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Time Machine. In The Hand that Feeds (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Time Machine. In The Hand that Feeds. Exhibited at One Cube or Two, Glasgow, Scotland. 13 December 2013 - 20 December 2013. (Unpublished)

This group exhibition featured video work "Time Machine". Curated by Robert Singer.

Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking (2013)
Thesis
Boateng, K. Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6055

The subject of this study is Sub-Sahara Africa Anglophone Video-moviemaking and the research process is an empirical enquiry into how this contemporary cultural industry has emerged in the region, bringing with it a paradigmatic shift in the concept... Read More about Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking.

“In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s (2013)
Thesis
Ramirez, G. “In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6266

In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, experimental and independent cinema received a considerable amount of support from the U.S. federal government through the American Film Institute (AFI), and from private philanthropies and arts institutions such as... Read More about “In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s.

Photography At Edinburgh Napier University : A Retrospective 2012. (2012)
Book
Gillanders, R., & Winton, E. (2012). Photography At Edinburgh Napier University : A Retrospective 2012. Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh Napier University is delighted to host a reunion of alumni, to celebrate more than 35 years of its Photography and Film programmes. Photography has a long history at Edinburgh Napier that parallels the development and progress of the insti... Read More about Photography At Edinburgh Napier University : A Retrospective 2012..

Scottish cinema – myth and reality from Hollywood to Holyrood. (2012)
Book Chapter
MacPherson, R. (2012). Scottish cinema – myth and reality from Hollywood to Holyrood. In E. Bell, & N. Mitchell (Eds.), Directory of World Cinema: Britain. Intellect ltd

Introductory essay on Scottish Cinema for Scotland section of Directory of World Cinema: Britain

“A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship. (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June). “A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship

I examine the underlying, and somewhat incompatible principles of hermeneutic, legal (UK), and empirical definitions of authorship. In this analysis I consider how the distinction between film as business and film as artistic expression, a distinctio... Read More about “A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship..

Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary. (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June). Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary. Paper presented at Animated Realities Conference, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

The assertion that certain means of cinematic representation in documentary filmmaking, such as animation, blurs boundaries between fact and fiction rests on misconceptions about the terms ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ and the relationship between reality and... Read More about Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary..

Development of a 3D audio panning and realtime visualisation toolset using emerging technologies (2010)
Thesis
Ferguson, P. Development of a 3D audio panning and realtime visualisation toolset using emerging technologies. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6698

This thesis documents a body of research that links the field of electro-acoustic diffusion and spatialisation with practice in the music and film post-production industries. Three research questions are posed: "How can the physical user-interfaces... Read More about Development of a 3D audio panning and realtime visualisation toolset using emerging technologies.

Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images. (2009)
Digital Artefact
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2009). Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images

Is an interactive new media art installation that explores how the sharing of images, normally hidden on mobile phones, can reveal more about people's sense of place and this ultimately shared experience. Traditional views on sense of place, as exemp... Read More about Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images..

Fragments of place. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., & Benyon, D. (2008). Fragments of place. In N. Bryan-Kinns, T. Lloyd, & J. Sheridan (Eds.), Proceedings of (re)Actor3, the Third International Conference on Digital Live Art (35-36)

Through the sharing and display of personal mobile phone images, the installation invites viewers to explore the connected nature of their sense of place.

Bubble hunters 3D. (2008)
Digital Artefact
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2008). Bubble hunters 3D

Short video invited to be shown in the 3D theatre session of the 2009 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference, California

Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. (2008)
Report
Atton, C., McCleery, A., Mabweazara, H., & Ward, S. (2008). Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. Edinburgh, Scotland: Million+

The creative industries are founded on innovation. They are responsive, multifaceted and evolving and have developed new models of business in order to adapt and contribute to a world in economic, social and cultural flux. Over the past two decad... Read More about Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities..

Photography as a contemporary art medium. (2007)
Book Chapter
Naruyste, A. (2007). Photography as a contemporary art medium. In M. Vytautas (Ed.), Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis: Mediju studijos: filosofija, komunikacija, menas/Media Studies: Philosophy, Communication, Art, 149-173. Vilniaus dailes akademijos leidykla

History read backward: memory, migration and the archive. (2007)
Book Chapter
McGrath, R. (2007). History read backward: memory, migration and the archive. In A. Grossman, & A. O'Brien (Eds.), Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (36-52). Wallflower Press

Drawing on recent cross-cultural debates in theories and practices of media representation and difference in the fields of cultural studies and visual anthropology, this work aims to think through, and alongside, images of migrancy. A section of the... Read More about History read backward: memory, migration and the archive..