Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture

10/06/2015

Modulations: Broadcasting Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences begins this week.

Tune in to Resonance 104.4fm at 11am on Friday.

23/01/2015

If you like Paperweight Radio, do consider supporting Resonance 104.4fm through its fundraising week, 9-15 February 2015.

http://fundraiser.resonance.fm/

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23/01/2015

Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture now available on iTunes.

Preview and download the podcast Paperweight Newspaper on iTunes. Read episode descriptions and customer reviews.

24/07/2014

This afternoon's episode of Paperweight Radio is themed Plastic.

We discuss the material properties of plastics with material scientist Paul Tangney; silicone and plastic surgery with art historian Matt Lodder; vinyl in the digital age with sociologists Ian Woodward and Dominik Bartmanski; and skateboard culture with communications scholar Emily Chivers Yochim.

Tune in to Resonance 104.4fm at 3.30pm.

15/07/2014

Remember to tune in to this week's episode of Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture, themed The Art School.

Our line-up of guests: Beth Williamson, Emily LaBarge, John Beck and Matthew Cornford.

This Thursday, 3.30pm (GMT), Resonance 104.4fm.

13/07/2014

And while you are listening to Domesticating the Modernist Body, do download the latest episode of Paperweight Radio, Mixed Media.

Our episode on Mixed Media featured art historian Matt Lodder on art on TV and film; geographical historian Elizabeth Haines on colonial cartography; artist and architectural theorist Marian Macken on

09/07/2014

For your diaries.

Tomorrow, 3.30pm (GMT), Resonance 104.4fm

Themed Mixed Media, tomorrow's episode of Paperweight Radio will feature art historian Matt Lodder, artist Judy Spark, geographer Liz Haines and architect Marian Macken.

Tune in.

08/07/2014

The first two episodes of the current series of Paperweight Radio are now available on Soundcloud for your listening pleasure.

Themed Collections and Animals, tune in and download.

Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture draws together artists, designers, academics, curators, writers and researchers around a theme, to explore the territory of visual and material

04/07/2014

A note at the end of an email received today, about another project I (JCK) work on:

'On a personal note, I follow Paperweight Radio, and it's awesome.'

With thanks to the sender; but in case you haven't tuned in yet, Paperweight Radio broadcasts on Resonance 104.4fm, Thursdays at 3.30pm (GMT).

You can tune in here:

The Radioplayer application can be installed on smartphones running iOS or Android and even as a plugin for Google Chrome.

01/07/2014

This week's episode of Paperweight Radio is Domesticating the Modernist Body, with guests Jessica Kelly, Mary Vaughan Johnson, Simon Weir and Julijonas Urbonas.

We also have some excellent musical pieces chosen by our guests. To find out what they are, you will have to tune in to Resonance 104.4fm on Thursday at 3.30pm (GMT).

26/06/2014

Paperweight Radio is preparing for broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm!

This week' s show is themed Animals and we will be live in the studio from 3.30pm (GMT).

Join us.

The Radioplayer application can be installed on smartphones running iOS or Android and even as a plugin for Google Chrome.

24/06/2014

A preview of this week's show, Paperweight Radio, on Resonance 104.4fm -- Animals in Visual and Material Culture.

Thursday 26 June, 3.30pm.

The next episode of Paperweight Radio on Resonance 104.4FM, themed Animals, will be broadcast on Thursday 26 June, 3.30pm. It will feature contemporary art historian Lynn Turner, medieval literatur...

12/06/2014

Here, a link to a preview of the next series of Paperweight Radio, which begins next Thursday at 3.30pm, on Resonance 104.4FM.

We are still in production for some shows, and are always interested in hearing from potential guests.

Series two of Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture begins on Resonance 104.4FM on Thursday 19 June, 3.30pm running for seven weeks. As a preview to what is to come, here a...

19/05/2014

A second series of Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture has been commissioned by Resonance FM, the Arts Council-funded radio station based in London.

The shows will be broadcast in June and July and I am opening up an invitation to those who are interested in being a guest.

For the second series, I am developing the following themes:

Animal, Gravity/Space, Domesticating the Modernist Body, Plastic, Mixed Media.

If your work could be broadly understood under one of these headers and you are interested in being a guest, do please send a statement of interest to [email protected].

10/10/2013

Today is the last show of the series.

Tune in at 3:30pm (GMT) to Resonance 104.4fm to hear about the latest research and ideas in visual and material culture, themed today on The Ecological.

With contemporary art historian Wood Roberdeau, sustainable design researcher Paul Micklethwaite and geographer Richard Bater, today's show focusses on how contemporary art and design practices speak to ecology and its concerns.

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26/09/2013

In today's show, the fourth in our series exploring research and ideas in visual and maerial culture, we turn to the topic of Maker Culture.

The show will be a change in format, as it will be in conversation with the artist and maker Helen Carnac. Also in the show, we are featuring an interview with V&A Visiting Research Fellow Gavin Grindon, on the maker cultures of social movements and activism.

Do tune in today, at 3.30pm (GMT) to Resonance 104.4fm.

19/09/2013

You can tune in, online, here:

The Radioplayer application can be installed on smartphones running iOS or Android and even as a plugin for Google Chrome.

18/09/2013

Tomorrow's broadcast in our on-going exploration of visual and material culture with Paperweight Radio is themed on Paper.

Guests are: Beth Williamson (Tate) on the digitisation of artists' books; Elizabeth Eger (KCL) on the paper culture of the Bluestockings; Zoe Hendon (MoDA) on sonic wallpaper; and Helen Smith (York) on paper in Early Modern England.

Do tune in to Resonance 104.4fm tomorrow at 3.30pm (GMT). We look forward to welcoming you all.

(And if you miss the broadcast, it is repeated again on Saturday at 7am GMT.)

12/09/2013

Half an hour to broadcast of Paperweight Radio Episode 2: Light. Tune in and listen to our great speakers on Resonance 104.4FM.

11/09/2013

Do make sure you tune in to Resonance 104.4fm tomorrow afternoon at 3.30pm GMT for episode 2 of Paperweight Radio, themed on Light.

We will cover topics such as fireworks, the visual and material culture of contemporary home organisation, nineteenth century glass palaces and x-ray crystallography, in conversation with a great line up of guests: Simon Werrett, Katherine Feo Kelly, Douglas Murphy and Emily Candela.

05/09/2013

We have been Paperweight Radio, exploring the worlds of visual and material culture. Thank you for listening.

Tune in next week at the same time on Resonance 104.4fm for our show on Light, where we will be discussing fireworks, greenhouses, x-ray crystallography and cluttered homes, with Simon Werrett, Douglas Murphy, Emily Candela and Katherine Feo Kelly.

05/09/2013

Now on, a reprise of our interview with design historian Paul Atkinson on computer vapourware.

See the images and objects we are discussing now on our tumblr paperweightnewspaper.tumblr.com.

05/09/2013

Now on, Øyvind Vågnes on the Zapruder film of the assassination of JFK.

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05/09/2013

Follow the images and objects we discuss on our tumblr:

paperweightnewspaper.tumblr.com

05/09/2013

One minute to broadcast.

05/09/2013

The first episode of Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture broadcasts on Resonance 104.4fm in just over three hours, at 3.30pm GMT.

Recapping two themes we have previously explored in print, Screen and Ghost, the show features a discussion with art historian Matt Lodder on what are we talking about when we talk about visual and material culture; media theorist Øyvind Vågnes on Abraham Zapruder’s film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; and design historian Paul Atkinson on vapourware, the liminal objects of the computer industry.

Listen live here.

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24/08/2013

We are delighted to announce Paperweight Radio has been commissioned for a six part series on Resonance FM.

Here at PW Towers, we are doing some lightning quick production as the shows begin in September and will be broadcast on Thursdays, 3.30-4.30pm.

The six show thematics in visual and material culture we are working with at the moment are:

Mother, Texture, Sport, Women in Design, Maker Culture and The Ecological.

Any suggestions or recommendations for guests and/or musical interludes are more than welcome, either in comments below or through my email address [email protected].

If you are recommending yourself as a guest, you need to be available on a Thursday afternoon in London.

13/05/2013

For those of you who listened in to Paperweight: The Radio Newspaper on Resonance FM (or have listened again through Soundcloud), here is a profile of the 'world’s first radio art station', its shows and its people.

One excerpt: "Many of its shows are uncategorisable forays into the unknown that stretch listeners’ boundaries, summon unexpected genius and occasionally confuse the hell out of you. The station is a magnet for London eccentrics, with many of its DJs broadcasting from their homes, studios and hideaways all over the capital."

We are proud to be part of it.

Anyone can broadcast on Resonance FM, the capital’s brilliantly eccentric independent radio station, which is about to celebrate its eleventh birthday. Time Out meets some of the Londoners who do just that.

08/04/2013

Paul Atkinson talks about his appearance on PW Radio last month.

On the 15th March I travelled down to London to take part in a radio interview on Resonance FM, the London-based Arts Radio Station. The programme was a pilot for a new regular show hosted b...