented here, and the concerns it raises, might be used actively for further scholarship, as well as an outline of other key areas that might be explored through a material analysis of digital comics in future