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Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2018). Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound. In A. Abraham, P. Sagar, & T. Thapa (Eds.), Letters to the Future: Cumulus Conference Proceedings Bengaluru 2017 (48-51)

In this installation, the artist manipulates the speed and duration of the sounds made by his digestive tract before, during, and after the consumption of a meal. Gordon (1993) discovered hidden performative meaning within moving images subjected to... Read More about Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound.

Re-defining Finishing, Performance and Durability: User Re-Manufacturable Surfboards (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerlaff, P. (2018). Re-defining Finishing, Performance and Durability: User Re-Manufacturable Surfboards. In Proceedings of Making Futures 2017 Conference

This paper makes the case for surfboards being a prime archetype of user-object relations. It goes on to argue that design for remanufacture involves redefining notions of finishing, performance, and durability that underpin our relationship to mater... Read More about Re-defining Finishing, Performance and Durability: User Re-Manufacturable Surfboards.

Can Music be Digitised? Samplers, Democratisation, and 'the Digital Age' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2018, December). Can Music be Digitised? Samplers, Democratisation, and 'the Digital Age'. Paper presented at Music, Digitalisation, and Democracy

Rather than an abrupt or revolutionary shift from analogue to digital, I will argue in this paper that the use of digital technologies such as samplers have been part of a more gradual process of socio-musical change. As well as examining the argumen... Read More about Can Music be Digitised? Samplers, Democratisation, and 'the Digital Age'.

Developing Academic Identity- the impact of 'happiness' in university culture (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miller Judd, P. (2018, December). Developing Academic Identity- the impact of 'happiness' in university culture. Paper presented at Society of Research in Higher Education Annual Conference, Newport

This study explores the experience of staff transitioning into academic careers from the creative industries drawing on narratives of personal and professional identity and life/ career transitions.

'A Night at Stobs' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, November). 'A Night at Stobs'. Presented at The Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening

Presentation on the occasion of the Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening, Hawick, Scotland

Inspirational Practice Workshop: Deaf Heritage Collective (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2018, November). Inspirational Practice Workshop: Deaf Heritage Collective. Presented at NCCPE Engage Conference, Edinburgh

In Scotland, Deaf culture has been unacknowledged by the Creative Industries where minority cultural groups are still poorly represented by creative sector funding streams. While the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017 included activity fr... Read More about Inspirational Practice Workshop: Deaf Heritage Collective.

Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, November). Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry. Presented at English research seminar, University of Edinburgh

A poet whose first editor at Faber & Faber was T.S. Eliot, Norman Nicholson (1914-87) lived his whole life in Millom, an ironworks town in the south-west of Cumbria, away from but within sight of the major fells of the Lake District. Nicholson’s fam... Read More about Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry.

Music and Place (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burton, K. (2018, November). Music and Place. Presented at Inverness Architectural Association convention (2018), Inverness, Scotland

I was invited to present a talk on my site-specific practice at the Inverness Architectural Association convention at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness.

An alternative to the peer review workshop for creative writing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, D. (2018, October). An alternative to the peer review workshop for creative writing. Paper presented at Creative Writing Studies Conference 2018

David Bishop presents an alternative to the workshop model, reprogramming the simulator of creative writing to avoid no-win scenarios. He examines how the Edinburgh Napier University program, a genre fiction-focused creative writing program in Scotla... Read More about An alternative to the peer review workshop for creative writing.

Rip It Up: A blueprint for collaborative partnership (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B. (2018, October). Rip It Up: A blueprint for collaborative partnership. Paper presented at School of Arts and Creative Industries 20x20

Rip It Up: The story of Scottish Pop Music is a feature exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. This presentation charts the involvement of students from the School of Creative Industries in developing the "fan stories" film, marketing plans,... Read More about Rip It Up: A blueprint for collaborative partnership.

Developing a Notation Standard for Hybrid Drum Kit and Percussion Controllers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B. (2018, October). Developing a Notation Standard for Hybrid Drum Kit and Percussion Controllers. Poster presented at School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Conference, Edinburgh Napier University

Since the late 1970s drummers have had the option to integrate drum kit technologies into their performance setup. Although we have had these technologies for over 40 years, there still remains no standard way of notating performances for either hybr... Read More about Developing a Notation Standard for Hybrid Drum Kit and Percussion Controllers.

Writing for St Albert's (illustrated lecture) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burton, K. (2018, October). Writing for St Albert's (illustrated lecture). Presented at Holy Ground Talks, the Chapel of St Albert the Great, Edinburgh, Scotland

This lecture was presented at the Chapel of St Albert the great, two days after my composition, for St Albert's was presented in the space as part of Edinburgh Doors open Day 2018. I was invited to speak about my work as part of the Chapel's Holy Gro... Read More about Writing for St Albert's (illustrated lecture).

One and Three Discs (after Kosuth) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2018, September). One and Three Discs (after Kosuth). Presented at Creative Legacies: Collaborative Practices for Digital Cultural Heritage

It is over 50 years since Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual work One and Three Chairs (1965) challenged its viewer to locate the “real” by choosing between an object & its visual or textual representations (Juzefovic, 2013). Replacing Kosuth’s chair with a... Read More about One and Three Discs (after Kosuth).

“The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, September). “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war. Paper presented at 1918-2018: The End of the War & the Reshaping of a Century, University of Wolverhampton

Andrew Frayn’s paper focuses on the post-war moment, examining the novelist, poet and philosopher May Sinclair’s post-war work. Sinclair volunteered for the Munro Ambulance Corps in 1914, and her experience of the war stimulated a sustained burst of... Read More about “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war.

Cross Campus Shared Reading – Staff / Student Collaboration under Scrutiny (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2018, September). Cross Campus Shared Reading – Staff / Student Collaboration under Scrutiny. Paper presented at RAISE Conference 2018: Working better together: collaborations in student engagement, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

No abstract available.

Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2018, September). Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments. Paper presented at Art of Record Production (ARP)/International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) UK & Ireland Branch Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK

Since the 1980s and 1990s, scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, more specifically, those adopting the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach have been investigating ‘the user-technology nexus’. This continued a shift in th... Read More about Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments..

‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, August). ‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global. Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS)

Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Lead Panel on Anniversary Capital, Bangor, Wales

Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’ (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, July). Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’. Paper presented at 14th Conference of the IGA 'Gothic Hybridities', Manchester Metropolitan University

For most of the long nineteenth century, the apparently hybrid biological workings and the unstable taxonomical status of moulds and fungi puzzled and fascinated scientists. Their ubiquity, plasticity, and position in what Ernst Haeckel termed a ‘bou... Read More about Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’.