Sound/Image/Media Encounters
About us
Sound/Image/Media Encounters is a lens-based research group set within a discursive framework and culture of predominantly practice-based research at KSA, working in association with various UK and international organisations, lens-based operatives and individuals to achieve this.
We are an inclusive, participatory entity, propelled by an entanglement of questions, raised by diverse practices and shared activity. Sound/Image/Media Encounters forms local and international sector-based proposals, to generate experimental initiatives and industry partnerships alike. These include: archival, curatorial, festival and/or exhibition-based research projects and online/offline dissemination.
Our researchers include filmmakers, photographers, digital artists and doctoral researchers (practice & theory), technical staff and alumni from across Kingston School of Art (KSA) along with associated members, engaged with individual, group and institutional dialogues and exchange.
We support ventures at the cusp of stillness and moving image, as well as the constant emergence of new digital practices, raising questions on political, cultural, historical and ‘pioneering' aspects of contemporary imagining, addressing contested sites and otherwise excluded voices. Our current partnership activity involves the British Film Institute (BFI), LUX Moving Image, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Photographers Gallery and The Wellcome Collection, amongst others. We welcome approaches from similar research organs to develop inter-organisational projects, outputs and approaches to impact.
Programme of events
Our programme of events and activities has recently (2020) included the ‘Sensitive Film' series, realised in association with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, exploring the collaborative potential embedded in image-making from the perspective of editing, design and cinematography. Invited contributors to this series have included Claire Atherton (Chantal Akerman's editor), David Raedeker (Joanna Hogg's cinematographer on ‘The Souvenir', parts I and II) and Chu-Li Shewring, sound designer); speaking on their methods and perspectives. We also support the BBC/ACE New Creatives scheme, commissioning short-form film and audio works by emerging creatives.
Co-Directors
- Dr Judy Rabinowitz Price (School of Arts)
Email: j.price@kingston.ac.uk - Dr Alex Nevill (School of Arts)
Email: a.nevill@kingston.ac.uk - Dr Maria Mencia (School of Creative & Cultural Industries)
Email: m.mencia@kingston.ac.uk
