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Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dawn
No full textInclusion of Engram 10, 40 x 60 x 4 cm, 2011, in the group exhibition 'Dawn Blossoms
Apparatus 00:37:94
No full text‘Apparatus 00:37:94’ is a kinetic sculptural assemblage produced collaboratively with the artist Kristaps Ancāns, and is part of an evolving constellation of artefacts, events and exhibitions grouped under the title ‘Metahorror’. These interrelated elements explore possibilities for generating meta-commentary within visual practice, through experimentation with the self-reflexive conventions deployed in specific forms of genre fiction.
By extending approaches associated with post-modern literature to contemporary art practice, the project aims at fostering new narrative modes in experimental moving image, performance and multimedia installation. In the process it pulls into focus a broader ongoing enquiry into genre fiction and relationships between art, entertainment and esoteric thought.
Installed as a physical counterpoint to video works produced for an earlier iteration of the project, the sculpture – which comprises a stylised symbolic manikin-object that is crudely animated by an exposed mechanical apparatus – performatively dramatises a dimension of this enquiry
Practice-based dissertations: Exploring the relationship between practice and writing in the creative arts
No full textLove in Families
Get PDFThis chapter traces how love was a factor in creating, sustaining, and curtailing family-household relationships, shaping who was included or excluded. It shows that numerous intersecting hierarchies, determined by patriarchal and colonial societies and cultures, influenced how love in families operated. In relationships structured by power differentials, for example, love was used to rationalise or justify unequal authority, to prevent the abuse of power, and as a means for those in the ‘inferior’ position to negotiate, ameliorate, or mediate relationships. Family members also used love, often in a material or symbolic form, to remember and memorialise relatives and advance a family’s social, economic, and political interests. Furthermore, familial love was one way in which individuals constructed public identities and was used as a concept to define human identities collectively, whether at the level of community, nation, or even species
Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach (2nd edition)
No full textSuccess in the fashion industry is not solely based on creativity and innovation; thought-out strategy and an astute application of management concepts are just as essential. The second edition of Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach is the ideal companion for students determined to understand the strategic frameworks vital to achieving success in the highly competitive world of fashion.
With its international approach and features, including abstracts from key Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases in each chapter, this is the go-to guide for students getting to grips with the issues facing fashion organisations today. Covering prominent brands such as Prada, Glossier, Nike and ASOS, as well as SMEs like Elvis and Kresse, this text not only prepares readers for academic success, but also for the diversity of the real-world fashion industry.
The second edition of Fashion Management includes:
· A new chapter on 'Managing Routes to Fashion Markets', reflecting the growing precedence of digitalisation and omnichannel retailing in the contemporary fashion industry.
· A new chapter on 'Fashion Law', highlighting the importance of recognising and responding to legal issues such as intellectual property law, data protection, consumer law and influencer culture.
· Substantial new material on ethics, sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), an understanding of which is vital as calls for transparency in the fashion industry continue to grow.
· Additional and updated case studies covering a range of fashion companies from all over the world, including India, Australia, France, the UK, and many more
Reflection Across AI-based Music Composition
Get PDFReflection is fundamental to creative practice. However, the plurality of ways in which people reflect when using AI Generated Content (AIGC) is underexplored. This paper takes AI-based music composition as a case study to explore how artist-researcher composers reflected when integrating AIGC into their music composition process. The AI tools explored range from Markov Chains for music generation to Variational Auto-Encoders for modifying timbre. We used a novel method where our composers would pause and reflect back on screenshots of their composing after every hour, using this documentation to write first-person accounts showcasing their subjective viewpoints on their experience. We triangulate the first-person accounts with interviews and questionnaire measures to contribute descriptions on how the composers reflected. For example, we found that many composers reflect on future directions in which to take their music whilst curating AIGC. Our findings contribute to supporting future explorations on reflection in creative HCI contexts
Thinking with Sound: Exploring the Experience of Listening to an Ultrasonic Art Installation
Get PDFEntanglement theories are well established in HCI discourse. These involve a commitment to view human experience in encounters with technology as relational and contingent, and research apparatuses as co-producers rather than passive observers of phenomena. In this paper, we argue that sound is the sensory modality best suited to the investigation of entanglements. Materialist theories of sound and listening guide both the design of a novel interactive sound installation and the methodological approach of a participant study exploring the experience of listening. We present a diffractive analysis whereby micro-phenomenological interview data is read with sonic theories, generating accounts that might otherwise remain mute: the temporal fluctuation and physical feeling of proximity in listener entanglements with sound, somatic intention setting, and plural interpretations of interactivity. Finally, we offer a series of provocations for HCI to embrace qualities of the sonic and consider epistemological positions grounded in other sense modalities
If you call for papers, the papers call back at you: some thoughts on CfP and selection processes
Get PDFIn her ‘Manifesto to Decentre Theatre and Performance Studies’ (2021), Swati Arora explores the intangible and invisible borders that function to exclude certain people and knowledges, usually indexed by race, gender, class, and geography, from the academy. As a new working group convenor, I’m interested in thinking through what hidden borders might operate through the Call for Paper and panel selection process. What are prospective panellists really being asked to demonstrate? What unofficial knowledges are privileged and who has access to these? How can we reorient this process towards questioning and away from demonstration of knowledge? In this short provocation I reflect my own experience of selecting abstracts and ask what work might be done to develop a more transparent and empowering model of panel curation. This is a short provocation that was prepared for the roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonisation and Solidarity’ as part of the conference, Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance, which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, on 30 June and 1 July 2022
The Adventures Of Administrator-who-is-also-a-Researcher
Get PDFThis poster was presented at the 2024 ARMA conference, with an accompanying video explanation. It examines the benefits and problems of being a research administrator who is also actively involved in research. Having personal experience of tasks like writing grant applications, submitting metadata to internal systems, and dealing with open access requirements enables the Administrator-who-is-also-a-Researcher to see issues from both sides, providing insight to administrative colleagues while also being able to help other researchers navigate through University processes, and understand why they're there.
The poster covers these and other issues in a comic strip format written and drawn by the presenter
Is computational creativity flourishing on the dead internet?
Get PDFThe dead internet theory is a conspiracy theory that states that all interactions and posts on social media are no longer being made by real people, but rather by autonomous bots. While the theory is obviously not true, an increasing amount of posts on social media have been made by bots optimised to gain followers and drive engagement on social media platforms. This paper looks at the recent phenomenon of these bots, analysing their behaviour through the lens of computational creativity to investigate the question: is computational creativity flourishing on the dead internet