How to accommodate grief in your life
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Summers, F. 2018. AG
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- T – Other; multi-component output comprising journal paper that includes creative writing (poem), and a video artwork. The journal article is compliant with Open Access policy.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Research group(s)
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2 - Fine Art and Photography Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘How to accommodate grief in your life’ is a multi-component research output comprising a video work and journal article with poem, co-created by Francis Summers and Louisa Minkin. This collaborative piece has been completed through field research with online Second Life communities, as well as digital media practice research with media archaeology and photogrammetry. It draws on histories of trolling, spamming and grief-play in online games.
Griefing is a subcultural activity within computer game culture that derails ‘normal’ play in online situations. This subculture has generated particular behaviours, 3-d environments, visual aesthetics and languages that Summers and Minkin explore. Summers and Minkin investigate how the trope of griefing, along with its visual and textual aesthetics, points towards alternate or subcultural online culture that refuses formatted play, community defined through likeability, and rejects propriety, accommodation or adaptability.
The project addresses digital photography practice and theory, developments in new media art, and experimental writing, exploring these subjects through academic and creative writing and video practice. It is an extension of Summers and Minkin’s research and artistic collaboration around online aesthetics and the contemporary expression of antagonism, which is part of a larger, ongoing, arc of work within the project DEAD END. Both researchers contribute equally to the development of written and practice works.
The article was published in the peer-reviewed journal Philosophy of Photography. The video work was screened at the ‘Overpr!nt, Ag!tate, Act!vate’ exhibition curated by Jean Pierre Muller at Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium, 2018. The portfolio of supporting information provides further explanation of research methods, processes and insights, a range of visual material from the research (including links to the video work), and the article.
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- Non-English
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