Cy Bonnet is studying on the MA in Public Art and is proposing a piece of public art for inclusion in the Student Learning Zone and would love to receive feedback from staff and students across campus
‘Live Wall’ provides a window for the student and staff to experience and explore the rich content, diversity, sheer hard work and commitment that makes up our unique university culture. Dynamically it will provide a visual portal, the means by which we, within the university can view, peruse, understand and critique the commitment and diversity within our community and culture.
The potential of Live Wall is only limited by the imagination of more than 11,000 students.
The focus is not about ‘Higher Education or E-Learning’ alone but the infrastructure for a more holistic approach. Showing the Cybonnetic project is helping to deliver the academic vision of the University.
To find out more see Cy Bonnet’s Blog http://cybonnetics.wordpress.com/
Anna Zaluczkowska, Programme Leader for Media, Writing and Production has recently attended the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in New Orleans. The theme for this year meeting was Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanism. Anna presented a paper entitled “Whatever you Say Say Nothing” (Northern Irish Cinema) to delegates who had attended the meeting to debate “National Traumas, Diasporic Encounters: Violence, Memory, and Literary/Visual Culture”.
Said Anna; “It was a fantastic experience and the organisation of the conference into small group discussions sessions was particularly suitable for someone, such as myself, who is new to research. I met many academics who were studying Lebanese film, Argentinean film and films about or relating to conflict. We were able to have a very fruitful discussion about the connections we discovered and I have been able to make a range of very useful contacts to help me develop this research further.”
Suzanne Stern-Gillet was invited to present a paper at the conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held in Venice from 7th to 11th April. She spoke on ‘Beauty Simple and Incorporeal: Ficino against the Stoics.’
An exhibition of photographs by MA Photography graduate Caroline Edge and Humphrey Spender opened on the 30th March at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery.
This exhibition compares photographs taken by Humphrey Spender in 1937-8 for the Mass Observation Worktown study of Bolton with modern photographs of seasonal rituals taken by Caroline Edge. Visual parallels between old and new explore communal desires and activities that cross generations.
Caroline Edge with Rotary Club Representatives and Mike Lomas, University Director of Business Development and External Partnerships
The Mass Observation was founded to ‘collect a mass of data based on practical observation, on the everyday life of all types of people’. From 1937-8 the organisation made a study of life in Bolton (Worktown) collecting a large number of observer accounts of attitudes and behaviour. Humphrey Spender’s photographs formed part of this survey and capture the spirit of a northern mill town at work and play.
This exhibition will be displayed for 6 weeks and is supported by the Humphrey Spender John Marriott Scholarship for Social Documentary Photography, 2009.
