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VRG - Visual Research Group
The Visual Research Group (VRG) includes staff engaged in the production, critical appraisal and curating of visual artefacts and in research more appropriately pursued and evaluated by established art and design methods. It was originally established by staff to support their art practice through critiques, exhibitions and other events and has since expanded to include supervision and support for practice related PhD research.
Members and some interests of the VRG form intersections with the Media School's Experimental Media Research Group (Emerge) and the co-lab.
Current VRG members are drawn from the NCCA and other areas of the Media School:
Stephen Bell, Paula Callus, Lucy Childs, Daniel Cox, Peter Hardie, Steve Harper, Vicky Isley, Claudia Moore, Ingrid Morrison, Evangelina Sirgado de Sousa, Susan Sloan, Paul Smith, Lizzie Sykes, Neal White, Rezah Yousefzadeh, Rehan Zia
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Exhibitions, Festivals and other Events
Members of the group have exhibited work in galleries, at festivals, online and in other venues.
You can find out about individual staff on the NCCA A-Z of people page or search the BU Staff Profiles -
Lizzie Sykes
Lizzie is an artist who makes moving image works exploring the physicality of camera in relation to location, audience and performance with dancers, landscape and sound. To realise her work she sometimes makes special cameras.In Movement in Location (May 2012) she is the first artist to exploit the newly digitally enabled Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge UK, designing movement across multiple screens and projections over 3 levels of the gallery. -
Steve Harper
Whether it is London, Palestine, Dorset, or anywhere else, Steve's work often reveals the unusual in the otherwise disregarded, embodying in the composition of his work both profound beauty seen in small things and the small beauty seen in profound things.Steve's photography can be seen on flickr here. -
boredomresearch
Vicky Isley and Paul Smith are Research Fellows at the NCCA. Their work has been exhibited internationally and online. See their website for details of their previous work and current projects. -
Visiting Fellow Peter Hardie
A founder member of the NCCA and the first director of the VRG, Peter Hardie is now a Visiting Fellow. Falling Water is an example of his work from 2007. Find out more about his recent work on his website.
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PhD Success for Yasumiko Lo-Garry
A BU bursary enabled Miko's research which resulted in her thesis Critical Computer Animation: An Examination of 'Practice as Research' & its Reflection and Review processes which can be downloaded from her personal website here (select download in bottom right of the page that opens). Supervisors were Steve Bell, Susan Sloan and Steve Harper -
ISEA 2011
Work by Peter Hardie, Vicky Isley,Susan Sloan and Paul Smith was exhibited in the Uncontainable: Broken Stillness exhibition from 14-21 September 2011 as part of ISEA 2011 Istanbul. Broken Stiilness was originally exhibited in Salisbury.
Vicky, Susan and Paul took part in the panel Data Disinformation on 15th September.