Sound/Image/Media Encounters

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Sound/Image/Media Encounters is a lens-based research group set within a discursive framework and culture of predominantly practice-based research at Kingston, working in association with various UK and international organisations, lens-based operatives and individuals to achieve this.

The Group is an inclusive, participatory entity, propelled by an entanglement of questions, raised by diverse practices and shared activity. Sound/Image/Media Encounters forms local and international sector-based proposals, to generate experimental initiatives and industry partnerships alike. These include: archival, curatorial, festival and/or exhibition-based research projects and online/offline dissemination.

Group’s researchers include filmmakers, photographers, digital artists and doctoral researchers (practice and theory), technical staff and alumni from across Kingston School of Art along with associated members, engaged with individual, group and institutional dialogues and exchange.

The Group supports ventures at the cusp of stillness and moving image, as well as the constant emergence of new digital practices, raising questions on political, cultural, historical and ‘pioneering' aspects of contemporary imagining, addressing contested sites and otherwise excluded voices. Its current partnership activity involves the British Film Institute, LUX Moving Image, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Photographers Gallery and The Wellcome Collection, amongst others. The Group welcomes approaches from similar research organs to develop inter-organisational projects, outputs and approaches to impact.

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Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames