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Victoria Mapplebeck & Pratap Rughani in conversation 24 March 2017

A 60’ presentation and Q and A with Victoria Mapplebeck, chaired by Pratap Rughani.
Data Recovery – Mobiles and their role in story-telling, memory and emotion @ The Screening Room, Somerset House, Fri 24 March 2017, 3.30pm – 4.30pm, as part of the The Inside Out Festival, curated and produced by TCCE (The Culture Capital Exchange).

Victoria Mapplebeck will screen her award winning Film London smartphone short, 160 Characters and discuss TEXT ME, an interactive documentary, which lifts the lid on the stories and secrets buried in our mobile phones.

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Data Recovery

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Learning & Teaching Day, UAL 2017, presentation on Documentary Ethics at Futuro House

L & T Day 2017 321 March 2017 at the University of the Arts London Learning & Teaching Day 2017, in Futuro House at Central St Martin’s College, Pratap Rughani and Iris Wakulenko present a parallel session ‘Deep Curiosity’ and the ethics of making artwork – a new online pedagogic tool: Justine Interactive.

Futuro House @ CSM
Futuro House @ CSM

 

 

Kubrick Symposium @ National Cinema Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, 2017

‘Into the Archive: Reviewing Kubrick’

The University of the Arts London and the British Council in Mexico with the support of Cineteca Nacional organized a Symposium and a series of workshops on the occasion of the Kubrick exhibition in Mexico City.

Pratap Rughani will be running a new workshop on Imagining Kubrick and delivering a paper Kubrick’s Lens, Dispatches from the Edge.

British Council México: Stanley Kubrick Workshops at Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City.

See New Book Chapter: Kubrick’s Lens, Dispatches from the Edge in Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives.

Contributor to “The Creative Stance”

Pratap Rughani contributed to The Creative Stance (2016), a book co-published by the University of the Arts London and Common-Editions on insights into creative teaching and practices.

UAL Chancellor Grayson Perry and 17 other leading artists, teachers, graphic designers, filmmakers, fashion designers, museum curators, sculptors and award-winning writers have come together to debate the creative behaviours needed for success and why they should form the foundation of education.

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Thorold Dickinson’s UN Documentaries: Peace, Internationalism and Censorship on Wed 2 Nov 2016, MLG06 @LCC

Katerina Loukopoulou and Pratap Rughani, in collaboration with LCC’s MA Documentary Film programme and UAL’s Archives & Special Collections, present a rare screening of two of Thorold Dickinson’s UN documentary film productions.

10:30–12:20 Thorold Dickinson: Internationalist Documentarian – A View from the Archive
14:30–17:00 Screening, discussion, and visit to the LCC Archive

Wednesday 2 November 2016 MLG06
London College of Communication, London SE1 6SB

Places are free but limited, please email research@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Further details.

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Black Artists & Modernism (BAM) Conference @Tate Britain, 6 Oct – 8 Oct 2016

Pratap Rughani is a consultant & Board Member of the Black Artists & Modernism (BAM), a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as a collaboration between University of the Arts London and Middlesex University.

Conference information here.

Private View: Now! Now!…. in more than one place exhibition
Thursday 6 October 2016 – from 4pm 
The Triangle Gallery and Cookhouse at Chelsea College of Arts

BAM Conference 2016