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The Loop. In Wendy McMurdo (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P., & McMurdo, W. The Loop. In Wendy McMurdo. Exhibited at Tin Shed, London, UK. 4 August 2013 - 22 March 2013

McMurdo's solo retrospective included video work "The Loop" by Wendy McMurdo and Paul Holmes

Curated by Catherine Weir and Jonathan Munro.

Memory's Journey. In Burns Festival (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Memory's Journey. In Burns Festival. Exhibited at Bellisle Park, Ayr, Scotland. 24 May 2013 - 25 May 2013

This annual festival commissioned and showed sound sculpture "Memory's Journey".

Curated by Jackie Ross.

“I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2013, January). “I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project. Paper presented at MeCCSAAnnual Conference,Ulster University(2013)

What are the techniques of production that are used in local, small-scale media? How does the production process mediate identity and place, and how are these techniques reflected in locally produced media? And what can local representations of place... Read More about “I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project.

Social Networking and Affinity Spaces – The Virtual Atelier (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pengelly, J., & Thompson, P. (2012, December). Social Networking and Affinity Spaces – The Virtual Atelier. Presented at Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens

This paper examines the impact digital culture, Web 2.0 and Online Networking, an area we might collectively define as e-culture, is having on the practice, modes of collaboration, distribution and consumption within contemporary printmaking. The aut... Read More about Social Networking and Affinity Spaces – The Virtual Atelier.

“You play your part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’ (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2012, November). “You play your part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’. Paper presented at Media Discourse Group, MeCCSA PG Network, 2012, De Montfort University,

Media Discourse Group, MeCCSA PG Network, 2012, De Montfort University, “You Play Your Part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’

‘You Play Your Part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to... Read More about “You play your part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’.

Digital gardens with real toads: in what ways have heritage and digital practices fused to form hybrid methods in moving image design? (2012)
Thesis
Macdonald, I. Digital gardens with real toads: in what ways have heritage and digital practices fused to form hybrid methods in moving image design?. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5888

This thesis is a critical examination of my own creative practice through my published works in the moving image: a short film, commercials and a television series title sequence. My creative approach has been to use a hybrid of digital and heritage... Read More about Digital gardens with real toads: in what ways have heritage and digital practices fused to form hybrid methods in moving image design?.

Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 2, 2012. (2012)
Book
Lambert, I., Firth, R., Forster, S., Innes, M., Macdonald, I., MacLeod, M., O'Dowd, A., & Winton, E. (2012). Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 2, 2012. Edinburgh Napier University

Since the publication of the first issue of our journal twelve months ago our team of creative practitioners and academics has expanded (see pages 32-39), as has our work with industry and the public sector. We have worked on several more SFC Innovat... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 2, 2012..

A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens (2012)
Thesis
Xenou, A. S. A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5423

Using my family experience as an auto-ethnographic case, I consider how photography creates postmemory and counter-memory and how it has come to adopt the position it currently holds in funereal rituals in Athens. My historical examination begins fro... Read More about A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens.

Film‐based creative arts enquiry: qualitative researchers as auteurs (2012)
Journal Article
Wood, M., & Brown, S. (2012). Film‐based creative arts enquiry: qualitative researchers as auteurs. Qualitative Research Journal, 12(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/14439881211222787

Purpose: inspired by an exciting revival of interest in the working methods and processes of the creative arts we
make use of the auteur approach to film production to further develop knowledge about sensuous methodologies
in qualitative research.... Read More about Film‐based creative arts enquiry: qualitative researchers as auteurs.

We film therefore we are: media made in communities - process, practice & participation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2012, January). We film therefore we are: media made in communities - process, practice & participation. Paper presented at MeCCSA Annual Conference, 2012, University of Bedfordshire., University of Bedfordshire, Luton

MeCCSA Annual Conference, University of Bedfordshire. “We film therefore we are: Media made in communities - process, practice & participation.”

This paper will discuss practice-based methodology, as used within research into the production proces... Read More about We film therefore we are: media made in communities - process, practice & participation.

“I film therefore I am: process, practice & participation in community media.” (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2011, November). “I film therefore I am: process, practice & participation in community media.”. Paper presented at Knowledge/Culture/Social Change, University of Western Sydney

Knowledge, Culture, Social Change, University of Western Sydney, “I Film Therefore I am: Process, Practice & Participation in Community Media.”

The paper seeks to interrogate how community media channels the situated-ness of knowledge and identity... Read More about “I film therefore I am: process, practice & participation in community media.”.

Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011 (2011)
Journal Article
Lambert, I., MacLeod, M., Firth, R., Winton, E., Dean, M., Innes, M., Jamieson, K., Macdonald, I., & Titley, W. (2011). Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011. Journal of Design Practice and Research, 1, 1-40

What is design and what are designers? Good design can change lives and improve services within the public, private and third sectors. Designers are creative problem solvers who can make ideas visible and tangible, using a unique set of skills and st... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011.

Film success in small countries – from Scotland to Singapore (2011)
Journal Article
MacPherson, R. (2011). Film success in small countries – from Scotland to Singapore. Culture360,

Analysis of the experience of some smaller European countries’ box-office data together with that of one South Asian country suggests that, despite significantly different levels of production, the distribution of ‘hits’ is in fact very similar and c... Read More about Film success in small countries – from Scotland to Singapore.

The Digital Matrix and the Paperless Print (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thompson, P. (2009, September). The Digital Matrix and the Paperless Print. Presented at Impact 6: IMPACT Print Conference

This paper examines, from the perspective of a critically engaged practioner within the context of contemporary fine art printmaking practice, the concept of a " digital matrix " and the consequent " paperless print ". It identifies that " digital pr... Read More about The Digital Matrix and the Paperless Print.

The changing technological and commercial context of BBC graphic design. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macdonald, I. (2011, July). The changing technological and commercial context of BBC graphic design. Paper presented at Film and Media Conference

Over the last twenty years television graphic design has seen an unprecedented upheaval and transformation. Not only have there been a series of technological changes but also a paradigm shift in business models and the service offered to programme m... Read More about The changing technological and commercial context of BBC graphic design..

Born digital-new materialities: a survey mini-print exchange of contemporary digitally mediated printmaking (2011)
Digital Artefact
Thompson, P. (2011). Born digital-new materialities: a survey mini-print exchange of contemporary digitally mediated printmaking. [Digital Portfolio]

The ‘Born Digital – New Materialities’ print portfolio is the result of a digitally mediated open call “exchange” survey, examining the notion of “printmaking 2.0”. It is part of research examining the physical and temporal parameters of post-physica... Read More about Born digital-new materialities: a survey mini-print exchange of contemporary digitally mediated printmaking.

Digital Blur: Creative Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design and Art (2010)
Book
Smyth, M. (2010). P. Rodgers, & M. Smyth (Eds.). Digital Blur: Creative Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design and Art. Libri Publishing

Digital Blur brings together some of the world's leading practitioners and thinkers from the fields of art, architecture and design, all of whom share a common desire to exploit the latest computing technologies in their creative practice.

Projects for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Engaging Students across Design Disciplines in a Shared Undergraduate First Year Curriculum. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I., & Firth, R. (2010, May). Projects for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Engaging Students across Design Disciplines in a Shared Undergraduate First Year Curriculum. Presented at Cumulus Genk conference 2010: Borderline - Pushing Design Over the Limit

On undergraduate design courses at Edinburgh Napier University, two thirds of the first year curriculum is shared. Working in open studios, students are able to gain awareness of each others’ modes of practice and the common skills that transcend dis... Read More about Projects for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Engaging Students across Design Disciplines in a Shared Undergraduate First Year Curriculum..