This is the web page of the Communication, Culture and Media (CCM) Research Group at the University of Bradford. A particular strength of the work of the CCM Research group is that it takes place within the School of Computing, Informatics and Media. The fact that researchers at Bradford in the field of culture, communication and media studies work so closely with colleagues in mobile telecommunications and computing is relatively unusual in UK institutions but is more common at institutions in the US and Europe. This arrangement enables and encourages innovative research in the field of new, interactive and mobile media, already showcased in research funding awarded by the European Community, UK Research Councils and the Arts Council. We believe that this close relationship between theory and technology is strategically vital to future research in the rapidly changing field of digital media. The School of Computing, Informatics and Media has unique facilities to support practice-based research, such as our 14-camera motion capture suite, which is usually used commercially to translate the movements of human actors into the actions of animated characters, but has also proved to be a useful research tool.
Research in the group is also engaged with questions of media, community and cultural identity. Recent research includes work on the contribution of Islam to British life and the role that city-centre big screens can play in supporting community media and local arts.
Full details of how to apply are available at http://iri.brad.ac.uk/for-students.php
How does conflict feel? What choices do we have to make? What changed? What change is needed? The University of Bradford’s Gallery II space will next week feature a new commission developed in collaboration with CCM’s David Robison a Lecturer at Bradford Media School (new media and narrative) and Lisa Cumming (Programme for a Peaceful [...]
See the full blog entry at: http://bradccm.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/change-spaces-conflict-art-and-media-installation/
Owen Hatherley (Writer and Critic) ‘Architecture, Media and Politics’ Wednesday 25 April 2012, 6pm, On Location, National Media Museum In Lindsay Anderson’s The White Bus, a vehicle carries middle class passengers around to see the parts of the city they usually ignore – factories, council estates, slums. In post-war cinema, the urban landscape of the [...]
See the full blog entry at: http://bradccm.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/timecode-architecture-media-and-politics/
Martin Levy (Independent Researcher) ‘Out of Sight: Anatomy of Violence and the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation’ Wednesday 14 March 2012, 6pm, On Location, National Media Museum The Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation took place in London during the summer of 1967 against a background of rising student agitation. Organised by the American [...]
See the full blog entry at: http://bradccm.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/timecode-dialectics-of-liberation/
