Ms Kayla Parker
Research
Research Specialisms
Artists' moving image; animation; gender and creative practice; feminist and collaborative practice; materiality and subjectivity; 360 cinema
Previous Projects
2011 Teign Spirit 360*, 360 film, ICCI 360 Arena, Weymouth (Open Weekend: London 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the SW); Cinematic City, digital film about post-war architecture in Plymouth city centre (producer) Plymouth Arts Centre (SW Screen + Arts Council); Flora* 35mm film. 2010 Brighton Road Movie: First Run*, 16mm film; Nectar* 360 film, ICCI (London 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the SW); Verge 360*, 360 film; Glass, digital film. 2009 Teign Spirit*, Animate Projects for Sea Change; Twenty Foot Square*, digital film; White Body, digital film. 2007 Art of Conversation, action research, Plymouth College of Art and Design; Small World*, digital film, practice-based research into HD aesthetics, Definitive Stories screening programme, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. 2003-2006 Unity, leader of four media-based action research projects for BME students at Plymouth College of Art and Design funded by Ethnic Minority Student Achievement Grant (EMSAG) awards from The Learning and Skills Council. 2002 Life in the Bus Lane*, digital film project for urban screens, Living City Project Award, Plymouth Arts Centre (South West Arts and National Lottery). 2001 Inner City, DV and Super 8mm practice-based research project, Year of the Artist commission for residency with Attik Dance (Arts Council/South West Media Development Agency); Physic, DV practice-based research into digital image manipulation, Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes (Aune Head Arts). 2000 Walking Out, 16mm practice-based research project into the internal landscape of sexual abuse (Arts Council/South West Arts). 1997 Project* Super 8mm and pinhole photography practice-based research, London Film Makers' Co-op (National Lottery). 1996 Sunset Strip, 35mm practice-based research into subjectivity and visual music, Animate Award (Channel 4/Arts Council). 1994 Elemental*, Super 8mm practice-based research, Strandline exhibition (Plymouth City Museum and Art Galley). 1994 As Yet Unseen, 16mm practice-based research into the mother/daughter relationship, BFI Production. 1993 Night Sounding, 16mm practice-based audiovisual research into sense of place, One Minute Television (BBC2's The Late Show/Arts Council). 1992 Cage of Flame, 16mm practice-based research into subjectivity and menstruation, Animate Award (Channel 4/Arts Council). * collaborative projects with film-maker and sound artist Stuart Moore and Sundog Media
Current research
My research as an artist film-maker is focused on subjectivity and place, embodiment and technological mediation, from feminist perspectives. Current research examines the interface between animated and live action media, and space-time relationships in animation. I collaborate with others on interdisciplinary projects that investigate subjectivities and sense of place, with a particular interest in expanded and 360 cinema. My PhD thesis Every frame counts: gender and creative practice in animation investigates direct animation by women in artists' moving image. Supervisory team: Liz Wells, Professor in Photographic Culture, and Dr Roberta Mock, Professor of Performance Studies.
Publications
2011 'White Body: animating feminine pleasure', in Body, Space & Technology Journal 10.2 Summer 2011; 2010 Memories Wanted, in REQUIEM // 102 minute #29; Sunset Strip, in AnimateTV: 20 years of Experimental animation from the UK [DVD]; Art of research, in Plymouth ArtsCulture pp. 26 - 30. 2008 'White Body' film + research statement, in Screenwork2 DVD: AVPhD Issue, Journal of Media Practice 9.3 November 2008, Bristol: Intellect. 2006 The bigger picture: getting animated, in Time Out 1000 films to change your life, Simon Cropper (ed.) London: Ebury p. 101. 2005 Cage of Flame, film still, the cover image in an.schlage: das feministische magazin 03/2005, Vienna: Redaktion; Learning companion - a study guide for level 3 learners, Plymouth: Plymouth Learning and Work Partnership, and the 14-19 Pathfinder Project [3rd reprint]. 2004 Project, film still; Memory, Narrative, Imaging the Un-see-able; Cinema, spectacle, immersion; As Yet Unseen, Walking Out and Elemental film stills, in Experiments in moving image [exhibition catalogue] Jackie Hatfield and Stephen Littman (eds. and curators) Margate: Thanet ISBN 1-902458-06-0 pp. 49; 90; 91; 92; 100; 105. 2003 Sunset Strip, film and production notes, in Camera-less animation, in Into animation: a video compilation and teaching guide [VHS and CD-ROM] Louise Spraggon, London: BFI Education ISBN 1-903786-10-X. 2001 Remembering Alison de Vere (1927 - 2001), feature in ASIFA news Vol 14 No.1 2001, Ottawa: International Association of Animated Film p. 16 (French translation p. 17; Russian translation p. 18). 1996 Metamorphosis, 16mm filmstrip and frame enlargement; Sunset Strip, and Walking Out, film stills; and Running Horse, frame enlargement, in Drawing on Film, Cage of Flame, film still, in Themes: Didactic, in The encyclopaedia of animation techniques, Richard Taylor, London: Quarto ISBN 0-240-51488-2 pp. 64 - 65; 131. 1996 Cage of Flame, film still, the cover image; Kayla Parker section with filmography, in A directory of British film and video artists, David Curtis (ed.) Luton: John Libbey and Arts Council of England ISBN 1-86020-003-6 pp. 138 - 139; 223. 1992 Unknown Woman, film still; A-Z: Parker, Kayla GB in Women and animation: a compendium, Jayne Pilling (ed.) London: British Film Institute ISBN 0-85170-377-1 p. 80 - 81; 133 - 134.
Other
Member of the Land/Water and the Visual Arts, and art + sound research groups at Plymouth University. Principal investigator for interdisciplinary practice-based research projects, in collaboration with Stuart Moore and Sundog Media, including: 2009 Hidden Harm, with young people and children affected by alcohol and substance misuse in their family, commissioned by Plymouth City Council. 2009 The Other CO2 Problem, with Ridgeway School, Dr Carol Turley of Plymouth Marine Laboratory, commissioned by European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) with support from University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, and National Marine Aquarium, and winner of the 2009 Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication, awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry. 2008 There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers, with young carers and young carer workers at the Zone, commissioned by Plymouth City Council, and winner of the 2009 Media Innovation Award: Collaboration between Business and Young People.
Email and website
Email: kayla.parker@plymouth.ac.uk
Website
Primary institution
Position
Lecturer in Media Arts
Department
School of Art and Media
Faculty
Arts
Institution
Plymouth University
Address
- M08 Scott Building
- Drake Circus
- Plymouth
- PL4 8AA
- Tel: +44(0)1752 585230
