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(re)Mediations (PhD) - Sian Gouldstone

'(re)mediations' names a broad collection of small experimental series that form the practical photographic research for my PhD. These series together explore and demonstrate the multiplicity and relationality that emerges in my attempts to answer the question of how photographic practice could critically evaluate and expand understandings of historical and contemporary spaces, structures, and forces of whiteness, in the context of British immigration in Australia.

My research, in practice, turned to folding and re-photographing as ways to problematise the singularities assumed by the often-representational spaces of photography. Exploring whiteness as an affective atmosphere, I moved to thinking with non-representational theories, questioning flatness and fixity as photographic tropes, and this helped my attempts to navigate the difficulty of understanding, visually, whiteness as a violent legacy of settler colonialism in the so-called Australian spaces in which I work. The experiments of '(re)instate', 'monuments (for projecting onto)' and '(re)emerge' explore the bungalow and botanical as material manifestations of whiteness in my research context. '(re)move' and 'An Inventory of Shimmers' explore the fold, the absence present in the photographic, and the ambiguity of 'seeing' what might only be felt.

Voices From a Tide Isle: A Psychosocial Soundscape from Portland Bay - Dr Evi Karathanasopoulou

Research Team: • Prof Candida Yates (Humanities and Law) • Dr Lita Crociani-Windland (Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Psychosocial Studies; Director for the Centre of Social Dreaming: UWE • Dr Evi Karathanasopoulou (Principle Academic in Audio Production) • Dr Siobhan Lennon Patience (Visiting Researcher, CESJ and Humanities and Law and The Weymouth and Portland Community Research Network). Alex Wegman is also part of the project as a Sound Engineer.

Aims and Rationale of Project: The aim of this project is to produce a soundscape that captures the psychosocial mood and atmosphere of Portland Bay through the voices of its residents.

The project builds on recent research conducted by The Weymouth and Portland Community Research Network that focussed on the isolation and deprivation of residents in the area, whilst highlighting a need for Portland residents to develop a reparative community voice as a response to recent events on the Isle (Lane, Lennon-Patience, and Wilcocks (2022) Forgotten Towns? Hear Our Voice Report; Lennon-Wood and Marfleet (2022) Forgotten Towns Report).

The Voice of the Loom - Dr Panos Amelidis

An auditory narrative that reflects the intricate relationship between the weaver and their loom. This piece is an imaginative journey to uncover and listen to the ‘voice’ of the loom, representing the unspoken thoughts and emotions of women historically tied to this instrument. It’s a composition that not only demonstrates artistic and technical prowess but also brings to light significant social themes. https://panosamelidis.bandcamp.com/track/the-voice-of-the-loom-electroacoustic-composition

BU Experimental Music concert series:

November 2017. Concert of music for cello and electronics featuring Dr Alice Eldridge and Dr Chris Kiefer (University of Sussex), Dr Thomas Gardner (University of the Arts, London), and Dr Tom Davis (Bournemouth University) and Laura Reid.

February 2018. Concert of electroacoustic music from BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre, University of Birmingham) featuring guest composer Dr Annie Mahtani (diffusion) and further works by Dr James Carpenter and BEAST researcher Nikki Sheth.

May 2018. Concert of electroacoustic music featuring works by students on the BSc Music and Sound Production Technology, Bournemouth University.

2018–19 with guest researchers/performers including Dr Owen Green (University of Huddersfield), Dr Úna Monaghan (University of Cambridge), and Prof. David Berezan (University of Manchester).

March 2020 - Concert of music for piano and electronics with Xenia Pestova

December 2022 - Suk-Jun Kim

March 2023 – Jonty Harrison + students from BA Music & Sound Production

May 2023 – Louise Rossiter + students from BA Music & Sound Production

December 2024 - BU Sonic Arts concert featuring PGR Antonino Chiaramonte

Amelidis, P. Composition The Voice of the Loom, published by HELMCA, November 2023. Premiered at the Electroacoustic Music Days 2023 Festival and featured at the NoiseFloor Conference 2024.

Amelidis, P. Conference Presentation at NoiseFloor Conference 2024, Lisbon.

Callus, P., 2024. Not all women: intersectional representations of women and motherhood. In: Oyebode-Westerhuis, B., ed. Ngozi Ajah Schommers: tracing of time and place.. Amsterdam: TSA & bo-art projects.

Callus, P. and Sloan, S., 2024. Reimaging Space through anthropology, architecture and animation. Animation Practice, Process and Production.

Davis, T., & Garcia, D. (2024). Editorial. From telepresence to teletrust. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.doi:10.1080/14794713.2024.2370609

Davis, T. (2024). Ambiguous Devices as an example of a Networked Relational Encounter. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2024.2340425

Gee, M. The Grove: An Exploration of Female Archetypes in Folk Horror,” 15th Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Stephen’s College, Columbia Missouri, 20th – 23rd August, 2023. I also ran the Practice Based/Led Working Group Table Read at the conference and an excerpt of my research screenplay read as part of the event.

Gee, M. “A Part, A Whole: A Creative Practice Screenwriting Exploration of Female Character.” Don't Keep the Wicker Man Waiting: Folk Horror Fifty Years After the Wickerman, Lancaster University, The Dukes Lancaster 27th October, 2023.

Gee, M. “Transforming trees into people: a creative research exploration of the relationship between humans and the environment.” Transitions: Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, University of Tartu, Estonia, 7th – 11th May, 2024.

Gyori, B. and Zaluczkowska, A., 2022. How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network. Journal of Screenwriting, 13 (2), 207-230.

Hearing, T. (2024). Experiments in Zoomumentary – telepresence and absence beyond the grid*. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 20(2), 169–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2024.2340424

Karathanasopoulou, E., 2025. Podcasting, VR, AI, the Metaverse and the Evolution of Intimacy: From “phantasmic radio” to phantasmic podcasting. Radio Journal, 22 (2).

Karathanasopoulou, E. and Williams, H., 2023. Podcasting as a feminist space for the disclosure of trauma and intimate embodied experience: The Heart as a case study of quiet activism. Radio Journal, 21 (1), 29-44.

Machado Oliveira, C., 2024. The Journal of Media and Rights: A platform for global epistemologies beyond borders. The Journal of Media and Rights, 2.

Oliveira, C. Book Chapter: Solo authored a chapter titled "Navigating Transnational Collaborations and Amplifying Indigenous Voices in The Territory (2022): An Interview with Filmmaker Gabriel Uchida" for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Contemporary Documentary. 

Oliveira, C. Conference Presentation: Presented a paper titled "Indigenous Cinema in Latin America: Exploring Indigenous Voices, Co-Creation, and Cultural Revitalization in Brazil" at the Rethinking Latin America – New Journeys Across Film & Literature conference, held on April 26-27, 2024, at Warwick University.

Perkins, S., 2019. Rerouting the Ideologically Coercive Advertising Messages of Lancôme’s La Vie Este Belle. SAGE Visual Communication.

Pope, J. and Gyori, B., 2023. Branching Paths: Using digital interactive storytelling to encourage marginalized young people to engage with creative writing. Writing in Education, Spring 2023 (89), 41-48.

Rega, I., Medrado, A. and Callus, P., 2024. Young artivists, social change and media literacy: Shifting the field through South-to-South connections in Kenya and Brazil. Global Studies of Childhood, 14 (4), 433-447.

Ruszev, S., 2022. Polyphony, Idenity. International Journal of Film and Media Arts, 7 (1), 128.

Ruszev, S., 2022. Mental and Material Images of Contemporary Capitalism. Images secondes, Cinéma & Science Humaines, Post-Cinéma (03).

Ruszev, S., 2022. Wilderness Transcended (Poetic Capacity of Wildlife Webcams in The Time of Pandemic Isolation). Dark Eden. Victorian College of the Arts: University of Melbourne: Art + Australia.

Sharp, M., 2024. Enacted emotionality: a missing concept for directing affective screen acting? Media Practice and Education.

Sykes, L. Included in ‘Dancing (Arts and health) published 26 Nov. 2024, Emerald Publishing  eds Noyale Colin  , Kathryn Stamp

Seddon, A. Composer Residency at VICC: 19-25 September 2023 Composer Residency at Visby International Centre for Composers, Visby, Gotland, Sweden. Begin work on new ambisonics electroacoustic composition (in-progress)

Seddon, A. Performance: 5th October 2023, ‘Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbano El Bosque’ (ambisonics electroacoustic work) in concert event "Vitalities of Water" at Campus Los Canelos de la Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. This was part of the Festival de la Ciencia 2023, a national event including scientific talks and artistic shows in different cities in Chile.

Seddon, A. Performance: 27th January 2024, my work ‘Traces of Play’ (4-channel electroacoustic sound) in FRST 2024 concert (FRST is an annual mini-festival for electro-acoustic music arranged by VICC and Gotland School of Music Composition in collaboration with Audiorama.) At Donners Event, Visby, Gotland, Sweden.

Zia, R., 2023. Teaching Computer Animation And Visual Effects During The Covid Pandemic. AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES - A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy, 28 (1), 26-34 AMPS, University of Kassel, Ball State University, Beaconhouse National University and the University of Pretoria.

Zia, R., 2023. Fluid teaching environments and semi-structured teaching for a more student-centric and engaging student experience. In: Applying Education in a Complex World 26-28 April 2023 Toronto.

Emerge Symposium (May 2024). Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis. 28th May 2024. Keynote by David Garcia.  Talks and provocations by Garcia, Sykes, Hearing, Perkins, Davis, Amaledis, & Ruszev.

BFX Emerge Event: Exploring Affect in Creative Media Practice (Nov 2023). Round table with panellists: Evi Karathanasopoulou, Brad Gyori, Panos Amelidis, Martin Sharp and moderated by Maxine Gee.

Emerge Symposium: Affect in Theory and Practice- Beyond the Threshold of Language (June 2023). Keynote by Eric Kluitenberg:  Intensity and Spaces of Absence and Presence. Other presentations and provocations by Amelidis, Gyori, Gee, Seddon, Ruszev, Birtles and Hearing.

Emerge Symposium (2021): Telepresence to Teletrust July 2021. Presentations from Caroline Nevejan, Paul Sermon, Ghislane Boddington, Atau Tanaka, Ali Hossaini, Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat.

• Panos Amelidis had the sound installation “The sounding temple” commissioned by Onassis Cultural Centre (GR) and presented in Tuned City international event. The Sounding Temple is an artistic inquiry on the creation of a sound installation and storytelling device, based on the architecture of an Ancient Greek temple. Ancient Messina’s soundscape has been recorded, reshaped and reinvented together with the voices of the inhabitants telling stories of every-day life. The Sounding Temple is an attempt to connect the past with the present, the “then” with the “now”, the ancient with the contemporary. This was exhibited first week of June 2018 at Tuned City (Messene, Greece), an international event and artistic research project, which is at its fourth edition.

• Small Voice, Tom Davis &  Nick Ward. Sonorities 2022, Belfast.

  
• Karathanasopoulou, E.. Air Free. Audio Installation. 3rd Artecitya Art Science Technology Festival - THE NEW NEW, realised by TIF - HELEXPO. 83rd Thessaloniki International Fair’s Pavilion 2 - Thessaloniki, Greece. 8-16 September 2018.
• Karathanasopoulou, E.. Air Free 2. Audio Installation. FREIRAUM in Berlin, On the State of Freedom in Europe: Exhibition, discussion, concert, performance in Berlin. ZK/U — Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik /Center for Art and UrbanisticsSiemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin. 12-17 March 2019.

• Karathanasopoulou, E.. Air Free 2 - In Thessaloniki. Audio Installation. Freiraum Exhibition: From Berlin to Thessaloniki. LABattoir -35, 26th October Street, Thessaloniki, Greece. 17-24 May 2019.

  

2024 - AHRC BRAID Szilvia Ruszev Project lead , Maxine Gee Project co-lead (UK) Thomas Davis Project co-lead (UK) Xiasong Yang, co-lead. Mellianie Stockton-Brown co-lead. APP16805: Shared Post-Human Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation, £230,274 FEC

2022- In a Pot of Hot Soup: An online 3D interactive gallery (Public Engagement with Research Fund, 01 Mar 2022). Prof Paula Callus

2019 Reanimating Contested Spaces (ReSpace): Designing Participatory Civic Education for and with Young People in Kosovo and Rwanda (AHRC, 01 Sep 2019). Prof Paula Callus

2019 CoaAST, Coastal Aural archive of Space and Time (Arts and Humanities Research Council, GCRF, 17 Feb 2019). Awarded Artop: The Visual Articulations of Poltiics in Nigeria (AHRC, 27 Dec 2018). Prof Paula Callus

2019 - Sonification of Tipping Points is a collaborative project involving Prof Adrian Newton (Department of Life and Environmental Sciences) and Dr Ambrose Seddon (EMERGE). This project focuses on research being conducted in the RCUK (NERC)-funded TPAL project (Tipping Points in lowland Agricultural Landscapes). TPAL is examining the occurrence of tipping points in ecosystems, and the potential impacts on human society, by focusing on Dorset as a study area. In Sonification of Tipping Points we are creating an interactive sound installation to raise awareness of human impacts on the environment, and increase understanding of tipping point phenomena. Specifically, the installation will demonstrate how small human movements or actions can lead to major outcomes, through the positive feedback processes that underpin tipping points. Sonification of Tipping Points is supported ed by BU’s Arts and Sciences Collaborations fund, with gallery events scheduled for Spring 2019.

2018 - The Children of the Revolution: Animating the Lives of ex-FARC Child Soldiers to Promote Reconciliation ((BU Global Challenges Research Fund, 01 Apr 2018), 01 Apr 2018). Prof Paula Callus