Category Archives: Conferences
Miasma and A&SM#4.5
Here’s the video ‘released’ today at Affect & Social Media#4.5 and Sensorium Art Show Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic. Panels and presentations (some of them) archived here https://viralcontagion.blog/asm4-5/. From the middle-ages to the nineteenth century it was commonly believed … Continue reading
A&SM#4.5 2020
Welcome to Affect & Social Media#4.5 and The Sensorium Art Show Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic I’m delighted to be taking part in this year’s A&SM#4.5 conference. A full programme of links to pre-recorded videos, short position papers, artworks, performances, … Continue reading
The Sensorium Art Show – Affect and Social Media #3
These posters were my contribution to the Sensorium Art Show, curated by Mikey Georgeson and Dean Todd as part of the Affect and Social Media #3 conference at UEL. They were posted around the campus and perhaps one or two … Continue reading
Vernacular Aesthetics continued…
It’s been an interesting few months for opening up the discourse around the Vernacular Aesthetics of the Global City and indeed my registration document for my Doctorate is now due, and most likely called ‘Global Vernacular Aesthetics’. A nice contradictory … Continue reading
The Brand Nobody Knows: London’s fashion ‘other’ and the vernacular aesthetic of the Anthropocene
On a recent visit to Covent Garden I noted a new proliferation of luxury brands trading from the Piazza. On approaching the Piazza from James Street one is confronted with stores by historic luxury brands Chanel, Dior and Burberry. These … Continue reading
Contemporary Vernacular Photographies Symposium – Saturday 3rd September
This image taken from Photographer’s Gallery website and shows a family made ‘anonymous’ in the newspaper. Part of Sophie Beard’s paper. I attended the Contemporary Vernacular Photographies symposium on Saturday which was organised by the Photographer’s Gallery and the Institute … Continue reading
Images from Gwennap and beyond
Kennal Vale – 200 years ago there would have been little or no beech forest here, the area was the site of gunpowder works. Difficult to imagine now. Check out previous blog post for more info on this field trip. … Continue reading
The Falmouth Convention
The weekend of 20th to 23rd May the Falmouth Convention was held in various sites around Cornwall. It referred to itself as a “three-day conference in an unconventional form, with an emphasis on artists as participants and on exchange of … Continue reading
Intellectual Simulation 