Our Creative Research Community by Sonic Screen Lab

Ash Sharma

sonicscreenlab — 2022-09-28 09:42:40 UTC

I am a film and cultural theorist. Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at LCC. I was previously the Course Leader for the BA Film and Screen Studies, a course focusing on programming and curating film.

I write on film in the context of race, diaspora and globalisation. Here is a link to some of my writings: https://arts.academia.edu/AshwaniSharma
I am presently working on a book on film theory, race, and geopolitical aesthetics.

I have been a long time ago an independent filmmaker, and sound operator and studio manager in BBC TV and Radio. I also worked for a film and video workshop in Leicester.

I am doing some research for an archival digital media project 'Must We Burn Croydon' https://burncroydon.tumblr.com/ I live in Croydon!

I am a founding editor of the online journal darkmatter: https://darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org/

I write and perform poetry.

a.sharma@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Shreepali Patel

srpatel2 — 2022-09-28 16:07:42 UTC

I am a filmmaker and multi-platform storyteller. My practice-led research focuses on creative intervention to support the preservation of identity, culture and heritage and to surface diverse voices through narrative driven experiences.

Prior to joining LCC a few months ago, I was Director of StoryLab , BBC producer/director and independent filmmaker.

My current and recent projects include: Stories in Transition FoodCult The Frontline
Immersive Antarctica The Crossing Golden Window . I'm developing a portfolio project, Tick Box Other - book, screenplay and exhibition - focusing on music, identity and heritage.

s.r.patel@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Kim Noce

knoce1_1 — 2022-10-04 12:27:46 UTC

I am a synergetic, multimodal and mix-media Maker of emphatic, interactive and immersive experiences.

2022/23 Currently in production
Seeking exhibition spaces

_{This year I have won funds from the}_{British Council}_for_STARP_{an interactive AR animated documentary. It combines immersive technology and the oldest traditional craft from Nepal, fair-trade sustainable practices, and celebrates equality for women. The project will culminate in a series of exhibitions worldwide next year.}2023/24Funded project
Seeking collaborators_{I have also recently received an R&D grant for}_SENSING_{, a programme of artist’s commission exploring neurodiversity. I am collaborating with Mathew Longo, Professor of the Body Representation Laboratory at Birkbeck University, to create an immersive VR to investigate the psychological and neural bases of our experience.}2024/25Currently in development
Seeking Funds _2024/25_{I am currently developing and seeking funds for}_I'Lalla_{. Inspired by}_{Lal Ded's Poems}_{(1320), "I, Lalla" is a short animated documentary and online interactive animated graphic novel and AR experience exploring of her life and poems. In our polarised world, her poems reflect the importance of developing one's self-acceptance, self-belief, and resilience uniting diverse cultures.}

Sample past projects

^{In 2020/21}^{I was funded by}^{Animate Projects}^{for an immersive animation documentary trilogy:}^{Cities of Ladies}^{. It has been selected in 80+ new media festivals worldwide, including and won 10 awards to date, including New York Nil Gallery,}^{Athens Digital Arts Festival}^{– Tāctus 360, Brandenburg International Film Festival, and Bridge Festival in Canada}
^2018/19^{I co-directed a series of new immersive multimedia live performances, one of the results was}^{Seek and Hide}^{, a 30 minutes continuously evolving multimedia installation performance exploring empathy. The performances are showcased at TATE, Barbican, Berlinale, Biennale of Odisha, Athens Digital Arts Festival, and other venues worldwide.}
^{In 2016/17}^{I was funded by the}^{Artist Moving Image Network FLAMIN}^and^{King's College for Shakespeare400}^{. The resulting work:}^{"Love in Idleness",}^{is an authored re-imaging of a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from a feminist lens. Showcased at 35 major festivals, including Animafest, Zagreb; Encounters, Bristol; London Short Film Festival, MIAF, Melbourne, and the Berlinale Talents Opening Ceremony in 2022.}

Bio
_{I have directed and animated several independent short films funded by the BBC, CH4, ACE, and BFI. The 19 films screened in more than 500 major international film festivals, winning more than 50 prizes worldwide, including Venice, Berlinale, Annecy, Encounters, Aesthetica, EIFF, LIAF, LSFF, BAA, RTS, and Monstra. The films broadcasted on CH4, BCC, MTV, ITV and on streaming platforms such as MUBI, reaching more than two million views.}_{Kim Noce}

_{Course Leader & Senior Lecturer MA Animation}

_Webiste_Filmography_{Awards, Exhibtions and Offical Selections}

_Email_{k.noce@lcc.arts.ac.uk}_{Personal kimnoce@gmail.com}

_{Work mobile +44 (0) 7762409178}_Instagram

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

azimmerman47 — 2022-10-05 11:39:41 UTC

www.andrealukazimmerman.com

Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multilayered practice has been described as Intuitive Cinema. It embodies and explores fragile refusals and counter memories, and itinerant lives, human and otherwise, in relation to structural and political injustice.

Films include: Taskafa, Stories of the Street (2013, written and voiced by the late John Berger), Estate, a Reverie (2015), Erase and Forget (2017), Artangel-produced Here for Life (2019) and The Wapping Project-produced Wayfaring Stranger (2024, featuring Eileen Myles), which have screened widely around the world including at Locarno, IDFA, Istanbul, Berlin, BAFICI and IFFR festivals, as well as in cinemas, galleries, and community and activist spaces.

Selected exhibitions include ’The Child Within us All’, Arnolfini, 'Shelter in Place', SAW, and Estuary Festival, 'Civil Rites', the London Open at Whitechapel Gallery, solo exhibitions 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery.

Selected writing includes essays in 'Brick', 'Room: a Sketchbook for Analytic Action', 'Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter', 'Open Democracy', and co-editing the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press).

The films are held in the BFI National Film Archive and the Arts Council England Collection, and are distributed by LUX, Modern Films and Grasshopper Films. A 2 disk Blu-ray, Fugitive Images: Selected Works, was released by Second Run.

They co-founded the Wayfaring Cinema Collective and cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary The Look of Silence).

Ceri Higgins

2022-10-07 07:06:15 UTC

I’ve had an eclectic and diverse career in TV spanning 40 years, working in UK and Mexico. My programmes and films range across genres and content, from challenging factual productions in high-risk areas, arts and science documentaries for UK channels and telenovelas in Mexico. I’m currently developing projects and pitching to Channel 4, BBC, ITV and streaming channels. My publications include Nuevas perspectivas, a monograph on Gabriel Figueroa and the Mexican film industry and various chapters and articles on Mexican cinema, cinematography and the Gothic

Maria Walsh

2022-10-12 12:06:18 UTC

I am a writer doing research in the fields of artists' moving image and subjectivity with a particular interest in therapeutic forms and structures and how the space of encounter between artwork and audience might generate radical well-being. My recent book Therapeutic Aesthetics focussed on moving image artworks that used discursive performative methods of relaying experience and/or telling stories and I am continuing this research, but would like to shift my focus which is why I am interested in this sandpit. I hope writers are welcome as well as filmmakers.

I am also reviews editor of the moving image journal MIRAJ:

https://www.intellectbooks.com/miraj-the-moving-image-review-art-journal

I am reader in artists' moving image at Chelsea.
Email:
m.walsh@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Polly Nash

2022-10-17 10:32:05 UTC

I have been working part time at LCC since 2003 teaching on and running various practical film making courses. I am a filmmaker/producer with 35 years experience in both independent and mainstream environments.

Prior to, and during my life at the LCC I worked with Spectacle, an award winning independent television production company specialising in documentary, community-led investigative journalism and participatory media.

https://www.spectacle.co.uk/
A few examples of my work at Spectacle
Silwood Video Group
Outside The Law Stories From Guantanamo
Gold
The Bone Orchestra

Between 2012 and 2017 I worked with students volunteers to co ordinate events at The LCC for The Homeless Film Festival, a national festival which couldn't survive without major funding - I am currently working with students and a small grant from LCC KEIF to seek major funding to restart the festival and make it more sustainable.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/homelessfilmfestival/

Vicki Thornton

vthornton8 — 2022-10-17 19:55:02 UTC

I am a visual artist and filmmaker, Programme Director for Photography and Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication.

My work combines documentary and fiction filmmaking approaches to examine relationships between site, collective memory, performance and identity. I hold a PhD in Film Practice from Queen Mary University of London (2025) and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London (2011). My doctoral research, supported by Creative Europe, the British Council in Ukraine, House of Europe, and the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, explored the decolonisation of Ukraine’s politics of memory through documentary and artists’ moving-image practices produced since the Maidan Revolution (2014).

I worked extensively in Ukraine between 2016 and 2022, directing and producing films and other interdisciplinary projects, including co‑directing the musical film performance Antratsyt: Perseverance Day in Kyiv (2021). My work has been screened and exhibited at international festivals and galleries.

https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1881-vicki-thornton

www.vickithornton.com

v.thornton@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Friendred Peng

fpeng3 — 2022-10-18 10:56:03 UTC

I'm an installation and computational artist, researching the intertwined relationship between technology, installation and performance arts in the field of HCI. Previously worked at UCL and Goldsmiths.

My recent work bridges the conversation between movement and algorithmic machines, exploring the sensory apparatus and interactive systems. Through the exploration of technologized elements and societal influences and entangled relationships with other disciplines, my work aims to explore the agency of the technologized body.

I'm always happy to have chat over a coffee, talking about projects and seeking for collabrations. Please feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to meet up (online or inperson).

Recently I have exhibited my work, Moving Photon, at Ugly Duck, an interactive installation/performance exploring embodiment, social connection and remote presence during the age of the pandemic. You can find more info here. I'm also looking to showcase this work somewhere else again, if you do have any recomendations please let me know. 😀

Friendred Peng (He/him)
f.peng@lcc.arts.ac.uk
friendred0@gmail.com

https://friendred.studio/
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Course leader for MA 3D Computer Animation

Thomas Gardner

2022-10-18 11:07:05 UTC

Scored Out. A project to research, realise and publicly stage a sonic performance environment inspired by the complex memories of the town Vasilishok, a Jewish shtetl in Belarus erased by the Nazi’s in 1942. Drawing on a personal archive of correspondence from the village it critically engages with the synagogue tradition of cantillation and pre-20^th century Austro-German music to create hybrid forms of testimony. These re-configure the encounters between the two cultures and, through new listening, mediate the legacy of trauma.

https://www.craft.do/s/uJHp0eCcUU59eX

The ideas stemming from this work are being explored in a wider research project called "Audio Testimonies" which invites participants and collaborators from a wide range of associated fields.

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I am a musician who still plays and reveres the cello , composes, improvises, (painfully programs computers) and does academic research and teaching.

My current interest is in the links between music, field recording and speech, and the ways in which the ruptures of post war art-music are being addressed by an increasingly political understanding of sound art.
My latest paper was "Between listening and sounding: exploring the limits of augmented instruments"
https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ricercare/article/download/7384/5411

I am the course leader of MA Sound Arts and also supervise research students.

Ed Webb-Ingall

2022-10-18 13:44:34 UTC

I am filmmaker and researcher working with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video. I collaborate with groups to explore under-represented historical moments and their relationship to contemporary life, developing modes of self-representation specific to the subject or the experiences of the participants.

In 2019 I worked with Collective Gallery in Edinburgh to develop a new group, which will be led by young people interested in art and questions of representation. I also developed a new video project about direct action in collaboration with Waltham Forest Borough of Culture and Art Night. For the month of October in 2019 I co-curated an exhibtion with LUX in London and the LCVA entitled ‘All you need’s an excuse’. Whilst on residency at Hospitalfield, in autumn 2019 I began work on a new book as part of a Paul Mellon Fellowship with the working title ‘Video Activism Before the Internet’. In 2020, the book was taken up by the BFI/Bloomsbury as part of their Screen Stories series with the title ‘The Story of Video Activism’. Also in 2020/21, I am working with Grand Union, Birmingham, LUX Scotland, Nottingham Contemporary and Rule of Threes, Liverpool on a new project looking at the role of video in response to the housing crisis under the title ‘Forming a Resident’s Association’, which was referenced in Freize Magazine here and here. At the same time, in collaboration with Serptentine Gallery, I am developing a new project with Portman Early Chilhood Centre with the working title ‘Like Coming Home’.

In 2021, Bloomsbury republished the BFI Film Classics ‘Caravaggio’ by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, for which they invited me to write a foreword, reflecting on the film in the context of Jarman’s Life and Work. The Paul Mellon Centre made a video about my research into AIDS activist video, which I aslo presented at the Photographer’s Gallery and at the BFI by the Independent Cinema Office. This same year I started working on the Bexley Three Rivers Project as a critical friend, which is an ongoing project that includes editing a community newspaper, The Bexley Responder, the first edition of which is due for publication in November 2022.

In 2022 I was invited to make a new work for the second edition of the Brent Biennial in collaboration with Mosaic LGBTQ+ Trust. Which has been installed in Wilesden Green Library as a public artwork for the three month duration of the Biennial and it was written about in the Guardian Newspaper.

I am currently developing a short animation project with, from and about people engaging with different forms of activism in response to current housing struggles. The script and characters in the animation are being written with groups and individuals living in various precarious housing situations and resisting the challenges faced in these conditions. The finished video will be made available to housing activist groups and other organisations as a fundraising and discussion tool, raising awareness and making a space to share stories of resilience and solidarity.

Since 2020 I have been a senior lecturer on the BA Film and Screen Studies course at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, where I lead units on Curating, Collaboration and Creative Technologies. I am also currently on the board of Achemy Film and Arts.

Adam Stanovic

2022-10-18 13:52:25 UTC

Hi everyone. I look forward to meeting you all. My name is Adam, and I compose electronic music. Most of what I do involves recorded sound (taken from the world around us) and is music on a fixed-medium (stereo, or multichannel). I have also worked with live-electronics and, crucially, various short films and animations. I'm currently doing the sound design for a feature length film (my first!) but am horribly behind schedule.
I am signed to Canadian Label emprientes DIGITALes, where you can find out more about my music/background: https://electrocd.com/en/artiste/stanovic_ad/adam-stanovic

David Alamouti

2022-10-18 14:31:31 UTC

I make hybrid films- often involving some form of improvisational practices- rooted in communities and (dis)-locations. Through these methods my work critically re-examines filmmaking collaborative practices and traditional hierarchies, and enacts methods that allow differing voices and story forms to emerge.

My work has been commissioned by various organisations and broadcasters such as Al Jazeera, BBC, British Council, Wellcome Trust and BFI. These films have been shown internationally on broadcast and VOD, as well as playing in competition at festivals like Krakow, London International Doc Fest, Jakarta, Big Sky, AM Docs, Utah and Palm Springs. The Night the Wind Blew, a short fiction made in 2018- was nominated for three international awards at Palm Springs.

I am currently in post production on a short experimental hybrid film about loss, told through the perspective of a house plant.

Find out more at: www.davidalamouti.com

Harriet Cox

2022-10-18 20:46:13 UTC

I am excited to be coming to this event - with both those I know and those I have yet to meet.

During the '80s and 90s.I worked in the camera dept of the independent UK film sector with Terence Davies (BFI) Pratibha Parmar Khush (C4) and international drama/documentary films. For family reasons, I moved to work in a film school before arriving at LCC/UAL a few years ago. Current interest: sustainable film practice/s.

Lana Locke

llocke8 — 2022-10-18 22:29:32 UTC

I am an artist practising in installation, sculpture, video and painting. I am interested in the 'feral' – out of place, between the wild and the civilised - in the context of our current political and ecological predicament. I seek to reclaim the feral to undermine distinctions of racial, gendered and social privilege; and human and non-human needs in terms of the precarious ecology of the planet. Having completed my PhD at Chelsea College of Arts in 2018, I see my primary research outputs since then as having been through video, but am still struggling to frame and showcase them as such. I am a Senior Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts. Vimeo profile: https://vimeo.com/user57877946

Fotis Begklis

2022-10-19 09:01:12 UTC

Hi everyone. I look forward to meeting you all today. My name is Fotis, and I’m an educator and independent filmmaker. My core specialisation is post-production. I have built up a body of work making and editing short documentaries and personal film projects. I love working with local communities and music projects and have worked with various underrepresented groups and voices. I completed my practice-led PhD this year, and my main research areas are essayistic filmmaking, online media and filmmaking practices, practice-led research and film montage. However, I’m very interested in collaborating on community projects, even though this is not my core research area, but mainly my filmmaking practice.

Gabriela Tropia

2022-10-19 12:21:55 UTC

Hi everyone!
Thank you for the invitation to this event! I'm a new member of staff at UAL (started this last August), so it's great to be able to meet you.
My practice is in screendance (dance films) and my research lies at the intersections between film, choreography and performance. I'm the course leader for the new MA Performance: Screen at CSM. Before joining UAL, I worked at London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), where I created the MA Screendance.
In 2014 I directed Under the Cobblestones, a 20-minute film about freedom of speech and protest, in collaboration with choreographers Igor & Moreno and musician Bellatrix. The film was screened at the Cinedans Festival Amsterdam and awarded at Passion for Freedom Arts Festival London.

I have also created numerous dance shorts, such as Units of Action (which has been screened in many film festivals) and Tableleg (a film I directed and performed in, which has been shown at Sadlers Wells Theatre). I have been commissioned twice by T.H.E Company and the National Museum of Singapore.

Lately I've been investigating what an improvised filmmaking practice could look like. For this Jam Series, I took part in dance improvisation sessions, and shot and edited improvised films within a strict and limited timeframe of 2 hours. This resulted in 13 short films.
I really need to work on a new website (long overdue) but for now you can see some of my work on Vimeo. For example Under the Cobblestones' trailer (password "under")
Some of the Jam Series films:
Jam #11 and Jam #7
(password "marmelade")
See you soon!
Gabi

Rosa-Johan Uddoh

2022-10-19 12:22:13 UTC

I'm an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by Black feminist practice and writing.

Through live performance, film, writing and multi-media installation, I explore places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and their effects on self-formation. I'm particularly interested in how Black identity is formed through performance - what performances are we allowed to do, expected to do, what performances do we lean into or away from, at which times. To investigate this I take an irreverent and interdisciplinary approach to performance mashing together art, music, sport and everyday performance traditions, blurring the line between script and improvisation and using humour and play to reach a variety of audiences and unlock multiple levels of meaning.

Collaboration is key to my work, often working together with children, activists and other artists to explore themes that impact our communities and share knowledge. Most recently I've collaborated with: community TV collective East London Cable, Chicken Nuggie Collective (a group of 7 thirteen Yr olds from Chase High School, Southend), and women, trans and non-binary grassroots footballers.

bio:

Rosa is a lecturer in Ba Performance: Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins. This year she has been shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2022 for her film making practice. She was a finalist for Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2021. Rosa was the Liverpool Biennial and John Moores University Fellow 2018-2019, was the Stuart Hall Library Resident for 2020 and a Sarabande: Lee Alexander Mc Queen Scholar 2016-19. Her work has been profiled in international publications including Art Monthly, The New York Times and Nordic Art Review. Her first book Practice Makes Perfect was published by Book Works and Focal Point Gallery in 2022.

Rosajohanuddoh.com

Angus Carlyle

2022-10-19 12:50:13 UTC

Angus Carlyle teaches MA, BA and PhD students at LCC.

He studied law as an undergraduate, completed a Masters in political theory and a Doctorate on the conditions of vocalised political exchange. His two most recently published chapters have focused on soundmaps and the idea of sonic wilderness. His extended essay on acoustic camouflage will be published in an Urbanomic book in Autumn 2022. With Professor Cathy Lane, he co-wrote the oral histories In the Field (2013) and Sound arts now (2021) and co-organised the first three Sound Gender Feminism Activism conferences.

His creative work shifts between a documentary impulse and a more poetic register, it deploys text, photography and compositions based on field recording and often involves working with others. In 2021 and 2022, his experimental writings were published by JOAN, Hotel, KIOSK,
Vanguard, Onomatopee and Gruenrekorder. His project "Miasma of Decay" keeps being rejected by poetry publishers.

Air Pressure (2011 – 2013) was a collaboration with anthropologist Rupert Cox, as was Zawawa (2011 – ongoing). Both projects address auditory lives under civilian and military flight paths in situations where the echoes of history are palpable. With Cox, he co-created films, installations and compositions alongside scholarly and diaristic texts, such as those combined in the forthcoming Archive Books publication (2022).

In a collaborative, transdisciplinary project called Arctic Auditories, Angus is working with Katrin Losleben, Za Barron, Britta Sweers and Paula Mikalsen to explore what sounding bodies of water can reveal about environmental conditions in the High North.

Daniel Saul

dsaul3 — 2022-10-19 13:14:30 UTC

Senior lecturer BA Animation LCC - filmmaker artist working with socially engaged, multi-media projects.

I have worked in Animation Film Television and Theatre and am interested in collaborative cross-discipline projects that aim to tackle social issues with science.

For the last 5 years have run a production company with my creative partner Rachel Davies; R&D Studio, http://www.rachelanddaniel.co/

Our recent projects have included a collaboration with Indian space engineers TeamIndus and Bangalore based dancer Hemabharathy Palani on a series of films and performances about sending a female rover to the surface of the moon.

A film theatre collaboration with Manchester's Quarantine theatre on their 6-hour epic performance about the human life cycle, "Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring."

A collaboration with Queen Mary University London and Tower Hamlets charity Social Action for Health about Covid Vaccine Hesitancy and trust within our local communities.

Kate Iles

2022-10-19 13:15:20 UTC

I am a former Film and TV industry professional working across scripted and non scripted content for organisations including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and the UK Film Council. I ran an independent production company, Compulsive Viewing Ltd for many years and have also worked as script consultant with a number of writers and directors. I'm currently working with a Swedish screenwriter, Henning Koch, in developing a high end, historically inspired TV series about the origins of the LA PD called Bloodlands.

Martin Percy

2022-10-19 13:25:39 UTC

Interactive film director. Directed CLIMATE EMERGENCY INTERACTIVE with a collaborative group of UAL students and staff. BAFTA/Emmy/8xWebby winner.

Mark Peter Wright

2022-11-09 13:52:30 UTC

http://markpeterwright.net/

Acting course leader on the BA Sound Arts, teaching and supervising on MA and PhDs. Member of CRiSAP. Research fuses practice with critical theory to explore the relationships between sound, technology, environments and more-than-human phenomena. This set of relations is approached iteratively across publication (book, journals, media), practice (exhibition, radio, performance) and pedagogy (teaching, workshops, labs). As part of my practice I collaborate, a lot! One of these collaborations is called Matterlurgy and often attends to the 'filmic form' with projects blending documentary, sensory and performative cinematic modes. You can watch a film about a Sea Ice Simulator here for example: https://www.watermans.org.uk/gallery/rehearsals-for-uncertain-futures/

Nicola McCartney, CSM

nmccartney3 — 2023-04-24 07:41:08 UTC

I'm a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies but trying to meet and learn from those outside of my background in visual arts/fine art etc. I'm currently working and researching within something I've called Animal Drag. Happy to share more for anyone interested.

Richard Hewett

rhewett2 — 2023-06-28 10:38:58 UTC

I'm an academic researcher specialising in screen performance.

Following completion of my PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2012, I published a book version, The Changing Spaces of Television Acting, with MUP in 2017. I am currently working on a second monograph, Fantastic Acting in Science Fiction Television, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. I was awarded a research sabbatical by UAL in 2025 to compete the draft manuscript.

My research methodology typically combines original interviews with creatives and archival research with close textual analysis.

Other areas on which I have published include adaptation (the challenges of putting Sherlock Holmes on BBC Television), narrative (character agency in early Doctor Who), sound design (use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound in Inspector Morse), comedy studies (the changing screen dynamic of Morecambe and Wise) and medium specificity (how the radio version of Star Wars expands upon and complements the film original).

In addition to various chapters in edited collections, I have contributed peer-reviewed journal articles to The Journal of British Cinema and Television, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Critical Studies in Television, Adaptation, Comedy Studies and SERIES - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives. Papers include a keynote at the University of York and a presentation at the Screen Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow.

r.hewett@lcc.arts.ac.uk

David McGowan

2023-11-23 14:57:23 UTC

I'm a scholarly researcher, teaching at LCC as a Lecturer in the Contextual and Theoretical Studies of Animation.

Despite my specialism in animation, my research interests extend to all screen media. I studied Film and Television Studies at BA and MA at the University of Warwick, and completed my PhD at Loughborough University in 2012. I expanded my thesis into a book, Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts, published by University of Texas Press in 2019 (and available to read physically and digitally via the UAL library!). The book reads cartoon protagonists through the prism of star studies, and considers the history and aesthetics of the American film and television industry from the early 1900s to the present day. The work crosses many of the boundaries of film theory, offering innovative takes on concepts such as cinematic ontology, auteurism, stardom, and production theory.

My publications elsewhere - mostly available at https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/2140-david-mcgowan/publications - aim to be similarly mutlidisciplinary, covering the convergence of cinema and other forms of media, including videogames and social media. I am particularly interested in the intersection of film and home video, with my most recent article on the subject - 'Cinephilia, Take Three?: Availability, Reliability, and Disenchantment in the Streaming Era' - being published in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (as well as being presented at a recent Sonic Screen event).

Richard Whitby

2024-05-08 09:11:09 UTC

I'm an artist working mostly in video and music, sometimes performance. I use DIY approaches to occasion collaborations and conversations; the work I'm still most proud of was a commission for Jerwood FVU in 2019, 'The Lost Ones', about the hostile environment.

I teach creative research at Wimbledon and I have another role at Ravensbourne mostly in film.

My PhD was on the 'Arena Spectacular', which are examples of live adaptations of screen narratives, in large arenas, which I discussed as part of a specifically post-cinematic and postcivil urban context.

I'm trying currently to expand that research with more recent examples, including 'free your mind', a live dance version of the Matrix, which to represents (a rather weak) part of the cultural response to "AI".

Joe Jackson

2025-03-31 16:00:17 UTC

I'm Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media: Multimedia Production at LCC.

My debut book – Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art (2024) – is out now with Bloomsbury Academic (and was recently awarded Best First Monograph: Runner Up 2025 by BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies).

I'm a member of LCC's Digital Economies and Cultures Research Hub as well as the Sonic Screen Lab. Since 2019, I have also been a member of the Screen Worlds collective (a project funded by the European Research Council, hosted at SOAS, University of London).

I'm working on a new book-length project about representations of austerity in contemporary British music videos.

For more information about my research, check out www.josephowenjackson.com or feel free to drop me a message at j.jackson@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Dominica Harrison

2025-09-26 15:33:40 UTC

In Dominica's practice as an independent visual artist, she exercises play as the main approach to creating work. Her work helps her to remain curious and open towards the world and its turbulences. Dominica is interested in storytelling as a mechanism of learning and social change. She draws back from the old forms of storytelling – the myths, the legends, the songs, and the cosmogonies.

Dominica has been working across the mediums of animation, printmaking, and performance since 2016. Her previous films have explored themes of connectivity and the subconscious, often through a poetic, abstract approach to storytelling; allowing the work to be accessible to a wider audience.

I have been teaching since 2019, working predominantly across different UAL institutions, as well as in Manchester Metropolitan University. This year I have been awarded an ECR status in UAL. I am currently a lecturer for MA Animation (Online).

My current research centres on more-than-human perspectives and animistic approaches to the environment, considering how animation can foster new ways of relating to the natural world. I am particularly interested in the intersections of ritual and animation, exploring how contemplative practices can inform processes of making and viewing. A key strand of this research investigates sustainable approaches to analogue animation and printmaking, examining how texture, materiality, and unpredictability can become active agents within the creative process.

Project Sample:

Re-Mind (in development): A short film exploring science, spirituality, and identity through the perspective of an omnipresent more-than-human observer. Produced by Animate Projects and supported by BFI Short Film Fund.
In the Garden (ongoing): Part of the Anima Mundi comic and animation anthology, this collaborative project brings together artists and academics to animate more-than-human perspectives through print, sound, and storytelling. Production supported with research funding from London College of Communication and Manchester Metropolitan University. https://www.nicaharrison.com/#/anima-mundi-in-the-garden/
Chado (past): A BAFTA-longlisted short film combining digital animation with Risograph printmaking, evoking memory, transformation, and childhood summers in the Russian wilderness. Produced by Animate Projects and co-produced by Blind Pig, with support from BFI Network. https://www.nicaharrison.com/#/chado/
Seek and Hide (past): A multimedia installation performance combining animation, contemporary dance and music exploring the theme of illusion, empathy through the use of improvisation. Created in collaboration with Kim Noce and Anna Spink. https://www.nicaharrison.com/comissions#/seek-and-hide/

I love to play together with other creatives - if you are interested in collaboration please send me a message!

Further links:

Website: https://www.nicaharrison.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicaharrison/

Email: effyharr@gmail.com

UAL email: d.harrison@lcc.arts.ac.uk

gramirez103 — 2025-10-01 08:26:14 UTC

Gracia Ramirez

I am a Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at LCC. I am interested on the intersections between aesthetics and history. I have published a book on the history of American experimental and independent cinema funding during the Cold War and several articles on art and media in urban spaces, propaganda, the representation of history in 1930s news documentaries, found footage and essay films.

I have carried out research at several archives and institutions in the U.S. and Europe and I am interested in the encounter between the archival record and oral history. I publish art criticism and have written texts for exhibition catalogues. I also have a creative practice using mixed media. Lately I have been mixing textiles and papers to create tapestries and artist books.

My most recent research delves into the production history of a European art film which adapted the postcolonial novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold". The aim is to explore the connections between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean through locations, cinema and memory. I have also been writing about the in/visibilization of colonial violence in history textbooks and ways of imagining environmental beauty and violence in the Caribbean that transcends the tropicalising gaze.

Additionally, I am interested in the work of Jo Ann Kaplan, whose archive is a recent addition to the LCC Archives and Special Collections.

https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/2004-gracia-ramirez

Tobi Palma Stade

tpalmastade1 — 2025-10-01 10:09:55 UTC

Hi everyone! I'm Tobi, a Chilean-Italian away from home and trying to thrive in this wild island drifting in the sea. I'm a filmmaker, writer, photographer, and scholar, Lecturer in Multimedia Production at the Comms & Media programme at LCC.

I've just joined the Sonic Screen Lab, looking forward to collaborate with other creators and researchers. I'm currently working on the concept of meta-spectatorship to analyse how digital technologies and devices operate as prosthesis and affect spectatorship and the bodily relationship with content, and I hope to eventually create something in relation to this.

When I'm not thinking about work, I also like to play the bass, read fiction and graphic novels, and watching films, obviously.

Pratap Rughani

2025-10-20 10:28:35 UTC

Hi - great to be part of Sonic Screen Lab. I'm Professor of Documentary Practices - the current focus of my writing/practice/thinking is in how to develop narratives that can navigate highly polarised situations (including the sudden resurgence of the hard right) and in the wake of conflict, with my forthcoming film "Impossible Conversations". Podcast on the new film here:

https://arts.umich.edu/creative-currents/s3e3

Short film on my approach here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DYn8xOA_N0

Fuller profile here:

https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/857-prat%C4%81p-rughani

Kate Stonehill

sonicscreenlab — 2026-01-21 15:06:43 UTC

Hi, I'm a StoryArcs Fellow, currently hosted at the Sonic Screen Lab at UAL for 2025-6. My background is as a documentary filmmaker and researcher exploring questions of power and citizenship in the digital age, investigating the technologies and systems that shape our lives. As well as engaging critically with the social and political impacts of new technologies, I am invested in using technology to adopt innovative visual approaches to documentary storytelling, experimenting with software and digital tools in nonfiction contexts. During my time at Sonic Screen Lab, I'm working on a research project investigating the use of creatives’ work as training data for image- based generative AI tools.

Website: https://kstonehill.com/

https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/3431-kate-stonehill

fpeng3 — 2026-03-10 11:29:18 UTC

Friendred Peng

Dr. Friendred Peng is the Course Leader and senior lecturer for MA 3D Computer Animation at London College of Communication. He is an award winning installation and computational artist based in London, and the founder and director of STUDIO FRIENDRED.

Friendred has held academic roles across several universities, including UAL Online, UCL Institute of Education and Goldsmiths. He holds a PhD researching the relationship between technology, installation and performance in human computer interaction. He also supervises doctoral researchers and has supported PhD work across institutions such as UCL and UAL.

Friendred’s work explores the intersections of art, technology and science, with a focus on performative interaction, sensory and immersive experience, AI and interactive space. His collaborative work with Turner Prize winner Oscar Murillo led to an AI animated film exhibited at Taka Ishii Gallery in Kyoto and Das Minsk, Germany.

He is an active contributor to international research communities. He has delivered invited talks and keynotes at events including TEDx Amsterdam, the Art of Neuroscience Symposium, the University of Maryland, Keio University and UKRI AHRC events, and has presented at conferences such as UbiComp ISWC, MOCO and EVA London.

Friendred has also taken on leadership roles as Installation Co Chair for the Audio Mostly international conference, Demo Co Chair for the Augmented Humans conference, panel Chair for SAC and panel chair at the Ne Zha 2 UK film premiere, contributing to peer review and the curation of creative and computational research.

His work has been featured by Wallpaper, DesignBoom and CreativeApplications, and recognised through awards including the Oppo Renovator Award, the Da Shi Award and the Warden’s Public Engagement Award. He has exhibited internationally, including Tate Britain, the Design Museum, the Crypt Gallery, Furtherfiled and festivals including Dutch Design Week and the London Design Festival.