VIDEOS
Without Meaningful Recourse to Trace. Simon's Professorial Inaugural Lecture at the University of Chester, March 2025. How does the craft of drawing impact the development of drawing technology? Simon’s inaugural lecture will focus upon artists Grennan & Sperandio’s use of emerging digital edge recognition and vectorisation techniques in the 1990s, locating these innovations relative to older techniques such as tracing and rotoscoping and even older ideas about drawing, visualising and the body.
Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction. Simon and Edinburgh's Shari Sabeti introduce a major new project with partners in Hawai'i, Samoa and Scotland. The project will produce the first ever multilingual graphic adaptation of the three stories from Robert Louis Stevenson's Island Nights' Entertainments (1893), commission new poetry by indigenous Pacific authors, and develop a set of accompanying teaching resources for use in Samoa, Hawai’i and Scotland. In addition, it will produce the first ever documentary film exploring contemporary Samoan perspectives on Stevenson. See the lecture, given on 13 November 2022, here.
Yonkoma: the subtle and surprising art of stories that are hard to tell. Speaking at Manga Jiman Award Ceremony, Embassy of Japan in the UK, February 2021 (23 minutes).
Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval. Speaking at Gladfest 2019. Not a video, but audio, here
The Enduring Power of Comic Strips. Speaking at Storyhouse, Chester. April 2019. Here
Marie Duval Rediscovered. Speaking at Gladfest 2018, with Julian Wait.
Not video, but audio! Fun though, here.
Not video, but audio! Fun though, here.
