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Drawing from Virtual Travel: Regret, Danger, and Magic
Get PDFThis article explores the experiential qualities of drawing from the world of Google Maps. It will consider
the possibilities of drawing from digital geographies and the potential of virtual travel to offer newfound
perspectives. Notions of regret, danger and magic are investigated to support the concept of the artistcyberflâneur
as the practice of observing, revealing and reclaiming parts of the internet space through
artistic endeavours. Regret: How does drawing from the Google Map reality incite comparisons and feelings
of longing? Danger: What are the rules of copyright and the restrictions of edited, curated online
spaces? Magic: What can the artist’s work from Google Maps reveal about our world as distanced observers,
and what transportive qualities can Google Maps inspire? This article will bring in personal experience
of drawing from virtual travel as a solo artist and drawing with others, reflecting on social drawing
from Google Maps as part of artistic practice
The Overrepresentation of Cisgender Men in Esports Research
Get PDFAim: This perspective article aimed to explore the balance in gender diversity of participants in empirical esports research.
Methods and results: Publications listed in the Esports Research Network academic research database were examined, and the number and characteristics of participants utilized within the research were recorded. 120 publications and 85,765 participants were included in the analysis. Analysis revealed that 65 studies (54.17%) included cisgender (i.e., a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth) men and cisgender women, 20 studies (16.67%) included cisgender men only, and 2 studies (1.67%) included cisgender women only. Fourteen studies (11.67%) included cisgender men, cisgender women and transgender (i.e., a person whose gender identity differs to their sex assigned at birth) participants, and 0 studies included only transgender people. The remaining 19 studies (15.83%) only provided the number of either cisgender men or cisgender women, with no other details regarding the sex or gender of other participants. Out of the 85,765 participants, 69,698 cisgender men (81.27%), 13,907 cisgender women (16.22%), 94 transgender participants (0.11%), and 2,066 participants of unknown gender or sex (2.41%) were included.
Conclusions: Cisgender men inclusion in esports research appears to be notably higher than cisgender women and transgender folks, and future research should address this disparity
'Stratigraphy' Sculpture.
No full textStratigraphy – The title refers to the laying down of sediments and the depth related chronological ordering of finds as is used archaeology. I am interested here in our wetland landscape as experienced now and in relation also to a deeper sense of time, of things from our collective human past and earlier. I am working with the components of these West Country flood lands, the rhyne water, reeds and peat that collectively define our experience of the landscape hoping to capture something of the auratic quality of our engagement. The cabinet form, as used in museums and dioramas, is familiar to many of us and here acts as a frame to contain, and to allow us to consider the layering of time and place. My work methodologies are by their iterative nature always shifting and through multiple drawings and test assembly decisions are made about composition and placement. My work is also underpinned by an ethical fieldwork collection methodology and the sustainably retrieved elements are then manipulated and assembled in the studio. The bones of mice and voles, periodically flooded out of their burrows in the shifting wetland landscape, are the prey species of the tawny and barn owls that hunt over the levels. The assembly of the collected bones, all retrieved from found owl pellets, are arranged here under a leaden sky, referencing the often-unseen non-human lives that are lived out around us
Moving, mesmerising, memorable
Get PDFA review of singer/ songwriter Reg Meuross's show Stolen From God, a collection of songs confronting the legacies of the slave trade, at Devoran Village Hall in January 2024
Love & Language
Get PDFA review of The Book of All Loves, Agustín Fernández Mallo (Fitzcarraldo Editions)and Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti (Fitzcarraldo Editions