Who's who
Dr Fred McVittie
Senior Lecturer
Research interests
The application of cognitive poetics to arts and social media practices, with a particular focus on the role of performance metaphors within and across different forms of knowing.
Recent outputs since January 2008
- McVittie, F. (2009). ‘Performing Dualism: The Body as a Vehicle of Telepresence'. Performing Presence. University of Exeter.
- McVittie, F. (2009). ‘Polycentric Prototypical Theatre'. Third International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. University of Lincoln.
Selected earlier outputs
- McVittie, F. (2007). ‘Top-down and bottom-up approaches to actor training. Journal of Visual Art Practice 6(2): 155-163.
- McVittie, F. (2007). ‘Symbols and Schemata: the use of visual and sensorimotor metaphors within knowledge acquisition in the arts'. Second International Conference - Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.
- McVittie, F. (2006). ‘Sharing Space through Three-dimensional Consciousness'. CEP 2006 - Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and Self. St. Anne's College, Oxford.
- McVittie, F. (2006). From the Stream to the Ocean. Reflections on Creativity, Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College.
- McVittie, F. (2005). ‘The Imaginary Physics of Performance'. Theatre of the future? Michael Chekhov and 21st Century Performance. Dartington College of Arts, UK.
Artworks
- First Person Rambler (2008) - Performance Walk and Video Artwork featured in Artranspennine, August 2008
- Before and After Physics (2008) - Gallery exhibition. Alsager Arts Centre, 5-14 March 2008
- Absent Friends (I didn't know I was dead until I cried at your funeral) (2008) - Performed at the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster. 1 March 2008 (with PANTS Theatre Company)
Current research / forthcoming outputs
Extended Play: Creativity and Composition symposium June 2010 consisting of 5 round-table events featuring artists and academics addressing a set of key issues facing art and performance practice. Topics include: Art & Social Context; Training for Sustainable Practice; Writing & Reading; and Unspeakable Practices. Speakers attending include Tim Etchells, Katie Duck, Lone Twin, Chris Crickmay, David Williams, and Mike Pearson. The symposium will be documented for web streaming and the proceedings will be published in a special edition of Performance Research Journal.
Membership of learned societies, subject associations
- Standing Conference of University Drama Deparments
- UK Cognitive Linguistics Association
I am particularly interested in supervising research in Performance, Use of Social Media in art and performance, application of cognitive poetics
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