Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound Image Media

An AHRC Funded Project which aims to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual

Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound-Image Media, is an AHRC Funded Leadership Fellowship project led by Dr Andrew Knight-Hill, which aims to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual.

The project engages a combination of ethnographic interviews with award winning Sound Design professionals, creative practice research, and research networking activities, to unpack understandings of practice and reveal the potential role that spatial thinking plays within audiovisual creativity.

Events and Activities

	Research Development Network Bringing together researchers from across the arts and humanities to share disciplinary perspectives on spatiality, stimulate international interdisciplinary collaboration and foster new research agendas on spatiality in the audiovisual.
	Film Industry Talks A series of five public events (hosted in collaboration with the Association of Motion Picture Sound) inviting academics and creative practitioners to share spatial concepts and spatial approaches in practice to industry audiences and publics.
	Sound Designer / Composer Interviews Bringing together world-leading industry professionals in sound design and composition with academics and sound artists, to critique and reflect upon each others work and the role of spatiality within it.
	Creative Practice / Compositions Sound & audiovisual compositions will apply and critique spatial concepts in context, underpinning theoretical research, while affording unique dissemination opportunities.
	SOUND/IMAGE Festival 2022 & 2023 An international interdisciplinary conference at project culmination (a special edition of SOUND/IMAGE) – Bringing together researchers, artists and industry practitioners from all over the world to engage discussion, inspire creativity and foster international collaborative potentials for ongoing and future research.
	Monograph Applying spatial perspectives to deliver new understandings of the audiovisual, this book brings bringing together conceptual ideas and approaches from across the arts and humanities to present a new model for understanding audiovisuality.