Blog

  • Fake?

    CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells continues his (academic) interest in art forgery with a review of Shaun Greenhalgh’s autobiography: A Forger’s Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger in The Times Higher Education. Greenhalgh is self-taught man… Read more

  • Welcome New Visiting Scholar

    We are delighted to Amanda Lagerkvist as Visiting Scholar a CMCI. Amanda is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies and a fellow of the Wallenberg Academy in Sweden. Describing herself as a “media phenomenologist”,… Read more

  • On the Road and On the Air: A Vision for Women and Virtual Reality

    Our Head of Department, Dr Sarah Atkinson, has been on the road and on the air talking about her research on gender and the virtual reality industry. Funded by the Canadian-backed Refiguring Innovation in Games… Read more

  • It’s A Wrap

    CMCI’s Professor Jeanette Steemers reports two reports, wrapping up her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project “Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue”, which has now officially reached completion. Working… Read more

  • “For someone who doesn’t much like camping…”

    It’s not always obvious what CMCI people do when they are not at work. This blog does not seek to pry into their private lives…. but we can reveal that our programme administrator Rebecca Whitaker… Read more

  • McMillan on Nolan

    CMCI’s Dr Kate McMillan appears in a new television documentary on the Australian artist Sidney Nolan. Made by ABC in Australia, it explores and celebrates the work of one of the country’s best-known artists, proceeding… Read more

  • CMCI Student Opens Art Gallery in Milan

    There cannot be too many PhD students who are combining their studies with opening their own art gallery, but step forward CMCI’s Tommaso Calabro! Tomasso (pictured) has marked the opening of his new gallery in… Read more

  • Alien Beauty

    CMCI’s Dr Ruth Adams is quoted in an i-D magazine article: “Why is Everyone Obsessed with Alien Beauty: And is it a New Kind of Subculture?” Here, journalist Clementine de Pressigny argues that: “beauty today… Read more

  • “Achtung – Mind the Gap”

    We are delighted to share some pictures and a video from Dr Kate McMillan’s commissioned work for the XXIV Rohkunstbau Festival at Schloss Leiberose, Germany. Her Instructions for Another Future (my feet are ears), 2018,… Read more

  • New Book from Leung Wing-Fai

    Congratulations to CMCI’s Dr Leung Wing-Fai on the e-publication of her new book: Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality: An East Asian Perspective. Her book is the result of qualitative research focusing on Internet start-ups, digital entrepreneurship,… Read more