DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

It has never been more important to study the media. As Lord Leveson lifts the Fleet Street flagstones to glimpse the tangle of power, influence, secrecy, disdain and corruption writhing beneath them, as social media are accused of rewiring children’s brains, of destroying the very sociality they proclaim but also celebrated for toppling autocratic regimes, as popular magazines proliferate new forms of disgust for their readers’ bodies, and as photography, video, animation and the written word fuse, split and evolve in the new primal soup of the Web, the work on display in this exhibition offers a magnifying glass for the study of this rapidly mutating media ecosystem.

Invitation to Sideways Looks:Sideways Looks Exhibition - Digital Media Projects 2012Final year projects by Media and Cultural Studies and Film Studies Students from the University of the West of EnglandPaintworks Event Space, Paintworks, Bath Rd, Arno's Vale, Bristol BS4 3EH16th May- Opening Night 5.45pm -10pm17th May- 10am - 8pm18th May- 10am - 1pm

The AHRC-funded REACT Knowledge Exchange hub have announced 'Books and Print' as the theme for the next Sandbox development scheme. The scheme will fund six collaborations that develop explorations around this theme in how we read, learn, and publish. Over the next few weeks REACT will draw together the full brief for the call and refine the application process. You can join the REACT Mailing list to be kept up to date with announcements as they are made. 

On the 19th of April I contributed to the 'virtual space' event held by Passenger Films, combining short talks and film screenings that addressed the theme of ‘the virtual’. Passenger Films is a series of public events initiated by Amy Cutler, a cultural geographer at Royal Holloway, and supported by UCL UrbanLab, that combine talks and film screenings. I had the privilege of speaking alongside Rob Kitchin, Director of the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (Republic of Ireland) and co-author of 'Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life.