Paula Callus
Biographic Data
| ID | 2578907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Callus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Callus |
| SIGNATURE | CALLUS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2007-9310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Young artivists, social change and media literacy
This article discusses the interplay between artivism and media literacy in plural Global South(s) and its fight against marginalisation. It reflects on the production of an experimental animation Portrait of Marielle by Kenyan and Brazilian young media activists and artivists. This animated film honours the legacy of Marielle Franco, a Brazilian human rights activist and politician murdered in 2018. The article explores how creative media practi…
Remediated Sites
During the COVID-19 pandemic, new spaces for archives, creative representation, and display created novel ways of accessing, experiencing, and cataloging media art. Leonardo’s Lumen Prize 2020 exhibition offers a third space between virtual exhibition as a site of memory and an archive of knowledge and artistic production—a place of digital assemblage. Bolter and Grusin’s remediation theory sheds light on the many visual strategies employed by th…
The Rise of Kenyan Political Animation
Michezo Video
In Kenya, the rise of digital technologies and related new media, and an infrastructure able to support them, has seen the emergence of a growing local video games industry and a new generation of Kenyan video game developers, players and promoters. This article focuses on the particular design strategies employed by young producers of creative digital content for games and the current networks of practice, play and support unfolding around these…
Animation, Fabrication, Photography
all photos © and courtesy of the artistsAnimation draws upon a range of artistic practice: illustration, painting, sculpture, choreography, and photography. This assemblage of forms is bound by the photographic as it effectively captures the sequence of images. There are a number of different ways in which a range of African animation artists engage with or utilize photography within their practice, illustrating the range and scope of methods tha…
Animation as socio-political commentary
This article broadly explores the relationship between non-indexical audio-visual formats and socio-political commentary by focusing on the animated films of Congolese film-maker Jean Michel Kibushi. It uses a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on biographical information, the history of animation in Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, animation and African film theory, writing on Congolese popular culture and collective memory, and per…
Young artivists, social change and media literacy
This article discusses the interplay between artivism and media literacy in plural Global South(s) and its fight against marginalisation. It reflects on the production of an experimental animation Portrait of Marielle by Kenyan and Brazilian young media activists and artivists. This animated film honours the legacy of Marielle Franco, a Brazilian human rights activist and politician murdered in 2018. The article explores how creative media practi…
Animation, Fabrication, Photography
all photos © and courtesy of the artistsAnimation draws upon a range of artistic practice: illustration, painting, sculpture, choreography, and photography. This assemblage of forms is bound by the photographic as it effectively captures the sequence of images. There are a number of different ways in which a range of African animation artists engage with or utilize photography within their practice, illustrating the range and scope of methods tha…
Michezo Video
In Kenya, the rise of digital technologies and related new media, and an infrastructure able to support them, has seen the emergence of a growing local video games industry and a new generation of Kenyan video game developers, players and promoters. This article focuses on the particular design strategies employed by young producers of creative digital content for games and the current networks of practice, play and support unfolding around these…
Animation as socio-political commentary
This article broadly explores the relationship between non-indexical audio-visual formats and socio-political commentary by focusing on the animated films of Congolese film-maker Jean Michel Kibushi. It uses a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on biographical information, the history of animation in Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, animation and African film theory, writing on Congolese popular culture and collective memory, and per…
Animation, Fabrication, Photography
all photos © and courtesy of the artistsAnimation draws upon a range of artistic practice: illustration, painting, sculpture, choreography, and photography. This assemblage of forms is bound by the photographic as it effectively captures the sequence of images. There are a number of different ways in which a range of African animation artists engage with or utilize photography within their practice, illustrating the range and scope of methods tha…
Michezo Video
In Kenya, the rise of digital technologies and related new media, and an infrastructure able to support them, has seen the emergence of a growing local video games industry and a new generation of Kenyan video game developers, players and promoters. This article focuses on the particular design strategies employed by young producers of creative digital content for games and the current networks of practice, play and support unfolding around these…
The Rise of Kenyan Political Animation
Remediated Sites
During the COVID-19 pandemic, new spaces for archives, creative representation, and display created novel ways of accessing, experiencing, and cataloging media art. Leonardo’s Lumen Prize 2020 exhibition offers a third space between virtual exhibition as a site of memory and an archive of knowledge and artistic production—a place of digital assemblage. Bolter and Grusin’s remediation theory sheds light on the many visual strategies employed by th…
Young artivists, social change and media literacy
This article discusses the interplay between artivism and media literacy in plural Global South(s) and its fight against marginalisation. It reflects on the production of an experimental animation Portrait of Marielle by Kenyan and Brazilian young media activists and artivists. This animated film honours the legacy of Marielle Franco, a Brazilian human rights activist and politician murdered in 2018. The article explores how creative media practi…
Visual arts (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Animation (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Exhibition (2 works) · Kenya (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works)