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Still some spots available for our upcoming Fanzine Workshop at Chapter Arts Centre run by the wonderful Meena Saverimuttu β¨
Join us on Sunday to learn some history about zines and then have a go at making your own (materials and tea and coffee provided)!
Durre Shahwar introducing her short poetry film Gathering
PowerPoint slide for the Image Works Away Day in a wood panelled room
Delighted to have @daisydixon.bsky.social and Durre Shahwar kicking off βThe βartβ of researchβ Away Day here in Cardiff today, helping us explore new creative routes into our research through images and autofiction π
Incredible paid opportunity for film-makers in Wales through the Reimagining Womenβs Unfinished Film in Wales project run by the incredible @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Meena Saverimuttu in collab with Image Works!
Call for applications open until 14 Feb π¬π½οΈποΈ
Details in English and Welsh below!
EoIs due to me at beestona@cardiff.ac.uk by this Friday 14th February!
Incredible paid opportunity for film-makers in Wales through the Reimagining Womenβs Unfinished Film in Wales project run by the incredible @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Meena Saverimuttu in collab with Image Works!
Call for applications open until 14 Feb π¬π½οΈποΈ
Details in English and Welsh below!
Photo of Tracy Llanera presenting a slide about white terror wolves in a lecture style room
Tracy Llanera (UConn) is kicking off our workshop on βDigital Transformations: Identity, Affectivity, and Genderβ with her talk on White Terror Wolves and their agency
#philsky #visualcultures #cardiff #digitalcommunities #aesthetics
Photo of the panel (from left to right: Lucy Osler, Meena Saverimuttu, Louise Richardson-Self, Gen Eickers, Tracy Llanera) in front of a cinema screen with a slide showing the logos of Cardiff University, University of Connecticut, Universities Wales, and Image Works
Very lucky to have such an incredible set of panelists - Meena Saverimuttu, @geneickers.bsky.social, @lvself.bsky.social,Tracy Llanera, and @lucyosler.bsky.social β¨
Thank you to the Global Wales Partnership Fund for supporting this beautiful event!
Photo of an old school cinema sign with the words βRepresentation & The Digitalβ
The tensions between the freedom to self-express and find connection and the railroading of our narratives and imaginations by digital platforms and their algorithms. And the promise of art to help us imagine and create more open futures!
A photo of the panel (from left to right: Lucy Osler, Meena Saverimuttu, Louise Richardson-Self, Gen Eickers, Tracy Llanera) in front of a cinema screen with a slide of the event depicting animated pictures of people looking at phones and tablets
What an amazing event last night at Tramshed! Fantastic discussions about the good, the bad, and the ugly of online communities. We talked about the seductive aesthetics of TikTok fanfic, tradwife cookiedom, and the veiling of hate speech as information on gender critical websitesβ¦
Looking forward to our evening discussionof tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fandom, trans affect, and more at Tramshed tonight!
Tickets free and a few still available (eventbrite link below)π«
#cardiff
Happening tomorrow! Tickets free and a few still available π« join us for discussions about tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fanfic, trans affect, and more!
Some amazing talks coming up this Friday 13 Dec thanks to @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social, @uconn.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera & yours truly!
"Cultural Imperialism: A Face of Trans Oppression"
"Transness, Social Media, and Emotion: How Online Spaces Sculpt Trans Affect"
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CFP for the next American Society for Aesthetics annual conference, Baltimore, Oct 22β25 2025. Deadline March 1.
aesthetics-online.org/events/Event...
NB(1) The ASA has pretty generous and plentiful travel grants available.
NB(2) As big conferences go, this one is friendly and welcoming.
#philsky
This is the sister workshop to our public panel event on digital transformations!
A photo of Christina Thatcher and a slide of an ocean with the title βin the wakeβ
And Christina Thatcher talking about poem-making as a way of synthesizing research for the project βThe water that binds usβ based in Wales and New Zealand π©΅
Photograph of Daisy Dixon presenting a slide asking a community group βwhat does beauty mean to you?β with a word cloud picking out responses including: community, care, green spaces
In our Show and Tell session today at Cardiff Uni, Daisy Dixon presents her on-going project with Paris Panos on their work on the role of and need for beauty in the city, working with communities in Cardiff π
Our next event is on Thursday 12th December on β(Re)presentation: selves, communities, and digital transformationsβ at Tramshed in Cardiff. Spaces still available for free!
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/representa...
and an evening of life drawing and art monsters with @laurenelkin.bsky.social and Daisy Dixon!
We run a variety of academic and public events. Recent events include making digital laptop performances with Jane Frances Dunlop, discussing the relationship between horses and humans through the photography of Julie Sleaford and poetry of Christina Thatcher,