@imageworkscardiff.bsky.social
A public platform bringing together academics, artists, and audiences for dialogue and shared learning. Based at Cardiff University School of English, Communication and Philosophy and open to all
Still some spots available for our upcoming Fanzine Workshop at Chapter Arts Centre run by the wonderful Meena Saverimuttu ✨
Join us on Sunday to learn some history about zines and then have a go at making your own (materials and tea and coffee provided)!
Delighted to have @daisydixon.bsky.social and Durre Shahwar kicking off ‘The ‘art’ of research’ Away Day here in Cardiff today, helping us explore new creative routes into our research through images and autofiction 💕
Incredible paid opportunity for film-makers in Wales through the Reimagining Women’s Unfinished Film in Wales project run by the incredible @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Meena Saverimuttu in collab with Image Works!
Call for applications open until 14 Feb 🎬📽️🎞️
Details in English and Welsh below!
EoIs due to me at beestona@cardiff.ac.uk by this Friday 14th February!
Incredible paid opportunity for film-makers in Wales through the Reimagining Women’s Unfinished Film in Wales project run by the incredible @alixbeeston.bsky.social and Meena Saverimuttu in collab with Image Works!
Call for applications open until 14 Feb 🎬📽️🎞️
Details in English and Welsh below!
Tracy Llanera (UConn) is kicking off our workshop on “Digital Transformations: Identity, Affectivity, and Gender” with her talk on White Terror Wolves and their agency
#philsky #visualcultures #cardiff #digitalcommunities #aesthetics
Very lucky to have such an incredible set of panelists - Meena Saverimuttu, @geneickers.bsky.social, @lvself.bsky.social,Tracy Llanera, and @lucyosler.bsky.social ✨
Thank you to the Global Wales Partnership Fund for supporting this beautiful event!
The tensions between the freedom to self-express and find connection and the railroading of our narratives and imaginations by digital platforms and their algorithms. And the promise of art to help us imagine and create more open futures!
What an amazing event last night at Tramshed! Fantastic discussions about the good, the bad, and the ugly of online communities. We talked about the seductive aesthetics of TikTok fanfic, tradwife cookiedom, and the veiling of hate speech as information on gender critical websites…
Looking forward to our evening discussionof tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fandom, trans affect, and more at Tramshed tonight!
Tickets free and a few still available (eventbrite link below)💫
#cardiff
Happening tomorrow! Tickets free and a few still available 💫 join us for discussions about tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fanfic, trans affect, and more!
Some amazing talks coming up this Friday 13 Dec thanks to @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social, @uconn.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera & yours truly!
"Cultural Imperialism: A Face of Trans Oppression"
"Transness, Social Media, and Emotion: How Online Spaces Sculpt Trans Affect"
1/2
CFP for the next American Society for Aesthetics annual conference, Baltimore, Oct 22–25 2025. Deadline March 1.
aesthetics-online.org/events/Event...
NB(1) The ASA has pretty generous and plentiful travel grants available.
NB(2) As big conferences go, this one is friendly and welcoming.
#philsky
This is the sister workshop to our public panel event on digital transformations!
And Christina Thatcher talking about poem-making as a way of synthesizing research for the project ‘The water that binds us’ based in Wales and New Zealand 🩵
In our Show and Tell session today at Cardiff Uni, Daisy Dixon presents her on-going project with Paris Panos on their work on the role of and need for beauty in the city, working with communities in Cardiff 💚
Our next event is on Thursday 12th December on “(Re)presentation: selves, communities, and digital transformations” at Tramshed in Cardiff. Spaces still available for free!
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/representa...
and an evening of life drawing and art monsters with @laurenelkin.bsky.social and Daisy Dixon!
We run a variety of academic and public events. Recent events include making digital laptop performances with Jane Frances Dunlop, discussing the relationship between horses and humans through the photography of Julie Sleaford and poetry of Christina Thatcher,