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900 Voices (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Irvine, Z. (2024). 900 Voices. [Sound]. 2 August 2024 - 19 October 2024

900 Voices is a participative sound art project by Zoë Irvine with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. It has been commissioned as part of Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral’s momentous 900th Anniversary celebrations.

900 Voices is a sound art installa... Read More about 900 Voices.

Hypnos (Rotterdam Independent Film Festival) (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. Hypnos (Rotterdam Independent Film Festival). 1 August 2024

Official selection (semi-finalist) for Rotterdam Independent Film Festival 2024.

An Ancient Egyptian poem, driving through a storm, radio, memory and the otherworld. A dream film on Super8 and HD.

Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel (2024)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2024). Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel. In J. Lipski, & M.-C. Newbould (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts (140-154). Edinburgh University Press

Samuel Richardson warned in his didactic novel Pamela (1740), ‘Be sure don’t let people’s telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make... Read More about Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel.

Art Directing Blended Experiences (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mastermaker, M., Okeefe, B. J., Flint, T., & Resmini, A. (2024, July). Art Directing Blended Experiences. Presented at Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark

Interactions between the physical and the digital have become increasingly ubiquitous. They are particularly challenging to visualize and illustrate, as they usually unfold over time and space and involve multiple devices, locations, services, and ac... Read More about Art Directing Blended Experiences.

Accommodating Photography in Southeast Asian Museums (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2024, July). Accommodating Photography in Southeast Asian Museums. Presented at International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 13), Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Owing to the ubiquity, multifaceted uses, and vast volume of photographs that exist in physical and online worlds, photography presents itself as a challenging practice for 21st-century art institutions. Indeed, what is museum photography and its cul... Read More about Accommodating Photography in Southeast Asian Museums.

Alpona and Kolam as thresholds in the cultural ecology of India (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhattacharya, A. (2024, July). Alpona and Kolam as thresholds in the cultural ecology of India. Presented at ICAS 13 (international Convention of Asia Scholars), Surabaya, Indonesia

This paper explores the cultural and spiritual significance of alpona and kolam in eastern and southern India. Both these forms are rooted in local folk-art traditions (Mitter 2008) that connect socio-economic contexts and community life with seasona... Read More about Alpona and Kolam as thresholds in the cultural ecology of India.

AI and Medical Images: Addressing Ethical Challenges to Provide Responsible Access to Historical Medical Illustrations (2024)
Journal Article
Jaillant, L., & Aske, K. (2024). AI and Medical Images: Addressing Ethical Challenges to Provide Responsible Access to Historical Medical Illustrations. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 18(3),

This article examines the ethical considerations and broader issues around access to digitised historical medical images. These illustrations and, later, photographs are often extremely sensitive, representing disability, disease, gender, and race in... Read More about AI and Medical Images: Addressing Ethical Challenges to Provide Responsible Access to Historical Medical Illustrations.

Sculpture and Activism: Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. Sculpture and Activism: Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso. 19 July 2024 - 7 November 2024

Sculpture and Activism of Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso is an exhibition of two sculptors, Dolorosa Sinaga and Budi Santoso who come from two different generations and cultural traditions. They met for the first time in 2000 when Dolorosa opened her... Read More about Sculpture and Activism: Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso.

Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Neilan, C. (in press). Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing

Since the emergence of Syd Field’s Screenplay in 1979 and the modern screenwriting gurus that followed, Western cinema has undergone a profound conventionalisation process, deifying the single protagonist quest narrative, with its roots in Aristoteli... Read More about Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’.

Virtual Rehabilitation: XR Design for Senior Users in Immersive Exergame Environments (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charisis, V., Khan, S., AlTarteer, S., & Lagoo, R. (2024, June). Virtual Rehabilitation: XR Design for Senior Users in Immersive Exergame Environments. Presented at 2024 IEEE Gaming, Entertainment, and Media Conference (GEM), Turin, Italy

The global ageing population presents significant challenges, with healthcare systems strained to meet the needs of an increasingly elderly demographic. Societies face issues related to healthcare costs, caregiving, and maintaining quality of life fo... Read More about Virtual Rehabilitation: XR Design for Senior Users in Immersive Exergame Environments.

Mother & Daughters (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Mother & Daughters. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024

The Lahu people, an ethnic group originating in China and other parts of southeast Asia, began moving into Thailand probably in the 1870s or 1880s due to oppression in China. Lahu hill tribes in Thailand today total between 60,000 to 100,000 people,... Read More about Mother & Daughters.

Love and Border (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Love and Border. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024

Mae Sot is a border city in western Thailand, a few kilometres from the border with Myanmar, and home to sizeable community of Myanmarese migrants and refugees. Myanmar’s severe political and economic problems, including violent oppression of ethnic... Read More about Love and Border.

Self-Shooting the Humanist Documentary (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neilan, C. (2024, July). Self-Shooting the Humanist Documentary. Paper presented at Times In-Between Conference and Film Festival: Barriers, Borders, and Boundaries in Short Film Forms, Gorizia, Italy

In ethnographic documentary traditions, the medium of film and video is used to communicate cultural knowledge and experiences (Gill, 2020). Jean Rouch advocated developing ‘an intimate understanding of the community’ in which the filmmaker works, s... Read More about Self-Shooting the Humanist Documentary.

Meet Big Bird (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Meet Big Bird. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024

The Karen ethnic minority, from Karen State in southeastern Myanmar, have been fighting for independence since 1948—the longest running civil war in the world. The Myanmarese junta have committed well-documented war crimes and acts of ethnic cleansi... Read More about Meet Big Bird.

The First World War in the 1920s (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (in press). The First World War in the 1920s. In T. Bényei, S. Boskani, & N. Hubble (Eds.), The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing

A survey of First World War literature in the 1920s.

Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2024)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, A. (2024). Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing. Postcolonial Text, Vol 19(1 & 2),

This chapter explores how Shubhangi Swarup’s novel Latitudes of Longing (2018) breaks out of the developmental narrative of nation-time into an exploration of the impressions of deep time in which events impact human consciousness on a planetary scal... Read More about Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing.

Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976 (2024)
Thesis
Geddes, K. Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Early television food and cooking programmes from the period 1936-1976 remain a neglected area of media history research, despite their inclusion in the broadcasting schedules from the very beginning of television broadcasts in Britain. This thesis c... Read More about Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976.

Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2024, July). Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance. Paper presented at The World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Nottingham, England

This paper suggest that Lewis Spence’s work – or some of it: specifically, some of his poetry in Scots – evokes the sense of 'The Weird' as defined by Mark Fisher; that is, as Fisher writes in his Introduction to The Weird and the Eerie (2016): ‘the... Read More about Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance.

Designing Blended Experiences Workshop: Pedagogies across digital and physical spaces (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Okeefe, B. J., Resmini, A., Flint, T., Chirico, A., Carter, A. R. L., Mastermaker, M., Lindenfalk, B., & Sturdee, M. (2024, July). Designing Blended Experiences Workshop: Pedagogies across digital and physical spaces. Presented at Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark

Digital transformation is increasingly blurring the line between what software is and what the physical world can be. This requires designers to harmoniously blend digital and physical products, services, and spaces to orchestrate meaningful experien... Read More about Designing Blended Experiences Workshop: Pedagogies across digital and physical spaces.