Really great project in the RCA masters degree show.
Monthly Archive for June, 2011
To continue my BBC Women’s Hour rant – this morning was a discussion about getting baked beans stuck in your dish washer filter.
Bleak.
Join your friendly North Sea neighbours and help spread the protest against Dutch arts cuts.
Owen Hatherley plays various Pulp records in connection to his new book Uncommon, he also mentions a brochure for the Urban Splash ‘regeneration’ of Sheffield’s Park Hill estate designed by the Designers Republic, of which this is the best photo I could find.
Followed, seemingly strangely, by Dan Hancox speaking about the importance of grime during the London student protests.
Can you remember if you graduated this year? Then you might be interested in this call for submissions.
“Tristram Shandy is not only significant in the cultural canon as a non-linear forerunner to Joyce, Woolf, Beckett, Godard, Eno, Greenaway and Tarantino, but playfully and brilliantly constructs and deconstructs the conventions of narrative. It makes use of multiple media as devices to tell its stories, and, in actively soliciting a dialogue with its reader, it demands a creative participation from its audience. Tristram Shandy is the direct antecedent of contemporary hypertextual and non-linear, convergent media experiments”.
AND: The Piracy Project looks like an interesting investigation into copyright, distribution and other pertinent topics relating to books.
To those of you studying at (or former students of) GSA, it’ll be self-evident that degree show opens this week, and runs for the next week, till Sat. Opening times here. For any external audience, please feel free to come and have a look round this final degree show in the Foulis building.
Looking forward to Friday’s opening, the forecast looks bleak, but viewers may be relieved to know that the relative humidity is down to 61%, from today’s 92%, and visibility will be very good.
The vis com degree show site is here.
Image top: Newbery building.
Transmission Gallery and The Free Heatherington are both holding Summer Schools in June.
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Transmission June 14th – 18th, Includes:
A workshop on the web application ‘Indexibit.’
An intro to DIY screenprinting.
Home recording for artists.
A workshop on collaborative writing.
An excursion up The Cobbler.
For more information check the Transmission website.
Free Heatherington 27th June – 3rd July
Check the Free Heatherington website for details.
The latest installment of Adam Curtis’s ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ reminded me about this event that I went to at the front end of this year, and never got round to writing about. The linking thread is cybernetics, and the study of feedback loops. The programme prompted me to look out some notes, and while 92% of them are barely intelligible, I thought I’d repeat the soundbites that were less so. They are not arranged in any sort of order, make of them what you will.
“Cybernetic systems involve a governor, a moderating mechanism which shuts the system down if the feedback goes beyond a certain level.”
“Markets were the first computers”
“The (main) product of commercial TV is not programmes, but the audience” (I wonder if the same is true of the Internet and www? Is the main product there the searchers rather than the search results?)
“Cybernetics, in popular culture at least, tends to be presented in a dystopian light, i.e. Cybermen…”
A fuller (and probably better remembered) review of the event can be found here.
Image: Steve Rushton discusses mindspace, as part of talk.
The Serving Library is online, and the first edition is out in print. Making the articles available online as PDF’s, and by print then post distribution, in parallel, (and with an online document of those recently ‘served‘) questions are raised about the false dichotomy of analogue vs digital. On a purely practical level, students (or others) with zero budget (but a functioning network connection) can download and read/print some very interesting design/art/media documents. Below is a beautiful picture of me interacting with the Serving Library through the arcane/bizarre/logical aesthetic and anti-perspective quandry that is iBooks.
More on the Serving Library statement of intent here.
Vignettes of Ystov by vis com person (class of 2009) Bill Goldsmith.
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