Leicester Media School
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Technical Images and Visual Art in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: From GOFAI to GANs
(Conference)Artificial Intelligence (AI) and art share a common past, where artists employed AI algorithms to generate art. This paper explores the early days of AI-generated images, using Harold Cohen’s AARON software as a paradigm ... -
‘Each one teach one’ Visualising Black intellectual life in Handsworth beyond the epistemology ‘white sociology’
(Article)Handsworth, a suburb in north-west Birmingham, became an important generative epistemic location that produced a number of contested discourses on race and racism in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s. Using archival ... -
Roboethics as a Research Puzzle
(Conference)This position paper discusses the question of incorporating roboethics into the roboticists' thinking about their research. On the one hand, there has been a growing recognition of the need to develop and advance the field ... -
Human-Robot Dichotomy
(Conference)This paper belongs to the area of roboethics and responsible robotics. It discusses the conceptual and practical separation of humans and robots in designing and implementing robots into real-world environments. We argue ... -
Immense intimacy: acousmatic compositional techniques in sound and installation art as ‘something to hold onto’
(Article)This article explores the accessibility of acousmatic compositional approaches to sound and installation art. Principally of concern is the consideration of intimacy to create a means of ‘connecting’ with an audience. ... -
Black Cats and Blues CD liner notes
(Musical Score)Composed by Craig Vear, professor of digital performance and music at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, the work (to put it very simply) is an interaction between an electronically generated score and an ... -
Black Cats and Blues
(Recording, musical)Black Cats and Blues (2014-18) is an extended composition by Craig Vear for improvising cellist and digital technology. It is inspired by Boris Vian’s collection of 10 short stories and creates a unique hybrid performance ... -
Okay for Sound? The reception of the Talkies in Britain 1928-1932
(Article)The arrival of the talkies in Britain evoked mixed responses. While popular audiences enthusiastically embraced Hollywood musicals like the Al Jolson hit The Singing Fool (1928), the literati were often scathing of ... -
In search of the Nordic electroacoustic
(Book chapter)This chapter will examine electroacoustic music in the Nordic countries, with a focus on this question: is it reasonable to speak of a ‘Nordic identity’ in electro- acoustic music? An overview confirms that there is a long ... -
China's ancient past in its contemporary art: On the politics of time and nation branding at the Venice Biennale
(Article)This article examines the China Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale through an exploration of temporality. It argues that the pavilion’s deployment of a politics of time – by mobilizing China’s dynastic past and its ... -
Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) art in care of ageing society: focus on dementia
(Article)Background: Art enhances both physical and mental health wellbeing. The health benefits include reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, pain perception and briefer inpatient stays, as well as improvement of communication ... -
Cyborgs as Frontline Service Employees: A Research Agenda
(Article)Purpose This paper identifies and explores potential applications of cyborgian technologies within service contexts and how service providers may leverage the integration of cyborgian service actors into their service ... -
Bedrock Behind the Iron Curtain: Transcultural Shifts in the Hungarian Dubbed Version of The Flintstones (1960-66)
(Article)US serial animation has had varying success on Hungarian television. Due to the form’s link to comedy and reliance on voice casting, its local appeal has largely depended on dubbing production’s transcultural integration ... -
The politics of normalising gendered violence: feminised austerity and masculinised wealth creation
(Article)According to UN data, 1 in 3 women worldwide are subject to violence. Yet male sexual violence often fails to be part of public discourse. To explore this relative silencing of discussion is to consider how media narratives ... -
Routledge Companion to British Cinema History
(Book)A 39-chapter edited volume that offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as both a commercial entertainment industry and a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to ... -
Hidden Spaces
(Recording, musical)Hidden Spaces is an electroacoustic work in three sections. Each section frames field recordings made by me in different locations - 'found' sounds that had an unusual or interesting quality, intensified by the use of ... -
Terms of Endearment: The challenges of descriptive language in electroacoustic music
(Conference)Terms to identify tools, objects and structures are common to all human endeavour. They help us to connect ideas and to articulate purpose and meaning. Many explanatory terms, labels and forms of jargon have flourished for ... -
Editorial: Bringing New Music to New Audiences
(Article)This is the editorial for a themed issue of 'Organised Sound' focusing on: a) the conference from which the articles were taken, b) the Interfaces (Creative Europe) project within which the conference took place, and c) ... -
Star Products, Star Capital, Fan Markets: Examining 1940s British Film Stardom Through Fan Club Publications
(Article)This paper is part on an ongoing project that examines the development of British film stars and their fan club culture during the mid to late 1940s, through studio-sanctioned but fan or star-produced magazines for the ... -
The permanency of film festivals: Archiving the changing India
(Article)Time and space are two dimensions that define a film festival in relation to duration, and cultural, social, urban and political relations to the event. While the notion of space is well documented by the literature on ...
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