About the Institute for Creative Cultures

The Institute for Creative Cultures (ICC) is a newly established specialist research facility in the Arts and Humanities at Coventry University. It brings together three prominent research centres at Coventry University - Centre for Dance Research, Centre for Postdigital Cultures and Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities - devoted to practice-led research in the visual arts, dance, curating, moving image, creative AI, digital art and photography.

As an experimental research lab for the creative arts, ICC’s mission is to explore the capacity of the Arts and Humanities to address major contemporary societal issues by fostering a sustainable, resilient and innovative environment for cutting-edge transdisciplinary practice-led research. This unique approach, enables the Institute for Creative Cultures to continue producing excellent research that reaches across disciplinary boundaries, introducing an arts and humanities perspective into research in computer science, medicine, engineering, social justice and sustainability, among others.

In line with this year’s Creative Cultures Annual PGR Conference, ICC also (Re)Imagines Creative Cultures with an ambitious research and public engagement agenda which aims to:

(1) Extend our transdisciplinary collaborations and enhance our ability to produce and display high-quality practiceled research in the Arts & Humanities in order to provide solutions to contemporary societal problems through experimentation with new digital technologies.

(2) Deepen our engagement with artists, digital practitioners and diverse communities in both Coventry and the wider region. Thus, building on the legacy of the Coventry City of Culture 2021 while also attracting visiting scholars and artists. It also reaffirms its commitment to practice research with a significant investment in advanced media production capabilities and digital infrastructure. Our academic community have been trailblazers in engaging with digital technologies to develop, augment and creatively interrogate structures in the arts and culture. With a renewed infrastructure for production and display, the Institute’s vibrant academic community aims to explore new ways to remix and reuse our outputs, experiment across a range of different mediums, formats and genres and develop transdisciplinary methodologies based on the research ethos of the Creative Arts, while also contributing to a more resilient and thriving arts and creative industries ecosystem in order to create better futures.

Housekeeping

Attending in person:

The address for the ICC building is Parkside, Coventry, CV1 2NE. There is no parking available other than for disabled badge holders. The closest parking is on Mile Lane.

Attending online:

This is a hybrid event that will also run virtually on Teams. The event will be recorded, so please keep your camera and microphone off if you do not wish to be recorded.

Code of conduct:

The conference is an opportunity for PGRs to share their work, no matter the stage, in a supportive environment. We ask that all attendees respect the presenters and do not interrupt or otherwise disrupt when others are sharing their work. Please wait until the designated time to share comments and ask questions.

Time Schedule Room

11.00-12.00

Seyashree Mohapatra - Shadows of Criminology

Clare Harvey - Co-authoring with forgotten voices: using remix writing to explore the problematised boundary between historical ‘truth’ and fiction

Georgia Rizzioli - Moving Images and Placemaking: for an Environmental Semiology (Room 666)

12:00-1:30

1:00-2:00 Immersive Session Performance Studio

Hank Bamberger - Killer Heel Confessionals (2023)

2:00-3:00 Session 2 G17

Daniel Rink - Press, Politics and the Post-war Conservative Consensus: 1951-1964

Shiva Shankhari Sundaralingam - A Review on the Historic Tax Relationship Between British Petroleum (then Anglo Persians Oil Company), and The State with Specific Focus on Major Exogenous Ruptures During The 20th Century

3:00-3:30 Break

Practice Sharing (Parallel)

3:30-4:30

Performance Studio

Andrea Puerta - Writing; the body that moves in and out of my body

Hiten Mistry - Reshaping the Routines of our past

3:30-4:30

Session 3 (Parallel) G17

Rachel Gill - Body image, disability, dress and empowerment: Co-designing apparel to support young women with Type 1 Diabetes body image

Megan Shone - Performing Gender: Non-verbal

Communication of Gendered Roles

4:30-5:30 Panel G21

Hiten Mistry - GEN Next New perspectives and growth post-pandemic South Asian Dance Artists in conversation

Time Schedule Room

9:30-10:00

10:00-11:00

Networking/Coffee & Tea Lobby

Practice Sharing (Parallel) G21

Shaniece Martin - Power of spoken word

David Mellor - Cosmotechnics Moment

10:00-11:00

Workshop (Parallel) G17

Hannah Westwood - Instagram and Influencers: Social Media Methods Workshop

11:00-12:00 Session 4 G17

Jagdish Patel - The same but not quite: tracing alternative genealogies of socially engaged art

Eleanor Cook - The Coventry of the future

12:00-1:30 Lunch Lobby

1:30-3:00

Session 5 (Parallel) G21

Madeleine Bracey - Local Views of Coventry’s Early Modern Grammar School

Sarah Capel - The imaginative affordances of the early modern pattern book

Catalina Sirbu - Building RoAWE, the Romanian Academic Written Corpus

2:30-3:30 Break

1:30-2:30

Interactive Session (Parallel) G17

Zrinca Uzbinec - Unsettling Pauses

Miranda Laurence - Thinking-in-movement through space

3:30-4:30 Panel G21

Georgina Cockburn, Stacey Moon-Tracy and Linda Westmoreland - 'Evidencing' alongside Health - acts of care and translation in interdisciplinary studies