The launch of Cary Bazalgette’s new book “How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies” will be held at 5.30 pm on 22nd June in The Blue Room at the BFI Southbank. This new book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children’s relationship with the media, avoiding the “risks and benefits” paradigm while examining very young
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Kate Stonehill, who contributes to the new BA Media film strand, and is a professional documentary-maker, was commissioned by the Arts & Humanities faculty at UCL to create a documentary with Justin Hardy, celebrating the Slade’s 150 year anniversary. The introduction on the Slade’s website says: “Through interviews, archives, artworks, and filmography, the documentary will shed light on the Slade’s
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Colleagues from ReMAP met to discuss opportunities and pitfalls in participatory research, and how a reflexive approach can support a more critical and less homogenising engagement with research practices and knowledge production. Organised by Hakan Ergul, the event was led by Bruno de Paula, who presented some of his recent work developing MissionMaker and facilitating game-making workshops with young people across London.
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This freely available collection co-edited by ReMAP member Marq Smith with colleagues was launched on 20th September 2021 as the first of a series of events celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of Visual Culture, which Marq co-edits. See below for following events. The image shown on this page shows an artwork by one of the contributors, Oreet Ashery,
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The 2021 annual show by students on the IOE MA Art and Design in Education took place this summer, in spite of challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Introduction to the show by the tutors, ReMAP members Claire Robins and Annie Davey, explains how this innovative programme enables students to combine their experience of education and their practice in
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UCL’s new BA Media, created by DARE members in the media team in collaboration with colleagues in other faculties, was launched on the 9th September 2021 in a high-level debate with a distinguished panel of guests from the world of media. The screen grab from the Zoom session shows the panel: Top row: Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development at
Read moreThe annual Scottish film education conference, run by the Film Education Journal, took place in June 2021. The sessions are now available to watch online. The first panel, Papers from the FEJ, chaired by DARE’s Mark Reid, can be viewed here. Other sessions were chaired by DARE’s Michelle Cannon and Andrew Burn, and included a panel on film education in
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The annual Scottish film education conference, run by the Film Education Journal, took place in June 2021. The sessions are now available to watch online. The first panel, Papers from the FEJ, chaired by DARE’s Mark Reid, can be viewed here. Other sessions were chaired by DARE’s Michelle Cannon and Andrew Burn, and included a panel on film education in
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Read this interview with Professor Diane Carr on her work in the D4D project on disability and able bodies in games. https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/disability-assessment-and-able-bodies-in-games-and-science-fiction-researcher-diane-carr-on-her-d4d-project-playful-bodies-technology-and-community/
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