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David is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology.

Joined February 2009
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Transmission by @davidcotterrell & Ruwanthi de Chickera follows a solitary man’s occupation of an ambiguous space as he tries to engage beyond his own world and begins to fear what he might find if he is successful.@EmpathyandRisk & @sheffhallamuni #UbumuntuArtsFestival
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TRANSMISSION - David Cotterrell's latest short film will be screening tomorrow at the @UbumuntuArtFest. Read more on the Blog here: blogs.shu.ac.uk/c3riimpact/u…
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At a time when we have tried to remain human by connecting through ambiguous landscapes left without control, have we changed our views of the legitimacy of borders and nationality? Join @davidcotterrell for the #CommonsDialogue as he leads this intriguing topic. #Ubumuntu2020
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This week @S_Iraguha is talking to artist @davidcotterrell & playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera about generational trauma and the power of collective creativity. Live Tuesday at 6PM Kigali time (CAT) #100StoriesOfHome #Ubumuntu2020 #HomeChatsWithSonia #RWOT
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Can the legacy of trauma be passed down generations? Through these actors belonging to the post-Genocide generation, dynamics of inherited memories of violence are explored. @davidcotterrell,Ruwanthie de Chickera bit.ly/2wMctSj #RipplesOfSoul #100StoriesofHome #Ubumuntu
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ADRC Prof of Fine Art, @davidcotterrell launches his new exhibition truth.lie.lie today @daniellearnaud ...
Tomorrow evening marks the opening of truth.lie.lie at @daniellearnaud presenting a selection of recent and new works considering the mediation of evidence. The exhibition will continue until the 12th of October but please do come along to celebrate the opening if you can!
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'truth.lie.lie' - sixth solo exhibition from Prof @davidcotterrel opens at the Danielle Arnaud gallery. Find out about the works, which consider the mediation of evidence & media scepticism, here: blogs.shu.ac.uk/c3riimpact/t… @r_chickera @daniellearnaud
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Mother Wall - Directed by David & Ruwanthie 🇬🇧🇱🇰 A story about a woman and a child, and the separation of a wall. #Ubumuntu2019
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"She saw a thousand dawns He saw a thousand sunsets." On how a wall affected relationship between a mother and a child. #Ubumuntu2019
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Tech preps for 'Mother Wall' performance in a few minutes. 🇱🇰🇬🇧 #Ubumuntu2019
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Another of the 5 components of the #CANCELLEDArtsProgramme is the CANCELLED Dialogues: the third in a series of conversations between policy-makers/artists/activists that look at the factors that could lead towards empathetic failure and conflict.
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#EmpathyDay (a thread) - Artists engage with the study of empathy. Whether they are aspiring to generate empathy for themselves or for their artwork, they are involved in creating the space for some measure of shared empathetic engagement.
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Introducing another element of the CANCELLED Arts Programme, The Experiment. Created & curated by @davidcotterrell, @r_chickera & @StephenStenning, it aims to push the conference participants towards deeper self-reflection & closer to an empathetic understanding of #Statelessness
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Introducing another of our CANCELLED Platform Artists appearing at @institute_si 's World Conference on #Statelessness, RANA BISHARA. Rana Bishara is a Palestinian installation artist, painter, graphic artist,… instagram.com/p/ByDx-kWlCne/…
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Introducing another of our CANCELLED Platform Artists appearing at @institute_si 's World Conference on #Statelessness, MANISH HARIJAN. Manish Harijan is a contemporary Nepalese artist based in Sheffield, UK and is… instagram.com/p/ByA53slldyK/…
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Introducing two of our Platform Artists, DAVID COTTERELL and RUWANTHIE DE CHICKERA. • • Previous works (from left to right) Mirror I, Mirror I, Mirror III, Mirror IV, Mirror IV • • Cotterrell and de… instagram.com/p/BxxcinYgji0/…
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New arts-led initiative led by Prof of Fine Art @davidcotterrell which considers the challenges to empathy that occur prior to the engagement of military forces
Empathy & Risk is an arts-led, interdisciplinary initiative, which engages with empathetic and systemic failure in situations of perceived risk and conflict. The CANCELLED Arts Programme… instagram.com/p/BxK2Y--A3lS/…
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Empathy & Risk is an arts-led, interdisciplinary initiative, which engages with empathetic and systemic failure in situations of perceived risk and conflict. The CANCELLED Arts Programme… instagram.com/p/BxK2Y--A3lS/…