Graham worked with two colleagues and the Museum of London, to remake a ten mile photographic pan... more Graham worked with two colleagues and the Museum of London, to remake a ten mile photographic panorama of both banks of the River Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich that mirrored an original commissioned by the Port of London Authority in 1937
The research field is high resolution digital photography using image capture and processing tech... more The research field is high resolution digital photography using image capture and processing techniques in experimental ways. 'London Riverscape' is a project photographing both banks of the River Thames to remake the continuous panorama as far as Bow Creek. In 2003 the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich commissioned Graham Diprose to create a permanent exhibit as part of its gallery showing the development of London’s waterways. This exhibit consists of a digital photographic panorama of London’s riverscape and texts which provide details of building, monuments and other commissions, and required substantial updating of earlier work. This was necessary for two reasons. Firstly, there had been rapid and significant changes to London’s riverside built environment. Secondly, it enabled the researcher to take advantage of new advances in image capture and processing in order to combine these in experimental ways to create the core panoramic images for National Maritime Museu...
... Description/Abstract: Peter Cannings, Graham Diprose and Peter Layton have produced an inaugu... more ... Description/Abstract: Peter Cannings, Graham Diprose and Peter Layton have produced an inaugural collection of original and evocative imagery exploring the creative integration of light, colour and form in a fusion of traditional and digital technologies. ...
is one of the more unique elements of our Conference that we have been keen to develop over many ... more is one of the more unique elements of our Conference that we have been keen to develop over many years. Often Postgraduate Students, at Masters or PhD level, or Unaffiliated Early Career Artists may feel excluded from prestigious conferences until their research is completed and they can submit a full paper proposal. However, over many years, EVA London has recognised the importance of offering an almost unique opportunity to submit projects that can be truly described as 'Work in Progress'. With an audience of International Academics and acknowledged experts in a field, the Research Workshop presentations have often lead to very positive interest and support, and sometimes to future collaborations. Others return to EVA London a year or two later with a completed piece of Research and a successful Full Conference Proposal. In previous years the presentations have been very popular with all of our delegates and we are delighted to include all of the presentations as part of our mainstream July 2021 Online conference. Although we will once again miss some of the informal networking opportunities, we have, as always, selected an exciting, ground breaking and quite eclectic group of RW delegates. We hope that by publishing their papers here, either grouped together, or individually published, some of you will be keen to contact our RW authors, to discuss and develop their ideas further.
The EVA London Research Workshop is one of the more unique elements of our Conference that we hav... more The EVA London Research Workshop is one of the more unique elements of our Conference that we have been keen to develop over many years. Often Postgraduate Students, at Masters or PhD level, or Unaffiliated Artists may feel excluded from prestigious conferences until their research is complete and they can submit a full paper proposal. However apart from their Tutors, Supervisors and Mentors, EVA London provides an almost unique opportunity to submit projects which can be truly described as 'Work in Progress'. With an audience of International Academics and acknowledged experts in a field, the Research Workshop presentations have often lead to very positive interest and support, and sometimes to future collaborations, or returning to EVA London a year later with a completed piece of Research and a successful Full Conference Proposal. In previous years the presentations have been very popular with our delegates and as Chair of the Research Workshops I can think of a number of occasions where an audience question that began "Have you thought of..." has lead to very exciting new lines of discovery. Sadly in 2020 we will miss that particular interaction, however, we have, as always selected an exciting, ground breaking and quite eclectic group of RW delegates. We hope that by publishing their papers here, either grouped together, around themes, or individually published, you will be keen to contact our RW authors to discuss and develop ideas, as if we had all been able to meet up together in July 2020.
The historical photographs appear in Henry Taunt’s ‘A New Map of the River Thames’, 1870. The res... more The historical photographs appear in Henry Taunt’s ‘A New Map of the River Thames’, 1870. The researcher and co-researcher conducted archive research at the National Monuments Record (English Heritage) and Oxfordshire County Council’s Oxford Studies holdings. A selection of Taunt’s surviving images was made following his journey from Thames Head to the Houses of Parliament. The volume consists of 65 paired ‘past and present’ photographs and paired texts. The latter consists of extracts from Taunt’s commentary in the 1870 publication and the researcher’s own commentary based on studies into the various locations seen in Taunt’s photographs. The researcher wrote in an observation style based on Taunt’s own literary style, particularly noting the detail of changes such as parts of the river no longer navigable, buildings demolished and vegetation swept away. The research also speaks of change in another important sense for example indicating transformations in traffic management and th...
This project explores the blog as a context considering the articulations between the context and... more This project explores the blog as a context considering the articulations between the context and content (blog and videos) forming this project. In order to do so, hyperlinks to practitioners' videos (uploaded to individual Vimeo accounts), are gathered together on a blog page. Contributors are asked to consider the prompt of a glass of water for a video-based active reflection on their practice. A glass of water is an object of the everyday, yet one often present in interviews; this project started as a series of interviews. The water or the glass can be present or not present in the video, for example materiality could be considered, or perhaps the 'publicness' connected with the water glass at a site of presentation could be explored. Other ways may be found. This is a collaborative work where practitioners survey their individual use of media through the prescribed method of digital video. The result of the work can be accessed on Seminar Project website ().
The EVA London Research Workshop is one of the more unique elements of our Conference that we hav... more The EVA London Research Workshop is one of the more unique elements of our Conference that we have been keen to develop over many years. Often Postgraduate Students, at Masters or PhD level, or Unaffiliated Artists may feel excluded from prestigious conferences until their research is complete and they can submit a full paper proposal. However apart from their Tutors, Supervisors and Mentors, EVA London provides an almost unique opportunity to submit projects which can be truly described as ‘Work in Progress’. With an audience of International Academics and acknowledged experts in a field, the Research Workshop presentations have often lead to very positive interest and support, and sometimes to future collaborations, or returning to EVA London a year later with a completed piece of Research and a successful Full Conference Proposal. In previous years the presentations have been very popular with our delegates and as Chair of the Research Workshops I can think of a number of occasio...
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for hosting EVA London online using Zoom, and the BCS Compu... more BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for hosting EVA London online using Zoom, and the BCS Computer Arts Society (CAS) Specialist Group for providing bursaries. Special thanks go to Kerry Wear at the BCS, for help with budgeting, registration, and other organisational arrangements, as well as Becky Youe, Florence Leroy, and Ian Borthwick of the BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series, for support with the printed and online conference proceedings. The Anthill Social and Tom Keene for website hosting and support. Thank you to staff at the BCS Swindon office for help with administrative and IT support. Thanks to all the contributors for making EVA London a continuing success.
All trademarks, registered names, etc., acknowledged in this publication are the property of thei... more All trademarks, registered names, etc., acknowledged in this publication are the property of their respective owners. BCS and the BCS logo are the registered trademarks of The British Computer Society, charity number 292786 ("BCS").
The fragility of digital data as a means of storing our images, texts and finances, is well-known... more The fragility of digital data as a means of storing our images, texts and finances, is well-known to anyone who has ever experienced a failed hard drive, with vital work still to be backed up. Curators worldwide are charged with finding means of safely preserving all the born digital and digitised material in their collections. Yet the likelihood that technologies and generally accepted methods for data preservation utilised at the start of their time in post, are likely to be vastly different in every way, later in their career. We are already aware of many of the technical issues faced in longer-term digital preservation, redundant software and file formats, data storage hardware failure, bit rot literally breaking down data over time, to name but a few. However, these may be the least of the issues facing our particular digital works in any archive, supposing there is no funding for further vital migration, or the archive has newer material that is considered more important, or simply that our, yet unborn, great-great-grandchildren have very different aesthetic tastes and do not like or value our particular collection. This paper proposes an alternative approach to very long-term digital preservation where our most important and significant works of art can be safely preserved for centuries into the future, by utilising a proven technology many thousands of years old. Film digitisation. Image restoration. Long-term digital archiving. Curation and accession. Pigment ink printing.
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