About the hub
The Sonic Screen Lab (SSL) adopts an interdisciplinary, creative and speculative approach to storytelling, a powerful tool for interpretation, understanding and change.
By exploring narrative methods alongside creative technologies and hybrid media formats, SSL operates at the intersection of narrative, form and function as well as science and humanities.
Based in the Screen School, at London College of Communication, the Lab brings together:
- UAL academics;
- Postgraduate students and researchers;
- national and international scholars, practitioners and industry.
Areas of research include but are not limited to:
- offering creative space for experimentation and innovation with existing and new theoretical and practice-based methodologies;
- hybrid moving image and sound formats;
- critical screen studies.
Key activities
- Space to play, innovate and present research
- Podcasts
- Internal and external collaborations
- Networking and publication events
- Public facing screenings, exhibitions and seminars
Projects
Pecha Kucha Network and funding event
This event provided an opportunity to discover and share film and sound-based storytelling research practices with colleagues and doctoral students. It allowed practices and communities within the Screen School to share and network, and to discuss potential collaborations and funding.
The Pecha Kucha 20×20 presentation format is a slideshow of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and you’ve got 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way. PechaKucha was created in Japan in 2003 by renowned architects, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham. The word “PechaKucha” is Japanese for “chit chat.”
Sonic Screen Podcasts
Sonic Screen Podcasts is a space for LCC’s Screen School staff to talk about and share work with colleagues. This can be work in progress, prospective ideas, dreams of future work or finished research. It can be presented informally, creatively, performed or powerpointed. Each month two people share ideas for 20 minutes, each followed by 20 minutes discussion.
Sonic Screen is coordinated by Thomas Gardner. Events take place online on Microsoft Teams, monthly on the last Wednesday of each month. Each presentation is recorded and uploaded to Sonic Screen Podcasts.
Please do come along and support your colleagues. To propose a presentation, contact Thomas Gardner: t.gardner@lcc.arts.ac.uk.
Storytelling and Film Sandpit: film-based research, driving social change
This sandpit gathered Film Based Researchers (FBR) across UAL who are engaged, or wishing to engage in, research driving social change. This includes multimodal film-based forms of storytelling (e.g., sound and immersive) and film practices.
Participants were asked to prepare a one slide introduction to their research interests, as well as what they would like to explore through the sandpit.
Group members
- Shreepali Patel
- Ash Sharma
- Thomas Gardner
- Kamila Kuc
- David Alamouti
- Onyeka Igwe
- Mark Peter Wright
- Friended Peng
Contact
For more information and to get involved with the Sonic Screen Lab, please get in touch with:
- Shreepali Patel (co-founder): s.r.patel@lcc.arts.ac.uk
- Ash Sharma (co-founder): a.sharma@lcc.arts.ac.uk
- Steven Walker (support administrator): steven.walker@arts.ac.uk