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Dr Sarah Atkinson’s work is focused upon new models of audience engagements in digital storytelling, industrial filmmaking process, evolving models of labour in transmedia production, and digital archiving. She deploys both practice-based and empirical methodologies in her research and teaching.
Following her practice-led PhD Telling Interactive Stories in which her own interactive film Crossed Lines was exhibited internationally, Atkinson has gone onto produce an interactive featurette for the Ginger & Rosa (2012, Dir: Sally Potter) Blu-ray by Artificial Eye (UK) and DVD, Lionsgate (USA).
Sarah has received grants from the Higher Education Academy, JISC and the Open University to undertake both research and teaching initiatives, her most recent award from the AHRC has funded the DEEP FILM Access Project for which she is the Principal Investigator.
She launched and developed the now highly-reputed Broadcast Media course provision at the Hastings campus, introducing emerging technologies and the development of new digital practices. She also led the review of the Creative Media MA, leads and teaches modules in Transmedia Cultures, Digital Practice & Pedagogy and was the academic lead on both ALTO-UK (Arts Learning and Teaching online) and the Faculty’s ARTS-OER project.
She is collaborating with colleagues across the School of Art, Design and Media to respond to the digital transformation objectives of the university’s strategic plan, working towards all courses within the school being supported by innovative and creative use of technology for learning, teaching and research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr Sarah Atkinson’s research work examines narrative, text, process, apparatus and audience to map the new spaces and modes of spectatorship. Her recent monograph Beyond the Screen: Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences presents an expanded conceptualisation of cinema, one which encompasses the ways film can be experienced beyond the auditorium by a digitally networked society. The book includes considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through case studies of recent and near-future developments.
Atkinson is contracted by Edinburgh University Press for a book The Anatomy of a Film: process, practice and collaborative endeavor in the digital age, which offers a unique case study into filmmaking process by revealing the impact of digital technologies upon the people, processes and frameworks of conventional film practice. It illuminates how digital transformations are impacting upon the work of UK film director Sally Potter. It provides a unique case study of the entire life cycle of latest film from idea to distribution, through to audience reception and archiving within the context of the conventional British film industry.
Atkinson is co-editor with Prof. Sarah Whatley of the February issue of Convergence: Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices, which brings together researchers, artists, professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon art, design, media, film and performing arts disciplines. It explores the affordances of digital technologies upon archival practices whereby there is a notable shift from the closed to the open and from the traditional single-user archive model to emerging multi-user, collaborative forms of archival practices and scholarship.
Atkinson was awarded a PhD from Brunel University in January 2009. Telling Interactive Stories is a practice-based thesis, which theoretically and practically investigates the field of digital fictional interactive storytelling.
Her interactive film “Crossed Lines” is an original fictional interactive AV piece, amalgamating multiform plots, a multi-screen viewing environment, an interactive interface and an interactive story navigation form. It has been exhibited at the Electronic Literature Organisation conference at the Washington State University, US; the Digital Interactive Media in Arts and Entertainment conference arts show in Athens, Greece; The Interrupt arts show in Providence, US and the EuroITV arts show in Leuven, Belgium and at the International Conference Interactive Digital Storytelling, Guimaraes, Portugal.
Following her practice-led PhD Telling Interactive Stories in which her own interactive film Crossed Lines was exhibited internationally, Atkinson has gone onto produce an interactive featurette for the Ginger & Rosa (2012, Dir: Sally Potter) Blu-ray by Artificial Eye (UK) and DVD, Lionsgate (USA).
Sarah has received grants from the Higher Education Academy, JISC and the Open University to undertake both research and teaching initiatives, her most recent award from the AHRC has funded the DEEP FILM Access Project for which she is the Principal Investigator.
She launched and developed the now highly-reputed Broadcast Media course provision at the Hastings campus, introducing emerging technologies and the development of new digital practices. She also led the review of the Creative Media MA, leads and teaches modules in Transmedia Cultures, Digital Practice & Pedagogy and was the academic lead on both ALTO-UK (Arts Learning and Teaching online) and the Faculty’s ARTS-OER project.
She is collaborating with colleagues across the School of Art, Design and Media to respond to the digital transformation objectives of the university’s strategic plan, working towards all courses within the school being supported by innovative and creative use of technology for learning, teaching and research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr Sarah Atkinson’s research work examines narrative, text, process, apparatus and audience to map the new spaces and modes of spectatorship. Her recent monograph Beyond the Screen: Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences presents an expanded conceptualisation of cinema, one which encompasses the ways film can be experienced beyond the auditorium by a digitally networked society. The book includes considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through case studies of recent and near-future developments.
Atkinson is contracted by Edinburgh University Press for a book The Anatomy of a Film: process, practice and collaborative endeavor in the digital age, which offers a unique case study into filmmaking process by revealing the impact of digital technologies upon the people, processes and frameworks of conventional film practice. It illuminates how digital transformations are impacting upon the work of UK film director Sally Potter. It provides a unique case study of the entire life cycle of latest film from idea to distribution, through to audience reception and archiving within the context of the conventional British film industry.
Atkinson is co-editor with Prof. Sarah Whatley of the February issue of Convergence: Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices, which brings together researchers, artists, professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon art, design, media, film and performing arts disciplines. It explores the affordances of digital technologies upon archival practices whereby there is a notable shift from the closed to the open and from the traditional single-user archive model to emerging multi-user, collaborative forms of archival practices and scholarship.
Atkinson was awarded a PhD from Brunel University in January 2009. Telling Interactive Stories is a practice-based thesis, which theoretically and practically investigates the field of digital fictional interactive storytelling.
Her interactive film “Crossed Lines” is an original fictional interactive AV piece, amalgamating multiform plots, a multi-screen viewing environment, an interactive interface and an interactive story navigation form. It has been exhibited at the Electronic Literature Organisation conference at the Washington State University, US; the Digital Interactive Media in Arts and Entertainment conference arts show in Athens, Greece; The Interrupt arts show in Providence, US and the EuroITV arts show in Leuven, Belgium and at the International Conference Interactive Digital Storytelling, Guimaraes, Portugal.