Digital Economy Research in Practice lecture series 2011 2012
Introduction
Digital Economy: Research in Practice lecture series presents projects and research undertaken by academics and practitioners based at University College Falmouth. What we are interested in showcasing through these events is how social relations, creative practices and community engagement are the driving force behind the innovative use of digital technologies; and how multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity are methodologies that define a working framework for presented projects.
All events are free and are open to the public.
For the archive of the Digital Economy:Research in practice lecture series 2010/2011 visit this page
Lectures
Sian Bonnell
22 May 5.30 - 7 pm
Chapel Lecture Theatre,
Tremough Campus
It's easy to find oneself seduced and carried away by the latest in digital technology, particularly in practices which use still and/or moving imagery. The speed and immediacy of accessing photographic images captured digitally and the ability to manipulate, copy, display and transmit them using digital and computer techniques have become characteristic of digital imaging.
Dr Kym Martindale
24 April 5.30 - 7 pm
Chapel Lecture Theatre,
Tremough Campus
The archive is a respository of unique documents and/or artefacts, and increasingly a site of tension, as it negotiates preservation against access. The digitisation of such resources as letters, journals and notebooks, inter alia, is a solution but also it raises questions: about research in context, skills of interpretation, and expectation. There is undeniably the romance of touch where the past is concerned, which this presentation will explore, but the presence of provenance is also meaningful in a way that digitisation of archival material reduces. What might be the impact of such a loss? Finally, as the technology of writing changes, how does, and should the archive preserve quickly outdated technologies in terms of their contextual significance?
6 March 5.30 - 7pm
Daphne Du Maurier Lecture B,
Tremough Campus
Dr David Hawkins is a Design Practitioner and Design Historian, with a PhD in manufacture and design blacksmithing. He is Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise at the School of Art and Design at University College Falmouth.
Dr Misha Myers, Dr Caitlin Desilvey
17 January 5.30 - 7pm
Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough Campus
While new theoretical models conceive of landscape as dynamic and performative, landscape interpretation is commonly static, with kiosks, placards or paper-based guides providing linear, authoritative and singular narrative accounts. To date there has been little enquiry into how pervasive technologies might offer new mechanisms for facilitating performative landscape experience and interpretation, and their potential for influencing the perception and understanding of sustainability needs and issues.
Prof Phil Stenton
8 December, 5:30 - 7pm
Daphne Du Mourier, Lecture B
Tremough Campus
Pervasive or ubiquitous computing is giving birth to what has been called the Internet of Things. People, places and objects can now all participate in a computational environment of digital calculation and inferences. Consequences go far beyond displaying pixels on a screen. Virtual reality or ‘real virtuality’ the edges of the physical and the digital are becoming seamless but a computer by any other name will be as smart.
Prof. Jeremy Diggle
25 October, 5:30 - 7pm
Peter Lanyon, Lecture 2
Tremough Campus
Prof. Jeremy Diggle will talk about a range of digital art project he has been involved in including Apoll8 and Narvik’s Complaint where narrative element is developed in conjunction between exhibition installations and web, or as a blog based narrative site.
