14th Apr 2008 - 9th Jun 2008
Conference room, CRD, Grand Parade
The Knowledge Through Practice Seminars investigated the relationship of knowledge to art practice based research through artistic, scientific and philosophical frameworks.
This open seminar group was formed to discuss and interrogate the nature of practice-based research in Art and Design, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
The aim was to provide a constructive and collective learning environment for the discussion of complex ideas and a consideration of current theory for those undertaking practice-based research and those supervising it, as well as all other interested parties. This seminar group was designed to encourage a thriving research culture within the Faculty of Arts, as well as reaching out to the local community; therefore local artists, researchers and members of other universities were also encouraged to join.
Seminars featured presentations, demonstrations, open-discussion and practical sessions by external and internal speakers.
The group was organised by Anna Dumitriu (School of Arts & Communication), Professor Charlie Hooker (School of Arts & Communication) and Dr Christopher Pierce (Research Student Division Leader).
Topics of interest include:
14 April 2008
Kim Fielding, Director of the cutting edge tactileBOSCH gallery/studios in Cardiff spoke about his life as an artist and gallerist at the Knowledge Through Practice seminar titled 'Everyday'.
28 April 2008
Paul Levy, Senior Research Fellow at CENTRIM, theatre director, playwrite, author and philosopher.
26 May 2008
Professor Lizbeth Goodman
Professor Lizbeth Goodman is Founder and Director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute. Professor Lizbeth Goodman joined UEL as the newly appointed Chair of Creative Technology Innovation, and Director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, MAGIC Gamelab and PLAYroom.
New labs, development studios and an expanded Practice-based PhD Programme have now been launched in the Thames Gateway, with major collaborative projects underway across the spectrum of ‘gaming for non-gamers’.
Professor Goodman directs studies for a group of professional New Media artists registered with UEL on SMARTlab’s customised, live and online Practice-based PhD programme. The group represents one of the world’s largest and most successful cross-disciplinary cohorts of higher-level researchers grounded in community need and creative industry theory and practice.
SMARTlab is an agency for social change, operating a core research unit and two ‘wings’ spanning the cultural outreach and creative industries sectors, with partners in major NGO and Industry companies worldwide. SMARTlab is the UK base for the Peoplelab Accessible tech programme, and for the Microsoft Clubtech Programme, which Professor Goodman has led in its critical review stages (as the largest project providing game and educational technology tools to over four million under-privileged young people worldwide).
Professor Goodman is also known as a professional performer and presenter, with many years of experience in live and telematic writing, improvisation, performance and direction. She has worked extensively in comedy, theatre and television/convergent media entertainment, and has recently won commissions to create a new style of empowering online and live performance game.
Professor Goodman was previously Director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and before that, founded and led the INMPR at the University of Surrey, following on from eight years leading the BBC Open University’s multimedia research teams in Shakespeare, Drama, Gender Studies and Literature. She has worked extensively for the BBC as a researcher, writer and presenter of Learning and Arts/Media Programmes. She is a regular reviewer/validator for many independent courses and broadcast programmes, for publishers of print and online packages, and for major funding bodies and award panels internationally.
Professor Goodman is the author and editor of some thirteen books including a range of titles on women and theatre, the Arts, representation and creativity. She has also written and produced a wide range of multimedia programmes ranging from educational CD-ROMs and video/media packs to more experimental online performance events, including the Extended Body Project. She is the Principal Investigator of the SMARTshell Project (creating innovative tools for synchronous and asynchronous online/integrated performance and learning), and of the Virtual Interactive Puppetry Project, the British Council’s Cultural and Media Studies development programmes in North Africa, and the European Commission’s RADICAL project (Research Agendas Developed In Creative Arts Labs). She is Executive Producer UK of Sara Diamond’s Code Zebra Project (for which she won a European Commission Culture 2002 Award), working with international partners including the BNMI, BBC, V2 and UCLA.
While she has been known in the learning and e-learning communities as an expert in mediated and connected learning methods (since her award winning, best selling work with the Open University and BBC in the 1990s), Lizbeth is now equally known as a scholar of new media practices that cut across learning, gaming, performance and social responsibility. Lizbeth is currently completing her own new book, which will kick off her new series for MIT Press on 'EMERGENC(i)es: new concepts and practices in media, technology and culture'.
She regularly leads ‘playshops’ (or workshops involving an element of theatre game and costume, role play and movement experiment) for participants ranging from persistently ill children in hospitals, to corporate executives worldwide.
9 June 2008
Frances Lord speaking about Public Art.
