Knowledge Exchange and the Creative Industries seminar series

Colleagues are warmly invited to the ‘Knowledge Exchange and the Creative Industries’ seminar series at the University of Bristol, running on Wednesday afternoons (2-3pm) throughout the 2019-2020 academic year. These seminars feature academics and creatives in conversation, discussing their recent partnerships and their thoughts on best practice, possible styles, and potential challenges in knowledge exchange projects. Practice-as-research, knowledge transfer, and co-produced research methods are also showcased. Each seminar is followed by tea and coffee to allow for further informal discussion.

The seminars are tied together around the theme of future directions for immersivity in the creative industries, with each event exploring collaborations across different creative forms, including cinema, theatre, virtual and augmented reality, music, and audio storytelling. The overall series will lead to the creation of a network of academics and creatives interested in knowledge exchange.

6 November: Dr Lesel Dawson, Dr Jimmy Hay (Bristol) and Natasha Rosling (Artist) The Lived Experience of Grief in Fiction Film [Senate House 5.10]

Chair: Dr Emma Cole

11 December: Dr Jenny Kid (Cardiff University) and Alison John (Yello Brick): Digital Cultural Heritage and Participatory Media Practices: Traces/Olion, a site-specific audio storytelling app [Senate House 5.10]

Chair: Dr Emma Bridges (ICS Public Engagement Fellow)

15 January: Professor Kirsten Cater/Dr Stuart Gray/Dr Chris Bevan (Bristol) and Kilter theatre company: An arts-science collaboration exploring the worlds of quantum and virtual reality.

Dr Hannah Wood (Falmouth) and Storyjuice: The glass ceiling games: Feminist Punk Augmented Reality. [Wills Memorial Building G25 REYNOLDS – NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE]

Chair: Dr Will Pooley (Lecturer in Modern European History, AHRC Leadership Fellow ‘Creative Histories’)

19 Feb: Dr Paul Clarke (Bristol University/Bristol & Bath Creative R&D Digital lacemaking Fellow) / Duncan Speakman (SWCTN immersion fellow/Pervasive Media Studio resident) on Uninvited Guests and Speakman’s augmented reality (AR) performance Billennium

Sharon Clark (Bath Spa/Raucous Theatre): TBC

Chair: Dr Naomi Paxton (Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)

25 March: Dr Emma Cole (University of Bristol) and Felix Barrett (Punchdrunk): Punchdrunk's Kabeiroi [Senate House 5.10]

Dr Nicole Foster (UWE): Knowledge Exchange and Creative Networks in the South West

Chair: Chair: Dr Mai Musié (Public Engagement Manager, Bodleian Libraries)

22 April: Dr Simon Moreton (UWE): The Political/Cultural/Social Context of Knowledge Exchange

Ivan Phelan (Sheffield Hallam): Virtual Reality and Health Technology Rehabilitation: How engaging content can aid rehabilitation and reduce pain

Chair: Dr Andrew Wray (Head of Knowledge Exchange, University of Bristol)

Booking recommended for catering purposes, either via email (emma.cole@bristol.ac.uk) or through Eventbrite.

A limited number of travel bursaries are available for students, the unwaged, and the precariously employed. Please contact Emma Cole (emma.cole@bristol.ac.uk) with details of your approximate travel costs, and the seminar(s) you would like to attend, if you wish to apply for a bursary.

The series is funded through the AHRC via the ‘Punchdrunk on the Classics’ Leadership Fellowship.

Image via Wikimedia Commons Immersive Art Show: WERK in Progress (Immersive Art Factory), Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig