News and Events May 2011

WIRAD/AHRC Postgraduate Studentship Awards

The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and University of Wales Newport are pleased to announce 5 WIRAD Research Studentships for 2011-2013, funded by the AHRC's Capacity Building Route BGP (Block Grant Partnership).

The studentships, which include a fees and maintenance grant, will be allocated over a three year period and awarded for postgraduate study in the following areas: Applied Arts & Crafts; Film, Digital and Media Production; Communications, Graphics and Photography; and Fine Art. Expertise from relevant postgraduate programmes at other Welsh institutions with an interest in WIRAD may be incorporated into the programme of study.

To be eligible for an award, applicants must first have been offered a place on an appropriate postgraduate course at UWIC or UWN. Further information on how to apply and the timetable of available awards is available here.

WIRAD Art School Seminars

Two Art School Seminars are taking place in May. The Art School Seminars are a series of lectures/screenings/events that are concerned with exchanging research practices within WIRAD.

4-6pm, Wednesday 11th May
Newport City Campus
Dr Paul Jeff will discuss his work on Performed Photography, an inter-disciplinary genre that highlights the relationship between the performative act and the act of photography. In performed photography the act of photography is collapsed metaphorically into the time of the event recorded, so that the event and its record can become a single utterance. The common currency of performed photography is performance, duration and the document as a creative act, whereby photography meets live-art. By concentrating and promoting the inherent act of performance implicit in all photography it is hoped that the medium can be re-invigorated as a signifying process and the balance between the spatial and temporal concerns of photography can be readdressed.

Dr Paul Jeff is Head of Post-Graduate Taught Studies and Director of International Project Centre for Research into Events and Situations (IPCRES) at Swansea Metropolitan University.

4-6pm, Wednesday 25th May
Swansea Metropolitan University
Professor Mark Durden (eCPR) will introduce and present his recent video work with Common Culture, ‘The New El Dorado,. Commissioned for Manifesta 2010 in Murcia, Spain, Common Culture's video critically responded to some of the problems of such global biennales, especially the often naïve expectations that artists can have meaningful engagements with another country's local culture.

Mark Durden is Professor of Photography at Newport, University of Wales. He has written extensively on photography and contemporary art. With David Campbell and Ian Brown he is part of the artists' group, Common Culture.

Every Real Moment - Time In Andy Warhol's Art

Friday 20 May / 11am-5pm
University of Southampton

Organised by John Hansard Gallery in association with the University of Wales, Newport, this one day symposium looks at the significance of time in Andy Warhol's art and considers how the extraordinary durational aspect of many of his films can inform our understanding of his other work: the paintings and silkscreens, the sculptures, the music, the Time Capsules, videos, magazines, books, as well as the personality shows he produced for American television in the 1980s.

The event will be introduced by Professor Mark Durden (eCPR) and Dr Alexander Graf (International Film School, Wales), and Dr Kieran Lyons (eCPR) will present his paper 'Andy Warhol and the death, in time, of Marcel Duchamp' which examines some of the overlaps in their careers. Other speakers include Jean Wainwright, David Campbell, Lisa Otty, Gary Needham, Kim Knowles and Stephen Bull.

The symposium is supported by Artist Rooms On Tour, a partnership between the Art Fund and the Scottish Government, making available the ARTIST ROOMS collection of international contemporary art to galleries throughout the UK.

Wendy Keay-Bright Wins Inclusive Design Award

Wendy Keay-Bright (Sensory Design)and Joel Gethin won the Best Inclusive Design Innovation award at Include 2011, Royal College of Art, London for "Co-Creating Tools for Touch". Comments on the project include: ‘A simple, beautifully crafted idea that can really go from the extreme to the mainstream. An idea for technology interfaces focusing on autistic spectrum conditions but with applications for everyone.'

For further details on the project visit the Reactickles website.

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