3rd MTU Faculty of Creative & Performing Arts and Media Research Symposium

Date
19th March 2025
Time
9:00 - 17:00
Cost
Free
3rd MTU Faculty of Creative & Performing Arts and Media Research Symposium

This event is presented by the MTU Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts & Media and MTU Arts Office. 
MA, PhD, and other faculty researchers present arts-based research projects and practice, from MTU and other Universities in Ireland.

MTU is an arts rich technological University, and supports the development and presentation of arts based research.

 

This the 3rd Research Forum includes a presentation channel, a Postgrad Research channel, and an exhibition including artworks and posters representing 18 of the Forum participants.

The presentations will run from 09:30 - 17:00, including parrallel sessions, with the related exhibition opening event from 13:00-14:00 in the adjoining James Barry Exhibition Centre.

 

 

THE VENUE:

Rory Gallagher Theatre, James Barry Exhibition Centre, and The Hive.

D-Block, MTU Bishopstown Campus, Cork

 

BOOKING:

Attendance is free, and booking for audience is not required.

 

ATTENDANCE ENQUIRIES:

All enquiries for attendance should be directed to the Research Forum organisers:

Paul Green: paul.green@mtu.ie

Dr. Donal Moloney: donal.moloney@mtu.ie

Dr. Cárthach Ó Nuanáin: carthach.onuanain@mtu.ie

 

 

PROGRAMME SUMMARY:

Opening Session: Rory Gallagher Theatre

Welcome address 9:30-10:00

Session 1: 10:00

 

Parallel Sessions

 

Rory Gallagher Theatre

Session 2: 11:45

Session 3: 14:00

Session 4: 15:45

 

Hive (Room D160) - Postgraduate Forum

Session 5: 11:30

Session 6: 14:00

Session 7: 15:45

 

 

PROGRAMME DETAIL:

Opening Session : Rory Gallagher Theatre

09:30 Welcome by Sarah Morey (MTU Arts Officer)

09:40 Official opening address by Prof. Alistair Payne Dean of Faculty Creative and Performing Arts and Media

 

Session 1 (Chair: Donal Maloney)

10:00 Dr Collette Nolan and Colette Lewis. Material Gestures: Actions, Materials and Processes towards a Sustainable Artistic Practice.

10:15 Róisín Maher. Finding Their Voices: Women Composers, Classical Music, and the Canon.

10:30 Dr Maria Murray. Creating Change: A Story of Collaborative Street Art and Community Activism.

10:45 Dr Marilyn Lennon. Exploring Artistic Research through KinShip: Seven Key Features in Practice.

11:00 Patrick Lansley. Horizon Europe, Cluster 2 “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society.

 

11:15 Break for Coffee

 

11:45 Parallel Session A - Rory Gallagher Theatre

Session 2 (Chair: Paul Green)

11:45 Dr Sarah Hayes. Travel Patterns & Conference Intentions: Engaging Conference Attendees with Sustainability through Input Physicalization.

12:00 Barbara Diener. Layers of Reality

12:15 Dr Jessica Shine. Life on the Line: The ethics of Using Recorded Phone Conversations in Making a Murderer and its Paratexts.

12:30 David Keating & Linda Curtin. Spatial Engagement - Collaborative Practices & Workflows.

 

13:00 Lunch break and Exibition Opening in JBEC at 13:15 by Dr Niall Smith.

 

Session 3 (Chair: Cárthach Ó Nuanáin)

14:00 Bill O Flynn & Collette Nolan. Art Assessment Rubrics - A Parallax View

14:15 Louise Foott. The Art of Wellbeing

14:30 Feargal Cunningham. Exploring the Supermirror

14:45 Helle Helsner. Looking back to look forward - ancient technology in a contemporary worlds.

15:00 Eric Browne. Beyond Control: Inviting Uncertainty in Human-AI Musical Interaction.

15:15 Break for Coffee

 

Session 4 (Chair: Donal Maloney)

15:45 Dr Tom Spalding. Cultural Retrenchment from ‘Jazzing’ to ‘Old Time waltzing’; Student Entertainment in Cork, 1920-1939

16:00 James L Hayes: The Iron Effect.

16:15 Dr Jeremiah Spillane. Guth Fánach: Mediating the Traditional Voice in XR.

16:30 Chriszine Backhouse. Exploring the Transformative Power of Co-Created Performance.

 

 

11:30 Parallel Session B: The Hive (D160) - Postgraduate Forum

The posgraduate forum is designed as a platform for early stage and seasoned researchers in the field of the creative arts to meet, share, and discuss ongoing research projects in an informal setting with fellow practitioners.

 

Session 5 (Chair Brian Crotty)

11:30 Catherine Hehir. Pressure and Reversal: The Verb of Print.

11:45 Stephen Lane. Reclaiming Space for Music Literacy at Primary Level

12:00 Rupert MacCarthy-Morrogh. RE-Creating History

12:15 Aoife Claffey. Interwoven Networks

12:30 Caroline Bowles. Meditations, Body and Breath.

13:00 Lunch break and Exibition Opening in JBEC at 13:15 by Dr Niall Smith.

 

Session 6 (Chair: Caitlin Kelly)

14:00 Katie Mann. Painting as a means of Theological Enquiry

14:15 Bláithín Mac Donnell. Performing the academic voice in practice-based research.

14:30 Diarmait Mac Cárthaigh. Rhythmic Experimentation in Instrumental Hip-Hop

14:45 Nic Flanagan. A Pragmatic, Practice-Based Approach to Undergraduate Arts Education.

15:00 Ciara Rogers. Fragmented Terrains: Navigating the City’s Unseen Architectures.

 

15:15 Break for Coffee

 

Session 7 (Chair: Nicole Flanagan)

15:45 Joanna Dukkipati. Co-Design for Digital Public Services

16:00 Brian Sheehan. Sounding Science: Investigating Novel Sonification Approaches for Communicating Scientific Data to Wider Audiences

16:15 Caitlin Kelly. Hear We Go - Narrative, Design, and Cultural Experiences

16:30 Brian Crotty. Practice based research into the Oneiric imagination through painting and Cinema Hybridizations.

16:45 Joseph Clarke. Work in Progress Demonstration of a Multiple IR Audio Environment Gallery Presentations

 

EXHIBITION:

Practitioners showing work in the gallery will be available to discuss their work at coffee breaks and over lunch. Dr Jeremiah Spillane will be available throughout the day to discuss and demo his work in VR.

 

Students from MTU CCAD

15:45: Postgraduate Research Degrees

A presentation will be given on postgraduate research degrees in the MTU Creative and Performing Arts and Media Faculty. This session will cover opportunities for conducting Master and Doctoral PhD research in the Faculty. It will also provide information on priority areas as well as the applciation process. This will be of particular interest to final year students considering options for postgraduate degrees at MTU.

 

Date
Time
9:00 - 17:00
Cost
Free