from Slavs and Tatars.
Includes a free screening of How to Start a Revolution and Discussion with the Director.
6pm, Friday 20th January,
Andrew Stewart Cinema, G12, University Avenue
Free entry, open to all
Stone, Paper, Scissors – Drawing Glasgow
11am – 1pm
Saturday 21st January
Pearce Institute Govan
Free
Drawing and talking for all ages and abilities. The theme is Glasgow – what its like now, how it used to be and what’s going to happen to it. You might want to draw buildings, people, streets, parks, parties, weather, memories, stories, anything and everything. Bring pictures, photos, objects, ideas or anything else that you think should be recorded in drawings about Glasgow.
Pens, pencils, scissors, paper provided
Any questions, speak to Bob, Village Square.
Another excellent article on the Design Altruism blog. This time an interview with Daniel Drenan about his work with the Jamaa Al-Yad collective. Here’s a short quote as a taster:
The academic design realm separates “designer” work from cultural manifestations that are just as much of merit, or it tries to recategorize former historical works as “graphic design,” which is wrongful in approach as well as being a tautological deceit. We need to give credit where credit is due, period. Most of the “big-name” designers/illustrators I’ve worked for in my lifetime have never had one minute of university design training; they are the first to recognize that “design” as we know it in terms of its underlying crafts and trades has very proletarian and commercial roots.
The Students for a Democratic Society Conference has been organised to bring students from across Scotland together who want to transform student politics and our student unions. The conference aims to come to an agreed set of policies for education that student activists across Scotland can support and participate in.
Students from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Paisley, Dundee and Edinburgh will be joining the conference, we would encourage you to put forward suggestions here and join the conference on the 21st.
WHEN
January 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
WHERE
Art School
Glasgow School of Art Student Union,
Glasgow School of Art Student Union,
468 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3LW
Glasgow
G2 3LW
A small group of students and staff are currently visiting the NID in India. This is the first in an occasional series of digital postcards.
We’ve had constant sunshine since we got here, 
hope all is well back up north.
(Film by Lydia)
Data as Documentary – a workshop with Graham Harwood is part of the forthcoming Arika12 programme of events at CCA.
Graphic Scotland is an independent Community Interest Company aiming to bring together Scottish-based writers, artists and publishers in international collaborations to create diverse and innovative new graphic fiction.
2pm-5pm Saturday 14th January 2012
Kinning Park Complex
43 Cornwall Street
Glasgow
G41 1BA
directions: http://www.kinningparkcomplex.org/directions
FREE – donations to Kinning Park welcome
The Radical Media Forum is a regular meeting for left-aligned politically-engaged media practitioners, activists and researchers. Participants include those working with: film/video and television, online media and Indymedia, radio, books and print publication, community and media events, archives, and media research. It is open to individuals and groups working at any level across voluntary activist and community-based media to those working within mainstream and academic contexts.
The forum provides a space for networking, news exchange, skills sharing, discussion, debate, and building a more consolidated base for critical media in Scotland and the UK. Meetings take place every two months at various venues.
Each forum provides time for meeting and exchanging news, issues, ideas, etc., followed by a dedicated skills and discussion session.
For the January 2012 meeting, film and documentary maker Barbara Orton will facilitate a practical workshop to discuss issues and practices around engaging audiences through mainstream formats and alternatives to these. The debate around mainstream access is an important one in political film-making, whether to work with it, challenge, or reject it, and it is useful to understand how such positions may determine the ways in which work is realised. Participants are invited to bring along film and video projects they are currently working on to review and discuss as part of the session.
Mailing list: http://groups.strickdistro.org/groups/mediaforum
Event Organised by the Strickland Distribution: http://strickdistro.org/
Designs of the Year 2012: Nominations are announced.
Talks this term in Com Des are posted here, for your perusal.
First up, this coming Friday:
13th Jan – Ciara Phillips and Bill Goldsmith (4pm / 2nd Year Studio)
Announcing the next exhibition at Good Press – ’It Is As It Was’ – with some international and UK based artists showing some recent work. The opening night will be on the 12th January and there will be free drinks. All welcome.
I’ve added the links from Friday’s project briefing to the Com Des Tumblr, including this video profile of Karel Martens.
Opportunity to apply for the Design Museum Designer in residence position, via Blueprint Magazine. Open to graduates of the last 5 years.
“You are sat in a pitch-black room. Your head is gently buzzed with whisky. Out of the darkness you hear a recording of my voice.”
Some interesting podcasts, via The Serving Library.
Nice post from Braden Kowitz at Design Staff about how to interiew a designer. Useful to see what might be asked of you when you go for a job and what people are looking for.
Thanks to Subtraction for the link.
Friedrich Kittler has been described by some as the Derrida of the Digital Age – the first philosopher to truly explore and understand our emergent relationship with digital technology. Friedrich Kittlers computer wars is a podcast on the Guardian website which explores this legacy.
Another writer on the ‘digital’ who might be worth looking into is Vilém Flusser, who wrote about networks, but also photography and the ‘technical image’.
Thanks to Gordon Hush for the initial link.
“In the United States, student debt has outstripped credit card debt, nervously edging toward the one trillion dollar mark and tracked by escalating commentary, protest and defaults.” say Mute magazine. (More here.)
The article above is very worth reading and thinking about, and promise I’ll attempt one less-gloomy post before Christmas. Speaking of which, anyone got any pictures of QuizCom 2011 they’d care to send in?
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