Title: Falling Like a Lemon: Alternative Formats for Publishing Research
Date: Wednesday 19 February
Time: 12:15
Venue: OH127
The School of Performing Arts, in collaboration with the CTATT Research Project, has the pleasure of hosting a research training seminar with the title of Falling Like a Lemon: Alternative Formats for Publishing Research. The seminar will be delivered by Dr Maria Kapsali of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries (University of Leeds). The seminar will be held on Wednesday 19 February at 12:15 in Room 127 Old Humanities Building, University of Malta Msida Campus.
Contact: Dr Stefan Aquilina
In additional to print publications, research is now disseminated through several means, often involving digital media and online spaces. Drawing on several examples of current publications, including the presenter’s engagement with different media, we will look at the presentation and dissemination of research through DVD Roms; websites; and blogs. In addition to discussing the different logistics involved in each medium, the session will focus on the different kinds of skills and literacies that each medium requires.
Specific attention will be paid to the relation between text and image; issues of documentation; relationship to audiences; and the use of visual metaphor as a mechanism to explicate additional realms of practice and research. The session will look at the way different means of dissemination may foster different kinds of knowledge generation as well as enable additional/alternative relationships between researcher and audiences.
The session will conclude with a practical activity, where participants will be invited to choose an aspect of their research they are working on and consider how they might present it for an audio-visual medium. Participants may find of interest the attached articles.
Specific attention will be paid to the relation between text and image; issues of documentation; relationship to audiences; and the use of visual metaphor as a mechanism to explicate additional realms of practice and research. The session will look at the way different means of dissemination may foster different kinds of knowledge generation as well as enable additional/alternative relationships between researcher and audiences.
The session will conclude with a practical activity, where participants will be invited to choose an aspect of their research they are working on and consider how they might present it for an audio-visual medium. Participants may find of interest the attached articles.
Dr Maria Kapsali is a lecturer and researcher within the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds. Her interests focus on yoga and somatic practices, performer training, philosophy of technology, and sonification. Since 2014 she has been developing Sonolope, a system of movement sonification. In 2017-2018, she shared a LITE Fellowship with Dr Scott Palmer on Mobile Phones and Digital Creativity, with the project producing a number of outputs that can be viewed on the platform SignalSpace. As part of her ongoing interest in yoga and somatic practices, Dr Kapsali explored yoga as the basis for interdisciplinary forms of creative expression in a project with dancer and Ashtanga Yoga teacher Marie Hallager Andersen, entitled ‘Two Trainers Prepare’. She is currently working on the contracted monograph Preparing Our Selves: Performer Training and Technology (Routledge, 2020), and is the co-editor, with Professor Frank Camilleri (University of Malta), of a special issue of the Performance Research Journal ‘On Hybridity’ (October 2020).
