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Activities

Recent research outputs by members of the Media Research Centre.

Exhibitions

Duffy, J., 2012. Peripheries, Piccadilly Place, October 2011.

Adkins, L.B, 2011. Between - Performance Commission, Cornerhouse Gallery, June 2012.

Adkins, L, 2011. Hold the Pose, Vinyl Gallery, May 2011.

Holt, J., 2011. Not giddy yet aerial, The Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, Cumbria, Feb-March 2011.

Duffy, J. Birkbeck , E, 2011. Outcasting, A Century of Artist Film, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan., 21May - 2 July 2011.

Adkins, L.B., 2010. Meanwhile in Manchester, Lombard Method & Grand Union- Birmingham Eastside, May - June 2010.

Adkins, L.B, 2010. Pairings, Special Collections, 2009.

Adkins, L.B., 2010. The Pursuit of Happiness, Arsenal Gallery - Poznan, Poland, May 2010.

Wright, E., Cuthbert, V., Hyatt, J., Olga Kenyon, Andrew Baker, Ian McCullough, John Goodwin, Linda Hughes, Vidyamala Burch, Neil Grant, Ian Whadcock, Mary Taylor, Tom Bingham, Charley Peters, and Claire Thomas., 2010. The Windhorse Project Mixed Reality event at the MDDA and in Second Life., Lower Ground Floor 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester M1 6ED, and at the Art at the EDGE gallery, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/64/216/22, 16.09.2010.

Holt, J., 2010. Work, Rogue Gallery, Manchester, March 2010.

Duffy, J. Birkbeck, E, 2010. Your Future Needs You, Artgene, October 2010.

Books

Colman, F., 2011. Deleuze And Cinema, Oxford: Berg Publishers..

Edited Books

Colman, F., Frichot, H., Reynolds, J., 2012. 'Global Arts / Local Knowledge', New York: Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

Colman, F., 2013. 'Affective Race: Ethnicity and Australian cinema'. In Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo & Dan Flory (eds.) Race, Philosophy, and Film, Routledge.

Colman, F., 2012. 'Affective animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the mediatization of the sacred'. In Charlie Blake, Claire Molloy, Steven Shakespeare (eds.) Beyond Human From Animality to Transhumanism, 7, Continuum: New York & London.

Colman, F., 2012. 'Sound Manifesto: Lee Renaldo’s Notes for Robert Smithson'. In M.Goddard, P. Hegarty, & B.Halligan (eds.) Reverberations: The Aesthetics, Affect and Politics of Noise, London & New York: Continuum.

Colman, F., 2012. 'The Death Index'. In Rosi Braidotti and Patricia Pisters (eds.) Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze [Down by Law], London & New York: Continuum Publishing.

Internet Publications

Colman, F., 2012. ''A History of Experimental Film & Video - Review'', ViewFinder, http://bufvc.ac.uk/reviews/a-history-of-experimental-film-video.

Journal Articles

Colman, F., 2012. 'Notes on Guattari’s “machinic unconscious”: play as an affective field for activating subjectivity', Deleuze Studies, Vol 6 No. 2 (May).

Colman, F., 2010. 'Affective Self: Feminist Thinking and Feminist actions', Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites, Volume 14, Issue 5 December 2010, pages 543 - 552.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Notes on the Feminist Manifesto: the strategic use of hope', Journal for Cultural Research, Volume 14, Issue 4 October 2010, pages 375 - 392.

Presentations

Colman, F., 2012. 'Media Evolution', Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, 12 January.

Colman, F., 2012. 'The Image of Thought: Affective Politics', Deleuze Workshop, MMU at Anthony Burgess Foundation, 24-25th March.

James, D. Huxley, D, 2011. ''No Other Excuse': British Musical Performances 1899-1920', 5th International Comedy Conference, Salford University, 2-3 June 2011.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective animal', Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), University of Salford, Manchester, January 12-15.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective animal: becoming-sacred in reverse labour forms', Human- Animal / Humain-Animal, 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of San Francisco USA, March 30-April 2, 2011, in Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhuman.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective Cinematographic Evolution (Bergson & CInema)', The Perception of Change: Space, Time, and Mobility after Henri Bergson, Mansfield College, The University of Oxford., 27 May, 2011.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Bergson and Cinema: The Physics of Perception', Human Sciences Seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK., 10 November.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Cinematographic Evolution: Smithson & Holt test Bergson & Deleuze', Bergson and his postmodern and immanent legacies, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 11-12 February.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Machinic mediatization and diagrammatic aesthetics', Creation, Crisis, Critique: 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Copenhagen Business School, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, Denmark, 27 - 29 June.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Notes on Cinematographic Evolution', Film-Philosophy Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 6-8 July.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Notes on post-industrial gaming : the new machinic aesthetic', Rewire: The Fourth International Conference in Media Art Histories, FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 28-30 September.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Sound affect: the political economy of women on screen', Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Language of Screen Media, NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), University of London, 23-26 June.

List, H., 2011. 'Women and Children as Trans-generational Viewers of Pre-school Television: Playschool (BBC) in the early 1970s in the United Kingdom', Mecssa 11 Conference, University of Salford, 14th January 2011.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Affective Race', Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema, University of Leeds, 1 - 4 December.

Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Consuming Bodies in Wonder Woman Good Girls, Bad Girls and Macho Men', British IBBY/NCRCL Conference, Leeds Art Gallery, November 2010.

Colman, F. and MacCormack, P., 2010. 'Felicity Colman in conversation with Patricia MacCormack', Radical Aesthetics - Radical Art, University of Loughborough, UK, 17 November, 2010.

Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Issues of Time, Space and Duration in Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’', Conference of Comics and Graphic Novels, Manchester Metropolitan University, 23rd April 2010.

Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Negotiating Local Identities in 1970s Surf Films: Practice, Production, Embodiment', Youth Studies, British Sociological Association, Reading University, November 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Plenary : ‘The Labour of the Refrain: What is Media Philosophy?’', ‘Connect, Continue, Create'. 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-14 July, 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Plenary: 'The Family Manifesto'', Schizoanalysis & Visual Culture, University of Cardiff, 1 - 2 June 2010.

List, H., 2010. 'Reading landscapes in the picture book: a quiet contemplation or a flow of movement', Manchester Children's Book Festival, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2nd July 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Robert Smithson, Future Art : creating a new ecology', Landscape in Ruins., Urbis, Manchester, UK, 18 February 2010, in Urbis Research Forum Review, Vol. 1, Issue 3, “Landscapes”.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Shameless Mothers', What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times, University of Sunderland, UK, 16 September, 2010.

List, H., 2010. 'Small Utopias: United Kingdom Primary Schools with a Late Modernist Context', Modernism & Utopias: Convergences in the Arts, Birmingham, 24th April 2010.

James, D., 2010. 'The Diary of a Nobody: The Travels of Fred Hill', So Funny it Hurts - The Fourth International Comedy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 3-4 June 2010.

Holt, J., 2010. 'The Palette of Real Life: Documentary as Art Practice', Documentary Now: A Conference on the Contemporary Contexts and Possibilities of the Documentary, Birkbeck College London, January 2010.

List, H., 2010. 'With Added Feminism: Communicating Gender Roles in the Online Newspaper', Meccsa 10 Conference, LSE, 6th January 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. '‘Sound Manifesto: Lee Renaldo’s Notes for Robert Smithson’', Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics, University of Salford, Manchester, 1-3 July, 2010.

Other Outputs

Hawley, S., 2010. 'Yarn', generative Narrative DVD film.