Navigating the Black Box

Today I defended my creative, non-traditional dissertation during my viva voce and passed...an enormous hurdle to completing my PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Just final thesis revisions to make now. Due to Covid restrictions, I was not permitted to hold an exhibition of my work to show my examiners the physical artefact that is my thesis. Instead, I pivoted and developed a digital version. Below is the presentation of my artist's book-thesis, shown as my examiners would have seen it. It is best viewed with sound.

We're published!

We've made our first foray into academic publishing with an article about our Makers Marks project. "Makers Marks: Capturing, Preserving, and Sharing the Sounds of Glassmaking" is part of MDPI's Arts Journal special issue Contemporary Glass Art: Materiality and Digital Technologies. Take a look at the article by clicking through the image below:

Makers Marks joins RAFT for Exhibition