Ross Varney

Janneke Adema / 20/07/2015

Ross is a Teaching Assistant in the area of Media Production and Media Communication. His professional background includes freelance commercial video production and applied research in digital media, utilising his knowledge of online distribution networks, database implementation, large-scale digitisation, IPR and copyright for the web, and social media integration

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Recent Publications

Gary Hall (2016) Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities. MIT Press. In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars to transform their own lives and labor.

Virginia Crisp (2015) Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Film Distribution in the Digital Age critically examines the evolution of the landscape of film distribution in recent years

Anthony Luvera (2015) Not Going Shopping. Malmo: Malmo Fotobiennal. 4,000 copies distributed freely to residents of Malmo and Copenhagen to accompany the exhibition of Not Going Shopping, a solo headline exhibition for Malmo Fotobiennal

Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska, eds., Photomediations: An Open Reader (Open Humanities Press 2015). Photomediations: A Reader is part of a larger editorial and curatorial project called Photomediations: An Open Book, whose goal is to redesign a coffee-table book as an online experience.

Open Education: A Study in Disruption (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014). Book co-authored by Coventry’s Open Media Group and Mute Publishing. (Open access version available here.)

Jonathan Shaw, NEWFOTOSCAPES, Library of Birmingham, 2014. NEWFOTOSCAPES seeks to navigate the evolving topography surrounding the image in the 21st century; Shaw advocates a new way of thinking about photographic production & education in a post-digital era.

Forthcoming Talks

Gary Hall. Invited talk at Forms of Criticism symposium, University of Westminster, June 30, 2016.

Gary Hall. Invited talk on the importance of communication, impact and public engagement for academic research, University of Warwick, June 28, 2016.

Gary Hall. Invited talk, Cybernetic Subjectivities and the Mediation of Trust and Empathy, launch event for the Centre for Entangled Media Research, University of Lincoln, May 24-25, 2016.

Anthony Luvera (2016) ‘On Yer Bikes Boys: Work with gender by The Department of Cultural Studies at Cockpit Arts Workshop’. Radical Histories / Histories of Radicalism, Raphael Samuel History Centre. 1 – 3 July 2016, Queen Mary University of London, London UK

Recent Talks

Gary Hall, Invited talk, University of Birmingham, May 23, 2016.

Kamila Kuc, 13 May 2016, 'Show & Tell & Touch: Digital Culture and Education', panel discussant, with Milena Popova (Europeana), Gregory Markus (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision), Prodromos Tsiavos (Onassis Cultural Centre) and Alain Thillay (French Ministry of Education), moderated by Caroline Roelants of the Flemish Canon Cultuurcel (Ministry of Education), Brussels, Belgium.

Kamila Kuc and Michael Brooke in Conversation, 8 May 2016, 'Humour in Experimental Film', Camden Arts Centre. Coupled with 'Lyrical Flight From Reality: Playfulness and Humour in Experimental Film', curated by Kamila Kuc.

Janneke Adema, Invited talk, University of Leuven Open Access event, May 4, 2016

Anthony Luvera (2016) ‘Who Empowers Whom? The Powers at Play in a Participatory Photography Practice: Assembly (Brighton 2013-2014) by Anthony Luvera’. Open Engagement. forthcoming 29 April – 1 May 2016, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA

Gary Hall (2016) Charisma of the Book: Global Perspectives for the 21st Century, The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 14-16.

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