All things museums, photography, and digital cultures. AHRC CDP PhD Researcher (NCL/V&A)
Joined April 2018
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Interesting to hear that the #cast of Trajan's Column at @V_and_A could actually be considered as more 'authentic' than the original in Rome, which has endured significant erosion since the cast was made around 1864 @lastimpression_ #LastingImpressions19 vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t…
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The Ruthwell cross, whos inclusion of text upon its decoration 'speaks' to the viewer as it looks down upon them.
A powerful description of a humanised 'aura' and the anthropological value of these incredible objects.
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Super excited to see this paper - I adore the @V_and_A Cast Courts. For those of you who have visited, how 'authentic' do you consider the casts to be? What was your reaction when you saw them? I'm still awed every time I visit @lastimpression_ #lastingimpressions19
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Mould making was another concern. A meeting at the British Museum helped Kate understand the possibilities of making piece moulds from jesmonite. Silicone was used for the head. #lastingimpressions19
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Some photos of Santa’s reconstructions. It was a challenge to identify how the metal part was attached to the head. #lastingimpressions19
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The #lastingimpressions19 organising team was awarded one of our 'Research Curatorships' offering travel bursaries to CNCS members traveling down to @Pitt_Rivers Follow the hashtag!
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A lovely welcome from @abbey_ellis95 for @lastimpression_ hosted at @Pitt_Rivers #lastingimpressions19
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Beautiful conference booklet folks! Kicking off with the first panel after a catch-up during registration w my buddy @Monument_Men @lastimpression_ #LastingImpressions19
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Kate created a sculpture for the sole purpose of destroying it, to see how the material would fragment. Her work will help archaeologists to understand the fragmentary remains that they have from ancient pieces. #lastingimpressions19
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Documentation from the original was used to restage the exhibition. A review was conducted into the materials to make it safer for the public. But was the authenticity of the exhibition compromised by this? #lastingimpressions19
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First tactile piece of the day, Kate Johnson's material experiments.
A seriously heavy unknown composite - inspiration for my own mold making experiments!
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Photographs from the restaging show how the ways in which the public interact with the exhibition were also recreated. #lastingimpressions19
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The media reception of Body Space Motion Things was heavily focused on the shock factor. This letter also touched on the number of health and safety breaches that it entailed! #lastingimpressions19
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Can we ever truly recreate an exhibition? How do we define and measure an exhibition’s success? Who decides? Are we remembering exhibitions for the right reasons? Lots of interesting questions raised by @lauraemilyart’s work. #lastingimpressions19
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Aaaaaand we're off!
@abbey_ellis95 making the introductory remarks to #lastingimpressions19.
Excellent panel of morning speakers about to get underway.
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Something, many of us have heard, is 'we do science not history' as a way of skirting around racism. Apart from Darwin. Evolution. Linnaeus. Banks. Challenger. Owen... all the stuff we wheel out to legitimise Nat hist as culture. #ChallengingHistories @littlegaudy @NatHistGirl
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Fascinating stuff on digitization, storage & machine learning: "How the New York Times is using Google Cloud to find untold stories in millions of archived photos" @google cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
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CDP student @_georgemind talks about her research into commercial women's photography studios in Britain 1888-1938 #challenginghistories @morethanadodo
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Thank you to @littlegaudy and @NatHistGirl for great insights into 'Nature read in black and white' or 'how to stop being racist and develop worthwhile natural history curation' #challenginghistories @morethanadodo
