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Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouet, E. (2015). Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans

Jerome Cohen argues that the creature or the monster provides a space of interaction: ‘The space of transformation, becoming, passion, alterity, the uncanny, the utopian, is in fact an interspace.’ The relationship and conflict between the monster an... Read More about Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans..

Following the Instruments, Designers, and Users: The Case of the Fairlight CMI (2015)
Journal Article
Harkins, P. (2015). Following the Instruments, Designers, and Users: The Case of the Fairlight CMI. Journal on the Art of Record Production,

The focus of this article is the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), which is generally regarded as the first commercially available digital sampler. However, its designers, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, were primarily interested in the use of... Read More about Following the Instruments, Designers, and Users: The Case of the Fairlight CMI.

Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice (2015)
Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medbøe, H. (2015). Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1

This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related areas: participants’ interpretations and definitions of the term ‘composition’... Read More about Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice.

noPILLS in waters (2015)
Report
Dagot, C., van der Grinten, E., Helwig, K., Klepiszewski, K., Lyko, S., Nafo, I., …Ramzan, R. (2015). noPILLS in waters. EU

Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (PiE) are an increasingly recognised risk to the quality of surface water and groundwater. The noPILLS project contributed towards a better understanding of the complex system of processes and – probably more import... Read More about noPILLS in waters.

Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2015, June). Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project. Paper presented at Conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Edinburgh exists as the pre-eminent city of ambient festival space boasting as it does a calendar of conspicuous cosmopolitan public life that announces the arrival of a self-consciously international urban mood. The city's longstanding 'reflexive ac... Read More about Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project.

Outside the Box, an exhibition of new video works by Paul Holmes (solo show) (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Outside the Box, an exhibition of new video works by Paul Holmes (solo show). Exhibited at Studio 21, Kolkata, India. 19 June 2015 - 3 July 2015. (Unpublished)

A solo show of video art, and the first of its kind in Kolkata, India's cultural hub.

Curated by Manas Acharya.

Outside the Box [HD video] (2015)
Digital Artefact
Holmes, P. (2015). Outside the Box [HD video]. [Gallery exhibition]

HD Video, Silent, Black and White. Duration: 22 minutes.

To make this video artwork, the faces of jazz guitarist and composer Haftor Medbøe's quartet were filmed in extreme close-up, as they rehearsed for a performance at the Edinburgh Jazz & B... Read More about Outside the Box [HD video].

Introducing video essays. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., Artt, S., & Joyce, L. (2015, June). Introducing video essays. Paper presented at Assessment and Feedback: where are we now and where are we going?, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

No abstract available.

How can design education develop intercultural competencies for professional practice and global citizenship? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macdonald, I., & MacLeod, M. (2015). How can design education develop intercultural competencies for professional practice and global citizenship?.

Within the field of graphic design many contemporary designers and educators seek to challenge global corporate homogenization and the exploitation of developing countries (Rawsthorn 2013; Poynor 1999; McCoy 1994). The ‘First Things First 2000’ manif... Read More about How can design education develop intercultural competencies for professional practice and global citizenship?.

Convergence in Industrial and Craft Processes in UK Undergraduate Product Design Courses. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I. (2015). Convergence in Industrial and Craft Processes in UK Undergraduate Product Design Courses.

This paper will discuss the convergence of craft practices and industrial processes in undergraduate Product Design programmes in the UK, and explore how the economy and new technologies have changed the priorities in the curriculum. Tom Inns, Direct... Read More about Convergence in Industrial and Craft Processes in UK Undergraduate Product Design Courses..

I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects. (2015)
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015). I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects. In Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, 505-516. Routledge

This chapter examines community media projects in Scotland as social processes that nurture knowledge through participation in production. A visual and media anthropology framework (Ginsburg, 2005) with an emphasis on the social context of media prod... Read More about I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects..

You play your part - joint screening of film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan. (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. You play your part - joint screening of film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan. Exhibited at Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow, UK. 4 June 2015 - 4 June 2015. (Unpublished)

You Play Your Part - Joint screening of mydocumentary film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan. Screening and public discussion of impact of the films and the events portrayed in them. In association Document Film Festival an... Read More about You play your part - joint screening of film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan..

The Art of the Loop: JJ Jeczalik and the Fairlight CMI Series II/III (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2015, June). The Art of the Loop: JJ Jeczalik and the Fairlight CMI Series II/III. Paper presented at Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music, University of Liege, Belgium

The socio-musical practice of sampling is closely associated with the quotation of sound recordings, the technological processes of looping, and an aesthetic based on appropriation and repetition, primarily within the genres of hip-hop and Electronic... Read More about The Art of the Loop: JJ Jeczalik and the Fairlight CMI Series II/III.

Introduction - Outside the Box. (2015)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P. (2015). Introduction - Outside the Box. In P. Holmes (Ed.), Outside the Box. Edinburgh, Scotland: Mutus Liber

No abstract available.