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Invisible Voice - 'Periphera,' Trafaria Digital Art Festival (Group Exhibition)
No full textThe interactive public art installation features an advertising board equipped with custom sensor technology. When an audience member approaches, the sensor triggers an analysis to identify brands the person is wearing or carrying. These brands are cross-referenced with the Invisible Voice database, displaying relevant images and (controversial) news article headlines on the screen to create a subvertising effect. This setup not only educates but also encourages active public participation by revealing the social and environmental impacts of consumer brands. As viewers approach, the installation displays detailed data about the companies, including environmental impacts, corporate accountability, lobbying, and financial conduct, along with a network graph showing links to other companies and individuals. This dynamic interaction transforms passive observation into an engaging pedagogical experience
Exhibiting Fashion
No full textA workshop to solicit feedback from professionals working in the filed on a draft of the Exhibiting Fashion toolkit, produced through the AHRC-funded Exhibiting Fashion research project
Transforming spectator into collaborator during a digitalised dance performance
Get PDFThe traditional construct of dance performances has predominantly positioned the audience as passive observers with little to no interaction with the unfolding narrative on stage. However, the advent of digital technology has paved the way for a more immersive and interactive performative experience. This paper elucidates the transformation of this dynamic through the lens of an interactive dance performance piece, “Moving Photon”, which endeavors to blur the entrenched demarcations between performers and spectators. By melding choreographic improvisation, interactive installations, and physiological sensing, “Moving Photon” cultivates a co-constitutive interaction, challenging conventional performative frameworks. Through two distinct configurations, performance and installation setting, the piece endeavors to transition spectators from passive observers to active collaborators in the narrative. The performance setting leverages real-time electroencephalogram (EEG) data from audience members to influence the kinetic dynamics of the installation, thus directly impacting the dancer's improvisational choreography. Conversely, the setup of the interactive installation invites participants to influence the musical score and the installation's robotic movements through motion-sensing devices, fostering a tangible feedback loop. The reflections gathered from initial exhibitions reveal a heightened sense of connectivity and shared authorship of the performance among both the performer and audience members. This innovative exploration signifies a step forward towards fostering more collaborative and multimodal engagements in digital art performances
What Are Truthful Images?
Get PDFIn this survey Stephanie Black and Luise Vormittag reflect on seven possible intersections of illustration and trut
Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance
Get PDFUnderpinning Resource-Based View (RBV) and Relational View (RV) as theoretical premises, we examine the influence of the macro and micro-level factors on inter-organisational relationship/alliances dynamics and competitive advantage of Focal Firms (FF) operating in an emerging Small Island Economy (SIE), Mauritius. Data gathered from in-depth interviews of boundary spanners of FF from diverse industries and sectors, were analysed using the open, axial, and selective coding procedure to establish the main factors influencing inter-organisational relationship dynamics and competitive advantage. Our findings explain and provide insights into the embedded nature of the firms, inter-organisational relationships, value co-creation (VCC), internationalisation capabilities and performance. The novel themes of cultural intelligence and tight-knit society were considered pivotal to firms' relational strategy and advantage, locally; and in their VCC and internationalisation opportunities and capabilities. Our propositions on the emerging themes and the core category web of ties stemming from the situational features define Mauritius, and the multi-level theoretical framework can be extended to understand inter-organisational relationship/alliances in other emerging economies with similar architecture
UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Report on the pilot research project
Get PDF‘UAL Climate Systems Mapping’ is pilot research project conducted by researchers and team members employed at UAL supported by the Social Purpose Lab. An institutional driver for the project is the commitment to net-zero emissions across scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2040 and scope 1 and 2 by 2030 in UAL’s Climate Action Plan (UAL, 2022) and UAL’s Strategy 2022-32 (UAL, 2022). Beyond science-based targets, UAL’s social purpose and anti-racism strategies motivate a ‘climate- justice’ framing for this pilot research project.
ISBN 978-1-906908-86-7
UAL – like all HEIs and organisations – will be challenged to meet the targets. Our creative capabilities, collective spirit, track-record and momentum at UAL are some of our greatest assets moving ahead. With this project and report, we aim to provide a realistic and systematic overview of where we’re at, to illuminate the diversity, amount and momentum of positive actions and momentum, at as well as to illuminate clear pathways and actions toward an ecologically regenerative university. Our aim is to brief, inspire and equip UAL leaders, colleagues and our community to act collaboratively, collectively and systematically across colleges and levels.
The report presents five sets of findings toward two research questions: ‘What is…?’, e.g. UAL’s contribution to extraction and regeneration, and; ‘What if…?’, e.g. how might we transition to a regenerative future UAL. The report also includes a number of key insights and proposals for future work resulting from the year-long research project.
This research has explored uncharted territory through a research premise of ‘insider knowledge’, by which we mean research grounded in a variety of participant perceptions, experiences, expertise and co-creation activities and, further, we researchers are part of the university community. The primary research approach is grounded in participatory action research (PAR) and research through design (RtD) including, more specifically, ‘design for transitions’ tools. PAR and RtD have substantively engaged students and staff across all campus sites, including experts in higher education and in climate, and selected departments (to date, Research Management Administration, Library Services and Student Marketing Recruitment Administration). The theoretical approach – grounded in complex systems, social practice and transitions theories - enables complex mapping of UAL’s interconnected systems. Resulting insights offer ‘insider’ (e.g. adapted and practicable) knowledge into our two research questions, including ‘what if’ in terms of creative, pragmatic imagining of a regenerative university
UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Tools (A0 posters)
Get PDFThis PDF accompanies the publication:
Wallace, N., Mazé, R., Williams, D., Landin, D., Tuft, N., and Ng, N. (2024) UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Facilitation guide and toolkit. University of the Arts London.
ISBN 978-1-906908-86-7
https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/21982/
https://doi.org/10.58129/pwyt-8052
This PDF contains A0-size poster of the tools
virtue flagging
No full textA soma-technical exploration of sound, language and figure ground relations. A glossy body lump in virtual space is surrounded as words arrive in friendly shapes and tones with bitter technical, imagist and affectual evocations. The present is considered in terms of its structural violence and opportunities for hate. A body imitates video game emote gestures in slippery capturing techniques. An emphatic AI chorus modelled from attention holding mastery attempts to sing death bed instrumentals
The Miraculous Destiny of James Somerset
No full text'The Miraculous Destiny of James Somerset' is a painting that was first shown in the 2024 solo exhibition 'Kimathi Donkor: Black History Painting' at the Niru Ratnam gallery in London, England.
The work's title is a reference to James Somerset, the African abolitionist who won a landmark, 1772 legal case that challenged the legitimacy of slavey in England and secured his own liberty in the process
Imagining Possibilities for Fashion Education: A Walking Conversation
Get PDFA booklet resource developed for the Imagining Possibilities Festival at London College of Fashion, UAL to support a workshop of the same name