Paperweight Radio

On this episode of Paperweight Radio we discuss plastic. Featured are material scientist Paul Tangney on the history and material properties of plastic; the sociologists Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward on the rise of vinyl in the digital age; art historian Matt Lodder on plastic surgery in fine art practice; communications scholar Emily Yochim on young men and skateboard culture; and archaeologist Sara Perry on the plasticity of media in the curator-audience relationship.

This episode of Paperweight Radio, themed The Art School, features art historian Beth Williamson on the Tate's Art School Educated project; artist Matthew Cornford and literature scholar John Beck on the death of the regional art school, and their book The Art School and The Culture Shed; and writer Emily LaBarge on the role of the humanities in the art school.

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 book-architecture; and artist Judy Sparks on communication technology and fine art practice. The show was produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen; the sound engineer was Chris Dixon.

Themed Domesticating the Modernist Body, this episode featured guests include design historian Jessica Kelly on the architect and critic J.M.Richards; Mary Vaughan Johnson on The Maison de Verre; architectural historian Simon Weir on Salvador Dali's Anti-Modernisms; and designer Julijonas Urbonas speaking about The Euthanasia Rollercoaster and The Oneiric Hotel projects. This episode was produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen; the sound engineer was Chris Dixon.

In the Animals episode, we feature contemporary art historian Lynn Turner, medieval art historian Robert Mills and Edinburgh School of Art’s Chancellor’s Fellow Michelle Bastian. Produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen Sound Engineer Chris Dixon.

This episode, themed Collection, features Goldmiths’ Curator of Art and Textile Collections Jenny Doussan, material culture specialists and historians Leonie Hannan and Kate Smith from University College London’s 100 Hours Project, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture‘s Head of Museum Collections Zoë Hendon and the artist and writer Jane Wildgoose, keeper of the Wildgoose Memorial Library. Produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen. Sound engineer Chris Dixon.

In the fifth episode of this six part series exploring themes in visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss the role of fashion in the mother-daughter relationship with sociologist Katherine Appleford; nineteenth century Invisible Mother portraits with art historian Catherine Grant and artist Lisa Castagner; and the suffragette Kitty Marion with historian Fern Riddell. The show was produced by Juliette Kristensen, and was engineered by Chris Dixon.

In this week's show we discuss how ecological concerns and ideas intersect with contemporary art practice with contemporary art historian Wood Roberdeau; what role sustainability plays in design practices with sustainable design scholar Paul Micklethwaite; and the politics of water in post-Soviet states with geographer Richard Bater. Produced by Juliette Kristensen. Engineered by Thomas Horne.

In conversation with artist, curator and maker Helen Carnac, this week’s show explores Maker Culture, the contemporary trend for making that marries technology to craft practices to form a new DIY social movement. Also featured on the show is Gavin Grindon, V&A Visiting Research Fellow, talking about Maker Culture in the context of social movements and activism. Produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen. Engineered by Chris Dixon.

In the third episode of this six part series exploring themes in visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we feature the art historian Beth Williamson of the Tate on the digitisation of artists’ books; the Head of Museums and Collections at the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture Zoe Hendon on the Sonic Wallpaper project; Elizabeth Montagu biographer and eighteenth century literature scholar Elizabeth Eger from King's College London on the paper culture of the Bluestocking circle; and literature scholar and historian Helen Smith on the paper culture of early modern England. The show was produced by Juliette Kristensen and Chris Dixon. It was engineered by Chris Dixon and Tom Horne.

In this second in a series of six programmes discussing themes within visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss fireworks with historian of science Simon Werrett; home organisation with design historian and material culture theorist Katherine Feo Kelly; nineteenth century glass and iron structures with architectural historian and critic Douglas Murphy; and x-ray crystallography and Postwar British design culture with design historian and artist Emily Candela. Produced by Chris Dixon and Juliette Kristensen. Engineered by Chris Dixon.

In this first show in a series of six programmes discussing themes within visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss the origins of Paperweight with its Editor-At-Large Matt Lodder, Lecturer in Contemporary Art, University of Essex; Abraham Zapruder’s film of the assassination of JFK with media scholar Øyvind Vågnes, postdoctoral fellow at Nomadikon, University of Bergen; and reprise an interview first broadcast in March this year on ‘vapourware’ with design historian Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design and Design History, Sheffield Hallam University. Produced by Chris Dixon and Juliette Kristensen. Engineered by Chris Dixon.

The pilot radio show of Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture, broadcast on ResonanceFM, is themed on one of our favourite topics, Ghosts. This episode features discussions with the design historian Paul Atkinson on vapourware; the parageographer James Thurgill on haunted places; the collector and curator Brad Feuerhelm on occult photography; and ninteenth century literature and culture scholar Clare Pettitt on the nineteenth century telegraphic imaginary. To see the images and objects under discussion in this show, visit our tumblr Paperweight Newspaper. Hosted by Juliette Kristensen, this episode was first broadcast on Friday 15 March, 2013. It was produced by Juliette Kristensen and Chris Dixon.