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Art and Design Foundation Final Show 2012
The Oxford Brookes University Art and Design Foundation Students exhibition opens on Saturday June 2nd.
The Oxford Brookes Foundation Course enables students to broaden their horizons and develop their practice to become far richer in ideas, development and outcome and this show is testament to that process. Through hours of dedication, drive and ambition our students have realised their intentions of achieving places at the UK's best institutions for Art and Design degrees.
The climax to this most challenging but rewarding, exhausting yet exciting year of study is showcased in their final show. The work is diverse and stimulating and will provoke many emotions. From the grotesque to the sublime we aim to provide you with a thrilling ride through the many facets of Art and Design the UK has become so renowned for.
This is a must see show and we welcome you all to enjoy it with us.
For more information please click here.
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Brookes MA student wins prestigious PhD award
Christabel Stirling, currently studying on the MA in Music, has been awarded one of the University of Oxford’s prestigious Ertegun Scholarships to read for a PhD from this September. Leading Humanities students from around the world competed for the fifteen full graduate scholarships, funded from a major donation given to Oxford by the widow of the famed founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun. The fifteen scholars who were successful will have exclusive use of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun House for the Study of the Humanities, a five-storey Georgian building in the heart of Oxford.
Christabel’s PhD will be an ethnographic exploration of music’s role in the contemporary struggle over access to urban space. The research will engage with two broad issues: how twenty-first-century urban regeneration impacts upon residents’ access to, and use of urban space; and what the contributions of musical experience might be to these socio-spatial relations. Christabel hopes to investigate how music mediates between London residents and their social and geographical surroundings at a time when access to urban space is being challenged, restricted, and reconstructed in extreme ways, as evident through preparation for this year’s Olympics and the ‘Occupy’ movement. By using ethnography to engage with issues of music’s ‘effect’ in real-world situations, she hopes to become trained in using a truly important, and strikingly human method of research that is essential to understanding the lived and embodied experiences of societies, both now and in the future.
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Career in the Arts Day 2012
The very first Career in the Arts Day took place on Friday 9 March. It was an event organised in collaboration by Music, Fine Art and Film Studies with the aim of providing Arts students with the opportunity to get in touch with industry professionals.
The day opened with three representatives from the Arts (Sound Editor Dean Humphreys, Artist Heather Ackroyd and Feature Film Script Editor Kate Leys) who shared their experiences in the industry and presented a platform for students to understand better the skills required to work in different fields. Following this was a Round Table discussion with Oxford Brookes Alumni which gave students the chance to ask past Brookes students now working in the Arts, burning questions on their future career opportunities.
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Dr. Russo to give paper on migration in Italian cinema at the University of Oxford
Dr Paolo Russo will give a paper on narrative and narration in contemporary Italian films about migration at the international conference "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative". This conference is the final symposium of the Leverhulme Trust International Network on migration in media and narrative and will be held at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 13-15 April 2012.
The full conference programme is available here.
For more information about the "Destination Italy" project sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, visit ISO's (Italian Studies at Oxford) website here.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12 Mar 2012 around 1am
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Film Studies at the Berlin Film Festival 2012
Writes Josh Owen, first year Film Studies student:
So there the twelve of us stood. To our right, internationally acclaimed British film director Mike Leigh was walking down the red carpet accompanied by celebrated actors Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jake Gyllenhaal. Hundreds of adoring fans and photographers were jumping over one another, desperately trying to get a glimpse of the celebrities. On our left was a group of Occupy Berlin protesters. A splinter group of photographers had gathered, thanks to one member stripping down to his underwear – an admirable feat, given that the temperature was minus five degrees. This was one of many surreal moments on this trip. This was the Berlin film festival.
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Phoenix Cinema Centenary Project
The Phoenix cinema is celebrating its 100th birthday next year.
Daniela Treveri Gennari is working with the cinema and the Oxford Mail to compile a history of the cinema, told, as far as possible, in the words of its customers and staff. The aim is to produce a book, a web site, and an exhibition, as well as holding lots of special screenings and events.
One of Film studies' alumni, Hiu Chan is also working on this project.
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ACE funding for artists’ river research
Tracey Warr has received £8600 funding from Arts Council England for a collaborative river research project at Modern Art Oxford in summer 2012 with artists Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas. Latest news on the project here
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ACE funding for audiograft
audiograft has received funding from Grants for The Arts
audiograft the annual festival of experimental contemporary composition and Sound Art has received £7969 in funding from Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts Scheme. The festival runs from February 28th - March 3rd and full details can be found here.
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AHRC Studentships for Masters and PhD Programs
School of Arts awarded AHRC Postgraduate Studentships
As part of our AHRC Block Grant Funding the School of Arts is pleased to announce that in collaboration with the Universities of Hertfordshire and Surrey we are able to offer a number of bursaries for students taking up the MA Music, MA Composition & Sonic Art, MA Contemporary Arts, MA Contemporary Arts and Music and MA Social Sculpture. In addition there is a PhD studentship available in Music. You can find full details here. If you have any queries please contact Paul whitty.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 31 Jan 2012 around 12pm
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Off The Page
photograph by Janek Schaeffer
Felicity Ford from the Sonic Art Research Unit has been invited to contribute to the second Off The Page Festival hosted by The Wire and Sound and Music in February 2012.
From 24–26 February the Festival will occupy The Playhouse Theatre in Whitstable for a weekend of panel discussions, screenings, talks, and debates on sound, music, and music criticism.
Felicity will be contributing to The Attack of the Radiophonic Women: How Synthesizers Cracked Music's Glass Ceiling a panel discussion looking at the role of women in the development of avant-garde electronic music during the fifties and sixties. The Wire describe the panel as follows:
From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram, to Pauline Oliveros in San Francisco and Eliane Radigue in Paris, post-war female composers embraced the liberating technologies of analogue synthesis and computer composition as the means to bypass the male-dominated world of new music, in the process creating some of the period's most idiosyncratic and influential sounds. For this discussion chaired by The Wire's Deputy Editor Anne Hilde Neset, film maker and visual artist Aura Satz, sound artist Felicity Ford and label runner Jonny Trunk ponder the strange phenomenon and continuing popularity of electronic music's radiophonic women.
The line up announced so far for the festival includes Simon Reynolds presenting an 'intellectual portrait' of David Toop, Dave Tompkins on the spread of global Bass music, a lecture performance by The Bohman Brothers, Linder Sterling discussing her favourite music visuals, a panel debate on music's changing economy with Vicki Bennett, Scanner and Chris Cutler, an audience with Evan Parker, the world premiere of Eliane Radigue: Virtuoso Listening (a documentary produced in collaboration with the composer), Gavin Bryars on the sinking of the Titanic, as well as Jonny Trunk, Aura Satz and Felicity Ford discussing radiophonic composers.
Felicity Ford is currently a researcher in the Sonic Art Research Unit. She is currently working on the Sound Diaries project with Paul Whitty and will be leading a documentation workshop at audiograft 2012.
You can find full details of the Festival here and read about Felicity Ford's research on her blog.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 24 Jan 2012 around 5pm
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