Summer events in London
Amid this season of festivals, here are two events that have caught our attention. EXHIBITION: 15 August - 4 September 2011Tristan Bates Theatre, 1A Tower St, London WC2H 9NPThe Museum of Broken...
View ArticleCultures of Surveillance
Guest blog by Dr David Barnard-Wills, Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cranfield University.In a moment of serendipity I find myself sitting down to write a...
View ArticleHaunting the Chapel: Photography and Dissolution
The Bridge Over the Moat, Anonymous, 1896, silver gelatin print with original graphite retouchingEXHIBITION REVIEWHaunting the Chapel: Photography and DissolutionDaniel Blau Gallery, London1 September...
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Guest blog by Edwina AttleeIn the 1980s there were over twelve thousand launderettes in the UK, today there are less than three thousand. As part of my research into homes away from home in the city I...
View ArticleDickens on display
The Old Curiosity Shop, by Myles Birket Foster (1882)To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens (7 February 1812), events and exhibitions have been organised all around Britain and...
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Last week film-maker Jenny Coan came to speak to the Autopsies Research Group about her work with film archives and found footage.Her short films made for Bill Ryder-Jones and his recent album release...
View ArticleArchive of a human being
On a recent trip to the Wellcome Collection I took the opportunity to visit the excellent permanent collections which comprise exhibitions and artwork themed around modern medicine, as well as the...
View ArticleOn the Beaten Track: The New York High Line and Elevated Railway
A recent trip to New York afforded me two avenues for exploring the ‘dead’ spaces of the city’s elevated railways. Built between 1829 and 1934, the elevated railways helped eliminate pedestrian deaths...
View ArticleMapping Methodologies in Thoreau’s Walden
Image: Concord Library collection.I was lucky enough to attend a seminar series last month organized by the University of East Anglia’s American Studies department which was run by Fulbright Scholar...
View ArticleThe films of Luther Price
Handmade slide from Meat (1999), courtesy of Luther PriceI recently discovered the work of Luther Price at the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images in London, where the curators of Light Industry, NY put...
View ArticleSummer events in London
Amid this season of festivals, here are two events that have caught our attention. EXHIBITION: 15 August - 4 September 2011Tristan Bates Theatre, 1A Tower St, London WC2H 9NPThe Museum of Broken...
View ArticleCultures of Surveillance
Guest blog by Dr David Barnard-Wills, Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cranfield University.In a moment of serendipity I find myself sitting down to write a...
View ArticleHaunting the Chapel: Photography and Dissolution
The Bridge Over the Moat, Anonymous, 1896, silver gelatin print with original graphite retouchingEXHIBITION REVIEWHaunting the Chapel: Photography and DissolutionDaniel Blau Gallery, London1 September...
View ArticleLaunderette
Guest blog by Edwina AttleeIn the 1980s there were over twelve thousand launderettes in the UK, today there are less than three thousand. As part of my research into homes away from home in the city I...
View ArticleDickens on display
The Old Curiosity Shop, by Myles Birket Foster (1882)To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens (7 February 1812), events and exhibitions have been organised all around Britain and...
View ArticleFound footage
Last week film-maker Jenny Coan came to speak to the Autopsies Research Group about her work with film archives and found footage.Her short films made for Bill Ryder-Jones and his recent album release...
View ArticleArchive of a human being
On a recent trip to the Wellcome Collection I took the opportunity to visit the excellent permanent collections which comprise exhibitions and artwork themed around modern medicine, as well as the...
View ArticleOn the Beaten Track: The New York High Line and Elevated Railway
A recent trip to New York afforded me two avenues for exploring the ‘dead’ spaces of the city’s elevated railways. Built between 1829 and 1934, the elevated railways helped eliminate pedestrian deaths...
View ArticleMapping Methodologies in Thoreau’s Walden
Image: Concord Library collection.I was lucky enough to attend a seminar series last month organized by the University of East Anglia’s American Studies department which was run by Fulbright Scholar...
View ArticleThe films of Luther Price
Handmade slide from Meat (1999), courtesy of Luther PriceI recently discovered the work of Luther Price at the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images in London, where the curators of Light Industry, NY put...
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