The following message is from Zemirah Moffat:
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Dear All,
I am pleased to let you know that the First AVPhD Exhibition will take
place at, The University of Westminster's P3 Gallery, in December of
this year. We had a wonderful response to our call, and shall be
exhibiting over half a dozen audio and audio-visual installations, and
nearly a dozen films. Keep an eye on www.avphd.ac.uk for the latest
developments.
To coincide with the exhibition, there will be a special edition of
the Journal of Media Practice and a Screenwork DVD publication,
dedicated to the work of practice based PhD students in screen media.
We are currently looking for audio-visual work to include on this DVD.
Submissions can come from recently completed doctorates, or post
Mphil upgrade students, from anywhere in the world. For more
information, please see end of email.
Also, we have just heard about another practice-led
doctoral/post-doctoral exhibition and symposium, to be hosted by
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, 28-30 October, 2008. Their
deadline for proposals is the 27th June 08. Please go to the end of
this email for more information.
Some of you may be interested in a 3-Week Summer Workshop in
Documentary Film, hosted by The Oxford Academy of Documentary Film
(OADF). It is at UCL, from the 23rd June-11th July, and is open to
all, particularly researchers who intend to use film in fieldwork.
For more details and information on how to register, please see the
end of this email.
And finally, AVPhD "Sound" Tyne and Wear, 4th July 08 @ Sunderland
University, has confirmed keynote speakers Larry Sider (Director of
the School of Sound Symposium, and head of post-production at the NFTS
until 2006) and representatives from Newcastle University's Culture
Lab. They are still looking for Practice as Research Models and
Examples, particularly Sound based projects based in the UK. And
particularly welcome any practice based projects based in the North
East. Two panels will run during the day offering the opportunity for
a number of 20 minute research presentations in any mode of expression
(ranging from papers, workshops, exhibitions, discussion groups,
demonstrations, performances and so forth) from recent PhD graduates,
current students, staff and workers in the Audio- Visual media on the
above themes, or on any other aspect of the AVPhD process. For
further information, to register and submit proposals, please contact
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below.
Best Wishes, and for those of you in the northern hemisphere, do enjoy
your summers!
Zemirah Moffat
AVPhD Administrator
On behalf of the AVPhD Steering Committee: Joram ten Brink, University
of Westminster, Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, Tony Dowmunt,
Goldsmiths College, Alisa Lebow, Brunel University, Cahal McLaughlin,
University of Ulster, Robin Nelson, Manchester Metropolitan
University, Gail Pearce, Royal Holloway University, Al Rees, Royal
College of Art, and Rosie Thomas, University of Westminster.
AVPhD is the AHRC funded training and support network for all those
doing, supervising and examining audio-visual practice based
doctorates. The practice research projects we cover centre on
audio-visual time based media, inclusive but not restricted to
documentary, fiction, narrative/non-narrative film, and non-linear/new
media.
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AVPhD "SOUND!" Tyne and Wear
Final Call for Papers! And Call for Registration! This is a FREE Event
Friday 4th July 2008 9.30am – 6.00pm
University of Sunderland, Media Centre Cinema,
St Peter's Campus, Sunderland SR6 0DD
With a specific emphasis in showcasing practice-led research work, this
one day symposium will concentrate on Sound based work in particular as
well as acting as a forum for engagement of North East based
researchers, students undertaking practice led PhDs and supervisors with
the AVPhD agendas. We hope the day will help foster a network of
practice based researchers and supervisors, both in the region and
nationally, crossing boundaries and encouraging exchange across
differing contexts.
Keynote speakers are:
Larry Sider, Director of the School of Sound Symposium and Head of
Post-Production at the National Film and Television School (UK) until
2006. Larry has elevated the profile of sound in screen production
through the School of Sound symposium, an international forum exploring
the use of sound in the arts and entertainment. Speakers have included
Walter Murch, Carter Burwell, Simon Fisher Turner, Michael Nyman, David
Toop, Heiner Goebbels, Mike Figgis, Mani Kaul, avant garde filmmaker
Peter Kubelka, and academics Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey. From these
meetings came the book, "Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures
1998-2001."
Newcastle University's Culture Lab Culture Lab is a unique research
infrastructure providing an environment for academics and practitioners
working beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, promoting socially
and economically valuable synergies with artists, creative industries,
and cultural and scientific institutions, and the development of
innovative research with digital tools.
CALL FOR WORKS AND PAPERS!
We are currently looking for Practice as Research Models and Examples,
particularly Sound based projects based in the UK. We also welcome any
practice based projects based in the North East. Two panels will run
during the day offering the opportunity for a number of 20 minute
research presentations in any mode of expression (ranging from papers,
workshops, exhibitions, discussion groups, demonstrations, performances
and so forth) from recent PhD graduates, current students, staff and
workers in the Audio- Visual media on the above themes, or on any other
aspect of the AVPhD process.
For further information, to register for the event or to submit
proposals, please contact: [log in to unmask]
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OADF Summer School
Documentary Film Training at UCL
Held at University College London. 14 Taviton Street London WC1H 0BW
23 June – 11 July 2008
7 days camera techniques / 8 days editing with Final Cut Pro
Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Price: £1500 (subsidies available from OADF for UCL students)
OADF's SUMMER SCHOOL at UCL is an intensive introduction to industry
standard documentary filmmaking. It aims to introduce camera
techniques with hands-on exercises backed up by critical analysis of
footage and approaches from the outset. Our summer film school is open
to all with an interest in factual filmmaking and is taught by
professionals from the industry with an anthropological insight into
cross-cultural filmmaking. It is aimed also at the researcher with the
intent to use digital film in their fieldwork. By the end of the
course you will have the confidence and ability to make your own
digital video:
· for research purposes,
· as an AV addenda for a thesis or publication,
· for screening at a film festival,
· for internet distribution,
· for educational use,
· for broadcast.
During the first 7-days you will complete four hands-on camera
exercises concentrating on camera techniques, sound, camera
operations, write and redraft a film proposal, learn the concepts of
editing in order to shoot for an edit. You will be aware of the
ethical, financial, legal, and stylistic issues involved in
representing other people. By viewing a variety of different socially
relevant films, you will be aware of different genres and understand
the style and approach relevant to your research or individual
project. Cameras available will all be of broadcast quality and be
shared no more than one between two, unless you intend to use your own
camera when you can work alone or in teams.
During the second 8-days we introduce you to Apple's Final Cut Pro
editing software in an interactive and hands-on environment to learn
the basic skills of film editing. Participants will learn the basic
functions of film editing, including how to organise raw footage,
create editing transitions, effects, and colour corrections, and
working with audio. By the end of the course you will have edited a
short film from your own footage and have burnt it on to a DVD. Each
student will have his or her own workstation for the duration of the
editing course.
All the tutors' notes and exercises are offered on a DVD for future
reference. Attending an OADF course also enables you to join our Forum
which gives you access to people and information on film festivals,
funding opportunities, camera tips and advice, and a growing community
of socially responsible factual filmmakers.
For information on prices and applications, go to
http://www.oadf.co.uk/courses/prices.html or email us on
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Practice-led doctoral / post-doctoral exhibition and symposium
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
28-30 October, 2008
Research Narratives focuses on debates around practice-led research by
considering how practice is discussed, described or addressed within a
research context.
The symposium invites participants to exhibit their research. The aim of
this symposium is to foreground practical research and map and reflect on
ways in which researchers formulate their work in the fields of art and
design. Research Narratives is an open call for practical work rather than
papers, looking at examples of research to generate, re-focus and re-direct
its discussion.
Research Narratives is an international symposium aimed at doctoral,
post-doctoral researchers and experienced practitioners and researchers.
Participants are asked to submit a proposal to exhibit work considered as
research. The proposal should include documentation of the practical
element of your research alongside information such as: size, medium and
any requirements you have for exhibition. For performances or time-based
works, please include the duration of your work.
The submission should include a 100-300 word description of how you intend
to address your work as research and three keys words describing your
research interests. There are no costs available to transport work to
London, so please propose work available to be posted or delivered to the
site in person.
If you submit work to this symposium, you will be expected to attend.
Proposal submission deadline: 27 June
The provisional symposium fee is £150 (with a reduction for students).
Delegates will be expected to pay for their own accommodation and transport.
This symposium is organised by Chelsea College of Art and Design with
support from Camberwell College of Arts and Wimbledon College of Art. It
follows the seminar The Art of Research: Connections between Research and
Art/Design Practices held by the School of Design at the University of Art
and Design Helsinki in 2007.
Evening reception: Monday 27 October
Symposium: Tuesday 28 ? Wed 29 October
London art walk: Thursday 30 October
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk
For information and proposals contact:
Hana Sakuma
Research Office
Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
England
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0044 (0)207 514 2149
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ScreenWork Vol II: Call for Submissions
– the DVD for practice based research in screen media.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/drama/screenwork/
Following the launch of ScreenWork Vol.1 with the Journal of Media
Practice (8.2) last year we are pleased to announce the call for
submissions to the second volume. This edition of Screenwork will be
dedicated to publishing the work of practice based PhD students in
screen media in association with the AvPhD network. Submissions can
come from recently completed doctorates, or post Mphil upgrade
students, from anywhere in the world.
ScreenWork publishes practice based work that produces new knowledge
in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, Art and Design,
Performing Arts and related fields. We are seeking moving image work
on film, video and new media platforms. Where submissions are
documentation of interactive or installation work we encourage
producers to consider the problems of documentation as part of the
research process. We want to showcase as many pieces of high quality
doctorial research as we can so it approx. 30 minutes will probably be
our maximum run time for each piece of work. We will consider
extracting if the research case is made by the producer.
Submissions will be subject to a process of open peer review.
Reviewers will be selected from the ScreenWork editorial board
representing scholar practitioners working across the field of screen
media both in the UK and internationally. All submissions should
include a research statement (1500 word max) – statements, peer
reviews and video extracts will all be published on the ScreenWork
website.
Edited by Jon Dovey, with Charlotte Crofts as Associate Editor,
ScreenWork will be peer reviewed and published in association with
the Journal of Media Practice by Intellect Books. It will be
distributed free to subscribers to the Journal of Media Practice and
also available for purchase by libraries and individuals. We are
aiming to produce the DVD for early December 2008 to coincide with the
Journal of Media Practice and the exhibition of AVPhD work at the P3
Gallery at the University of Westminster.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Works should be submitted on DVD. Support statements should be
submitted by email in Word or PDF. Deadline for consideration for Vol
2 will be Mon Sep 1st 2008. Submissions should be sent to Professor
Jon Dovey Editor ScreenWork Dept of Culture Media and Drama,
University of the West of England, St Matthias Campus, Oldbury Court
Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2JP. FFI Jon Dovey jonathan.dovey
'at'uwe.ac.uk.
Work should be accompanied by a statement up to 1500 words which
states the research questions, methods and outcomes of the project.
This statement should also explain the criteria by which the piece
should be assessed as research. Statements and reviews will all be
published on the ScreenWork website (with authors' permission.) You
are strongly advised to visit the ScreenWork site for examples of work
and research statements.
ScreenWork does not offer fees for the publication of work. All work
published should be copyright cleared and will have to indemnify the
editors and publishers against third party claims etc.
SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
Three copies of the DVD : (if the work is selected we will also need a
data disc or miniDV master)
Your Name
Your Postal address
Your Email address
Your Phone numbers
Your Research Statement in hard copy and e copy to the editor.
Please mark all emails 'ScreenWork2' in your subject line.
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
Head of Communications,
MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network
website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
Articles Editor,
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
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