Tony Palmer’s – All You Need is Love from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.
Prof Tim Wall and Dr Paul Long presenting to the Sights and Sounds conference, University of Salford, June 2010. All You Need is Love is a 17 part documentary covering the Story of Popular Music. The program was originally broadcast between 1976 and 1981, but since that time it has neither been commercially released or repeated.
You are invited to attend a screening of ‘Philip Donnellan’s The Colony’ (1964) followed by a discussion of an ongoing project to explore and promote the resources of the Philip Donnellan Archive.
6-8pm
Wednesday 30th June 2010
The Colony, originally made as an innovative TV documentary, explores the experience of members of the Caribbean migrant community in Birmingham and the Midlands. The film allows its subjects space to candidly evaluate their reception in the UK and their relationships with home and other migrant workers. Controversial at the time of its original broadcast the film is an enduring and powerful document of a key moment in post-war British history.
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Among our collection of academic activities, we have involvements with a number of journals, either as partners, editorial board members, or regular contributors. Midland History is one of these, and as Interactive Cultures’ work is sometimes historical in focus, and often about the midlands, you might find this prize of interest.
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Sam Coley and Oliver Carter presenting to the Sights and Sounds conference, University of Salford, June 2010.
Radio documentary, fandom and new participatory cultures from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.
Conference report from Annette Naudin.
The recent conference at the Open University, The Future of Cultural Work inspired much debate and discussion amongst delegates and touched on many pertinent issues for my PhD research into cultural entrepreneurship and education policy. With many strands including capitalism and work, precarious labour, working in television and inclusion & exclusion, it offered a variety of perspectives and provocations in relation to cultural work and cultural labour. Not only were the themes appropriate to my research, but many key academics on the subject presented and attended the conference – I must admit to being a little start-struck! Continue reading
Members of the Interactive Cultures team presented three papers at a conference called Sights and Sounds – Interrogating the Music Documentary, 3rd-4th June 2010 at Adelphi Research Institute for Creative Arts and Sciences, University of Salford.
We will be uploading videos of all three presentations to this blog in the next few days.
In this post is Matt Grimes’ paper: Punk’s Underbelly: De-Canonizing Histories of Punk which he has written about and posted in full on his own blog.
Punk’s Underbelly: De-Canonizing Histories of Punk from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.
The Interactive Cultures research team are very pleased to welcome Nacho Gallego Pérez as a visiting researcher. Nacho obtained a PhD from Universidad Complutense, Madrid where his research concerned the impact of podcasting on Spanish radio broadcasting. He is now teaching at the Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual, in the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Nacho joins us until the middle of July and will be returning to Birmingham in August.
On his arrival Nacho commented: “There aren’t many research centres in Europe where the relationships between music, technology and culture are being researched in the way that the Birmingham centre is doing. I want to develop my postdoctoral research round these relationships.”
We look forward to working with Nacho during his time in Birmingham.
A new one hour film about Birmingham’s music heritage called Made In Birmingham: Reggae, Punk, Bhangra received a private invitation only premiere recently.
Introduction to Jez’s premiere from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.
In the video above, Jez Collins of interactive cultures explains the purpose and the genesis of the film, and how it connects with the Birmingham Music Archive.
As part of its Wednesday research afternoons, the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research recently hosted a talk from Katrina Sluis of London South Bank University.
Katrina Sluis is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Media and English at London South Bank University where she leads the BA (Hons) Digital Media Arts. Her scholarly interests include critical theories of photography, digital memory and contemporary fine art practice. As a visual artist, she works with photography and digital media to explore materiality, archiving and transmission in relation to the digital image.
Her paper was entitled ‘Digital Material Archives: Web 2.0 and algorithmic memory’.
Tonight I delivered a brief talk at the Midland’s arts centre. Below is a transcript of my talk (minus my live rambles and tangents and including some typos – sorry). Also speaking were Jon Bounds & Pete Ashton.
Firstly an apology: as an academic I can’t take a title at face value. I find I need to hand wring and worry about the terms of a debate before I can do anything at all. And then once I have problematised the issue, I find that the title is wrong and I start using different words.
As a media and cultural studies academic who has been criticised by the Daily Mail for wasting tax payers money running courses on social media, this condition is particularly acute. I need to be seen to have thought too much about things to justify myself. So that being the case, I struggled to get into this topic and felt I had to change it. I hope you don’t all rush to get your money back, but stay with me for a moment. The new title is:
Social Media & Glocalisation