Who we are

The Centre provides a vibrant environment for intellectual debate and creative practice with an international perspective, aided by our partner institutions, along with our work at the Winchester Gallery and the John Hansard Gallery .

The Centre's concerns focus on the political and socio-cultural problems and opportunities of globalization in art, design and media. Its fellows have a wide range of special interests related to globalization and worldwide social transformation.

Research areas

• media archaeology
• cultural politics
• critical luxury studies
• gaming and virtual space
• the design of human interactions
• issues of ageing
• militarisation
• health
• the formation and influence of new technologies
• expert systems
• the history and philosophy of art
• media and communications
• fashion and media
• digital and biomedia
• post-digital print
• the creative industries
• India and the sub-continent
• East and South-East Asia
• South America

Members of the Winchester Centre are active in developing teaching and learning strategies at WSA. Students benefit from a wide variety of international research opportunities, including networking and project events involving internationally renowned artists ( Victor Burgin , Michelle Teran , Sue Clayton , Simon Bright ) and cultural theorists ( Jodi Dean , Alex Galloway , Michel Bauwens , Ian Hargreaves , Lawrence Grossberg , Esther Milne, John Beck, John Phillips , Stephen Graham , Hammad Nasar).

Networks

Members of the Centre create and run internal and external research networks, jointly developing research programmes and related projects in fields such as

• animation and graphic design;
• peer-to-peer discourse on democratic politics;
• digital economies;
• design and the elderly & disabled consumer;
• remote sensing robotics
• improving British design higher education for UK and international students

The Centre networks with:

• galleries and museums,
• professional associations,
• companies,
• government departments,
• charities and
• advocacy groups

Partners

The Centre provides a vibrant environment for intellectual debate and creative practice with an international perspective, aided by its partner institutions. WSA is proud to partner internationally with

• Victoria & Albert Museum ;
• transmediale ;
• Science Museum group ( National Media Museum and the Media Space );

In partnership with the directors, curators and managers of these institutes, the Centre conceives and organizes opportunities in new postgraduate courses, exhibitions and conferences, workshops and publications, and film screenings accompanied by discussions.

Publications

Members also have extensive contacts and experience in curation and publishing internationally, and share that expertise with new Centre fellows. Publication links through editorial participation include:

• Cultural Politics Journal and Book series (Duke University Press)
• Theory Culture & Society (Sage)
• Polity Press
• Technicities, Edinburgh University Press
• Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques , Amsterdam University Press
• Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation
• Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption
• Journal of Contemporary Painting

Activities by Centre members include:

Teaching at WSA

• Guest lectures for undergraduate and postgraduate courses
• Working with postgraduate students at WSA and University of Southampton
• Supervision of postgraduate (MA and PhD) projects at WSA

Exhibitions

• Artist Boss by Ian Dawson et al
• Hybrid Bodies by Andrew Carnie
• Barthes/Burgin - Ryan Bishop, Sunil Manghani and Victor Burgin
• Taplow House by Ian Dawson and Louisa Minkin
• The Seven Billionth Citizen by John Gillett and Beth Harland in Egypt
• Workshops and guided tours of exhibitions in John Hansard Gallery
• Several new shows at The Winchester Gallery

Conferences

• 10 Years On: art and everyday life in Iraq and Iran Forum at The Mosaic Rooms, June 7 - 8, 2013
• Art, Criticism and the Forces of Globalization , WSA and Tate Liverpool, September 10 – 14, 2012
• Glam ! Conference at Tate Liverpool, early 2013
• Land Art at John Hansard Gallery, Spring 2013
• Anti-Academy at John Hansard Gallery, late 2013
• In The Loop 3.5: Making Connections , summer 2013

Seminars

• Staff Seminar Series - regular events to share current practice and research (see forthcoming Seminars for more information.)

Global Futures Series

• Global Futures Speaker Series - a schedule of visitng speakers whose talk coincides with what researchers at the Centre are undertaking, and beyond. Free and open to the public.
• Film Series at Winchester Discovery Centre throughout 2012.

Fellows are invited to join teams preparing applications, and to use the accumulated expertise of the Centre to develop and share their own projects. The Centre allocates research funds to WSA staff who wish to develop their research portfolio [forms are linked in the sidebar.]