[ecrea] Research Seminar 'Audience, Visitors and Users'

RESEARCH SEMINAR II - Audiences, Visitors, Users
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We are pleased to invite you to the second RESEARCH SEMINAR, part of the 
AHRC funded project 'New Media, Audiences and Affective Experiences' at 
City University London. The seminar will explore questions on 
researching experiences and motivations of audience, visitors and users. 
The presentations will provide insights on audience and visitors 
research methods in cultural and museum settings as well as through 
artistic interventions in the city. The use of mobile applications and 
GPS technologies within that framework will be a focus on the 
discussion. Please note that the next seminar will take place in June 
(19/20th) exploring "Theoretical approaches on digital and new media 
research'

Seminar Speakers:

Theano Moussouri is a lecturer in Museum Studies at the Institute of 
Archaeology. After completing her BA in Preschool Education at the 
University of Athens, she pursued postgraduate studies at the Museum 
Studies Department, University of Leicester where she completed her PhD 
thesis on Family Agendas and Family Learning in Hands-On Museums. She 
worked for the Visitor Studies Unit of the Science Museum in London, UK 
on a number of large scale exhibition projects including the Wellcome 
Wing. Between 1999 and 2004 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre 
for Museums and Gallery Education at the Museum Studies Department, 
University of Leicester where she was involved in developing the Generic 
Learning Outcomes Framework. In 2004 she founded Audience Focus with the 
mission to help museums and heritage organisation to facilitate 
enriching learning experiences for their visitors. She is currently on 
the Editorial Board of Visitor Studies and the new Books Editor for Curator.


Helen Bendon is a UK-based artist working predominantly in video and 
photography. Herwork was selected for New Contemporaries in 1998 and 
since then she has been exhibiting internationally (inc. Yvon Lambert, 
Paris, Kari Kenetti, Helsinki and the Centre for Photographie in 
Geneva). Her films and video works have also been shown at international 
festivals and screening events including the Commonwealth Film Festival, 
the Lux and the international Film Festival 700IS, Iceland, in which her 
film The Pack was shortlisted for the ‘Alcoa’ prize.In 2001 she won the 
coveted Fondation CCF pour la Photographie prize and her work is held in 
collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Arts 
Council of England and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France. In 
2005 Helen was awarded The Conversation Gap Award commissioned by Career 
Innovation (Ci), working on narrative-based projects with some of the 
world’s leading businesses.



When: Tuesday, 21st of May, 10-12pm

Where: A227, 2nd Floor, College Building, City University London, London 
EC1V 0HB

You are all welcome! Please do RSVP ((Irida.Ntalla.1 /at/ city.ac.uk))

Tea and Coffee available


The project is part of the AHRC Collaborative Skills Development Scheme 
organised by Department of Creative Industries and Enterprise, City 
University London in partnership with Department of Creative Industries 
and Practice, King’s College London, Art and Design Research Institute, 
New London Graduate School (NLGS), Middlesex University, Department of 
Digital Humanities, University College London. It aims to establish a 
platform for creative dialogue and collaboration for doctoral students. 
The project will provide space for discussing research methods in 
relation to new digital technologies, audience engagement and cultural 
experiences. This space of exchange will be created through working 
together across three themed workshops leading to a one-day symposium 
with doctoral students from partner institutions.
Pivotal questions that will be posed are: How can a researcher capture 
the effect of audience experience in an interactive environment? What 
are the research methods and tools used to apprehend and measure users' 
involvement? How might such affective dynamics be theorised? This space 
of exchange will be created through working together across three themed 
workshops leading to a one-day symposium with doctoral students from 
partner institutions. The seminars will discuss three main themes: (1) 
Research and digital technologies (2) Users and audience (3) Theoretical 
approaches on digital and new media research.
A symposium, part of the project, will be held on 9th of December 2013 
at Parasol Unit foundation of contemporary art.
The symposium will be facilitated also as part of the Haegue Yang 
exhibition. The symposium will specifically discuss audience experiences 
and interaction with new media interventions in art galleries, museums 
and institutions invoking affect. Potential panel themes include, 
institutional engagement in the production of interactive experiences 
and politics of emotions and affect in media art, the artist perspective.

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