On the Radar research seminar series returns TUES 13th MAY 13:00-14:00 – continuing with a focus on highlighting Early Career Researchers across Hallam. We are keen to use this series to connect colleagues across disciplines and departments, and in particular to support this years ECRI Fellowship cohort, of which this month’s speaker Rose Butler is a member: details below.
All On the Radar events are free to attend – we aim to encourage informal networking and cross-disciplinary conversations!
IN PERSON next Tuesday:
Dr Rose Butler: ‘Ground Truths and Situated Arts Practice’
Tues 13th May 2025 13:00 – 14:00 in Cantor 9234
Outline:
Arts research has the potential to extend what is visible, whilst working in response to specific environments, and expand established methodological frameworks. Artists’ practices may span or blur ways of working, straddling disciplines that might have conflicting authorities, histories or representation. Alternative insights may be generated through responsive, iterative and disrupted processes or use of technology. However, the idiosyncratic nature of arts practice means that its unique value can be hard to define, and might be personal, broad and diverse.
I will present recent research projects that examine sensitive or hard to access spaces and border lands through image making. Rather than enhancing the ‘quality’ of the images, technologies expose the gaps, flaws, or what is missing to present the overlooked, beneath the surface, hidden, accidental or malfunctioning manifestations of ‘visioning’.