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Category Archives: Media
A Night at the Museum, 29 Sept 2016
We spent a truly stimulating evening in Bradford at the National Media Museum’s ‘Faces’ Lates event, combining talks on current work on how humans process faces by Dr Natalie Butcher (Teeside), and on EvoFit facial recognition technology from Dr Charlie … Continue reading
Posted in events, Media, News
Tagged art and culture, injury, National Media Museum, noses, portraits
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Virtual Tudors (with bad teeth) Revealed
Swansea University researchers in the College of Engineering have been contributing to the digital presentation of life aboard Henry VIII’s doomed flagship the Mary Rose, including a 3D scan of the skull of a carpenter with a nasty mouth abscess and head wound … Continue reading
Posted in Media, News, Resources
Tagged 3D scanning, carpenter, reconstruction, Swansea University, teeth, Tudor, work, wounds
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Paralympics and Changed Faces
The start of the 2016 Rio Paralympics reminds me of a comment made by James Partridge, CEO of Changing Faces on the impact of the previous games: ‘2012 did nothing for us’. His point was that whilst the increased media … Continue reading
Posted in events, Media, News
Tagged cancer, empowerment, facial difference, masks, noses, patches, prosthetics, Victoria Wright, wigs
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Blog post at QMUL– Diagnosing Deviance: aversion, obscenity and the senses in classical antiquity
Effaced team member Mark Bradley has a guest post that may interest our readers on the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions blog this week: Diagnosing Deviance: aversion, obscenity and the senses in classical antiquity. Mark opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Classical, Media, News, Publications
Tagged classics, disgust, Emotions, Mark Bradley, Martial, noses
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Olivier de Sagazan– ‘Transfiguration’
A striking photo series to stumble upon over the Bank Holiday, Transfiguration is a performance work by artist Olivier de Sagazan in which he engages almost brutally with our expectations of the body and face. In the performance, he uses layers of clay, … Continue reading
Posted in Body, Media, Public Engagement, Representation
Tagged art and culture, Body, Emily Cock, Olivier de Sagazan, performance, sculpture, transfiguration
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Making the best of things…
Anyone watching Slovakia play England in the UEFA EURO 2016 last week would have winced to see Peter Pekarík’s painful nose-vs-elbow encounter with Ryan Bertrand (and perhaps winced again at the final 0-0 result). But we do like his new face … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary, Media, Public Engagement
Tagged Emily Cock, football, masks, Peter Pekarík, slovakia, sports injuries
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Effaced Researcher Profile: Dr Suzannah Biernoff
Dr Suzannah Biernoff, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, discusses her research on facial difference and the First World War. Suzannah will be delivering the opening lecture for our Effaced From History conference on April 31. … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Modern, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged art and culture, Suzannah Biernoff, war, WWI
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Effaced From History? 