Points of Listening #40: CRiSAP Research Game Show

9 March 2018 | 5-7pm
London College of Communication
Room: W217
Free, to reserve your place please RSVP s.voegelin@lcc.arts.ac.uk

What’s your methodology?

A Research Game Show hosted by CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice) in conjunction with PoL#40 (Points of Listening)

‘what you always wanted to know about the process of researching things and were afraid to ask.’

This session for UAL Research Fortnight, hosted by CRiSAP in conjunction with PoL and involving its research students and alumni is inspired by an earlier incarnation of the research game show approach staged at Supersonix, a conference by the Exhibition Road Cultural Group (V&A, Science Museum, Goethe Institute and Natural History Museum) in 2012.

For this particular intervention, 8 research students and alumni will be invited to present, in exactly 6 minutes, their research by talking only about the processes and procedures of their methodology, without mentioning their research question, genre or context of work, outcomes or aims. This strictly enforced limitation on process, will provide focus and avoid the distraction of the context and thus will enable a cross-disciplinary debate about research without the disciplinary boundaries that a more outcome and material based discussion sets up.

This restriction will be closely adhered to: any contestant who strays into description of the work itself or any other particulars about there research outcomes and aims will be stopped. The timeframe of 6 minutes will be strictly enforced as well and a sound will abruptly call the end of each presentation.

The presentations are purely verbal, there are no sonic or visual aids that can be used to support these articulation of research process.

The eight 6 minute presentation are followed by a Q&A that allows other research students and staff to ask questions, compare and debate processes and find differences and communalities of working.

Contestants:

• Kevin Logan
• Louise Marshall
• Dan Scott
• Iris Garrelfs
• Victoria Karlsson
• Kate Carr
• Timothy Smith
• Julie Groves

Chaired by Cathy Lane, Mark Peter Wright and Salomé Voegelin

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Points of Listening (PoL)
PoL is a monthly programme of experimental workshops, activities and discussions based in and around London, co-convened by CRiSAP’s Salomé Voegelin and Mark Peter Wright.

UAL Research Fortnight
A two-week exploration of the richness of the University’s research activities, with events taking place across the University between 5 and 16 March 2018. Our mixed programme of events are open to public where shown. Some events are accessible to UAL staff and students only. Research Fortnight highlights the diversity of research taking place across UAL and offers opportunities to learn more about what is happening in different subject areas.

London College of Communication
With a community of nearly 5000 students across its 60 courses, London College of Communication at University of the Arts London is a world leader in design, media and screen education that prepares students for successful careers in the creative industries.