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Dr Geraint D’Arcy

@gedarcy.bsky.social
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Lecturer in film, television, media, theatre, scenography, comics, performance, design and combos of the above. Author of “Critical Approaches to TV and film set design” (2018) and “Mise en scéne, Acting and Space in Comics” (2020)

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain, published 8 January 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Says he’s joking, but satire rarely cuts this cleanly. These are brilliant.
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great thread on early TV history.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This video is absolutely fantastic, breaks down every single nonsense argument on GenAi made by GenAi advocates, and does so in such a succinct way! Plus its always a joy to watch people work on their craft! Watch asap because it’s spot on! youtu.be/1L3DaREo1sQ?...
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THE AI 'ARTISTS' ARE MAD AT ME
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Performance Research has wisely migrated here! Get following the most respected performance research journal in UK academia. bsky.app/profile/thep...
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My 2nd year digital media class did a session on AI with me yesterday. I set them a creative task to compare AI with their own practice. The verdict was damning “AI is essentially slop”. Robust critical thinking in place at concrete towers. Well, among the students for sure
Image of the UEA media suite teaching lab, with a screen showing a slide of the creative challenge task I set my students
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Join us on Thursday 27th February, for an evening with Nick Hornby, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author. Nick will also be signing books after the event. www.uealive.com/programme/ni... #Norfolk #Events #Industry #ScreenTalks #Norwich #screenwriter #author #film #tv
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
It begins. When the landlords catch on we might see some National Intervention. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Lampeter: University education at Wales' oldest campus ends - BBC News
There has been more than 200 years of academia in Lampeter, but humanities courses are moving away.
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
With the passing of David Lynch the world has got significantly more mundane banal and shit, to be honest. And it wasn’t doing well as it was.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
OTD in early British television: on Monday 21 December 1936, an experiment in transmitting television to a theatre saw a broadcast of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' watched in the auditorium of the Duchess Theatre. Précis below, blog post here: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
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OTD in early British television: 21 December 1936 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: On the evening of Monday 21 December 1936 extracts from from the current stage production T.S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral were played for a third time at Alexan...
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Joint International Conference of Bande Dessinées, Graphic Novels and Comics Call for Papers The Taste of Comics Brussels, Belgium Tuesday 24 June – Wednesday 25 June 2025 (online) Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 2025 (in-person) internationalgraphicnovelandcomicsconference.com
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The International Graphic Novel & Comics Conference - International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
call for papers for international graphic novel and comics academic conference comics and technologies university of east anglia norwich 2024
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
AI = Artificial Insouciance. There, you can have that for free.
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
This.
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
I’m in a podcast and so is COLIN FROM PRESSGANG! Super-important paradigm shifting work with Joel Jessup and Chris Regan at Just The Thing podcast. www.buzzsprout.com/1990618/epis...
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Slipstream with Geraint D'Arcy (and special guest Paul Reynolds) - Just The Thing
Joel and Chris are joined by Geraint D'Arcy, Associate Professor and Head of Media at UEA, where the three originally met as students in the late 90s. Geraint was also the star of Chris and Joel's sho...
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Kara 🏳️‍⚧️ @karanova.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Anyone in need of some cover or character work? Rent is due and we're quite short! Any shares appreciated
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Went to Paris saw lots of comics. Did some (erm) flaneûry (?) with Simon Grennan and Roger Sabin.
canal st Martin, Paris. View from a bridge of a tree lined canal.A set of cardboard cut out model buildings laid out in a gallery from the Artist SethA Parisian Arcade. With chequered floor and lantern roof.Three Men grinning
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Get following. @thespaceshipper.bsky.social scholarship of all things AD, PD and concept for Sci Fi is absolutely excellent.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2024
Hello, I've made a second Starter Pack, or rather a companion to the first. This new one is dedicated to artists: designer, concept, illustrator, storyboarder, cartoonist, cover, comics, movies, games... If we want Bsky to be the future, we need to recreate a community. 🖖 go.bsky.app/JxjHtBf
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
When I preseted at a TV set Design conference in Westminster I met Sarah Harding . She had some death slugs from S4e7 episode of #TheExpanse that she directed. They were brilliant and I thought I’d have a go at recreating them youtu.be/f0Qsl9PzZDg?... #screamingfirehawks #scratchbuild #filmandtv
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Expanse Death Slug build!
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
I did a thing for the conversation.
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Five wonderful and weird comics to read if you love Umbrella Academy
The wacky and weird hyper-violent series is coming to a close but there is so much more to fill the gap it leaves.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 15/06/2024
Townsen Hicks M, et al. ChatGTP is bullshit. Ethics Inf Technol 2024; 26:38. Just, you know, in case you need to cite it somewhere
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
A reminder that the IGNCC 2024 CFP deadline is coming up. Due date is 15th December. The conference is 10-12 July 2024 at UEA. Be great to see you there. Spread the word. More details: internationalgraphicnovelandcomicsconference.com #comicbooks #comics #comicstudies #popculture #graphicnovel
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The International Graphic Novel & Comics Conference - International Graphic Novel and Comics Confere...
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Delivering a 2hour crash course in theatre design tomorrow. Aiming to scrape a poor+ / rough - .
Page of scrawled notes reading: Conceptualising
It begins with the invite
Expectations sell. So meet them. 
Set the world rules. If water = water then there is no other water. 
Use limitations as conventions
No wing, no problem
Reality is loud, but it has a volume 
Realism is not your friend
Indexicality is the form
Iconicity is the exceptionNotes cont:
Building and designing
measure everything (twice)
Know your container
If you can’t show how it works, it won’tNotes cont2:
Words are cheap
Images sell everything
No image, no sale
Show don’t describe
Show any way you can
Build it in Rough (to scale 1:25)

Ppp=ppp
Piss poor planning = piss poor performance
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
I love it when during marking, when the bottom of the list appears on the bottom of the screen.
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Went to the East Anglian Film archives. Took my UEA documentary module students. It was ace.
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Heading upstream to Leeds for Comics Forum 23. Also stopping by Thought Bubble for the first time!
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 06/11/2023
Looking forward to Comics Forum in Leeds this week- you can still register at comicsforum.org/2023/10/17/c...
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Comics Forum 2023: Registration Open
Registration is now open for Comics Forum 2023: Reboots & Remediations, taking place at Leeds Central Library on the 9th and 10th of November 2023. We look forward to welcoming delegates to Leeds for ...
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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
1st post. What to do? Sneaky peak of my comic adaptation of Slipstream (1989) perhaps. Lots of insights available into film comics adaptation and practice research.
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