Hyphen Journal Issue 3.1: Ecologies

Hyphen Journal launches Issue 3.1: Ecologies. This issue of Hyphen Journal is about matters of ecology – biological, cosmological, philosophical, ethical matters, as well as a vibrant materialism in which violent separations between thought and matter, humans and ‘nature’, civilisation and its others are dissolved. The issue seeks to provide a platform on and through […]

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Cloud Sediments

Hyphen Collective presents CLOUD SEDIMENTS, 9-13 March 2022 at AmbikaP3. The meeting of clouds and sediment suggests an intersection of disparate temporalities and materialities – time in fleeting or geological registers, matter as diffuse and fugitive or compressed and layered. Clouds are mutable, transient and can be seen from afar but merge into surroundings up […]

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Visual Empire: Translations & Reproductions

Once called “La perle de l’empire,” Indochina was understood as one of France’s benevolent and civilising enterprises. Within the context of colonial expansion, photography played a substantial yet overlooked role in defining vernacular forms of modernity for the indigènes. In this lecture, Jacqueline Hong Nguyén will focus on the international mobility of Vietnamese photographers during […]

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Decriminalised Futures

CREAM doctoral candidate Camille Waring‘s talk on the state, technology, surveillance and how we resist, now forms part of a new exhibition at the London Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in central London.   Decriminalised Futures is a group exhibition featuring thirteen international artists whose work speaks to the multiplicity of contemporary sex worker experiences. The exhibition highlights the […]

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Visual Violence: Sex Workers’ Experiences of Image-Based Abuses

In 2021, CREAM doctoral candidate Camille Waring, was awarded £11,400 in research funding from National Ugly Mugs (NUM). NUM is a charity working with sex workers to research, provide safety tools and end the culture of violence against sex workers. The research project, Visual Violence: Sex Workers’ Experiences of Image-Based Abuses was birthed from an […]

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Latin London Podcast

Latin London: A Life in the Diaspora, a podcast for discussion, highlighting the life of the Latin American community in London.  In this second season, called Latin London: A Life in the Diaspora, we will talk about postcolonial theories, in the light of the awakening of Latin American feminism from the 1970s onwards. That is […]

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Behind the Artificial Intelligence Cameras

As director and producer, Vincent Du made an investigative documentary, Behind the Artificial Intelligence Cameras, for Al Jazeera’s Rest of Story programme. This documentary investigates the data privacy and facial recognition crisis facing the two Asian countries, China and South Korea, where technology is developing most rapidly, in our current era dominated by artificial intelligence, video surveillance, and social media.  […]

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