Department of Art and Media Technology

Winchester School of Art degree show exhibitions, private views and open houses offer graduates the opportunity to share their vision and showcase their skills to artists, academics, professionals and employers in their field. It’s an important event whether they’re continuing their studies at the postgraduate level or moving into industry.

The degree shows are also a chance to celebrate landmark personal achievement alongside friends and family.

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We use research to contribute to solutions for current crises, as well to make the most of opportunities for positive change. Research enables us to contribute individually and collectively to a wider economy of ideas. 

We nurture our community of researchers, past and present, who work collectively to better understand the world and reimagine it as more equitable, just and beneficial for all species inhabiting it.

We have internationally renowned scholars in:

• artistic practice
• history and theory
• media
• curating
• gaming
• creative computing
• arts leadership
• critical technology studies

Students at all levels benefit from this research environment, which includes PhD students conducting their own research and contributing to the department’s intellectual community of practice.

We are members of the Creative Network South Research Alliance which brings together: 

• University of Southampton 
• Solent University 
• University of Portsmouth 
• University of Winchester 

Research leadership

We’re an active department, editing a number of journals and book series.

• Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé is the editor of the online journal Genealogy of the Posthuman.
• Dr Alessandro Ludovico is the editor of Neural.
• Professor Ryan Bishop is the editor of the Cultural Politics journal, and the Cultural Politics book series.
• Professor Ryan Bishop and Professor Jussi Parikka edit the book series Technicities.
• Professor Louise Siddons is on the editorial board of American Art Journal.

We are also regular contributors to the annual Transmediale festival which is a leading digital art and culture event.
 

Workshops

Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé has been running creative workshops as part of the Speculative Space of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums project. The workshops explore the critical ground that exists between science fiction and gallery, library, archive and museum spaces and collections.

Dr Emma Reay has set of a series of workshops in collaboration with ‘A Good Death?', a research group based at the University of Cambridge. The workshops bring together game designers and death-adjacent practitioners, such as doctors, bereavement counsellors or headstone engravers to facilitate better conversations about death and dying.

Books

In their book, Dr Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince explore Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. They offer an alternative view to the current trend of viewing these interactions primarily through conflict.

In her book Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon, Professor Louise Siddons examines lesbian photographer Laura Gilpin’s classic 1968 book The Enduring Navaho. Questioning the limits of political solidarity, she investigates the politics of Navajo sovereignty and queerness over the course of the 20th century and asks how visual culture contributes to social change.

In the Petrified Media project, Dr Stephen Cornford explores electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record. By applying the techniques of geology to a hypothetical technofossil, the work imagines a future where discarded technologies become part of the planet’s geology.

Exhibitions

Professor Jussi Parikka is involved with the Climate Engines exhibition. This features artistic projects that address climate change and environmental justice. The works range from media arts, gaming, to video art, installation, and photography. It includes a new piece commissioned as part of the WSA and Potsdam University project Weather Reports.

Videos and games

Dr Vanissa Wanick has been working on a number of projects within the theme of applied games and playful design for social good and education. Demoplay is a hybrid roleplaying game for participatory budgeting. Plausible Futures is a boardgame which looks at how games can elicit conversations about inequalities. Healthy Ageing is a digital game which aims to raise awareness of dementia risks.

Commissioned by Cinema Rediscovered, ‘Bushman (Reassembled)’ is a video essay on David Schickele’s 1971 lost film Bushman. Dr Kwame Phillips remixed, recut and reassembled its dialogue and footage to accentuate the film’s discussion of othering and belonging.