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Repair Cafés (Multi-component output)
Get PDFThe research presents Repair Café surveys, along with further analysis in a paper in the Journal of Peer-Production. Repair Cafés (Multi-component output) systematically collected and analysed data from
Farnham Repair Café activities helped to reveal the nature and effects of Repair Cafés. The research fills an evidence gap that has existed since Repair Cafés started in 2009. Its insight is the potential of community-led CE actions for environmental change.
4 research reports into repair cafés and paper in a peer-reviewed journal:
Charter, M. and Keiller, S. (2014) Grassroots Innovation and the Circular Economy: A Global Survey of Repair Cafés and Hackerspaces
Charter, M. and Keiller, S. (2016) The Second Global Survey of Repair Cafés
Spekkink, W., Rödl, M. and Charter, M. (2020) Third Global Survey of Repair Cafés
Charter, M. and Whitehead, P. (2020) Farnham Repair Café Survey of Customers
Charter M (2018) ‘Repair Café’, Journal of Peer Production, Issue 1
Bob Godfrey: a Collaborative Act
Get PDFExhibition curated by Jim Walker celebrating the work of Bob Godfrey, a pivotal figure in British animation and in establishing the animation course at UCA.
The exhibition complemented the one-day symposium, 'Cartoon Animation: Satire and Subversion' held at UCA Farnham on 17 February 2020
The Bible onscreen in the new millennium
Get PDFThe extreme profitability of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a great surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering its failure to find production funding through a major studio. Since this time, the Biblical epic, primarily film and television features adapting stories from both the Old and New Testaments, long thought dead in terms of widespread marketability, has become a viable product, both inside and outside of Hollywood with regards to seeking both profits and critical acclaim, as well as outlets for auteurist ‘passion projects’ such as Gibson’s film, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014), and Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). With 2016 seeing two new fiction films featuring depictions of Jesus, the crucifixion, and resurrection [Risen (dir. Kevin Reynolds) and Ben-Hur (dir. Timur Bekmambetov)], academic consideration of the modern Biblical epic is both timely and highly relevant, and this proposed collection aims to be a starting point for filling this scholarly gap
Spaceman
Get PDFAt the invitation of the Kunsthallen Bochum and PAErsche, the Cologne-based international performance art network, Burgoyne responded with two works Spaceman, a performance, and Spacetime, a series of performative sculptural gestures.
In both, the aims are to simultaneously measure and make space. In the former, Burgoyne becomes the space around him, in Space time the space measured he seeks to erect in the site.
As the accumulation of uncharted territory evolves, Burgoyne's gestures and dimensions take on the characteristics akin to some kind of absurd sumo wrestler/ come astronaut moon walk. In Spacetime the attempt to get a material to reach the limits of the site, results in the remnants of that immersion in the entropic verging on the pathetic
Home and work: housework and paid work in British homes
No full textA 9,000 word chapter in an edited anthology, combining a review of the most up to date secondary literature debates with original primary research. The chapter investigates the nature of work within the nineteenth-century home, a space that was normatively defined in opposition to work, as a space of leisure, family and femininity
Contextualising the bronies: cult, quality, subculture and the contradictions of contemporary fandom
No full textThis article critically situates My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010–present) and the ‘brony’ following it has attracted in terms of age and fandom, discourses of quality television, cult media and interactions between fandoms and cultural producers. Far from unprecedented, the show’s unexpected male audience reflects adults’ historic appreciation of media for children, the increased mainstreaming of animation, and the already infantilized persona of media fans. Aspects of the reimagined series reproduce characteristics of ‘quality television’ concerning characterization, genre, authorship and political intentionality. Simultaneously the show corresponds with overlapping aspects of cult television and cult cinema, crucially affording both cultural and subcultural value. Finally, examples of the series deliberately courting adult fan audiences are presented as reflecting reciprocal relationships between show producers and its mature viewers. The brony following consequently reflects changes in contemporary fandom dynamics, and the increasing mobility of twenty-first-century television viewing
A web-based mobile attendance system with facial recognition feature
Get PDFAttendance marking in a classroom is one of the methods used to track the student’s presence in the lecture. The conventional method that is being enforced has shown to be vulnerable, inaccurate and time-consuming especially in a large classroom. It is difficult to identify absentees and proxy attendees based on the conventional attendance marking method. In order to overcome the challenges faced in the conventional method, a web-based mobile attendance system with facial recognition feature is proposed. It incorporated the existing mobile devices with a camera and the face recognition system to allow the attendance system to be used in classrooms automatically and efficiently with minor implementation requirements. The system prototype received positive responses from the volunteers who tested the system to replace the conventional attendance marking
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