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David Chapman
Position: Senior Lecturer
Location: Docklands Campus, Room: EB.3.01
Contact address:
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London E16 2RD
Brief biography:
David Chapman is a senior lecturer in media production and co-course tutor of the MA Multimedia programme. He is also a freelance producer and director. This includes work in television documentary and community and educational video and multimedia. He also is involved in the development of various arts projects, working with a number of artists in the area of video, new media and performance. David is also a practicing musician with a long history of recording and performance and an exhibiting sound artist. His current research interests involve the relationship between digitalisation and the documentary and the role of sound in fine art practice.
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Activities/responsible for:
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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:
- Digitalisation and documentary practice
- Sonic Art
Teaching:
Programmes:
MA Programme
MSM515 Media Production
MSm529 Research Methods for Media Practice
MSM502 Audio-vision
BA Film and Video
MS1201 Cinematics 1 – Introduction to video practice
MS2202 Cinematics 4 - Screen Visions: material, form and process
MS3000
Dissertation projects
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Research / Publications:
Research archive:
All publications post 2001:
For further information on recent work please visit: www.davidchapman.info
Book chapters
- 2009 'Steel Cello / Bow Chime' in Allegue, L, Jones, S, Kershaw, B and Piccini, A (eds) Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen, London: Palgrave Macmillan
- 2006 Encyclopaedia of the Documentary Film , Aitkin, Ian [ed] London: Routledge.
Entries on 'The Ark' [M. Dineen, 1993]; 'I Do Not Know What It is I am Like' [B.Viola, 1986]; 'Video Diaries' [BBC 1990-2001]; 'Interactivity' and 'Multimedia' .
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Media Work
- August 2009 ‘Chance Encounters: Serendipity and the Use of Music in the Films of Jean Cocteau and Harry Smith’, Soundtrack Vol 2, No.1
- December 2008 'Critical Dialogues: David Chapman & Louise K Wilson' Scan: Journal of Media Arts Practice Vol. 5, No.3
- January 2009 'Hark' Screenworks Vol. 1, No.1
Magazine Articles
- 2004.Guest Editor – Art In-sight /Filmwaves Issue 25, pp 5-18, ISSN: 1460-4051 ‘Opening the Sonic Envelope’ – editorial pp5-6
- 2003 'Wigs of Wonderment' Art In-sight /Filmwaves, Issue 21, p.14
ISSN 1460-4051
Conferenceand Seminar papers
- 2009
‘Falkland: a sonic investigation of place’, The Journal of Media Practice Symposium, University of Sussex
- 2009 'Reconstructing Falkland’ I Hear Too - Improving Heritage Experience through Acoustic Reality and Audio Research, Railway Museum, York, (joint with Louise K Wilson).
- 2008 'Re-configuring Falkland' Sounding Out 4, University of Sunderland (Joint Louise K Wilson
- 2007 'Hark' Cultural Studies Now, University of East London
- 2006 ‘Hark’, Sound and Anthropology Conference, St Andrews University, Scotland, UK
- 2006 ‘Hark’. Hearing Things: Art and Hearing (Seminar), EAR Institute, University College London, UK
- 2005 ‘Steel-Cello/Bow Chime – DVD Based Research’, PARIP International Conference, Leeds University, UK.
- 2004 ‘The Steel Cello and Bow Chime: an exploration and documentation of inter-disciplinary performance practice in sound sculpture’ CeMAP Seminar Series, Coventry University (joint with Adrian Palka)
- July 2003 .'From Object to Instrument: the Ambiguity of Sound Sculpture' Congress CATH 2003 Warp:Woof - aurality/musicality/textuality, AHRB Centre CATH, Leeds (Joint paper/performance with Adrian Palka).
- Nov. 2001 'Media Studies, New Media and Vocationalism ' Association of Media Practice Educators conference, Southhampton Institute, UK
Exhibitions, Media and Performance work
- October 2009 Octo: Soto Voce part of 'I hear Too' (Group Show) York Minster., York)
- July 2009Falkland Soundwalk (with Louise K Wilson) headphone piece, Falkland Estate, Scotland
- February 2009 ' The Sense of Touch' (Group Show), Curator Anne Cranny-Francis, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
- April 2008 Arcadia (with Louise K Wilson) 8 -Channel sound installation, Falkland Palace, Falkland, Scotland
- July 2007 Hark 2 (with David Cottridge) Installation: multi-channel sound and projections, (Group Show) Matrix East Research Lab, University Of East London
- August 2006 Robert Wilson Project, Sound Work / Publication, Gunpowder Park, Waltham Abbey
- October 2005 Hark, (with David Cottridge) Installation: multi-channel sound and projections, Gunpowder Park. Waltham Abbey. Funded by Gunpowder Park and Arts Council England
- September 2005 Observances, Video installation part of Reap, (Group Show) Curated by Anne Bean, Café Gallery Projects, London
- October 2004 Steel Cello / Bow Chime Director, Editor, DVD Author
DVD documentary of the performance work of Bob Rutman, Adrian Palka and Wolfram DER Spyra. Collaborative research project with Adrian Palka [Coventry University] Funded By AHRB
- June 2004 'Flows and Levels', Digital sound piece, –solo work, ‘Art Trail, Soundworks’, Cork, Ireland.
- March 2004 Steel-cello / Bow-chime, Performance / Presentation [With Adrian Palka, Coventry University]
‘Sounding Out Festival’, Curated by Richard Wilson, University of East London
- January 2004 'Improvisations on the S-Bahn' – Audio-visual performance [With Adrian Palka, Simon Miles, Mark Bowler]
Klinker Club, London
- January 2004 Revelation Online Art project image and audio mapping of sites in Lea Valley. With Paul St. George & Maureen Kendall [London Metropolitan University] Funded by Lea Valley Park
- December 2002 Wigs of Wonderment - Producer / Video editor
Interactive CD-Rom based on performance work by Keith Khan and Moti Roti. For African and Asian Visual Artists Archive / Live Arts Develeopment. Funded by London Arts Board.
- September 2002 Finding the Way Home - Producer / Director
Documentation of ERSC funded study of youth issues and cultures in East London and Hamburg. 30min. for the Centre for New Ethnicity Research - UEL. Funded ERSC
- February 2002 Artists and Cosmonauts - Co-director/ editor
Video documenting artists working in zero-gravity conditions.
Screened at Artists and Cosmonauts [Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London; Strange and Charming Sci-art seminar series Royal College of Art , London and various symposia in Britain, USA and France. For The Arts Catalyst
- March 2002 Three songs for Yuri Gagarin Digital Sound Piece -Solo work presented at Artists and Cosmonauts [Event documenting artists' engagement with space exploration], Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London
Broadcast and web-cast on Resonance fm , London September 21 st 2002
- August 2001 Chanting Heads - Producer / Video Editor
CD-Rom documenting recent work by 12 British artists
For African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
Funded by the Athene Trust
- From January 2001 Backspace Digital Sound Piece - Solo work
Collective Jukebox [ Touring group exhibition ]
Jan 2001- LMX, FRAC PACA, Marseilles France
May 2001-Festival Resonances, Nantes France
June 2001 -Salons de Musique, Strasbourg France
Sept 2001-Musée d'art Moderne and Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
March 2002 - MAMCO & Festival Archipel musiques d'aujourd'hui
Nov.2002 - Festival Acces-s, Cultures Electronique, Pau France.
Research and Arts Grants
- March 2008 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (with Louise K Wilson)
- June 2005 Arts Council England
- July 2003 AHRB, Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme, Joint application with Adrian Palka [University of Coventry].
- April 2003 ADC-LTSN, Pedagogic Research Project Fund, Joint application with Roshini Kempadoo [UEL], Andrew Dewdney [LSBU] & Anna Reading [LSBU].
Key publications pre 2001:
- 1998 'Downloading the Documentary', in Wayne, M. [ed] Dissident Voices London: Pluto Press
- 1998 Pump Station Gallery –Digital Sound Piece - ‘Intermedia 98’ Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
- 1997 The Hum, Broadcast documentary, Splash/Faction Films for HTV / Westcountry TV (Producer)
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