This is a link to the profile of our new external examiner David Butler. As you know David will be joining us on 5th March.
This week is all about developing your practice towards your final project. This phase of practice based research will have already produced some interesting experiments and interim outcomes and should now be crystallizing into some definite plans for your final pieces.
The main emphasis now is you getting on with your work. There are ongoing tutorials with me this week.
Monday Meeting 27th Feb: we have a talk from Marcus Lord who will be speaking about enterprise, working freelance and how to make your creativity pay. Do think of some questions to ask him about this area as it relates to your plans, ideas, skills etc. There will also be a couple of student presentations.
Thursday 1st March: 10 am lino cut workshop with tutor B Faye Scott Harrington. 12 noon Knitting Group: We will continue with our ongoing projects. I will show you how to do a basic cable stitch (knitting) and we will be joined by crochet artists (a student and Principal Lecturer Jane McFadyen) who will show us their work.
Friday 12 noon: Film Club, programme tbc.
Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre 1
12.30 to 1.30
I know this is short notice (at least this post is) but it should be good, so I recommend you go along before our meeting at 1.30.
An occasional series of events uniting art, design and technology.
Tanya Harrod will be presenting a keynote lecture on Digital Craft on Thursday 23rd February at 5pm to 6pm in Sandra Burslem lecture theatre G.01
Professor Tanya Harrod, is the leading historian of the history of craft and author of The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 1999) She is Visiting Professor, Department of Design History at the Royal College of Art. Trained as an art historian, she is also a co-editor of the Journal of Modern Craft.
This talk takes a critical look at the relationship between art, craft and design and pervasive New Media from Lev Manovich to RepRap. Illustrated is an image of Marcus Kayser’s Solar Sinter – one of the stranger experiments with Rapid Protoyping of recent times.
A version of this talk was presented at the Rewire new media conference in Liverpool and was the hit of the conference.
All staff and students welcome.
We are meeting at 2.00pm today in the studios to read a text by Ranciere called Ten Theses on Politics. There is still time to read the text this morning if you want to join in, even if you dont make it to the end of the text you would still be welcome. And if you dont ‘get it’ we still definitely want to hear what you have to say. If you dont have a copy get in touch asap.
29 February @ 2.00pm
Avi Mograbi, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, 2005, 100 minutes
Chatham room 101
A documentary structured around the mythic/historical subjects of Samson and Masada, but illustrated with footage taken in the occupied West Bank during the second Palestinian Intifada.
14 March @ 2.00pm
Udi Aloni, Local Angel: Theological Political Fragments, 2002, 70 minutes
Chatham room 101
A documentary film that uses Walter Benjamin’s ideas about history to examine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the second Palestinian Intifada. It features a meeting between the director and Yasser Arafat, plus a Palestinian rap band.
Call of Interest
Free For Arts Festival 2012 is looking for Event Co-ordinators!
Event Co-ordinators are essential to the running of Free For Arts. You will be the point of call for the artists and curators and will facilitate the smooth running of your exhibitions and events. This is a varied role which will include liaising with artists and festival directors in the run up to the festival, to helping with those last minute details on the opening night.
This is a fantastic chance to get involved in an exciting and energetic arts festival. Now in its fourth year Free for Arts Festival hopes to draw on its previous success yet grow to be even more vibrant in 2012.
We will be holding an introductory meeting at Common, in the Northern Quarter (M4 1HW) on the 1st of March. If you are interested in coming along or have any questions regarding the festival please get in touch with us at freeforartsfestival@hotmail.com with ‘Event Co-ordinator’ in the subject line. Visit www.freeforartsfestival.co.uk for information on last years festival.
These 3 networks will be useful for many of you. Remember to keep those fingers clicking! There is a lot at stake!
http://www.criticalnetwork.co.uk/
