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Get PDFA review of Dearest Sister Wendy... A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship, Sister Wendy Beckett and Robert Ellsberg (Orbis)and A Friendship in Twilight. Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life, Jack Miles & Mark C. Taylor (Columbia University Press
Participation & Winning Award in 'A Great River' Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, Yunnan Province, China, December 2023
Get PDFMy photo project 'Jökulsá á Fjöllum' was selected for and exhibited at the 'A Great River' Xishuangbanna Foto Festival in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, December 2023.
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Havens: Stories and Portraits from NHS Lothian - Installation at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
No full textThrough the media of photography, audio, collaborative investigation and observation, this major project considers the lived experience of those working within the National Health Service in Scotland over an 18-month period between 2022-24.
Our principal research question was What is it like to work in the NHS in the 21st century? With particular attention to: is there a difference in experience between the working lives of clinical and non-clinical staff in the NHS context? And is provision of appropriate break locations in NHS estate sites and in-field work locations linked with staff retention and satisfaction?
This research was co-created by Lottie Davies and Craig Easton using in-person qualitative interviews, portrait and still-life photography, creative workshops and observation of working practices (both clinical and non-clinical) across various NHS locations within the Lothian area in and around Edinburgh, Scotland.
Understanding the physical spaces where individuals take their breaks, and the psychological impact of those breaks (in nature, length and location), specifically within the context of each individual’s working role within the vast organisation that is the NHS, was key to the research and its output and impact. Thus, multiple methods of investigation including recorded interviews, informal observation and questioning, in conjunction with formal portraiture and observational still life photography, were employed to achieve a textured and multi-layered set of data from which to produce similarly multi-faceted outcomes.
The outputs of this research are more than 70 artworks with accompanying audio works, a permanent archive of the same (digital and physical), a publication including a 6000-word piece of creative non-fiction, and multiple touring exhibitions in exterior and interior spaces. These last began display in 2023 and will continue to tour indefinitely across NHS Lothian sites. The location of these exhibitions and the publication, specifically placed to engage the public on a daily basis, means that many thousands of visitors, patients and workers within the NHS will be able to engage with the research and its findings
The Great Uncut
Get PDFThe use of uncut cloth for clothing - the non-western influence with a particular focus on Japanese/Eastern dress
MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Eleven: Representing Women's Realities
No full textThis focus feature edition of MAI, devoted to representations of women’s realities, has been a long time in the making. We are now delighted to finally offer this provocative, engaging, and political dossier. These articles cover a range of aesthetic principles and strategies which women artists, activists and filmmakers have used to present their realities to a world that all too often—structurally, culturally, socially, and politically—denies them access to representation and to voice.
The concerns of representing and narrating our global realities and mediating our diverse identities have always been feminist issues. Still, with the insurgence of new technologies, the potentially vile effects of artificial intelligence on women, minorities and disenfranchised communities, and the seeming injunction on young women especially to represent themselves online, the questions raised and addressed in this collection of articles are of increasingly pressing importance for feminist politics.
Using different forms, from poems through interviews, reports, and reviews to more traditional research papers and studying the representations of reality in docs, the avant-garde and fiction, our insightful, talented MAI authors discuss the relationship between the feminist creator and the spectator as they produce and read visual stories grounded in experience
Clever and Difficult, Vital and Energetic
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Cuts, fades and layers: Audio production interfaces and mental schemas for radiophonic storytelling
Get PDFAudio journalists and documentary makers who use spatial audio talk about the need to think and work differently, planning sound scenes in 3 dimensions, avoiding usual techniques such as layering audio tracks or making frequent cuts (Wincott, Martin and Richards 2021). Object-based audio – newer technology being developed to make spatialised audio programmes – asks them to think about their work as composed of sound objects that will be distributed in space and time, rather than as a finished linear mix.
As big broadcasters in France, Germany and the UK invest in rolling out spatial sound technology, spatial techniques seem to be challenging for many programme-makers, who continue to apply non-spatial format conventions: fading, layering, cutting and narrating, thus undermining spatiality and immersion of their work.
In this presentation I explore the role production technology might play in these difficulties, by thinking of technological interfaces as metaphors that attempt to represent the nature of sound and of narrative, and also to represent the cognitive and production processes of programme-makers. The nature of material and virtual interfaces used to produce programmes facilitate and constrain ways we think about and produce our work (Galitz 2007; García-Crespo, Ramahí-García and García-Mirón, 2021).
Modern editing software has processes designed into it that might not match the processes by which work is produced, as Duignan, Noble and Biddle (2010) found with music composers. Software uses a vocabulary of visual abstract representations of sound and process on a flat screen, including audio ‘tracks’, waveforms, cuts and fades, files, folders and so on. Some of these terms predate computer editing, and draw on tape and mixing desk technology, on typewriters and paper. How might they fail to capture spatial thinking and spatial production processes
A MAP TO GET LOST BY
Get PDFPoem for the July 2023 edition of Literature Today, on the theme of 'To Err Is Human