Bitesize: How the body is produced by and resonated through camera-film-archive apparatus

Angela Piccini and Dylan Yamada-Rice present a lunchtime Bitesize discussing their interests in how the body is produced by and resonated through camera-film-archive apparatus. They will consider the transformation of bodies as event into bodies as catalogued objects, their projections into and as futures, and how this relates to contested place.

Dr Angela Piccini is Programme Lead for the BA Fine Art at University of Plymouth. Combining archaeological imaginaries and speculative futures, practice works with archives, found materials, and memory to explore place, land, belonging, exclusion and the potential of process and practice to produce new, imagined, and real places. Angela has specific interests in contested urban spaces and spatial practice, co-creation, and practice-as-research. Her research spans histories of urban video art and their relationships with port planning and infrastructure; participatory, social practice and co-produced moving image projects that engage with critical questions of heritage and society; digital technologies and moving image archives; mega event screen infrastructures and their entanglement with cultural heritage.

Dr Piccini is co-director with Sefryn Penrose of Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic (ButCH) and of 37 Looe Street gallery and workshop in Plymouth. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, Landscapes, and the new BARS book series on contemporary archaeology. Previously, she was Head of Film & Television at University of Bristol and was on the Management Committee of Bristol UNESCO City of Film. Angela is on the Board of Plymouth Arts Cinema. She's a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Angela is a member of Bristol Expanded and Experimental Film (BEEF), Cube and Contemporary Art Membership Plymouth (CAMP). With Dan Hicks, she co-founded the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Group (2003-date).

Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice is a researcher and artist specialising in digital play and storytelling for children. Having a doctorate in Education and MA degrees in Research Methods, Early Childhood Education and Japanese Semiotics, her work crosses academia and kids’ media industry. She is an Associate Professor in Immersive Storytelling at the University of Plymouth as well as Co-Founder of the digital storytelling studio, X||dinary Stories. She is currently working on an ESRC funded project about children's notions of digital good/bad, an AHRC funded project creating a videogame about treescapes for children and an Arts Council Northern Ireland funded immersive theatre performance critiquing AI.

Date: Wednesday 7 February 2024
Time: 13:00 – 13:45
Venue: The Levinsky Gallery, Roland Levinsky Building
Ticket information: Free admission – booking essential