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Unfolding Narratives

Beyond Conventional Forms: Embracing Openness in the Creation and Performance of New Computer Music  TextMe is an interactive composition and performance by Chen Wang, merging composer, performer, and audience into a dynamic, evolving piece. Electronic composition and live vocals intersect with real-time engagement, allowing text messages to shape sonic elements. This piece explores breaking traditional boundaries, fostering a collaborative musical journey that celebrates inclusivity and shared creativity in the digital age.  chenmusic0822@gmail.com
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Chen Wang

Educating African Coastal Ideographs and Brand Identity through Poster for Social Change. Inspired by African artefacts, design, patterns, and soft power, Edwige Seri’s research addresses disparities between Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism. Using graphic design and discourse analysis, Seri aims to retrieve West African ideographs and explore branding&#39;s role in their revival. It advocates for innovation and diversity in the design landscape, empowering designers to draw inspiration from their pan-African diaspora heritage. e.seri0820191@arts.ac.uk

Edwige Seri 

Spatial Sonification of Patterns in Nature Spatial Sonification of Patterns in Nature explores how multichannel sound and sonification processes can give voice to largely unnoticed patterns. A recording of branches moving in a tree reveals patterns of movement. The tree’s struggle to survive is suggested by the distortion we hear. Ultrasonic clicks emitted by plants, particularly when stressed, are presented within the range of human hearing. Sounds within the tree are given voice. g.mitchell@lcc.arts.ac.uk <a href="https://gmitchellc470.myportfolio.com/">Website</a>

Gareth Mitchell 

Into the Mosh Pit: Singaporean Punk from 1992 - 2007 Presenting a collection of pages from Singaporean punk zines from 1992 – 2007, Ginette Chittick invites you to reflect upon your own response to today&#39;s sociopolitical climate and, by appropriating the visual messages in the pages, build your own DIY zine collating disparate sheets.    Chittick is interested in the specificity in the visual language as a response to the sociopolitical environment of that period. g.chittick0520221@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://ginettechittick.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ginettechittick">Instagram</a>

Ginette Chittick 

The practice of creative block: making space for process Extend (2024) is a continuation of Jonathan Martin’s practise-based research, predicated on making work from the experience of creative concerns. Each monoprint is a moment, or event of process. Whilst each is unique, it is related to all the others; as to previous bodies of work.j.r.martin@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Jonathan Martin 

Co-composing Acousmatic Stories: Hybrid strategies for exploring change, crisis and community through collaborative creative practice Growing Stories for Different Climates (Schauerman &amp; Tomking 2024), funded by Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity  Growing Stories for Different Climates is an audio-work investigating sustainable food production and human-soil relations. It features the voices of people who are Black or mixed heritage: scientists, historians, writers, conservationists and gardeners from Africa, the Caribbean and the UK. It includes Garden Museum archives. theo.tomking@york.ac.uk <a href="https://juliaschauerman.com/">Website</a>

Julia Schauerman and Theo Tomking 

Into Mine Arms: a film exploring the recent resurgence of femicides in Greece Into Mine Arms is a moving image work by Konstantina Votsika, investigating and challenging the connection between the objectification of women in media within patriarchal society and the recent resurgence of femicides in Greece. Votsika builds upon Laura Mulvey&#39;s seminal theory of the male gaze, asking what this violence reflects about Greek culture.  Please note, this work discusses femicide. k.votsika0620231@arts.ac.uk

Konstantina Votsika 

Could Co-Designly Practice, pencil-on-paper tracking, data visualisation, and encoding increase menstruating adolescents’ embodied understanding of their menstrual cycle in secondary schools? Doctoral research, photographic ‘postcard journal’ A discursive counternarrative about menstrual phenomenology. The colours slide from red, to black, to a viriditas green, veritas (or truth). louisescovell@yahoo.com <a href="https://www.lscovell.com/red-visual-journal">Website</a>

Louise Scovell  

Knots within knotworks - Conceptual, sensual and socio-political encounters Analogous to threads within knotted artworks and sentences within text, sound is a transformative thread, intricately tying together emotions, thoughts, and familial bonds. In Spider-Fly (2024), unseen threads twist and turn to create a delicate yet complex topology marked by intentional voids and white noise. These empty spaces paradoxically reveal relation within knotworks.lbeckett27@gmail.com <a href="https://www.lyndabeckett.org/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lynda.beckett">Instagram</a>

Lynda Beckett 

Diasporic Mischief: Radical Migrant Fictioning as Experimental Feminist Art Practice Thursday War is a film by Margareta Kern that captures the menace amid mundanity of naval exercises in Cornwall at a time of heightening military tensions. Filmed from Kern’s kitchen window, the circular images show the warships and submarines gliding along the horizon, their slow violence made hauntingly present by this prescient work. info@margaretakern.com <a href="https://www.margaretakern.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sea_._monster">Instagram</a>

Margareta Kern 

Illustration of a girl holding a cup of coffee, and another girl wearing a hijab.  

Considering 21st Century Muslim Superheroines and Issues of Representation; Comics, Creators, and Readers in Context Focused on the representation of Muslim superheroines in contemporary comics, Meher Shiblee examines how authors and artists situated in different cultural and political environments engage with the comic-making, creating unique superheroines for a transnational readership in a globalised world. m.shiblee0320211@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://www.instagram.com/meher__shiblee">Instagram</a>

Meher Shiblee 

Memory as First Breath: Reconstructing Personal Memory in Post-Francoist Spain through Practice-Based Archive Autoethnography Mireia Ludevid i LLop proposes intimate, political responses to the impact of erasure and absence in intergenerational narratives. Through an archive photograph and recontextualised gesture, Working the Knot retells the history of the flooding of Faió during the Francoist regime. Gathering Almonds asks for your participation: to hold and play with almonds, secrets, grievances, desires, separations, and returns, as forces against forgetting. m.ludevidllop1220191@arts.ac.uk

Mireia Ludevid i LLop 

Afterlife: how can the existing LCC buildings make their mark? Natalie Robinson shares work created during the first 15 months of her enquiry - using projection, printed images, and hand-made objects - as a personal response to the materiality of the campus buildings, the prospect of their disappearance, and how their essence might leave a mark.   n.robinson1020191@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://www.pictalie.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/pictalie">Instagram</a>

Natalie Robinson 

Unveiling the Veiled: Addressing Cyber Gender Abuse through Photography Art Practices Nieves Mingueza&#39;s exhibit explores gender-based cyber abuse through interdisciplinary approaches, featuring early visual notes and initial experimental works. Using collages, found imagery, paper objects, and text, it examines various manifestations of cyber violence and its traumatic impact on female victims. Additionally, it delves into systemic inadequacies and aims to reshape discourse on violence against women and girls. Please note, this work discusses gender-based cyber abuse. nievesmingueza@gmail.com <a href="https://nievesmingueza.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nievesminguezaa">Instagram</a>

Nieves Mingueza 

Other Worlds: Researching Narrative Spaces of Video Games from the Queer Perspectives Ghost Through the Looking-Glass is a mixed-media visual experience that combines CGI animation with live-action footage. The sounds of a dense Jurassic-era fern forest overlay with electronically generated soundscapes, creating an environment where queer bodies ghost through a complex digital maze, constructed from highly condensed symbols of gaming scenes, presenting a nonlinear spatial narrative. r.shi0520221@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scowerrui_shi">Instagram</a>

Rui Shi 

Performances of Care in the Po River Valley: a situated hydrofeminist framework to imagine sustainable and flourishing alternatives to the current fragility of the natureculture Sara Ortolani presents a multimedia installation, expanding her Confirmation document into physical space, holding together theory, practice and fieldwork. The space is live, allowing for the document to develop throughout the exhibition run, and to be activated during a series of events (some of which are open to the public). s.ortolani@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://resinacollective.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/saraortolani">Instagram</a>

Sara Ortolani 

Undoing the script, fictioning the real and sculpting and I/we in time &quot;The Return of a Spring coming soon: subject, matter and work currently in process: past, present and future&quot; contact@susannawallin.com <a href="https://www.susannawallin.com/">Website</a>

Susanna Wallin 

sounding kinships: towards more-than-human pedagogies in our muddy bodies (2023-24) collects materials from recently facilitated “muddy workshops”, challenging how participatory, embodied encounters can be documented after the fact as artwork, as a counter to traditional evidence-based conventions. Paper ground sheets and vessels hold muddy traces of participants; patterns—bodily prints—spillages—textures—mixtures. Here, their verticality invokes geological time, while a reflective text reinvigorates the physical traces, recalling sounding actions. 
 
William Crosby is a member of British/Iraqi/Indian sedimentology-sound research group, MUD Collective. crosby.a.william@gmail.com <a href="https://www.crosbywilliam.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/crosby.a.william">Instagram</a>

William Crosby 

Imaginative leaps to ‘hidden knowledge’: a practice-led response to the rhetoric of contemporary conspiracy theories. This practice-centred research focuses on the subject of online conspiracy theory communities. Informed by analyses of internet forum discussions, William Lakin focuses on the collective world-building and storytelling practices in these virtual spaces and poses the question, what are the provocations and motivations behind engaging with these narratives? mail@williamlakin.com <a href="https://williamlakin.com/">Website </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/williamlakin">Instagram</a>

William Lakin 

Grey Milk and Lost Kin: Re-sounding, Re-visioning and Re-membering Trauma in the Scottish Gypsy Traveller Archives How does someone commune with a ‘super-natural’ ancestral cosmology? Could it have happened in the instance that taste and sound made sensory contact in my body as I knelt briefly to drink at the mountain waterfall? What if this knowledge can only be accessed ‘…in the slipstream of a familial clusterfuck of trauma…? w.stone0320211@arts.ac.uk

Wilma Stone 

Entering the Outland: How Can Cross-Media Miniature Installations Synthesise Creative Spaces in Order to Preserve Hakka Memories? - Part 1: Handmade Childhood Xinyu Li&#39;s research investigates abandoned, forgotten dwellings within fading Hakka culture, an ethnic group facing extinction in China. Its poetic focus conveys the preservation of memories through the construction of miniature dioramas. By introducing enticing objects into these minuscule spaces, the research seeks to preserve cultural heritage from an unfamiliar perspective. naoqi71@gmail.com <a href="https://xinyuli.org/">Website</a>

Xinyu Li 

Designing for Deliberation—An Open Debate on the Use of AI-Processed Hologenome Biodata This installation shows the ubiquitous &quot;hologenome (DNA &amp; co-habiting microbiome) biodata&quot; in our daily lives, which contains our personal and activity information. Yongrao Du speculates what would happen if we processed this biodata with AI in the near future. Your voice is important. Come and engage in the humane future co-construction! y.du1220211@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://duyongrao.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/yongrao.du.little_room">Instagram</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yongraodu/">LinkedIn</a>

Yongrao Du 

Beyond Anthropocentrism: Exploring Posthumanism in NFT art and AI Collaboration Zihan Wang deconstructs human-centric approaches to art practice and authorship, questioning the dominance of human subjectivity in both the form and content of artistic expression. A key focus is on examining NFT art as a potential manifestation of posthuman cultural production. This involves exploring how NFT art, in its representation and beyond its technical aspects, could challenge traditional humanist conceptions of identity and creativity. z.wang0720212@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/posthumanism">Website</a>

Zihan Wang 

Becoming through Visual Marginalia: Iterative Annotations in Reading This work is a manual of marginalia, comprising a copied medieval map (Mappa Mundi), a page of detective notes, a researcher’s marginalia in &#39;Pale Fire&#39;, and three poems written on receipt scrolls, which are relics from a young poet. None of the elements are original. These pieces collectively exhibit Ziqi Guo’s research on marginalia. z.guo0220231@arts.ac.uk

Ziqi Guo 

The Implicit Representation of Death in Contemporary Chinese Photography Through her art practice, Ziyi Ren reflects and recreates the related experiences of her great-grandfather&#39;s death in 2021, which centres around a town named Weicheng in Mianyang City, China. She explores how photographic works unfold the stories of death as an implicit subject to represent the haunting past and the ongoing events inscribed in living experiences. z.ren0520221@arts.ac.uk <a href="https://ziyi-ren.com/">Website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ziyiren_">Instagram</a>

Ziyi Ren 

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