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Material Interests: Understanding Early Tudor Art: the Invisible Illumination

Come, learn to appreciate early Tudor art using Scott McCloud’s classic Understanding Comics, and why late medieval English illumination lies at the foundation of design theory.

16th January 2025
17:00—18:00

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Digital Media In Everyday Life – From The Cradle To The Grave

In this talk, Visiting Professor Helena Sandberg will share her experiences and insights from three projects on digital technology in everyday life in Sweden.

28th November 2024
14:00—15:00

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Material Interests: ‘Electile Dysfunction’: Influencer politainment in the 2024 UK elections

In this talk, Shepuya Famwang will introduce notions of influencing, politics and entertainment in the last UK elections by focusing on social media satirist influencers to highlight an experiment in both influencing and its consequent effects on the distribution of entertaining political information in the digital age.

4th December 2024
11:30—12:30

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Material Interests: Time As Contested Infrastructure

Thinking about time as infrastructure, I look at time protocols and standards in automated environments, their relationship to past practices of time management and labour management and their role in instituting new practices of technological subjectivation.

28th November 2024
17:00—18:00

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PhD Seminar Series Autumn 2024

The full programme for the Autumn 2024 PhD Seminar Series at Winchester School of Art is now up on the PGR blog: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsapgr/2024/10/21/phd-seminar-series-autumn-2024/. Sessions will run from 2-4pm on Thursdays during term time, in person (PGR Rooms at WSA) and on MS Teams. The series consists of (guest) speakers, workshops, trainings, and other research- and practice-led events.

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Design Dialogues: Explorative Play

Chaired by Danny Aldred, this contemporary speaker series invites leaders from the fields of design and creative practice to explore how play serves as a powerful tool for innovation and experimentation. Through explorative play, we challenge the boundaries of traditional design thinking, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and new creative processes.

9th October—4th December 2024
10:00—11:00

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Material Interests Guest Lecture: Edward James – The Art of Letter Writing

Damian Kelly-Basher in conversation with Ivan Hicks, hosted by Prof Louise Siddons.

24th October 2024
17:00—18:00

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“The Chronicles of Xenosocialist AI”: Towards Feminist and Decolonial AI with Artistic Research and Creative Methods

Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group hosts a workshop and a half-day informal symposium dedicated to the use of artistic research, science fiction, future studies and other creative methods in researching cultural approaches to AI and decolonial and feminist AI imaginaries.

28th May 2024
11:00—17:15

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Design Dialogues: Anthony Burrill

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Anthony Burrill. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

8th May 2024
10:00—11:00

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Dragons, clouds and peonies: Mike Bastin

This seminar starts with an overview of the “use of traditional embroidery in fashion” over the years and around the world and then highlights major areas of extant research in the area of “embroidery and/in fashion”. An overview of traditional Chinese embroidery is then provided that also follows on logically to an overview of extant research on the use of Chinese embroidery and/in fashion.

29th May 2024
13:00—14:15

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Conceptualizing Queer Embodiments in Fashion Studies Between Visual Analysis and Ethnography

This seminar wants to address and explore some of the challenges and possibilities of moving the study of queer embodiments from the analysis of high fashion critical practices to everyday dress practices, and thus, methodologically, from the widespread archival and visual approaches to an ethnographic understanding of the dressed body.

22nd May 2024
13:00—14:30

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Design Dialogues: Studio Kunze

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Studio Kunze. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

1st May 2024
10:00—11:00

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Dr. Sterling MacKinnon: Digital Objects in Heritage Science

The MA Global Media Management Programme is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Sterling MacKinnon. Dr. MacKinnon is a researcher with the Oxford Resilient Buildings and Landscapes Laboratory, a sound artist, and the project manager for Kickstarting Heritage Innovation.

23rd April 2024
13:30—14:00

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Design Dialogues: Can Yan

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Can Yan. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

24th April 2024
10:00—11:00

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Evolving Languages

Join us for a challenging and engaging seminar event on exploring issues related to evolving contemporary language and terminologies used within equality, diversity and inclusion. 

23rd April 2024
10:00—15:00

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Material Interests: Toy Stories … How ‘not’ to make a living as an artist.

Part stand-up comedy, part performance lecture, TOY STORIES takes the audience on an irreverent, powerful and hilarious storytelling adventure through art, contemporary politics, twentieth-century history and toys. A dazzling journey from Scalextric to Nazis!

7th May 2024
16:00—18:00

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Speculative and critical design practices for engaging with AI

The first in a new series of The Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Group Webinars: Dave Murray-Rust (TU Delft) will showcase how design approaches can be used to inform the creation of AI technology, with the hope of creating more resonant and humane technologies.

26th April 2024
13:00—14:00

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Material Interests: EMPTYNESS NOT NOTHINGNESS, co-creating with community

Liz Gre and Julia Vogl in conversation about temporality, making spaces within spaces, using sensorial materials and means with groups to share individual stories collectively. Sharing on their recent projects and show Moving Colour at The Winchester Gallery and Embodied Cacophonies at Lindisfarne Castle (still on view).

24th April 2024
11:30—12:30

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World Earth Day and The Living Library

We invite you and your students to attend an afternoon event for World Earth Day. Winchester School of Art, Department of Design in conjunction with the Royal Society for Arts and the Future Cities Community Hub.

22nd April 2024
13:00—21:00

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F&T Spring Research Seminar Series: Dr Birgitta Huse

You are invited to the next F&T Spring Research Seminar Series: Dressing “Mexican”: A Balancing Act between Indigenous Cultural Expression and Fashion, Dr Birgitta Huse.

20th March 2024
14:00—15:15

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GMM Screen Practices Talk | Chloe Abrahams: The Taste of Mango

The MA Global Media Management Programme is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams in Lecture Theatre A.

19th March 2024
13:30—14:30

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Design Dialogues: Ruth Potts

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Ruth Potts. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

20th March 2024
10:00—11:00

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WSA Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Oriole Cullen

Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.

19th March 2024
17:30—18:40

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Design Dialogues: Patrick Thomas

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Patrick Thomas. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Westside Lecture Theatre on Wednesday at 10am.

13th March 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Studio Blup

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Studio Blup. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 2pm.

6th March 2024
14:00—15:00

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Design Dialogues: Anagram

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Anagram. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

28th February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Tracey Bush

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Tracey Bush. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

21st February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Charles Jeffrey, LOVERBOY

Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged. 

22nd February 2024
17:00—18:30

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Film Fridays

All students and staff are welcome to come along to Graphic Communication’s afternoon film sessions in the Graphics Social Space (3003). Each week we will be showcasing a lecture from a practitioner that supports your learning.

9th February—3rd May 2024
15:00—16:00

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Design Dialogues: Wolfe Hall

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Wolfe Hall. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

14th February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Craig Oldham

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Craig Oldham. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

7th February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Eileen White

We are pleased to launch Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Eileen White. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A, West Building on Wednesday at 10am.

31st January 2024
10:00—11:00

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‘The Child in Videogames’ – Book Launch

24th January 2024
16:00—17:30

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Arjan Guerrero – A World is an Object is a World: Navigating Space Technologies

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you all to a guest lecture by artist Arjan Guerrero who works with automating, augmenting, and interactive media.

5th December 2023
14:00—15:00

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Professor Gabriele Budach – Moving Encounters: Engaging with materiality that speaks

In this talk, Prof Gabriele Budach proposes stop motion animation and the cooperative creation of short animated films as a starting point for addressing the question of how we can overcome divisions created by language, language policies, and linguistic imperialism, while continuing to use these very same means of communication.

12th December 2023
11:30—12:30

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Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research Group Launch: Federating Research

This inaugural event marks the launch of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research (CIIP) research group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is the first event in the collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI, London South Bank University) and Digital Aesthetics Research Group (DARC, Aarhus University).

1st December 2023
10:00—12:00

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WSA Exchange Launch

Join the WSA Exchange launch event to learn more about the initiative aimed at connecting you with a world-class university. Offering services to help transform society (business and civic) by bringing together academic staff, students, research users and wider groups and communities to exchange ideas, evidence and expertise. Specialisms in digital, media, technology, marketing, fashion, design and art, helping transform for the better good.

14th November 2023
16:30—18:30

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Wesley Goatley: Artificial Intelligence Does Not Exist

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you all to a guest lecture by artist and researcher Wesley Goatley, whose work examines Artificial Intelligence technologies and their relations to society, geopolitics, and the climate crisis, and how art practice can intervene and explore these tools and topics.

7th November 2023
14:00—15:00

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UKFT x WSA Programme 2023/2024

UKFT’s MADE IT programme has been developed to enrich the production and sourcing knowledge of fashion design and textile design graduates and to illustrate the wealth of technical and creative roles available throughout the UK supply chain. This is a unique programme only available to the handful of UKFT member universities.

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In conversation with Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart asks questions about place, identity, archives and film, in the context of recent Irish history. Over the past 25 years, this had led to a body of work in video, two artist’s books, and a new feature film project, Children of the North. Taking a deep- dive into the media archives of the conflict in N Ireland, a conflict within which Stewart was embedded for most of his life.

18th October 2023
11:00—12:00

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Department of Design: Guest Lecture Series

Winchester School of Art's Department of Design is pleased to announce the Guest Lecture Series lineup for 2023! Featuring Happening Studio, Open Practice and Shirley Wang on Microsoft Teams every Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram for the latest news (@wsa_design).

4th October—6th December 2023
10:00—11:30

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In conversation with Pascal Matthias

Join Pascal Matthias, our new Associate Vice-President EDI and Social Justice, to continue the discussion through a series of open, informal, semi-structured conversations. This series provides a space to listen and to talk, as we come together to reflect on how we are making progress in becoming a more diverse and inclusive community, and where more still needs to be done.

12th October 2023
15:00—16:00

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PhD Seminar Series

The Winchester School of Art PhD Seminar Series will take place every week during term time, same time same place (2-4pm on Wednesdays during term time, in person in the WSA PGR Room and online on MS Teams). The series consists of (guest) speakers, workshops, trainings, and other research- and practice-led events.

11th October—13th December 2023
14:00—15:00

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Databites Session with Sasha Anikina

Databites: What can we see in the background of a video conference call? The daily practices of changing, concealing or performing the background for video conferencing reveal a symptomatic landscape of immaterial labour that records the changes in contemporary working conditions. This talk will be on Microsoft Teams.

17th May 2023
13:00—14:00

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In conversation: Dr Emma Reay & Dr Alexandra Anikina

In this session, Dr Emma Reay and Dr Alexandra Anikina will share their recent work, followed by a conversation bridging these projects. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.

3rd May 2023
11:00—12:30

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In conversation: Kwame Phillips & Anna Angelhardt

On Wednesday, Kwame Phillips will be in conversation with Anna Angelhardt regarding their recent research. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.

10th May 2023
11:00—13:00

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In conversation with Adam Procter & Sunil Manghani

On Wednesday, Professor Sunil Manghani will be in conversation with Dr. Adam Procter, regarding his recent research. The AMT talk will be in person and on Teams, but the PM workshop is in person only.

26th April 2023
15:00—16:00

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In conversation: Anna Englehardt

On Wednesday 10th May, Anna Englehart regarding Hardwired Obsolescence of Russian Colonialism. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.

10th May 2023
11:00—13:00

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Screens Shot: Mediating The Interactive Interface

The Data Image Lab is pleased to host a talk by Jacob Gaboury, Associate Professor of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. The talk will be in person at WSA, 63 South/3003 (Seminar Room 7) and on Teams.

2nd May 2023
13:30—15:00

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A Social Practice For Sustainability

The Social Practices Lab presents a discussion by Dr Bruce Montgomery, Associate Professor of Fashion Leadership at Winchester School of Art. Bruce will be discussing the social practice of sustainability with two leading fashion advocates, Dilys Williams & Bandana Tewari. The talk will be on Teams.

27th April 2023
09:40—11:00

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AMT Material Interests: Guest Lecture Series

The Materials Lab presents the Art and Media Technology Autumn speaker series, starting on October 1st until December 14th 2022. To join online, email: j.n.ghazi@soton.ac.uk

26th October—14th December 2022
11:00—12:30