Items of note
IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UFO PHENOMENONA
Thanks to Prof. Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Willson, I introduced a screening of my films nou and The Man Who Fell to Millom at the symposium In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomena at Mildred’s Lane, Pensilvania, USA (17-18 July 2024). The symposium came at the end of Robert & Bryan’s…
Read MoreHow Many Electric Sheep? Yet Another Adaptation of Blade Runner (v2024)
Delighted to deliver this paper at Transitions – the 2024 SFRA conference at the University of Taru, Estonia (7-11 May 2024). Thank you to all who supported this work, including the distribution of flick books… The 2024 annual conference of the Science Fiction Research Association seeks to discuss all kinds of transitions as the thematic,…
Read MoreFiction Machines IV
Excited to be contributing to Fiction Machines IV symposium in at Bath School of Art, Film & Media on 20th July! I’ll not be performing however – that task will be passed to the alien/human hybrid nouJane. It’s about time they started pulling their weight… Loads of great sessions to look forward to and tix…
Read MoreA Letter from Francesca Zappia
So perfectly designed I post it here as it dropped into my inbox… Last news: 🐇 Follow the rabbit in the virtual world – Jane Topping + SIX YEARS Dear friends and colleagues, Hope you had a nice summer! I am sharing some details of my recent collaboration with the art fair ART-O-RAMA in Marseille,…
Read Morered gym in Berlin
Wish I was getting along to see this show, crammed with favs… You should go. The exhibition ‘red gym’ brings together artists from Berlin and Glasgow and features work from the Haubrok Collection. The exhibited work, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, collage, and poetic writing, responds to the theme of ‘resistance’. The exhibition utilises the…
Read MorePast Forward
Working with Francesca Zappia for ART-O-RAMA and discussing digital domains as spaces for artworks to occupy or to become, I thought I’d pass on Francesca’s curatorial space Past Forward. A site comprising site-specific commissioned works, curated works and interviews with artists and curators. Get into it here.
Read MorePointerpointer.com
A website that points to your pointer. I wish I had made this https://pointerpointer.com/
Read MoreEmpire
It’s back! It’s backwards! I’m so unobservant though, this could’ve been back since 2020. But here it is at noon on this sweltering day. Love DG. Love Empire.
Read MoreNeMLA 53rd Annual Convention 2022
Delighted to be given the opportunity to present remotely at the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention this year – my second contribution to this friendly, interdisciplinary affair. I was discussing the flick book A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (2018) in the context of literary and film adaptation. Thank you Bill…
Read MoreCommunication Measures to Bridge 4.543 Billion Years – GeoWeek at the University of Cumbria Institute of Arts
Last week I met with many heartily missed friends at UoCIoA to deliver this brief introduction to The Man Who Fell to Millom… In 2018 I was commissioned by Irene Rogan, Director of the Moving Mountains Festival (in Millom, Cumbria) to make a film about the operational Ghyll Scaur Quarry. However, after visiting the quarry…
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