DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

student story

http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/whyuwe/uwestudentstories/kirsty-media.aspx

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Tags: graduate stories

Originally posted: http://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/teams/media/archive/2013/05/24/student-story.aspx
more new video work

Two more, and again very different! A relentlessly inventive exploration of an extreme emotional state. A witty, topical (and queasy) parodic commercial break...

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Tags: critical practice, student work

Originally posted: http://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/teams/media/archive/2013/05/13/more-new-video-work.aspx
new video work

Here is a selection from this year's best second year group video projects. They are very diverse in their topics and approach, but all engage creatively and critically with the contemporary world and our experience of it, and all do this through experiments with structure and imagery.

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Tags: critical practice, student work

Originally posted: http://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/teams/media/archive/2013/05/13/new-video-work.aspx
DCRC & PM Studio present: Ken Eklund - Transmedia for Change

UWEs Digital Cultures Research Centre and The Pervasive Media Studio present a very special, one-off lunchtime talk with Ken Eklund.

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Tags: change, events, games, transmedia, transmediality
No boys allowed: Women unite at the first all-female games jam

Last October the DCRC funded the first ever all female games jam. The XX Games Jam, which was hosted and initiated by our former Director Helen Kennedy and produced by Debbie Rawlings of Auroch Digital, was a huge success and was even picked up by the BBC.

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Tags: equality, feminism, games jam, women, xx games jam
Searching for Happiness at The Festival of Ideas

"Fifty years ago people on the streets of Paris were asked: Are you happy? in a documentary experiment with the new film technology of 1960 - hand-held sync sound. Searching for Happiness takes advantage of a new era of creative technology to ask the same question today. From Mongolia to Maharashtra, filmmakers around the world have responded to an invitation to restage those 1960 interviews. In a documentary first, producer Mandy Rose has brought those recordings together with live feeds from the web to create a documentary experience which never plays the same way twice.

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Tags: Bristol, culture, documentary, happiness, interactive, values
New Formations special issue on Stiegler

Just a heads up that 1. this issue no. 77 is out (finally) and looks good. Ed. by Ben Roberts, Jeremy Gilbert and Mark Hayward. Interview with Stiegler, some bits of new translation, some good contributions. 2. I have an essay in it: ‘Editing (and) Individuation’ http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/contents.html

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Tags: Stiegler, Uncategorized

Originally posted: http://technophilia.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/new-formations-special-issue-on-stiegler/
i-Docs and CollabDocs feature on Tribeca Film Institute sandbox site

The DCRC are delighted that both our i-Docs website and Senior Research Fellow Mandy Rose's CollabDocs website both feature as resources on the lovely Tribeca Film Institute sandbox website. We are sure that this is yet another sign of the growing international and interdisciplinary conversation around themes of collaboration and interaction in the continuing evolution of the documentary format.

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Tags: collabdocs, i-docs, interactive documentary, tribeca
DCRC's Mandy Rose delivers keynote at BBC Connected Studio

DCRC Senior Research Fellow Mandy Rose delivers the opening keynote address at the first BBC Knowledge & Learning Connected Studio - a new approach to delivering innovation across BBC Future Media.

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Tags: BBC, collabdocs, i-docs, innovation, mandy rose
Curzon Memories App nominated for BUFVC Learning on Screen Award 2013

The Curzon Memories App has been nominated for a British Universities Film and Video Council Learning On Screen Award 2013 in the category of General Education Non-Broadcast / Multimedia.

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Tags: BUFVC, canepes, Curzon Memories App, Learning On Screen, multimedia