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International Year of Light: IllumiNations. (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Innes, M. International Year of Light: IllumiNations. Performed at Edinburgh. 2 December 2015 - 2 December 2015

This one night light art installation was commissioned by Heriot Watt University to mark the Scottish Closing Ceremony of the International Year of Light.

The commission was inspired by the ‘Magic Lantern’ event carried out earlier the same year.... Read More about International Year of Light: IllumiNations..

Outside the Box. In Jazzfest 2015. (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Outside the Box. In Jazzfest 2015. Exhibited at Dalhousie Institute, Kolkata, India. 27 November 2015 - 29 November 2015

This annual festival of jazz artists from around the world featured jazz-themes video work "Outside the Box".

Curated by Varun Desai.

Outside the Box. In Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Outside the Box. In Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition. Exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy, the Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland. 27 November 2015 - 14 February 2016

This annual exhibition, featuring the best work from artists in all media from around Scotland, included video work "Outside the Box".

Curated by the RSA.

Lighting Design Thinking (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2015, November). Lighting Design Thinking

Public lecture to an audience of students and practicing professional designers, architects and artists.

An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design (2015)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. M. (2015). An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design. Artifact, 3(3), 4. https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v3i3.3960

Design is often thought of as an activity seeking to change existing situations into preferred ones (Simon, 1969). But how are designers to discern what the nature of this “preferred” change should be? What would it mean to truly design ethically? In... Read More about An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design.

Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2015, October). Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum. Presented at Professional Lighting Design Convention 2015

Exhibition lighting in museums and galleries usually strives to render the true nature of the surface of the exhibits. This would normally include using light sources that provide the most accurate rendering of colour and tone - white light sources w... Read More about Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum.

Lighting Design as a Second Language. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2015, October). Lighting Design as a Second Language. Presented at LES RENCARDS DE L’ACETYLÈNE 2015

Lighting Education for Non-Specialists:

How does anyone end up working as a lighting designer? We have all discovered the joy of lighting design through different routes. When friends in kindergarten wanted to be firemen and astronauts, I did not... Read More about Lighting Design as a Second Language..

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Document Scotland The Ties That Bind (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Gerrard, S. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Document Scotland The Ties That Bind. Exhibited at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. 25 September 2015 - 25 April 2016

Document Scotland is a photographic collective comprising of Colin McPherson, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Sophie Gerrard and Stephen McLaren — four Scots-born photographers, each exponents of documentary photography. This exhibition takes place one year a... Read More about The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Document Scotland The Ties That Bind.

Sand Casting on the Beach - Introducing Traditional Making Skills, Materials and Process through Play and Experimentation. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., & Stoltenberg, E. (2015, September). Sand Casting on the Beach - Introducing Traditional Making Skills, Materials and Process through Play and Experimentation. Paper presented at 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION

Within the higher education (HE) product design field, many researchers stress the importance for students to recognise and value the relationship between practical 3D object-making experience, and experimenting with process and materials. Given the... Read More about Sand Casting on the Beach - Introducing Traditional Making Skills, Materials and Process through Play and Experimentation..

Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable, 3D printed Souvenirs (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Forster, S., & Anastasiadou, C. (2015, November). Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable, 3D printed Souvenirs. Presented at HTHIC2015

This research set out to investigate whether technological innovations in design and the personalisation of tourist souvenirs through 3D printing, could offer opportunities to break away from stereotypically throwaway, low quality, mass manufactured... Read More about Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable, 3D printed Souvenirs.

An Interactive Discussion with the Artist (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2015, July). An Interactive Discussion with the Artist

On the final day of his solo show, "Outside the Box, an exhibition of new works by Paul Holmes", the artist delivers a lecture about his work.

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].

Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2015, April). Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography?. Paper presented at Making Southeast Asian Cultures: From Region to World

The photography scene in Southeast Asia has developed regionally since the early days of the camera. The flourishing commercial photographic studios in the region (thanks to the success of colonial enterprises that provided sufficient clientele) witn... Read More about Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography?.

Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019 (2015)
Physical Artefact
Lambert, I. Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019. [Images]

The experimental aluminium sand-cast bowls shown in the attached portfolio are part of a practice-based auto-ethnographic heuristic research inquiry into knowledge in doing.
John Dunnigan’s essay on Thinking (2013) describes practice-led/based resea... Read More about Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019.

Design in Motion, V&A Dundee Touring Exhibition (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Taylor, S., & Robertson, S. Design in Motion, V&A Dundee Touring Exhibition. Exhibited at Dundee & Scottish tour incl. V&A London. 13 February 2015 - 21 June 2015

Award-winning Digital Lace design work (Taylor & Robertson: ISWC 2014) was one of six, digital exhibits selected for the first V&A Museum of Design Dundee’s Touring Exhibition, Design in Motion.
The exhibit comprised: a new textile sampler iteratio... Read More about Design in Motion, V&A Dundee Touring Exhibition.

Walking in the Garden of Forking Paths – examining notions of 'post-­physical' printmaking in digital space (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thompson, P., & Pengelly, J. (2013, August). Walking in the Garden of Forking Paths – examining notions of 'post-­physical' printmaking in digital space. Presented at Impact 8: Borders & Crossings: the artist as explorer, Dundee, Scotland

This paper presents findings from practice-based research, which examines notions of post-physical printmaking space through the digital medium of Augmented Reality.
Founded on questions raised through professional activities in fine art printmaking... Read More about Walking in the Garden of Forking Paths – examining notions of 'post-­physical' printmaking in digital space.