A creative research playground that interrogates and innovates audio-visual storytelling and the links between culture and social change
The Sonic Screen Lab (SSL) adopts an interdisciplinary, creative and speculative approach to storytelling, a powerful tool for interpretation, understanding and change.By exploring narrative methods alongside creative technologies and hybrid media formats, SSL operates at the intersection of narrative, form and function as well as science and humanities.
Based in the Screen School, at London College of Communication, the Lab brings together:
- UAL academics;
- Postgraduate students and researchers;
- national and international scholars, practitioners and industry.
Areas of research include but are not limited to:
- offering creative space for experimentation and innovation with existing and new theoretical and practice-based methodologies;
- hybrid moving image and sound formats;
- critical screen studies.
Key activities:
- Space to play, innovate and present research
- Podcasts
- Internal and external collaborations
- Networking and publication events
- Public facing screenings, exhibitions and seminars
Contact
For more information and to get involved with the Sonic Screen Lab, please email sonicscreenlab@arts.ac.uk