- Denmark report published – ‘Screen Encounters with Britain’‘Screen Encounters with Britain: What do young Danes make of Britain and its digital screen culture?’ Screen Encounters with Britain, an academic research project funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, investigates the film, TV and streaming preferences of young Europeans aged 16-34. Led by Professor Jeanette Steemers, Professor Andrea Esser and Dr… Continue reading Denmark report published – ‘Screen Encounters with Britain’
- Post-event Interviews of the Collaborative Project “I, Human: Becoming Visible”
King’s College London, in collaboration with the City University of London, conceived and designed the “I, Human: Becoming Visible” (IHBV) project to respond to anti-Asian racism that has seen a surge since Covid-19. In November 2022, students from KCL and City, together with the members of East Asian and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities, took part in a development workshop to form groups and to create artistic responses to anti-ESEA racism. - CMCI partners with The Garden Cinema and Screen Worlds for the Francophone West African Cinema Season from 2 March to 8 May 2023
In partnership with Film Africa, King’s College London and Screen Worlds, featuring expert introductions and post film discussion groups, this major new season at The Garden Cinema invites audiences to experience nine masterpieces arising from postcolonial and contemporary Francophone West Africa. King’s College students will be entitled to free tickets, with an exclusive code to be requested to Dr… Continue reading CMCI partners with The Garden Cinema and Screen Worlds for the Francophone West African Cinema Season from 2 March to 8 May 2023 - Prof Roberta Comunian and Dr Jonathan Gross, in collaboration with international partners at Rhodes University, contribute to the programme of KCL Africa Week (6th-10th March)
They will share with online audience findings from a recent project on “Future Festivals South Africa” (AHRC, grant number AH/P005950/1). The seminar will launch the final policy report of the project, with a discussion of its key findings and implications for policy. The project included extensive fieldwork and support for festival organisations during different phases… Continue reading Prof Roberta Comunian and Dr Jonathan Gross, in collaboration with international partners at Rhodes University, contribute to the programme of KCL Africa Week (6th-10th March) - ‘Museums, Class and the Pandemic’ report launch: An interview with Dr Serena Iervolino
Dr Serena Iervolino launched the research report entitled “Museums, Class and the Pandemic: An Investigation into the Lived Experiences of Working Class Londoners” at a hybrid panel discussion held at the Museum of London Docklands on January 11, 2023. She co-authored the publication with Dr Domenico Sergi, Senior Curator (Curating London) at the Museum of London. The report is one of the outputs of their collaborative project “Inequalities, Class and the Pandemic” (2021-2022) co-funded by the Museum of London and King’s College London, which Drs Iervolino and Sergi envisaged, developed and led in partnership. - Upcoming CMCI Winter Festival
The countdown for the CMCI Winter Festival has begun! The third-year undergraduate students of the BA in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London are delighted to host the first-ever edition of the CMCI Winter Festival. The Festival Launch will be hosted on Monday 12th December from 7 – 10 pm at the Great Hall,… Continue reading Upcoming CMCI Winter Festival - Gaspard Pelurson presents at Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre
‘FLAWLESS IN DEFEAT – IN AND FOR THE MARGINS’ Wednesday 7th December at 4pm Register for online presentation and Q+A (free) Gyaku Ryona is a voyeuristic subgenre that involves the beating up of one male character by another. Several channels have emerged on YouTube and garnered respectable attention, by using fighting games as their main platform. These… Continue reading Gaspard Pelurson presents at Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre - Roberta Comunian and Lauren England present at Africa Fashion Conference
Prof Roberta Comunian and Dr Lauren England from CMCI alongside Dr Eka Ikpe from the African Leadership Centre at King’s College will contribute to the “Africa Fashion Conference” organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum on the 18th and 19th of November and taking place alongside their celebrated “Africa Fashion” exhibition. They will present research derived from… Continue reading Roberta Comunian and Lauren England present at Africa Fashion Conference - Estrella Sendra publishes an article in the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil on the world première of Xale, the latest feature-length film by Moussa Sene Absa, at the BFI London Film Festival
Estrella Sendra, who recently joined the CMCI Department as Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education (Festivals & Events), has just published an article in the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil, where she is a frequent contributor. The article is based on a video-recorded interview with Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sene Absa, who was present at the BFI London Film Festival… Continue reading Estrella Sendra publishes an article in the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil on the world première of Xale, the latest feature-length film by Moussa Sene Absa, at the BFI London Film Festival - New article published in Communication, Culture and Critique on negotiations of fandom nationalism among Chinese fans of Squid Game
Erika Wang, PhD candidate at CMCI, has published an article on Chinese fandom of Squid Game in the journal of Communication, Culture and Critique. The essay discusses Chinese fan reception of Squid Game, focusing on the “fandom nationalism” phenomenon. In the post-COVID era, the attitudes of Chinese netizens towards Squid Game are related to the interactive relations… Continue reading New article published in Communication, Culture and Critique on negotiations of fandom nationalism among Chinese fans of Squid Game - Dr Tamsyn Dent presents at Triple Helix conference
On the 28th of June 2022, Dr Tamsyn Dent presented results from the DISCE project at the 20th Triple Helix conference hosted by the University of Florence in Italy. The paper, in collaboration with Dr Lauren England and Dr Roberta Comunian, explored the role of higher education institutions in shaping and developing creative ecosystem using the example of… Continue reading Dr Tamsyn Dent presents at Triple Helix conference - Emeritus Professor Richard Howells invited to give lecture at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Richard Howells, CMCI’s Emeritus Professor of Cultural Sociology, has given an invited Schering-Plough Executive Lecture to students and faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the United States. Howells spoke on: “The Joy of Semiotics”, illustrating communications theory with examples from branding and advertising, including the subliminal marketing of tobacco products in Formula One racing. He… Continue reading Emeritus Professor Richard Howells invited to give lecture at Fairleigh Dickinson University - Gender and Work in the Creative Industries Seminar
Tamsyn Dent, Lecturer in Cultural Work CMCI In March 2022 members from CMCI launched the Gender and Work in the Creative Industries (GWCI) research cluster with a conference that explored current research undertaken across the department and beyond related to questions of gender and creative work. The event included a conversation between CMCI’s Kate MacMillan… Continue reading Gender and Work in the Creative Industries Seminar - Inhuman Memory: Race and Race and ecology across timescales conference
On Tuesday 26th April 2022, CMCI Lecturer Clara de Massol and PhD student Anna Crisp hosted the Inhuman Memory: Race and ecology across timescales conference in the Anatomy Museum, King’s College London. The conference brought early-career and more established academics together, along with art practitioners, to discuss the connections between racism, environmental changes, climate justice, and… Continue reading Inhuman Memory: Race and Race and ecology across timescales conference - New article published in Innovation journal – Crafting professionals: entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work
Dr Lauren England I am delighted to announce that my article “Crafting professionals: entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work” has been published in the Innovation: Organization and Management Journal and is available to download here for free (open access). The article addresses how early-career crafts graduates often face a perceived dilemma, that of… Continue reading New article published in Innovation journal – Crafting professionals: entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work - Dr Hye-Kyung Lee awarded grant for the network project ‘Globalizing South Korean Creativity’
Many of us were amazed by the global success of Squid Game, the South Korean TV drama series on Netflix. And the fever continues with Hellbound, My Name, We of Us are Dead, etc. We are witnessing the growth and impact of Korean pop culture from K-pop to film and TV drama on a global… Continue reading Dr Hye-Kyung Lee awarded grant for the network project ‘Globalizing South Korean Creativity’ - Emeritus Professor Richard Howells speaks about Louis Le Prince in a French radio documentaryCMCI’s Emeritus Professor Richard Howells has appeared in a two-part French radio documentary about Louis Le Prince -the man said to have invented the cinema, but who disappeared in mysterious circumstances before he could take the credit. As Howells states in: “Il aurait pu inventer le cinéma: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince”, it is… Continue reading Emeritus Professor Richard Howells speaks about Louis Le Prince in a French radio documentary
- It is encouraging to see more mentions of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the creative economies, and social investment
Denderah Rickmers 2021 marks the decade of action for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Notably, it is also the UN’s International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. In fact, the SDGs are the first international development framework that explicitly refers to culture, as many countries have begun to view culture as an asset in eliminating poverty, responding… Continue reading It is encouraging to see more mentions of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the creative economies, and social investment - Creative Work: Possible Futures After Covid-19 Workshop
Dr Roberta Comunian and Dr Lauren England in partnership with Dr Federica Viganò from the Faculty of Education of University of Bolzen have organised an international online workshop ‘Creative Work: Possible Futures After Covid-19’. The workshop will include 14 papers presented over two days (4th – 5th November 2021), with contributions from across Europe, the USA and South… Continue reading Creative Work: Possible Futures After Covid-19 Workshop - Taylor Annabell is awarded MSA Best Paper 2021
CMCI PhD student Taylor Annabell has been awarded the Memory Studies Association Best Paper Award 2021 for her paper entitled “Narratives of the self and digital memory work on social media platforms”. In this paper, she demonstrated how narrative approach to research on memory could be brought into the subfield of digital memory studies. … Continue reading Taylor Annabell is awarded MSA Best Paper 2021 - Thinnai fête: book launch of Ari Gautier’s new works
Book launch of Ari Gautier’s new short story collection and second novel’s English translation, with panel discussion and Q&A. About this event: The IATIO project (India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Decolonial Period: Archipelagic Imaginaries, 1950s-1970s), Le thinnai kreyol, and King’s India Institute launch Ari Gautier’s short story collection, Nocturne Pondichéry, and The… Continue reading Thinnai fête: book launch of Ari Gautier’s new works - New Report on Creative Economies in Africa
Dr Roberta Comunian and Dr Lauren England are delighted to announce that the final report from the AHRC funded international research network “UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING CREATIVE ECONOMIES IN AFRICA” has now been published and is available to download for free. The report provides a summary of the research journey undertaken, including the methodology and data collected across the… Continue reading New Report on Creative Economies in Africa - New research on ‘rituals of transition’ among dating app usersDating app users participate in ‘rituals of transition’ as they signal mutual interest and heightened intimacy by moving conversations from dating apps to social media messaging platforms such as WhatsApp. These rituals of transition occur primarily prior to, but also occasionally during, or immediately after, a date. Fabian Broeker, CMCI PhD candidate, examines this behaviour… Continue reading New research on ‘rituals of transition’ among dating app users
- CMCI Researchers work on the ‘Creative Majority’ report for the APPG in Creative DiversityTwo members of CMCI, Dr Natalie Wreyford and Dr Tamsyn Dent have been working on a research project for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Creative Diversity into ‘what works’ to improve diversity and inclusion in the creative and cultural sector. The Creative Diversity APPG, co-chaired by Cross bench Peer Baroness Deborah Bull and… Continue reading CMCI Researchers work on the ‘Creative Majority’ report for the APPG in Creative Diversity
- CREATIVE WORK: POSSIBLE FUTURES AFTER COVID-19
Dr Roberta Comunian is involved alongside colleagues from the Faculty of Education of University of Bolzen (Dr Federica Vigano) and University of Dundee (Dr Lauren England) in the organisation of a Call for Papers and an online international Workshop (4-5 Nov, 2021) on the theme: Creative Work: Possible Futures after Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic has re-shaped the… Continue reading CREATIVE WORK: POSSIBLE FUTURES AFTER COVID-19 - Launching Event for Cultures of Care
Cultures of Care is an ongoing research project, led by Prof Nick Wilson (CMCI) that seeks to make a positive intervention in response to the current crisis of care. The opening event – on Friday 11th June 2.00-4.30pm (BST) – focuses on care in the context of Higher Education. Amongst the questions being explored are –… Continue reading Launching Event for Cultures of Care - Emeritus Professor Richard Howells conducted an interview with David A Andelman
CMCI Emeritus Professor Richard Howells conducted an online interview with New York Times and CBS correspondent David A Andelman. It began with questions about his new book: A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars that Might Still Happen, before the conversation expanded to current events. Questions from the audience followed. The event, which… Continue reading Emeritus Professor Richard Howells conducted an interview with David A Andelman - New Report for the European Parliament: The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European UnionDr Mafalda Dâmaso co-wrote with Culture Action Europe (the main European network of cultural networks, organisations, artists, activists, academics and policymakers) a new report for the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) of the European Parliament titled “The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union”. The report’s… Continue reading New Report for the European Parliament: The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union
- New UNESCO report published: Gender and Creativity: Progress on the precipiceDr Bridget Conor has just published a new report for UNESCO: Gender and Creativity: Progress on the precipice. The report is based on more than a year of research and collaboration with UNESCO and partners assessing our collective progress towards gender equality in cultural and media industries. It’s also sounding a warning: progress is far from guaranteed,… Continue reading New UNESCO report published: Gender and Creativity: Progress on the precipice
- Clara de Massol: Winner of the MSA Excellent Paper AwardLast year’s winner of the Memory Study Association Excellent Paper Award is Clara de Massol de Rebetz, with her article ‘Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Remembering and Mourning Extinction in the Anthropocene’. Clara is a PhD candidate at King’s College London in the CMCI department, supervised by Dr Jessica Rapson. Her article was published last September… Continue reading Clara de Massol: Winner of the MSA Excellent Paper Award
- AHRC Award for Experiential Translation Network
We are pleased to announce that Dr Ricarda Vidal (CMCI, KCL) and Dr Madeleine Campbell (Edinburgh University) have been awarded an AHRC Network grant. The network comprises academics, artists and translators from the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, Hungary and Poland and explores translation between languages (interlingual) and between media (intersemiotic) as a method of creation and… Continue reading AHRC Award for Experiential Translation Network - NEW BOOK by Anna Woodham on “unloved” museum collections
We’re pleased to announce that CMCI lecturer Dr Anna Woodham’s new edited book has just been published: Exploring Emotion, Care and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections. Edited with Dr Rianedd Smith and Dr Alison Hess, the book focuses on the millions of items that are held in museum collections around the world but which are… Continue reading NEW BOOK by Anna Woodham on “unloved” museum collections - Roger Fry, Bloomsbury, Transfer Lithography and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection
Richard Howells, CMCI’s Professor of Cultural Sociology has a new research article published on Roger Fry, Bloomsbury, and transfer lithography. Here, he has filled a gap in the existing literature, locating Fry’s use of the medium within the context of Bloomsbury innovation before the Second World War. Special attention is then paid to the… Continue reading Roger Fry, Bloomsbury, Transfer Lithography and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection - Decolonize classical music!The exam board of Britain’s royal schools of music is being urged to address the legacy of its colonial origins after research found 99% of pieces on its syllabuses were by white composers” writes the Guardian in a recent article discussing the decolonization of classical music. The articles also draws on the work by CMCI researcher and… Continue reading Decolonize classical music!
- Curating Expertise Museum SurveyAre you a current or former museum and gallery professional working in the UK or internationally? Dr Serena Iervolino (CMCI) and Dr Stuart Dunn (DDH) are inviting colleagues in the sector to complete a survey that aims to explore the perspectives and experiences of current and former museum and gallery professionals in relation to graduate employability in… Continue reading Curating Expertise Museum Survey
- CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESEARCH FRONTIERS: SEMINAR SERIES – now onlineWe are delighted to announce that the Creative Industries Research Frontiers seminar series, which is co-organised by King’s College London and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), has now moved fully ONLINE. There are two sessions coming up in June. Don’t miss presentations by CMCI’s Kate McMillan and Tamsyn Dent on 1st June. Seminar 3:… Continue reading CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESEARCH FRONTIERS: SEMINAR SERIES – now online
- Dancing in isolationCMCI student Hui Zhang is doing one Chinese folk dance a day during the pandemic. Here is a Dai ethnic dance. Follow her an instagram to see more of her choreography. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QYJJCDUL7/?igshid=102khmkzvufkz
- COVID-19, Society & the Elderly – some ugly truthsIn times of public emergency, social truths are revealed. The coronavirus crisis is one such emergency, and it reveals that the lives of the elderly appear to matter less and, in some cases, are even deemed disposable”, writes CMCI PhD-student Shir Shimoni. Her chilling article “How coronavirus exposes the way we regard ageing and old… Continue reading COVID-19, Society & the Elderly – some ugly truths
- Gigabitesback – CMCI community – sharing resilienceAt a time like this, our first thoughts are for everyone’s health and wellbeing. We are a community of students, staff and alumni drawn from many parts of the world, and our experiences of the current crisis will take many forms depending on our own circumstances and current conditions of ’social distancing’ and ‘isolation’. Nevertheless,… Continue reading Gigabitesback – CMCI community – sharing resilience
- Children’s TV and the BBC Licence FeeTV licence fee: What would happen to children’s TV if CBeebies and CBBC are axed? Read what CMCI Professor Jeanette Steemers has to say on the matter in inews and the Times.
- INAUGURAL LECTURE: This Thing Called Art – Nick Wilson, Professor of Culture & CreativityThe Great Hall, King’s College London, 12 February, 18.30-21.30 If you’re wondering what we mean by ‘this thing called art’, then join us in the Great Hall on 12th February and listen to the inaugural lecture by CMCI Professor Nick Wilson. Prof. Wilson suggests there is much more at stake than the creation and enjoyment… Continue reading INAUGURAL LECTURE: This Thing Called Art – Nick Wilson, Professor of Culture & Creativity
- TALK: Environmental Racism in the United StatesThursday 6th February, 6.30pm-7.45pm This event is part of the British Academy’s season on Sustainable Futures Environmental racism is on the rise in the United States, with minority and impoverished communities much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air. In this event, CMCI Senior Lecturer Jessica Rapson (CMCI) and co-researcher Lucy Bond… Continue reading TALK: Environmental Racism in the United States
- #KuñaJesareko: Instagram as a place for the female gaze
Jazmín Ruiz Díaz I have recently had the opportunity of presenting my book chapter The Female Gaze in Times of Selfies as a member of the Feminist & Gender Research Reading Group at King’s/Queen Mary (Liss DTP). This chapter — part of the book Amalgama: Women, Identity & Diaspora— represents the culmination of what started… Continue reading #KuñaJesareko: Instagram as a place for the female gaze - “Gogglebox” and BrexitHere is a view from The New Yorker on “Gogglebox” and how this has become “a chronicle of Brexit fatigue” as Brits watch other Brits watching their country self-destruct in the long drawn-out drama of Brexit. CMCI professor Richard Howells was interviewed by The New Yorker’s Anna Russell for this article. Click here and enjoy… Continue reading “Gogglebox” and Brexit
- Climate Change, Feminism, Creativity & Memory – a CFP & an ExhibitionSymposium: 30 Jan. 2020, 10:00 to 18:00 Deadline for Proposals of 200-300 words: 13th Dec. 2019 Exhibition: 13 Jan. – 28 Feb. 2020 Bush House Arcade, London On 30 January 2020, the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London will present a symposium organised by CMCI lecturer and artist Kate McMillan. They… Continue reading Climate Change, Feminism, Creativity & Memory – a CFP & an Exhibition
- NEW BOOK: Screen Media for Arab and European ChildrenWe’re pleased to announce that CMCI Prof Jeanette Steemers’s new book has just been published: Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in a Multiplatform Era addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children’s screen contents across the Arab region and Europe. Taking account of… Continue reading NEW BOOK: Screen Media for Arab and European Children
- Future of Film Summit 2019King’s is partnering with Future of Film Summit 2019 on a one-day conference designed to shape and create the future of film and storytelling. Taking place at BFI Southbank in London on 26 November, the event will feature world-class speakers behind works such as Ad Astra, Blade Runner 2049 and Black Mirror as well as hands-on sessions on the latest tech/strategies… Continue reading Future of Film Summit 2019
- Radical Education by the SeaRaphael Sieraczek (PhD student at CMCI) together with his colleague Uwe Derksen have successfully established a radical educational project in the vibrant town of Margate (Kent) described by journalists as ‘Shoreditch-on-Sea’. The Margate School (TMS) is an independent liberal art school with post-graduate provision and community outreach offering a wide range of short courses as well… Continue reading Radical Education by the Sea
- Poetry Book Launch: Home on the Move4th October Ledbury Book Festival’s Poetry Salon at Ledbury Books and Maps Ledbury High Street, Ledbury, 7-9pm Ricarda Vidal (an academic at CMCI) and Manuela Perteghella will be launching their poetry collection Home on the Move: Two Poems go on a Journey with an introduction, poetry readings and a roundtable discussion, followed by Q&A. The… Continue reading Poetry Book Launch: Home on the Move
- Cohen Returns to BFI Southbank For 2 Events on History of MusicalsOn November 4, CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Harvey G Cohen will be hosting two events at the British Film Institute Southbank venue, as part of their 2-month “Musicals” film series during October and November. At one event, at 6:20PM, Cohen will sum up his new book Who’s In the Money: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s… Continue reading Cohen Returns to BFI Southbank For 2 Events on History of Musicals
- Joanne Entwistle’s Instagram Style Mums in BrazilCMCI’s Dr Joanne Entwistle has just returned from Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she gave the opening keynote speech to the 15th Fashion Colloquium at UNISINOS. Joanne spoke about her research on Instagram style mums to a packed auditorium of more than 500 academics, students, journalists and members of the public. Follow Jo on Instagram: @jo_entwistle
- Sixteen Sixty Six and All ThatJust back from Sweden is CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells, who was invited to give a lecture, workshop and a research seminar at Lund University, which was founded in 1666. His lecture and workshop were about defining and researching visual culture, while his research seminar was on his current work in progress on a famous literary… Continue reading Sixteen Sixty Six and All That
- Interview with Harvey G. Cohen: music, academia… and lifeWhilst researching his next book at Indiana University, Harvey Cohen, cultural historian and senior lecturer at CMCI, was interviewed by the National Public Radio station WFIU for their weekly ‘Profiles’ programme. Click the image below to find out about Dr Cohen’s books, his work on music and the music industry, his research and teaching philosophy,… Continue reading Interview with Harvey G. Cohen: music, academia… and life
- And Then There Were ThreeThe third edition of the CMCI research microsite is now up: eight new blog posts which explore research and thinking from staff and research students working here in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. In our third edition, many of the contributions outline research projects that are concerned with media representation and subjectivities in particular cultural, socioeconomic… Continue reading And Then There Were Three
- Lumos!Professor Richard Howells is back from a conference in Tuscany, Italy, where he gave a refereed paper in which he inter-wove Harry Potter, the sorting hat, serpents, parceltongue and horcruxes, together with the “Fall”, Philip Pullman, the Republic of Heaven, Ernst Bloch, Utopia, Marxian Critical Theory, and atheistic Christianity. The conference was the 20th International… Continue reading Lumos!
- Queer MuseologyDrs Red Chidgey and Serena Iervolino have been hosting a workshop and a pop-up residency as part of their Queer Museology research project. They want to explore what a queer museum would look (or feel) like and which practices would be needed to change, transform or ‘queer’ a museum space? The residency incorporated three queer… Continue reading Queer Museology
- CRAFT, SKILLS & MAKING: THE RESEARCH FRONTIERDr Roberta Comunian and PhD student Lauren England have been presenting their research at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as part of a symposium on craft, skills and making. The event brought together international researchers to discuss the frontier of craft research, taking in both traditional and contemporary practices. Lauren presented her current doctoral research… Continue reading CRAFT, SKILLS & MAKING: THE RESEARCH FRONTIER
- The Ethics of FashionDr Joanne Entwistle has returned from Getaria in the Spanish Basque Country where she has been speaking on a summer course at the Christobal Balenciaga Museum. It was entitled: “Towards an ethics of fashion: challenges and advances” and investigated how fashion converges with society, culture and the economy. It questioned the relations between the whole… Continue reading The Ethics of Fashion
- London CallingDr Ruth Adams is back from Bordeaux, France, where she was invited to give a conference paper on the punk music scene in London in the 1970s. The invitation came from the research group “European Capitals and Heritage since 1945: Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris”, which is based at the Sorbonne in Paris. Ruth’s paper considered… Continue reading London Calling
- Intersemiotic JourneysDr Ricarda Vidal is celebrating the successful launch event for her new book: Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders: Intersemiotic Journeys between Media (Palgrave 2019), co-edited with Madeleine Campbell. The well-attended event was held here at King’s. The volume draws together theoretical and creative contributions from translators, artists, performers, academics and curators who have explored “intersemiotic translation”… Continue reading Intersemiotic Journeys
- The Second’s OutOut now: the second edition of news on the CMCI Microsite. This new edition includes five new blog posts which explore the research and thinking from staff and research students working in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, here at King’s College London. There are contributions from Dr Bridget Conor, Dr Roberta Comunian and Lauren England, Dr… Continue reading The Second’s Out
- Rolling the DISCEA team of CMCI researchers have begun work on the €2.9 project, Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies (DISCE), funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020). Building on their previous work on creative labour, creative eco-systems and cultural policy, the KCL team – Roberta Comunian, Bridget Conor, Tamsyn Dent, Jonathan Gross and Nick Wilson –… Continue reading Rolling the DISCE
- The Public Value of Creative VocationsCMCI’s Dr Roberta Comunian has been having her say on the recent debate about the future of creative arts education in the United Kingdom in response to the recent Augar Review. She was invited, along with Scott Brook of RMIT University in Australia, to contribute with a blog entry, hosted by the Creative Industries Policy… Continue reading The Public Value of Creative Vocations
- The Body: Fashion and PhysiqueOut this month… A special number of Fashion Theory, guest edited by CMCI’s Dr Joanne Entwistle, along with Emma McClendon of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. This special issue on “The Body: Fashion and Physique” includes an introductory letter from the guest editors, while Dr Entwistle concludes with a discussion on “Fashion… Continue reading The Body: Fashion and Physique
- Seventy Percent of Artists….There’s been quite a media stir over Dr Kate McMillan’s report on the representation of female artists in the UK. Headline findings include that nearly 70 percent of artists represented by London’s top galleries are men. It’s the latest in annual series of reports commissioned by the Freelands Foundation, which aims further to understand the… Continue reading Seventy Percent of Artists….
- London: Gateway to Cinema and Media StudiesCMCI is teaming up with University of Notre Dame (USA), The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and King’s own Film Studies department to present a three-day symposium: London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies. The event will consider London’s rich history and complex future in relation to cinema and media studies. Keynote speakers include… Continue reading London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies
- We Launch Our New Research WebsiteWe are delighted to announce the launch of CMCI-kings.org, a new website for the department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries here at King’s. It is designed to showcase all the latest research, impact and thinking from our academic staff and research students. Writing in the first “edition”, Professor Jeanette Steemers explains that even though… Continue reading We Launch Our New Research Website
- Launch of CMCI-Kings.org
Professor Jeanette Steemers It’s an absolute pleasure to see the launch of the CMCI-Kings.org website today. The launch represents the culmination of efforts by CMCI staff and students together to provide an accessible and up-to-the-minute resource about what is happening in the Department, which contributes to our community. It is very definitely a collaborative effort… Continue reading Launch of CMCI-Kings.org - About George ClooneyFriends and colleagues gathered for an event at King’s to toast the launch of CMCI’s Professor Paul McDonald’s latest book, which traces the career of actor-filmmaker George Clooney. He begins with the hit television medical drama “ER” and proceeds up to 2017’s “Suburbicon”, showing the transition from commercial successes such as Ocean’s Eleven (2001) to… Continue reading About George Clooney
- Beyond DisciplinesThe programme and final details are out for our Emerging Voices Conference 2019, under the theme “Beyond Disciplines.” The conference is organised by a team of volunteer PhD students here at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), led by Lauren Cantillon, Katrin Schindel, Elena Terranova, and Rebecca Young. It takes place from… Continue reading Beyond Disciplines
- England In AustraliaCMCI PhD student Lauren England in making waves in Australia, where she is presenting her research on UK craft higher education and professional practice. She’s giving seminars at a number of Australian universities, presenting her research on the educational practices associated with professional development in UK craft degree programmes. She is also discussing approaches used… Continue reading England In Australia
- Book Award for Sarah AtkinsonCongratulations to our head of Department, Dr Sarah Atkinson, who is the runner up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies 2019 Awards for Best Monograph. Sarah has been honoured for her: From Film Practice to Data Process: Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition, published by Edinburgh… Continue reading Book Award for Sarah Atkinson
- “Black, Brown and Beige”.CMCI’s Dr Harvey G Cohen has been heard on 15 National Public Radio shows across the United States celebrating jazz-master Duke Ellington’s celebrated “Black Brown and Beige” of 1943. This was the Ellington orchestra’s debut at Carnegie Hall, at which he performed an ambitious 45-minute-long musical depiction of the African-American experience called: “Black, Brown and… Continue reading “Black, Brown and Beige”.
- Subcultural Innovation – New ReportDr Paul Sweetman’s report on Subcultures and Innovation for Knowledge Works (National Centre for Cultural Industries, Norway) has just been published. This is a report on a year-long project undertaken with Professors Atle Hauge (INN University, Norway) and Dominic Power (University of Stockholm), looking at subcultural innovation and creativity and subcultures’ contribution to the cultural… Continue reading Subcultural Innovation – New Report
- Evidencing the role of Public Service BroadcastingOn 2nd April, 2019 CMCI’s Professor Jeanette Steemers gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Communications Committee on Public Service Broadcasting and Video on Demand. The Committee was calling upon academic experts as part of its inquiry investigating whether there is a future for public service broadcasting in the context of the rising popularity… Continue reading Evidencing the role of Public Service Broadcasting
- Diversity in the Creative and Cultural IndustriesOn Wednesday February 13th the Creative Careers Student Committee welcomed a wonderful panel of speakers to discuss the future of diversity in the creative and cultural sector. Dr. Kate McMillan chaired the panel and lead the discussion with introductions from Saurabh Kakkar, Nadine Persaud, Hakeem Onibudo, Jodi-Alissa Bickerton, Amy Turton and Catherine Ritman-Smith. The discussion… Continue reading Diversity in the Creative and Cultural Industries
- Tate Appoints CMCI Graduate as Youth Engagement TrusteeMany congratulations to Anna Lowe, graduate of CMCI’s Cultural & Creative Industries MA, who has been appointed Youth Engagement Tate Trustee by the The Board of Trustees of Tate. Anna will be bringing the views of the next generation to the highest level of Tate’s decision-making process. The appointment, which has been made by the… Continue reading Tate Appoints CMCI Graduate as Youth Engagement Trustee
- “My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel”Congratulations to CMCI PhD student Yana Melkumova Reynolds, who together with Dr Laini Burton from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia, has recently published an article on representations of disabled bodies in visual arts and lifestyle media in Fashion Theory journal. Focusing on three case studies – British performer Viktoria Modesta, American athlete and model… Continue reading “My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel”
- Funding for Collaborative PhD at CMCI: Apply nowDr Roberta Comunian has secured funding for a collaborative PhD scholarship in partnership with Creative United and Dr Elsa Arcaute, based at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL. The project, entitled “Complex Cultural Ecologies: capturing value through connections between public, private and not-for-profit organisations in the creative economy”,… Continue reading Funding for Collaborative PhD at CMCI: Apply now
- CMCI Emerging VoicesThe CMCI PhD student community is pleased to open the call for papers for the 6th annual conference. This year’s theme is “Beyond Disciplines” and wants to celebrate new and emerging directions in the CMCI research that currently challenge how we understand and see technological, environmental, political, institutional and aesthetic developments that are shaping our cultural landscape. The two-day… Continue reading CMCI Emerging Voices
- Speaking about FeminismThe BBC have published a commissioned article by CMCI’s Dr Christina Scharff titled: Why so many young women don’t call themselves feminist. Drawing on Christina’s research on young women in a neoliberal world, the article asks why it is that despite feminist movements attracting significant attention across Europe and North America, many young women still… Continue reading Speaking about Feminism
- A Window on GlassmakingCMCI’s Dr Roberta Comunian and Lauren England, PhD student, have recently published an article that explores the relationship between industrial and post-industrial knowledge in glassmaking in the UK in the journal Geoforum. Following the trajectory of glassmaking in Sunderland and Stourbridge the article explores how local industrial knowledge was reorganised outside of the factory into new craft-based… Continue reading A Window on Glassmaking
- Modern CouplesCongratulations to Dr Red Chidgey whose recent talk at the Barbican Art Gallery on ‘Collaboration and Social Change’ was sold out. The talk was held in relation to the Barbican’s exhibition Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde, and aimed to throw new light on the inner workings of creative collaboration. Red guided the audience through… Continue reading Modern Couples
- Female FuturesCMCI’s Dr Kate McMillan joined a panel of experts at Female Futures, on 18th January, 2019 at the Mall Galleries. The panel discussion invited the audience to reflect on such questions as ‘How much do you think the art world has changed since 2012, when the first Great East London Art Audit was carried out?’;… Continue reading Female Futures
- New Year: New CMCI Publications!Congratulations to Dr Ricarda Vidal who has published a brace of books to welcome in 2019. First is Revolve:R, the yellow edition, which (as you can tell from the accompanying image) is, indeed, an arresting yellow (third) edition of this artist book. It results from a 2-year-long correspondence between visual artists, poets, filmmakers and sound artists… Continue reading New Year: New CMCI Publications!
- Third Edition of Richard Howells’ Visual CultureCMCI’s Professor Richard Howells is celebrating the New Year with the publication of the third edition of his Visual Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019). Howells contends that since the first edition came out in 2003, the importance of taking the visual seriously -and learning how to read it- has only increased. His former CMCI PhD… Continue reading Third Edition of Richard Howells’ Visual Culture
- CMCI Student Wins £5,000 ScholarshipCongratulations to CMCI student Ally Faughnan, who has won a £5,000 scholarship towards the cost of her MA with us. Ally, who is a student on our MA in Arts and Cultural Management programme, won first place in the annual FindAMasters competition, for which she had submit a photograph / creative image and caption: “that… Continue reading CMCI Student Wins £5,000 Scholarship
- Outstanding Paper Award for Eva Cheuk-Yin LiCongratulations to CMCI Teaching Fellow Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li who has won the Outstanding Paper Award of the Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference. Her paper, “The second life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, media and cultural memory”, co-authored with Alistair Fraser (University of Glasgow), was selected from 300 journal articles generated from the Web of… Continue reading Outstanding Paper Award for Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
- Fashion in China and KoreaHong Kong University’s Dr Tommy Tse continued the international theme of CMCI’s research seminars with a presentation on fashion and “prosumption” in China and Korea. A specialist in East Asia’s media and cultural industries, Tommy (pictured) presented his research on the way in which production and consumption are increasingly interrelated in society, and the suggestion that this leads… Continue reading Fashion in China and Korea
- CMCI DISCES with the Cultural and Creative IndustriesCMCI has become part of a three-year research project aiming to reshape the economic and social perception of the Cultural and Creative Industries. Led by the University of Turku, Finland, it is a consortium of social and economic research institutes, cultural managers and creative workers from six European countries. Under the acronym DISCE (Developing Inclusive… Continue reading CMCI DISCES with the Cultural and Creative Industries
- Cruel OptimismWhat don’t you normally see when you watch a reality television programme? The answer is –or should be- the “warm-up” act; the entertainers who routinely perform before and during breaks in the televised show. These professionals are an important part of the craft of making TV in front of a live audience, but are little… Continue reading Cruel Optimism
- Museums in Arabia ConferenceWe are delighted to announce that CMCI will be hosting the international Museums in Arabia conference here at King’s in 2019. It’s part of an established series that operates as a collaborative network for exploring the theory and practice of museums and heritage in the Arabian Peninsula. The conference will be investigating how different cultural,… Continue reading Museums in Arabia Conference
- Fake?CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells continues his (academic) interest in art forgery with a review of Shaun Greenhalgh’s autobiography: A Forger’s Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger in The Times Higher Education. Greenhalgh is self-taught man from Lancashire who claims to have fooled the fine art establishment with a variety of fake works of art including… Continue reading Fake?
- Welcome New Visiting ScholarWe are delighted to Amanda Lagerkvist as Visiting Scholar a CMCI. Amanda is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies and a fellow of the Wallenberg Academy in Sweden. Describing herself as a “media phenomenologist”, Amanda (pictured) also heads the research programme “Existential Terrains: Memory and Meaning in Cultures of Connectivity” in the Department of… Continue reading Welcome New Visiting Scholar
- On the Road and On the Air: A Vision for Women and Virtual RealityOur Head of Department, Dr Sarah Atkinson, has been on the road and on the air talking about her research on gender and the virtual reality industry. Funded by the Canadian-backed Refiguring Innovation in Games Project, Sarah’s activities have been numerous and varied, including a two-day workshop here at KCL which brought together 20 leading… Continue reading On the Road and On the Air: A Vision for Women and Virtual Reality
- It’s A WrapCMCI’s Professor Jeanette Steemers reports two reports, wrapping up her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project “Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue”, which has now officially reached completion. Working with Naomi Sakr and Christine Singer, the project’s consolidated report, which features recommendations, workshop briefings and a full list of… Continue reading It’s A Wrap
- “For someone who doesn’t much like camping…”It’s not always obvious what CMCI people do when they are not at work. This blog does not seek to pry into their private lives…. but we can reveal that our programme administrator Rebecca Whitaker has returned from a week volunteering with Help Refugees in Calais, France. Help Refugees are a grass-roots charity created in… Continue reading “For someone who doesn’t much like camping…”
- McMillan on NolanCMCI’s Dr Kate McMillan appears in a new television documentary on the Australian artist Sidney Nolan. Made by ABC in Australia, it explores and celebrates the work of one of the country’s best-known artists, proceeding from his early years to his international career and all the success -and turmoil- that came with it. Kate (pictured… Continue reading McMillan on Nolan
- CMCI Student Opens Art Gallery in MilanThere cannot be too many PhD students who are combining their studies with opening their own art gallery, but step forward CMCI’s Tommaso Calabro! Tomasso (pictured) has marked the opening of his new gallery in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolcro with his inaugural exhibition: “Twombly and Tancredi: Homage to Cardazzo”. And although his premises in the… Continue reading CMCI Student Opens Art Gallery in Milan
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