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
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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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Theo Bryer, Jane Coles, Kate Cowan, Rosie Flewitt and John Potter went to the American Education Research Association Conference (AERA) in Toronto, April 5-9, 2019. The conference theme was ‘Leveraging Education Research in a Post-Truth Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence’. Theo and Jane were presenting on research that emerged from the Beowulf project, initiated by the DARE collaborative –
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Enter the MACBETH videogame competition, and win £500 for your school. We are running a competition for schools to make Missionmaker games based on Macbeth. The competition closes on May 24th 2019, and the games will be judged by a panel of experts from UCL, The Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham University, the British Library, and Cambridge University Press, as well as
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Blood & Bones: Living with Cancer is an exhibition of work by internationally exhibited and award-winning artist Tom Corby at The Street Gallery, University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London NW1 2BU. The exhibition runs from 29th February – 24th April 2019, open 24 hours a day, with a PRIVATE VIEW: 6pm – 7.30pm Thursday 28th February 2019. The exhibition
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Andrew Burn, John Potter and Michelle Cannon represented D.A.R.E at the International Media Education Summit held at the Hong Kong Baptist University, 1-2 November 2018. Each year the Summit brings together a global network of researchers, educators and practitioners working across all aspects of media education, and digital & media literacy. Now running for 12 years, MES is convened by
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‘Fight disinformation with media literacy’ was a one-day event at the Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussels, convened by the Evens Foundation in conjunction with the Media & Learning Association and supported by the European Commission. The aim was to provide educators and practitioners from around Europe with media production activities, resources and workshops that engage with interpretive work and
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