REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

“Engagement, Emotion, Experience” is the theme of this year’s TECHNE conference. These three words describe the researcher’s position. We are interested in the complex relationships between scholarship and academia and the wider world, both as human experience and as professional practice. This year’s Conference will be held at the London HQ of Amnesty International, the global human rights organisation. It is a fitting venue for us to discuss and present ideas about ways that scholarship engages with the wider world.

We want to explore how the process of research, and its outputs, engage with the world and how this affects the researcher. We will address questions of impact, public engagement, interdisciplinarity, innovative ways of communicating and directing outputs, performance and publishing methods. We are especially interested in discussing ways that “traditional” disciplines are finding new or reinvigorated processes of dissemination and reception.

Welcome

It is a pleasure to welcome PhD and ECR researchers to the “Emotion, Engagement, Experience” TECHNE Researcher Conference. “Engagement, Emotion, Experience” is the theme of this year’s TECHNE conference. These three words describe the researcher’s position. We are interested in the complex relationships between scholarship and academia and the wider world, both as human experience and as professional practice.

Together, through talks, panels, films, performance and round-table workshops, we will explore how the passion and process of research engages with the world, and how this affects the researcher, as both personal and professional journey. We'll look at questions of impact, public engagement and interdisciplinarity, and imagine new pathways for our research.

Finally, we'll share innovative ways of communicating and directing outputs, performance and publishing methods. We will examine and discuss ways that arts and humanities disciplines are finding new or reinvigorated processes of dissemination and reception.

Special Guest Speaker

We are very happy to welcome as our special guest speaker, artist composer and researcher Dr J. Milo Taylor of Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) at the London College of Communication.

Dr. J. Milo Taylor is an artist, composer, musician, producer and researcher. He has been active in the music and sound art scene in London since the early 2000s, and is a co-founder of the London Sound Artists Research Group. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and has collaborated with numerous artists and performers worldwide. In 2009, he was awarded a PhD by the CRiSAP research unit at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, with a practice based project developing a database of sound art. He is currently Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Sound Arts and Design course at London College of Communication. He also teaches on the MA Sound Arts course.

Website: http://www.suborg.net

09:45 – 10:30 REGISTRATION
Coffee and Tea will be served in the ATRIUM

10.30-10.40 Welcome & Introductory Remarks (AUDITORIUM)

10:40-11:30 Keynote presentation (AUDITORIUM)
Dr Milo Taylor Artist, composer and researcher at Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) at the London College of Communication.

11:30 – 12:00 Intermedia Performance (AUDITORIUM)

12:00-12:10 Logios Journal – Rachel Marsh (AUDITORIUM)

12:15 – 13:00 PANELS

Panel I Arts and Mental Health CONFERENCE ROOM (MEZZANINE)

Chair: Solene Heinzl, Royal Holloway University of London

“Auto-Ethnography and Mental Health” Lavinia Dowling, Royal Holloway University of London

“Exploring the role of music to enhance quality of life for children with childhood dementia”
Rebecca Atkinson, University of Roehampton.

Panel II Artistic Practices

(ANNEX ROOM – LOWER GROUND FLOOR)

CHAIR: Francis Gene-Rowe, Royal Holloway University of London

“From Origin to Infinity and Back Again” Robin Kirsten, Royal College of Art

“Still in the Doldrums – Art Practices and Otherworlds” Alice Colquhoun, University of Roehampton.

3D Poster “Conversing with materials-: embodied processes in scenographic practice and

Experience” Alice Helps, University of Roehampton (ACTION ROOM 2 – ground floor)

Film Programme (Films will be screened on a loop all day until 15:45)

“Aesthetics of Water” Wayne Binitie, Royal College of Art

“A Queering of Memory: Parts 1 &2” Timothy Smith, UAL

“Persisting Dreams” Côme Ledésert, University of Westminster

“A Cold War Nostalgia” Gillian McIver, University of Roehampton

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH (ATRIUM, downstairs)

14:00 – 14:30 New TECHNE Students’ Poster Presentations
Incoming TECHNE researchers present their proposals as posters.

14:30 – 15:30 PANELS

PANEL III Creative Arts

(AUDITORIUM)
Chair: Gillian McIver University of Roehampton

Poetry Reading on the theme of "Strategies of Reticence" Eve Grubin, Kingston University

Novel Reading: "The Life and Times of a Doctoral Thesis" Rachel Marsh, University of Surrey

Performance “Economy of Emotions and the Sex Robot” Denise Ackerl, Chelsea College of Art

PANEL IV Challenging Assumptions

(CONFERENCE ROOM, Mezzanine Floor)

Chair: Will Osmond, University of Surrey

“Historical Subjects, Present Sensitivities: The Importance of Historicising the Marginalised” Micah Anne Neale, Royal Holloway University of London

“The Rise of Classical Study in the British State Sector” Matthew Mordue, University of Roehampton

"The voice of the researcher: from museum practitioner to academic practice" Joanne Sunderland, University of Roehampton

Panel V Artistic Strategies

(ANNEX Lower Ground Floor)

Chair: Lydia Yeoman Royal Holloway University of London

“Creative exchange and interdisciplinary interaction: artistic collaboration and postwar prints” Rosie Ram, Royal College of Art

“Alternative business models in art galleries” Bruce Haines, Kingston University

“The ‘Expanded’ Studio Visit” Emma Gradin Chelsea College of Arts, UAL

3D Poster “Conversing with materials-: embodied processes in scenographic practice and

experience “ Alice Helps, University of Roehampton (ACTION ROOM 2 – ground floor)

1530 – 15:45 TEA AND COFFEE (ATRIUM)

15.45-16.45 ROUND TABLES – Sharing research and practice among peers

Round Table on Creative Arts AUDITORIUM

Round Table on Media and Culture ATRIUM

Round Table on Literature and Language CONFERENCE ROOM (Mezzanine Floor)

Round Table on History, Classics, Philosophy ANNEX (Lower Ground Floor)

Round Table on Visual Arts GARFIELD WESTON ACTION ROOM

16:50 – 17:00 CLOSING REMARKS AUDITORIUM

17:00 – 18:00 Drinks ATRIUM

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Solène Heinzl

Urban Ethnomusicology

Royal Holloway, U o L

Gillian McIver

Art History and Cinema Studies

University of Roehampton

Will Osmond

Immersive Theatre

University of Surrey

Logios www.logiosjournal.org

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