Online Discussion: Publishing Art and Design Research

University of Sunderland had significant successes in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 21, with Art and Design research outputs identified as a particular strength within the institution.

We are delighted to invite you to dive into a core area for Art and Design research and join our interactive seminar entitled Publishing Art and Design Research. We invite you to consider the opportunities and challenges that new and established researchers must navigate in a rapidly evolving publishing landscape.

Speakers:

Emeritus Professor of New Media Art, Dr Beryl Graham and Lecturer in Digital Arts and Enterprise, Dr Suzy O’Hara will launch To Fit the New Art: 7 Years of Curating Art After New Media (2022). This co-authored, online publication celebrates seven years of collective insights and experiences from international curators, as they share emerging new media art practices and discuss how curators can best fit their practices, so that audiences can engage with this exciting art.

Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media, Dr Alexandra Moschovi will present her monograph, A Gust of Photo-Philia: Photography in the Art Museum (2020). Published by Leuven University Press, this book—part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices—tells the story of photography's accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum.

AHRC Northumbria-Sunderland Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) students, Dena Bagi, Helen McGhie and Georgia Smithson will present the collaborative publication A Book for Research that is Art (2022). With contributions by Dena Bagi, Dr Crystal Bennes, Ben Evans James, Theo Harper, Laura Harrington, Helen McGhie, and Georgia Smithson, the publication demonstrates how artists and makers are redefining the conceptual core of their practice as they create forms, motion, and spatial emulations that are directly informed by technology.

These three short presentations will be followed by an informal discussion led by Professor of Visual Art, Dr Mike Collier.

Please note, this is part of a hybrid event. Please join us in person from 5pm – 7pm at the Northern Centre of Photography for a drinks reception and to pick up your free copy of the publication, ‘A Book for Research that is Art’. Register here