Besides the Screen Network
Lead Research Organisation:
Coventry University
Department Name: Art and Design
Abstract
The main aim of the Besides the Screen Network is to reconfigure the field of screen studies by refocusing it on those objects, processes and practices that exist besides the screen. Thus, the area of enquiry is broad and aims to bring together questions regarding institutional processes of distribution, marketing and exhibition within enquiries into practices of projection, archiving and curating with new methods of research such as media archaeology. Thus, the aim is to open film and screen studies up to new methods and objects, as well as intensifying the dialogue with other disciplines and practices. In doing so, the Besides the Screen network attempts to understand the continuing transformation of audiovisual media practices. Through workshops, symposia and conference sessions the network will forge links between academics, artists and professionals to refocus film and screen studies on those objects and practices that exist besides the Screen
The project aims to explore the shifting practices and cultures of different forms and events of cinema that exist beside and between screens. In particular it intends to break and reframe the traditional understanding of cinema as collective experience and its institutionalized framework of distributing, displaying and working with images that move. In a constant ever-changing field of audiovisual practices, the network aims to create a new area of research that expands upon and sheds light on processes largely ignored from traditional film and screen studies. The project intends to explore new threads of connections, debate and collaborations within a network of participants, such as students, academics, artists, media labs, and cultural institutions.
Research will be disseminated through workshops, seminars and performances from May 2014 - April 2016. There will also be a dedicated BtSN website where network members can access details about the network's research activities.
The project aims to explore the shifting practices and cultures of different forms and events of cinema that exist beside and between screens. In particular it intends to break and reframe the traditional understanding of cinema as collective experience and its institutionalized framework of distributing, displaying and working with images that move. In a constant ever-changing field of audiovisual practices, the network aims to create a new area of research that expands upon and sheds light on processes largely ignored from traditional film and screen studies. The project intends to explore new threads of connections, debate and collaborations within a network of participants, such as students, academics, artists, media labs, and cultural institutions.
Research will be disseminated through workshops, seminars and performances from May 2014 - April 2016. There will also be a dedicated BtSN website where network members can access details about the network's research activities.
Planned Impact
The Besides the Screen network would achieve impact through a series of workshops, symposia, screenings, post-screening discussions, facilitated networking opportunities & the BtSN website, twitter feed and interactive forum. It is expected that new and established artists working with screen-based media would be utilize these various opportunities able to present and engage in discussion of their work through participation in the screenings, performances and associated discussions facilitated by the Besides the Screen Network. It is also anticipated that small/medium sized distributors and exhibitors of experimental screen based media would reach new audiences, artists and potential collaborators through the events associated with the Besides the Screen network. Furthermore, the symposia, discussions and website would allow space for discussion of how traditional practices of dissemination might be expanded upon and developed, thus enabling artists and professionals to push forward the boundaries of their respective fields.
There will be an emphasis on collaboration with non-academic partners within the Besides the Screen network. Existing UK partner organizations currently include Bitniks (www.bitnik.org), a media collective investigating digital and analog media and the impact they have on society; Deckspace (http://dek.spc.org), a media lab based in South London; and Exploding Cinema (http://www.explodingcinema.org/) a coalition of film/video makers who seek to develop new modes of exhibition for underground media. It is intended that through collaborative practical workshops, performances and screenings these partner organizations will be brought into contact with each other, and the wider group of artists and academics that make up the BtSN to discuss and challenge traditional methods of production, distribution and exhibition of audiovisual material.
It is planned that this broad range of activities will encourage participation and engagement between the academic and non-academic members of the network and will act as a focal point to exchange ideas developed during the earlier symposia and workshops.
It is the intention of the BtSN that all network events will be held at a variety of venues and videos will be made available through the BtSN website (where appropriate) so as to encourage the engagement of as wide an audience as possible with the aims and discussions of the network. By bringing the discussion online, and to other venues outside of academic institutions, it is hoped that the BtSN will continue to develop links and remove barriers to discussion between academics, artists and professionals involved with those myriad practices of projection, exhibition, distribution, marketing (to name but a few) that exist besides the screen.
There will be an emphasis on collaboration with non-academic partners within the Besides the Screen network. Existing UK partner organizations currently include Bitniks (www.bitnik.org), a media collective investigating digital and analog media and the impact they have on society; Deckspace (http://dek.spc.org), a media lab based in South London; and Exploding Cinema (http://www.explodingcinema.org/) a coalition of film/video makers who seek to develop new modes of exhibition for underground media. It is intended that through collaborative practical workshops, performances and screenings these partner organizations will be brought into contact with each other, and the wider group of artists and academics that make up the BtSN to discuss and challenge traditional methods of production, distribution and exhibition of audiovisual material.
It is planned that this broad range of activities will encourage participation and engagement between the academic and non-academic members of the network and will act as a focal point to exchange ideas developed during the earlier symposia and workshops.
It is the intention of the BtSN that all network events will be held at a variety of venues and videos will be made available through the BtSN website (where appropriate) so as to encourage the engagement of as wide an audience as possible with the aims and discussions of the network. By bringing the discussion online, and to other venues outside of academic institutions, it is hoped that the BtSN will continue to develop links and remove barriers to discussion between academics, artists and professionals involved with those myriad practices of projection, exhibition, distribution, marketing (to name but a few) that exist besides the screen.
Publications
Azevedo, P
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Balsom, E
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Blazic, L
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Connoly, S
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Crisp, V
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Cubitt, S
(2016)
Cinema apesar da imagem
Haritou, S
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Lautenschlaeger, G
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Leblanc P B
(2016)
Cinema Apesar da Imagem
Meili, A
(2016)
Cinema apesar da imagem
| Title | Exhibition of Artists' works at The Box, FarGo Village, Coventry, UK in association with the Geometry/Image/Performance conference at Coventry University. |
| Description | Interprojection: 2-channel video projection - Tobias Gaede, Brazil, 2015 By the means of distorting and superposing two images projected against each other, the work produces a geometric composition that deals with the very act of generating images using RGB video channels. Tobias Gaede is a founding member of the Projeto Balbucio arts collective. He works as cultural producer at the Art Institute of the University of Ceará, Brazil, and is a researcher at the Body, Communication and Arts Laboratory at the same institution. He holds a BA in Social Communication and a MA in Photography and Audiovisual Media. Tobias has shown his work in academic and art venues such as Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), EmMeio#7.0 (Portugal), Asociación Cultural Pluton.cc (Spain), The ANNEX Art Social Space (US), Project Space Kleiner Salon (Germany), Festival Palco Giratório, Bienal de Dança do Ceará, Performa 09 and 11, Centro Cultural do Banco do Nordeste, DeVerCidade, among others. The Trembling Giant: 19'33" digital video - Patrick Tarrant, UK, 2015 The Trembling Giant is an experimental nature documentary that remediates the iconic landscape of the American south-west by filming through the take-up reel of a 16mm film projector. While we do not see the 16mm films playing on the projector, they nonetheless leave their trace as their passage through the mechanism warps the space in front of the camera, much as their small audio dramas warp our reading of the landscape. The Trembling Giant is also the name of a clonal colony of quaking aspen tree in Fish Lake Utah which, having survived for sixty thousand years, is now under threat. Thought to be the largest living organism in the world, this aspen colony is also known as Pando (Latin for 'I Spread') and is capable of putting up genetically identical stems from its single, vast root system. The bark of the quaking aspen tree provides one of the 38 Bach flower remedies and is thought to be the cure for any fear whose cause can't be named. This film is haunted by just such fears. Patrick Tarrant is a filmmaker and lecturer at London South Bank University who has written on the portrait films of Pedro Costa (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?) and Ben Rivers (Two Years At Sea). Patrick's films have screened most recently at the London, Melbourne and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. When a Circle Meets the Sky: 4'20' digital video - Carla Chan, Hong Kong, 2012/2016 This work reflects on the intriguing relationships among nature, technology and human agency. The video was shot in the Mojave Desert, USA (2012), and Melchsee-Frutt, Switzerland (2016), with the aid of a custom-made weathervane that captured reflections of a mirror determined by wind speed and direction at the location. Conventional cinema is a unidirectional medium in which only things in the front will be captured. In this video, the camera looks both forward and backward simultaneously. Instead of a cameraperson selecting our perspectives, the artist allows the wind to choose our views. Nature shoots a film with no human interaction and presence, intensifying the isolation of the remote desert while at the same time complicating our expected relationships among nature, technology and human participation in the process of artistic creation. Carla Chan is a media artist based in Berlin and Hong Kong, where she obtained her bachelor degree in Media Arts from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She works with a variety of media, such as video, installation, photography and interactive media. Much like the never-ending development of new technology, Chan considers media art as a medium with infinite possibilities for artistic expressions. Minimal in style and form, Chan's works often toy with the blurred boundaries between reality and illusion, figure and abstraction. Her recent practice focuses on the ambiguity in nature. Bridging natural transformation and unpredictable computer algorithms, her works are consolidated with a cohesive dynamic between form, means and content. Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace: 4' digital video - Apotropia, Italy, 2016 "Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace" takes inspiration from the concept of emotional memory, depicting the encounter of two lovers in a liminal dimension, a place where movements preserve the memory of the past and create a synthesis of the entire action. The work has been created with a mix of body projection, light painting, real time randomization and CGI animation techniques. APOTROPIA is a duo based in Rome, Italy, consisting of dancer/media artist Antonella Mignone and artist/composer Cristiano Panepuccia. Their work explores the interconnections between performing arts and all forms of audiovisual expressions. Their artworks have been showcased in many museums and festivals including Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center in Tokyo, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, WRO Media Art Biennale, ART.FAIR Blooom Award, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Bienal Videofest 2k14, VEA - International Biennial of Video Art and Animation, Notes from Light Music: 12' B&W 16mm film converted to digital - Lis Rhodes, UK, 1975-1977 (2014) A compressed, single-screen version of Rhodes' famous fusion of optical sound and image Light Music. The 'score' is divided into five movements characterised by their differing duration, pitch and accent of sounds Lis Rhodes is a British artist and feminist filmmaker, known for her density, concentration, and articulate sense of poetry in her visual works. She has been active in the UK since the early 1970s. How to watch Vertical Video: 7'32" digital video - Aram Bartholl & Robert Sakrowski, Germany, 2013 A tutorial made on the occasion of the Vertical Cinema screening organized by Aram Bartholl and curatingyoutube.net at Kunsthalle Platoon Berlin. Architecture is vertical. Books are vertical. The whole Internet is vertical. All phones today are made to be used vertical. Mankind took millions of years to learn to walk on two feet!! Vertical video is the new standard and redefines the moving image. Aram Bartholl is a Berlin-based conceptual artist known for his examination of the relationship between the digital and physical world. Robert Sakrowski is CuratingYouTube.net, a label that comprises a variety of projects employing curating as a technique of action, used as a means of orientation and to position itself in the web 2.0 phenomena by artistic strategies. Dimensioning n.1: 50" 360 degree digital video presented on Google Cardboard - Chiara Passa, Italy 2016 Dimensioning n.1 shows a space made by the pure shape of intuition - just a 'dimensioning' space in continuous transformation. Part of Live Architectures, a series of digital artworks that reconsider architecture as a living and vibrant entity. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | These works were exhibited at The Box, FarGo village, Coventry, UK. FarGo village is a creative space within central Coventry that combines retail, office, entertainment and studio spaces. Presenting this work in such a venue helped to support the cultural development of Coventry city centre. As a small city in the Midlands, Coventry has limited appeal as a host city for international arts events. By enabling this exhibition of artists' moving image work from around the work to come to Coventry, the Besides the Screen network was able to positively support the cultural life of the city. |
| Title | Impure Lips by Ricardo Carioba |
| Description | Solo music project focusing on improvisation with hardware. Light units are individually affected by control modules, making the environment vibrate. Noisy, melodic, percussive and visually immersive! |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This performance was part of a programme of live performances during the Besides the Screen event: Projection / Geometry / Performance at Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016. These performances took place at The Box venue within FarGo village; a creative multi-purpose space in Coventry city centre. By scheduling these performances within FarGo village's bars, offices, shops and studios, we were able to attract a public as well as an academic audience. Thus, this programme of performances was able to benefit the general public as well as enabling, in this case, a Brazilian artist to showcase their work in the UK for the first time. |
| Title | Leafcutter John: Playing with Light |
| Description | Performance of Playing with Light followed by a Q&A. Leafcutter John is an award winning musician and artist living in London. His releases on Planet Mu, Staubgold, and Desire Path Recordings combine elements of music-con-crete and electro-acoustic music with voice and guitar work more commonly found in folk music. John has developed a light controlled music performance system that is played gesturally using handheld lights. In 2015 he won the Quartz Prize for innovation for his work on it. John has toured extensively and worked/played with a wide verity of musicians, poets and choreographers including: Beck, Thursten Moore, Imogen Heap, Wayne Mcgregor, BBC Symphony and Concert orchestras, Matmos, Grace Jones, Nick Cave, Yo La Ten- go, Beth Orton, Talvin Singh, and Otomo Yoshihide. John is also a key member of Polar Bear, a twice Mercury Music Prize-nominated band. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This performance was part of a programme of live performances during the Besides the Screen event: Projection / Geometry / Performance at Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016. These performances took place at The Box venue within FarGo village; a creative multi-purpose space in Coventry city centre. By scheduling these performances within FarGo village's bars, offices, shops and studios, we were able to attract a public as well as an academic audience. Leafcutter John is an internationally acclaimed artist and musician and bringing him to Coventry positively contributed to the cultural development of the city. |
| Title | Music Performance by Accelra AKA Gavin Singleton |
| Description | A performance of live improvisations & arrangements for synthesisers, electronics, guitar & computer, based upon upcoming works. Accelra is the artist and recording name of Gavin Singleton, a London based composer who focuses heavily on narrative-based music forms. His work encompasses heartfelt piano, pulsing electronic soundscapes minimalist classical instrumentation and post-rock guitar. His work builds emotional, immersive worlds which envelop the listener. As a composer he has scored a number of short films & adverts for clients such as Swarovski, MADE, COS / H&M, The Serpentine Gallery, industrial designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec & the London Olympics 2012. Alongside his scoring work, he has provided sound design & foley work for Paramount Pictures & Jennifer Lopez. Under his moniker Accelra, he has collaborated with 65daysofstatic (Monotreme Records), Alessandro Cortini (NIN), Big Black Delta (Mellowdrone) & The Protomen. He has performed in the UK alongside artists such as µ-Ziq (Planet Mu), Venetian Snares (Planet Mu), Chris Clark (Warp), Cylob (Rephlex) & Ceephax (Rephlex / Planet Mu). |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This performance was part of a programme of live performances during the Besides the Screen event: Projection / Geometry / Performance at Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016. These performances took place at The Box venue within FarGo village; a creative multi-purpose space in Coventry city centre. By scheduling these performances within FarGo village's bars, offices, shops and studios, we were able to attract a public as well as an academic audience. Gavin Singleton is an local artist and musician based in the West Midlands and including his work in the programme helped to support local artists whilst also positively contributing to cultural life within Coventry city centre. |
| Title | Music Performance by Chromatouch AKA Leon Trimble |
| Description | Leon Trimble Chromatouch (Performance) Solo music project focusing on improvisation with hardware. Light units are individually affected by control modules, making the environment vibrate. Noisy, melodic, percussive and visually immersive! - Presentation commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network. Leon Trimble aka Chromatouch is a VJ, filmmaker and audio visual artist who performs live and installs work in the UK & internationally. He is currently a fellow at Birmingham Open Media - www.bom.org.uk He works with live animation, digital beats, motion graphics, photography and glitch art using nascent and rehashed technology. "As an artist I am using evolving technology not only as a medium in itself but also as subject. Streaming, layering and reinterpreting multiple live art forms simultaneously. Finding where science meets creativity. I dedicate the use of technology and it's tweakability to improvise live images that relate to, and directly influence the current situation, i.e. music, dance, theatre etc." His practice largely bases itself on the building of live collaborative digital systems. That could be the notes from a piano that results in multi coloured projected particles or a series of body movements from a performer, learned by a computer that result in corresponding sections of a film being played back. For his live shows he slices and layers recorded material and breaks away into improvised musicianship played from modified instruments or grid based controllers. Each element of sound has a visual representation. His own electronically built synthesisers are a part of this - devices that uses voltage to portray patterns in sound and video simultaneously. Spectral colours are represented, rhythms are present in shifting patterns, and moods are conveyed. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This performance was part of a programme of live performances during the Besides the Screen event: Projection / Geometry / Performance at Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016. These performances took place at The Box venue within FarGo village; a creative multi-purpose space in Coventry city centre. By scheduling these performances within FarGo village's bars, offices, shops and studios, we were able to attract a public as well as an academic audience. Leon Trimble is an local artist and musician from the West Midlands and including his work in the programme helped to support local artists whilst also positively contributing to cultural life within Coventry city centre. |
| Title | Rente - Mirella Brandi x Muepetmo, Brazil, 2015, 40min |
| Description | Rente Mirella Brandi x Muepetmo, Brazil, 2015, 40min Live audiovisual performance that expands on the limits of theatrical projection. Projected images gradually detach from the screen and occupy the space. Shapes made of light change spatial perspectives and modify the screen's flat character, producing volume and depth. Audience, artists and space are integrated in an immersive narrative sustained by cinema's basic elements: light and sound. Presentation commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This performance was part of a programme of live performances during the Besides the Screen event: Projection / Geometry / Performance at Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016. These performances took place at The Box venue within FarGo village; a creative multi-purpose space in Coventry city centre. By scheduling these performances within FarGo village's bars, offices, shops and studios, we were able to attract a public as well as an academic audience. Thus, this programme of performances was able to benefit the general public as well as enabling these Brazilian artists to perform their work in the UK. |
| Title | Works Commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network as part of the Exhibition of Artists' works at The Box, FarGo Village, Coventry, UK |
| Description | Periodic Relief: 2-channel video projection - Ricardo Carioba, Brazil, 2015 This piece creates a very broad soundscape, with sounds mimicking the characteristics of light in a dark space. Abstract forms move horizontally creating vertical lines lines which, based on the relation of the frame rate with our threshold of perception, build a space in which physical notions of temporal narratives are transformed. Presentation commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network. Flows: 25 lamps installation - Camille Laurent, Brazil, 2016 An artificial forest of light made by a matrix of digitally-controlled fluorescent lamps. These urban illumination devices are deposed of their functional aspect in favour of their sensorial qualities. The pulses going from one lamp to another are interpretations of the ephemeral geography of flows in the streets of São Paulo. Work developed during artist residency at Dahaus (Brazil). Production commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network. Camille Laurent has dedicated herself to what she calls "light installations" since 2015. She works with light as a means to apprehend the sensible and allow for sensorial expression, employing three main elements: analog/digital control, fluorescent lamps, and machine glitches. She often collaborates with the architectural light design office Lichia and light designers such as Guilherme Bonfanti and Mirella Brandi. MURK: Light installation - Mirela Brandi x Muepetmo, Brazil, 2015 Immersive installation based on the principles of expanded cinema. Light shapes continually construct and deconstruct the physical space, creating an immaterial architecture, while the music turns melodies into soundwaves to be perceived by the audience's bodies. Presentation commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network. Mirella Brandi is a light designer and multimedia artist; Muepetmo is a musician, composer and sound engineer. Working together since 2006, they explore the power that image and sound have to build narratives and alter perception in immersive installations and performances. They have participated of many festivals and exhibitions, among which Festival de Arte Eletrônica Vídeo Brasil, Festival On-Off, Cinético Digital exhibition at Itaú Cultural, Live Cinema in Rio de Janeiro, Virada Cultural SP 10 anos, FAD-Festival de Arte Digital, Tangente (Montreal-Canada), C60Urban Solar Audio Plant (Berlin), Monkeytown (NY), LPM (Rome) and Rojo Nova Cultura Contemporanea (Barcelona, SP and RJ). |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | These works were commissioned by the Besides the Screen Network for inclusion in the exhibition component of the Geometry/Image/Performance conference in July 2016. Funds provided by the network enabled the artists to create works exclusively for this exhibition and also enabled the artists to come to the UK to create and install these works. |
| Description | This AHRC Networking grant has allowed the continuation and further development of a network of international scholars, artists and practitioners whose work examines the intersection between those texts, processes and practices that exist besides the screen. Through events in both Brazil and the UK, this network has facilitated the interaction of individuals who have gone on to collaborate both within and beyond the network. These collaborations have included publications, conference papers/panels, exhibitions and performances as detailed within the other sections of this submission. The collaborations and connections that have been enabled between the UK and Brazil represent significant achievements for the network. For example, the network has enabled English-speaking scholars to present their work to Brazilian audiences via simultaneous translation and to have their contributions to the edited collection Cinema Apesar da Imagem translated into Portuguese; thus, disseminating their work and ideas beyond their existing audiences. The network has also brought artists, academics, practitioners and students together through the structure and focus of network events. Students in both the UK and Brazil have been active participants in network events and through internal funding from Coventry University, some undergraduate students were able to travel to and participate in one of the network events in Brazil. The contributions of artists and practitioners have been an integral part of all the network events, but particularly during the final event in July 2016 where an academic conference ran alongside a week of exhibitions and performances in a city-centre arts space in Coventry, UK. |
| Exploitation Route | The achievements of the network are already being developed into further network events and publications. 1. An edited book called Practices of Projection based on the final AHRC funded network event in 2016 will be published by OUP in late 2018. The edited collection will contain contributions from over twenty-one authors from across Europe and South America and will be one of the few academic collections to look at the histories, technologies and practices of moving image projection. 2. A further network event took place in Vítoria, Brazil in June 2017 and the theme of this conference concerned VR, Volumetric filmmaking and spatial control. Through further funding from Brazilian government agencies and King's College London, this event will allow the network to continue building and developing links between UK and Brazilian scholars concerned with those texts, processes and practices that exist besides the screen. King's College, London provided funding for a PhD student from the faculty of Arts and Humanities to attend the conference to present her work. Due to the student's PhD collaboration with LUX, the student was able to facilitate the premier exhibition in Brazil of Anthony McCall's Line Describing A Cone at the 2017 Besides the Screen conference. 3. The project investigators will continue to facilitate network events on a biannual basis. These will be hosted on a rotational basis at the institutions of existing and future network participants. 4. The 2018 event concerned archiving audiovisual material and was co-hosted at King's College London (www.besidesthescreen.com/2018-london/) and at ISMAI in Porto (www.besidesthescreen.com/bts-2018-porto-schedule/) in July 2018. Alongside the London leg of the conference there was a exhibition and screening programme (www.besidesthescreen.com/exhibition-of-selected-works/). 5. The network has now formed a executive committee and is in the process of appointing an advisory committee to formalise network activities going forward. 6. The executive committee are working on plans to launch a Besides the Screen Journal in 2020. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.besidesthescreen.com |
| Description | The funding of the network has specifically allowed for the commission and exhibition of Brazilian artists' work in a UK setting. The fact that network events were public facing, included exhibitors and performances, and that they took place outside of large cultural centres enabled positive cultural impacts to be achieved. The general public benefitted from public audiovisual performances in Vítoria (Brazil), São Paulo (Brazil) and Coventry (UK) from artists that would otherwise have been unable to visit these locations. A member of a Mercury Prize nominated music collective performed at the final network event in Coventry, thus raising the profile and the public visibility of the conference and its associated events. The hosting of an exhibition of audiovisual work in Coventry city centre enabled public participation in network events and increased the exposure of the contributing artists. The project also benefitted artists by specifically created the conditions for the presentation of British artists in Brazil and for the collaboration of artists from both countries in performances and filmmaking projects. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Description | CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) Event Support Grant (Realização de Eventos no País) |
| Amount | R$ 15,000 (BRL) |
| Organisation | Government of Brazil |
| Department | Coordination of Higher Education Personnel Training (CAPES) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 06/2016 |
| Description | Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries QR Fund |
| Amount | £680 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| End | 06/2017 |
| Description | Direct support from the Communication and Multimedia Postgrad Programme at USP |
| Amount | R$ 4,500 (BRL) |
| Organisation | Federal University of São Paulo |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | |
| Description | Event Funding Grant |
| Amount | R$ 14,000 (BRL) |
| Organisation | National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 12/2016 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | Event Support Grant |
| Amount | R$ 12,000 (BRL) |
| Organisation | FAPES Espirito Santo |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 06/2014 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | Foreign Visitor Support - Regular |
| Amount | R$ 2,656 (BRL) |
| Organisation | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | |
| Description | Foreign Visitor Support - Regular |
| Amount | R$ 5,250 (BRL) |
| Organisation | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | |
| Description | International Collaborations |
| Amount | £1,199 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 06/2017 |
| Description | International Events Support Grant |
| Amount | R$ 12,000 (BRL) |
| Organisation | FAPES Espirito Santo |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 09/2017 |
| Description | TBC |
| Amount | R$ 1,000 (BRL) |
| Organisation | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 02/2016 |
| Description | Besides the Screen Network Partner (PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil) |
| Organisation | Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The BtS Network brought scholars from Europe and North America to speak at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)provided venues for BtS Network events. |
| Impact | During the first network event in São Paulo in 2014, the original network founders presented their own research in relation to the aims of the Besides the Screen during a plenary panel. Some of the conference papers presented in São Paulo in 2014 were developed into chapters for the 2016 publication Cinema Apesar da Imagem. Original papers were in both English and Portuguese but in the publication the English papers appear in Portuguese translation. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Besides the Screen Network Partner (USP, São Paulo, Brazil) |
| Organisation | Universidade de São Paulo |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The BtS Network brought scholars from Europe and North America to speak at the University of São Paulo. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of São Paulo provided venues for BtS Network events. |
| Impact | During the first network event in São Paulo in 2014, the original network founders presented their own research in relation to the aims of the Besides the Screen during a plenary panel. Some of the conference papers presented in São Paulo in 2014 were developed into chapters for the 2016 publication Cinema Apesar da Imagem. Original papers were in both English and Portuguese but in the publication the English papers appear in Portuguese translation. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Besides the Screen Network Partner (Vitória, Brazil) |
| Organisation | Federal University of Espírito Santo |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We hosted two events funded by the Besides the Screen Network at Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo (UFES). This brought leading scholars from Europe and North America to Brazil. Students from Coventry University also assisted with the planning and execution of the 2015 network event in Vítoria. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo provided venues from our network events including lecture theatres and exhibition and performance spaces. Students from the university also assisted with the organisation and running of the Besides the Screen Network events in Vítoria and they gained academic credit for their participation. |
| Impact | In 2015 undergraduate students from Coventry University attended one of the BtS Network events in Brazil. This was funded by Coventry University but it would not have been possible without the partnership with UFES developed by the BtS network. |
| Start Year | 2014 |