Image Works
@imageworkscardiff.bsky.social
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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
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For those who don’t know us, Image Works is a group of academics (incl. art historians, media and communication specialists, philosophers, film scholars) who join with students, artists and practitioners is exploring visual culture in the broadest sense!
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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)!
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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 💕
PowerPoint slide for the Image Works Away Day in a wood panelled room
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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!
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EoIs due to me at [email protected] by this Friday 14th February!
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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!
imageworkscardiff.bsky.social
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!
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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
Photo of Tracy Llanera presenting a slide about white terror wolves in a lecture style room
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#philsky #visualcultures #cardiff #digitalcommunities #aesthetics
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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!
Photo of the panel (from left to right: Lucy Osler, Meena Saverimuttu, Louise Richardson-Self, Gen Eickers, Tracy Llanera) in front of a cinema screen with a slide showing the logos of Cardiff University, University of Connecticut, Universities Wales, and Image Works
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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!
Photo of an old school cinema sign with the words “Representation & The Digital”
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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…
A photo of the panel (from left to right: Lucy Osler, Meena Saverimuttu, Louise Richardson-Self, Gen Eickers, Tracy Llanera) in front of a cinema screen with a slide of the event depicting animated pictures of people looking at phones and tablets
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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
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We are hosting an event at Tramshed in Cardiff on 12th December on “Re(Presentation): Selves, Communities, and Digital Transformations” - discussing trans communities, tradwives, and TikTok trends with the amazing @geneickers.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera, Louise Richardson-Self, and Meena Saverimuttu
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Happening tomorrow! Tickets free and a few still available 💫 join us for discussions about tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fanfic, trans affect, and more!
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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"

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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
American Society For Aesthetics
83rd ASA Annual Meeting, Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD: October 22 - October 25, 2025
aesthetics-online.org
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This is the sister workshop to our public panel event on digital transformations!
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Join our hybrid workshop on 13 Dec with the amazing @geneickers.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera, @lvself.bsky.social, and Francesca Sobande to discuss “Digital Transformations: Identity, Gender, and Affectivity”!

#philosophy #philsky
Poster for this event with a blue background and illustrations of people in brightly coloured clothes interacting with individual digital screens, connected with lines.