Our research events focus on the subject areas of design, fine art and performance.
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Blame the Tools
Together with practitioners and academics from across disciplines, this symposium invited makers, curators, crafters, designers, historians, artists, collectors, architects, storytellers, users and social scientists to share understandings of the tool from multiple viewpoints.
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Staging Mixed Reality
A theatre design symposium focusing on the ever-evolving field of mixed reality performance and new digital possibilities on stage.
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Museum Engagement as Speculative Design
How speculative design might be used to explore museum spaces.
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Revolt, She Said
Chelsea’s Subjectivity and Feminisms research group event discussing revolt and revolution in art.
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Staging The Real
Theatre design symposium that considered how realisms and variations of the real have been shaped and staged.
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Painting as ReModel
Event that looked at Yve-Alain Bois seminal book Painting as Model and painting as being both conceptual and material enquiry. Convened by Daniel Sturgis.
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Women in Conceptual Art
Presentation of research in performance, scores, film and happenings emerging from female artists’ conceptual art practices. Convened by Dr Jo Melvin.
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Speculative Design: Afrofuturist and Indigenous Projections
Symposium that looked at work that engages with themes of Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futures. Convened by Dr Dan Byrne-Smith, Fine Art Theory Lecturer.
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Adaptation, Participation, Risk-taking
Event looking at creative interventions in contemporary performance with a workshop by ZU-UK.
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Encountering Difference
Symposium picturing difference in contemporary lens-based practices. Convened by Dr Ope Lori.
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Shame on You
Symposium that drew together performance artists, psychoanalysis academics and novelists to discuss shame, sexuality and identity.
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Im/Material: Encounters within the Creative Arts Archive
Conference that considered the role of the archive in the creation, interpretation and preservation of culture.
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Shadow without Object
Interdisciplinary symposium on photographic futures in a post-digital world.
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Projection / Expulsion: Strategies of Beholding
Symposium and exhibition looking at moving image installation and sound works.
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On Interpretation
Panel discussion with Robert Storr, Bernd Behr, Rebecca Heald and David A Bailey.
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Victorian Futures
Conference that explored how ideas of cultural democracy are realised through design, architecture, art, material culture and popular culture.
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What Does the Artwork Do?: Criticality and Context
Symposium provided a space to explore and debate the role and purpose of artwork.
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Taste After Bourdieu
Taste After Bourdieu conference asks what is the relationship between aesthetic judgement and social distinction? Speakers, information and recordings.
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Memories of the Future
Conference looking at future scenarios, utopian visions, narratives, histories and myths.