Birmingham City University
About this portal
This portal brings together practice research in creative disciplines produced at Birmingham City University, comprising:
BCMCR - Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research;
RAAD – the Centre for Research in Art, Architecture and Design;
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – Centre for Music and Performing Arts Research.
url:
https://www.bcu.ac.uk
Recent Issues
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1. Doctoral Research
Doctoral research undertaken in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University.
Recent Activities
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Re-mapping the curve of the young female figure; feminist media art practice, in the age of digital transformation
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Sophie Hedderwick
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This practice research project (re) imagines the young female body and the transformation of adolescence; using the curve as an expanded motif, conceived in relational, figurative, temporal and geometric terms.
I reflect on how the adolescent body is (re) presented differently by digital technologies, through the prism of feminist post-human philosophy. I explore how new media can (re) imagine the pubescent body in its polymorphous becoming using multimedia time displacement techniques and immersive technologies.
Through multimedia technologies - photography, film, animation and 3D - I explore the female figure from an eco feminist perspective. I aim to emancipate the young female figure from a patriarchal representation and linear trajectory to one that looks both backwards and forwards to a possible future, a feminist space (Kristeva. 1981); using a feminist praxis to examine the possibilities of a non-linear arc of transformation.
Through a series of iterative experimental digital artworks I (re)imagine the young female figure in terms of relational movement (Manning. 2009) and the post-human notion of becoming woman (Braidotti. 2016). I explore how the adolescent girl/woman moves in relation to the environment and others, using immersive digital technologies that privilege a sensory encounter.