Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events
Happenstance: Digital R&D in the Arts
Dr Chris Bilton, Ruth Leary and Katherine Jewkes have recently completed their study of the Happenstance Project - a series of creative technology residencies within three arts organisations; Site Gallery (Sheffield), Spike Island (Bristol) and Lighthouse (Brighton), conceived and produced by Caper. Watch the video or read on to find out more about Happenstance and our research aims.
Jonathan Vickery gives European Capital of Culture keynote address
On the first weekend of November I gave an opening address at an event that marked the start of the last stage of a main strand at the European Capital of Culture in Guimarães, northern Portugal. It's not an easy time for Portugal, and the actual capital investment and budgetary levels of this ECoC is lower than many past events. And yet, Portugal has demonstrated enormous creative energy. The year long event was, of course, quite complex: the strand I participated in was the Curators' Lab, which was for artists, designers, architects, urbanists and curators, as well as many others. My paper addressed the new art spaces emerging all over Europe, each playing a role in the creative economy. My paper will soon be available through the ECoC website.
See more on: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/cp/blog/
New book chapter: Literary taste and 'list culture'
David Wright has written a book chapter now published in From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century from University of Massachusetts Press. The book, edited by Anouk Lang and featuring contributions from Janice Radway, Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo amongst others, offers a range of perspectives on how readers interact with texts, with one another and with the technologies that shape the contemporary reading experience.
David’s chapter, ‘Literary taste and List Culture in a Time of “Endless Choice”’, considers the cultural list in its various forms - guide, bestseller chart, poll – as a means of shaping reading choices. The chapter reflects on how new kinds of lists - the customer or algorithm determined lists of on-line retail – reflect new forms of authority in directing readers to books.
You can read a review of the book in the Columbia Journalism Review here, and follow David’s research on academia.edu.