Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound-Image Media
These UKRI funding have brought in £650k to the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Lead Research Organisation: University of GreenwichDepartment Name: Creative Prof. & Digital Arts, FACH
Organisations
- University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- Association of Motion Picture Sound (Project Partner)
- Skywalker Sound; a Lucasfilm Company (Project Partner)
- Eargasm (Project Partner)
- Society for Artistic Research (Project Partner)
Abstract
The spatial turn, which swept the wider humanities, has not significantly contributed to inform our understandings of sound and image relationships. Audiovisual media are still often conceptualised in visually biassed, temporal frameworks, divided in relation to layers of narrative structure. This project seeks to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual, in which all sound and image elements (and their spatial properties) can be identified as fundamentally active participants in constituting our audiovisual experiences. This project will engage Oscar and EMMY award winning Sound Design professionals in collaborative research to unpack their tacit knowledge and to investigate the role that spatial thinking plays within their practice.
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