Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen

Dr Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen

  • Lecturer in Legal Practice
  • Talbot House T120, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I am a transdisciplinary researcher, straddling the arts, humanities and sciences. I qualified and practised as a lawyer for over 10 years before returning to academe as a Lecturer in Legal Practice. Between 2013 and 2021, I was also assistant/managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal Media, War & Conflict.

I am particularly interested in issues related to 'grasping' state-corporate-military power; datafication and financialisation; the (post)photographic visualisation of the socially abstract, and the visualisation of radically remote science (such as particle physics). I am currently conducting research into the transmedial and performative articulation of abstract theoretical/scientific concepts, using Dark Matter and the material conditions of its detection in underground research facilities as a pilot project.

I work in transmedial and cross-genre ways, through imagery, film, creative and critical theory, and seek through such hybridity to develop a mode of creative knowledge production that eschews traditional, epistemic protectionism, fosters porosity between like and unlike disciplines, and adopts a collaborative stance towards intellectual discovery and meaning-making...

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Chapters

  • Barsdorf-Liebchen, N., 2021. A Reading, in Retrospection. Fortunes of War: Photography in Alter Space. With Eric Lesdema et al. Ed. Alfredo Cramerotti. Intellect Books (2021). In: Cramerotti, A., ed. Fortunes of War: Photography in Alter Space. With Eric Lesdema et al. Ed. Alfredo Cramerotti. Intellect Books (2021). Intellect Books.
  • Barsdorf-Liebchen, N., 2020. The cadastral: Towards a visual forensics of in/visible spaces of war. Spaces of War, War of Spaces. Eds. Sarah Maltby et al. Bloomsbury Press (2020): 35-60. In: Maltby, et al, S., ed. Spaces of War, War of Spaces. Eds. Sarah Maltby et al. Bloomsbury Press (2020): 35-60.. London: Bloomsbury Press.
  • Alkin, O., 2017. Lebende Farbe, Rassialisierung, und Animation in Spike Lees Bamboozled (2000), translation with Ömer Alkın of WJT Mitchell’s Living Color: Race, Stereotype, and Animation in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, in What do pictures want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. In: Alkin, O., ed. Deutsch-Türkische Filmkultur im Migrationskontext. Springer-Verlag.
  • Barsdorf-Liebchen, N., 2016. Complicity in Violation: The Photographic Witnessing and Visualization of War and Conflict in the twenty-first century. Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique. In: Neu, et al., M., ed. Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique.. Rowman & Littlefield Inc.

Others

Grants

  • Dark Matter(s): the Visualisation of Radically Remote Science at Boulby Underground Laboratory (Bournemouth University, 15 Apr 2023). In Progress
  • The Radically Remote and Strategies of Creative-theoretical Uncertainty (Northumbria University, 03 Apr 2022). Completed
  • Adapting and Competing in a Globalized World: Some Critical Issues in Digital Communications and Virtual Information (Budiarto Law Partnership, 01 Oct 2017). Completed
  • To Look, to Comply, to be Complicit: the Witnessing of War & Conflict in the twenty-first century (University of Cardiff, 31 Mar 2015). Completed
  • Representation, Visualisation and the (the State-Corporate-) Military Sublime (Bournemouth University, 20 Jun 2012). Completed
  • Representation, Visualisation and the Military Sublime (European Network of Film and Media Studies (NECS), 29 Sep 2011). Completed
  • Communication and Violation: Images of War as Evidence, Sensation and Aesthetic Consolation (Bournemouth University, 22 May 2011). Completed

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • AI and Corporate Personhood; a Melancholy Reflection. Artificial Intelligence and Digital Society Student Roundtable, National Economic University, Law Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine (08 Nov 2023)
  • Weighting Time: the ontology of the photograph. Public talk at Fiona Crisp: Weighting Time. An exhibition across two venues (Sunderland Museum | Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art) (18 May 2023)

Conference Presentations

  • Space Assembly: The Cultural negotiation of Space Science, Spaces of being/seeing/knowing: some undisciplinary thoughts and speculative fabulations, 28 Nov 2023, Newcastle
  • Australia and New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference 2023: Ka mua, ka muri: Bridging communication pasts and futures, In|visible Wars, Digital Dis|regard, and Micro|scopic Interventions, 21 Nov 2023, Wellington, New Zealand
  • FACT Liverpool Assembly for Public Intelligence and Radically Remote Science, The Radically Remote and Strategies of Creative-theoretical Uncertainty, 04 Apr 2022, Liverpool
  • 4th Indonesia In-House Legal Summit, Adapting and Competing in a Globalized World: Some Critical Issues in Digital Communications and Virtual Information, 05 Oct 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Political Studies Association Conference: Understanding Conflict: Forms & Legacies of Violence, University of Brighton, To Look, to Comply, to be Complicit: the Witnessing of War & Conflict in the twenty-first century, 31 Mar 2015, Brighton
  • European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) Conference: Time Networks: Screen, Media, and Memory. University of Lisbon,, Representation, Visualisation and the (the State-Corporate-) Military Sublime, 21 Jun 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
  • NECS Graduate Workshop: Blurred Boundaries/Contested Geographies, University of Arts, Belgrade, Representation, Visualisation and the Military Sublime, 29 Sep 2011, Belgrade, Serbia
  • International Communications Association (ICA) Preconference: Communication @ the centre, Boston, Massachussetts, Communication and Violation: Images of War as Evidence, Sensation and Aesthetic Consolation, 26 May 2011, Boston, Massachussetts

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