Guest Speaker: Dr Charlie Tweed
With the traditional publications still defining many academic careers, it becomes a challenging task for researchers working with practice-based methods. Luckily, the emergence of alternative platforms for dissemination makes this task more attainable and relevant to various non-conventional outputs. This session explores the possibilities and challenges of practice-based focused online journals and other platforms focusing on alternative forms of research-based in creative methods.
Author Archives: Carola Boehm
DICO International Digital Storytelling Online Workshop
This is an opportunity for UG and PG learners of Staffordshire University’s Performing, Media, Digital Arts, Games, Visual Arts, Fine Arts and Design programmes and the Create Place leadership programme to take part in an
International Digital Storytelling Online Workshop (2 ECTS credits)
about
Sustainability in Arts and Culture
Sign in for the workshop at (EVENTBRITE LINK, or contact Carola.Boehm@staffs.ac.uk)
This workshop gives participants an opportunity to reflect on (environmental, cultural, economic, and social) sustainability and share your ideas with other arts and culture students from five universities: MOME (Hungary), Stafforshire University (UK), Technical University of Dublin (Irland), Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and University of Macerata (Italy).
In the workshop, we will use creative methods such as Photo Diary, creative writing and Digital Storytelling. Each student creates their own digital story on sustainability, approaching the theme from a personal perspective: what does sustainability mean in/for my studies, creative/artistic practice, and my identity and career as an arts/culture professional. A web-based video editor WeVideo will be used for editing the digital stories.
You do not need any advanced skills in photography, or prior experience in Digital Storytelling or videoediting to participate in the workshop. You will, however, need:
- A camera phone or a digital camera
- A laptop or desktop computer (a touch screen tablet is not sufficient)
- Google Chrome as a browser
- An external mouse for your computer
- A headset (headphones with a microphone)
- Stable Internet connection
- A silent room for audio recording
The workshop consists of a preassignment and 3 online workshop sessions (in Zoom):
- –23.3.2022 Pre-assignment: Introducing yourself in Teams, readings on sustainability in arts and culture, and a Photo Diary assignment.
- Thu 24.3.2022 Online session 1 at 11–17 (Finland) / 10–16 (Italy & Hungary) / 9–15 (UK & Irland)
- Fri 1.4.2022 Online session 2 at 11–17 (Finland) / 10–16 (Italy & Hungary) / 9–15 (UK & Irland)
- Fri 8.4.2022 Online session 3 at 11–17 (Finland) / 10–16 (Italy & Hungary) / 9–15 (UK & Irland)
Sign in for the workshop at (LINK, or contact Carola.Boehm@staffs.ac.uk)
Participants will receive an email ahead of the workshop, with instructions for the preassignment and for joining the Teams platform used for sharing instructions and materials of the workshop.
The workshop is part of the DICO project (DICO, Digital Career Stories – Opening new career paths for arts and culture students).
Catch-Up: New Civic Imaginaries (#1) Maria Sanchez and Anna Francis
New Civic Imaginaries proposes a shared civil space of ideas that “belong” to society rather than to the individual or the institution. The presentations, chaired by Becky Nunes, collected here represent the fields of research that faculty of the School of DTA at Staffordshire University are currently engaged with.
In this session:
- Wednesday 2 February 2022. 3.30-5.00 p.m
- Dr. Maria Martinez Sanchez: The Fun Palace: Architecture, Theatre and Cybernetics
- Anna Francis: Towards a 100 year Plan
Upcoming Event: How Culture 3.0 is your city?
Carola Boehm: My #Culture30Walks – How Culture 3.0 is your city?
- When: February 9th 2022
- Hosted by Walk – Listen – Cafe:
https://walklistencreate.org/category/walk-listen-cafe/?post_type=walkingevent - Signup and tickets at : https://walklistencreate.org/walkingevent/my-culture30walks-how-culture-3-0-is-your-city/
Summary:
Even before the pandemic the UK, along with many other countries, has seen a shift in how we want to value the way we engage in cultural activities, culminating in the Arts Council England’s 10-year strategy of “Let’s Create”, firmly focussing on supporting access of communities and individuals to cultural production.
For Carola Boehm, a self-described musician-tech-academic, Luigi Sacco’s concept of Culture 3.0 is a key one, characterised by ‘everyday creativity’, co-creation, open platforms, ubiquitously available production tools and individuals constantly shifting and renegotiating their roles between producing and consuming content. This ‘doing away’ with gatekeeping systems supports access, diversity and is evidenced to simply make all our lives healthier, happier, more creative and more resilient.
In testing that notion, she took some walks and documented them in a few twitter threads. These culture30 walks aimed at making visible how places that have attended specifically to cultural policy have almost unknowingly enhanced the everyday creativity that one encounters on a simple 30 minute walk to work. One by one, a #culture30walk told her a story of how culture30 a city really was.
On February 9th, 7pm (UK time) she will explore this with thewalking artist community as part of the Walk – Listen – Cafe (https://walklistencreate.org/category/walk-listen-cafe/?post_type=walkingevent), discussing how this Culture 3.0 concept interfaces with those of the walking artist community.
The curated twitter thread from 2019 can be still seen at #Culture30walk
Catch-Up: Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series #4 – Methodological quagmires in the post-disciplinary era
Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series
(led by Agata Lulkowska at Staffordshire University)
Catch up on past events in this series, a place for inspiring discussions about art/practice-based research and methods. More details of the whole series: https://www.agatalulkowska.com/seminar-series
- Session 4: Methodological quagmires in the post-disciplinary era
- 19th January | 15:30-17:00
- Guest speaker: Prof. Carola Boehm
Although Practice-as-Research has been welcomed in the academic communities, it often finds itself in positions needing to justify its effectiveness. The resistance to new methodologies is common when looking at the evolution of interdisciplinary research enquiry, and practice-as-research is often inter- or even trans-disciplinary in its nature and thus encounters the age-old divide between those methodologies supporting theoretical enquiries and those supporting practically oriented lines of enquiry. And as our knowledge domains grew, this left additional tensions in the choice or acceptance of research methodologies. My presentation will foreground this in the context of ever-growing knowledge domains that are in need of new methodological developments.
Catch-Up: Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series #3 – Creative methods
Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series
(led by Agata Lulkowska at Staffordshire University)
Catch up on past events in this series, a place for inspiring discussions about art/practice-based research and methods. More details of the whole series: https://www.agatalulkowska.com/seminar-series
- Session 3: Creative methods
- 15th December | 15:30-17:00
- Guest speaker: Nicole Brown, UCL
This session explores the wide range of creative methods which could be applied to practice-based research. It reflects on the processes to choose the most relevant methodology, practical application of some, processes, and the implications.
Upcoming Profs in the Pav with Ian Brown
Celebrity and the Attention Economy: how popular culture can commodify an audience’s attention
Event
Monday 6 December 2021TO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO ILLNESSTime: 5.30pm – 7pmTO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO ILLNESS- Pavilion Fusion Cafe, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE
- Register at https://www.staffs.ac.uk/events/2021/12/profs-in-the-pav-autumn-series-2021-2
Professor Ian Brown will base his presentation on a series of artworks produced as part of artists’ group Common Culture (Ian Brown, David Campbell, Mark Durden). The work uses appropriation and the ready-made to engage audiences in a critical assessment of a celebrity culture which functions by commodifying its audience’s attention, leading to questions on its cultural and social value.
OMG I love common culture !!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ and ME, The Total Show were made in response to an American internet celebrity who capitalized on the intimate relationship he had built with his online followers by trademarking the name ‘Common Culture’ to brand, promote and sell a range of products. The Die Raum gallery was turned into a Common Culture shopfront, with logo, weblink and an accumulation of graphic stickers based on the online posts of the celebrity’s fan base. The Rampa gallery collates appropriated and translated material into an enclosed interior space for consumption. The two exhibitions involve a parodic mimicry of the internet celebrity’s commodification of his audience, himself and his products. This explores how the aesthetics, interactions and transactional intimacy built by internet personalities are ruthlessly deployed to convert followers into consumers and attention capital.
OMG I love common culture!!!!♥♥♥♥ Die Raum, Berlin, Germany. 29th Feb — 19th April 2020
Gallery Website: http://www.dieraum.net/index.php?/exhibitions/2020-0045-common-culture/
ME, The Total Show Rampa, Porto, Portugal 30th April – 29th May 2021
Gallery Website: https://www.rampa.pt/event/me-the-total-show/
Catch-Up: Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series #2 – Creative Process meets academic rigour
Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series
(led by Agata Lulkowska at Staffordshire University)
Catch up on past events in this series, a place for inspiring discussions about art/practice-based research and methods. More details of the whole series: https://www.agatalulkowska.com/seminar-series
- Session 2 – Creative Process meets academic rigour
- 24th November | 15:30- 17:00
- Guest speaker: Assoc. Prof Michael Branthwaite
This session will explore the questions of the process – how do you approach creative methods in art/practice-based research? What are the priorities and how to maintain the right balance between creative freedom and academic rigour.
Sharawaji, Ting Ting, and other dreams of lockdown.
A Practice-as-Research exploration by Corrin Jamal and Tim Anderson.
Henrion Gallery, Staffordshire University, 22nd to 28th November 2021.
Upcoming Industrial Crafts Research Symposium
Staffordshire University’s Professor Neil Brownsword is presenting at the upcoming virtual event:
The Industrial Crafts Research Network’s two-day inaugural symposium,
Exhibiting Skill: Understanding, Documenting, and Communicating Skilled Practices of Historical Industrial Environments.
Registration for this symposium can be found here.
Poster and Programme downloadable here.