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The BE Open Sound Portal is now OPEN to ALL!

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The BE OPEN Sound Portal is open each day this week from 10am to 4.15pm, on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art & Design, Millbank.

It is the result of a collaboration between BE OPEN, a foundation that supports innovation and creativity, and The London Design Festival. The portal, designed by ARUP, forms part of BE OPEN’s research into sensory design and its potential impact on the environment.

UAL has used the portal as part of an inter-college project, where students from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design have worked with its ambisonic technology to create sound compositions.

Each college has adopted its own thematic. Chelsea’s Sound as Measure looks at sound as an integral element of interior and spatial design work. London College of Communication is focusing on the thematic of Sound, place and memory, and Nomad Lab, led by Central Saint Martins, explores the creative potential of working across different artistic disciplines; to be nomadic.

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One Minute Film Premier

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Tomorrow evening, Wednesday June 19th , 5pm, Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art:

One Minute Film Experiments: Students from CCW and Tapei National will show a collection of one minute films made over the course of a day of workshops in London and Tapei. Films will be shown from 5pm in the Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art, followed by a drinks reception.

Students in Tapei worked around the theme of water whilst those in London focused on modes of collaborative experimentation relating to the position of the camera, filmmaker and the audience.

BA Drawing student is awarded a residency at The SHM Foundation

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Brigitte Mierau – Self Portrait

A big congratulations to BA Drawing final year student, Brigitte Mierau, who has been awarded a residency with The SHM Foundation

The SHM Foundation are going to help Brigitte develop her artist game that deals with one of the big themes of our time: social division.  The residency lasts for one year and they will give Brigitte £10,000 and a team of people to help her to develop the game.

Whilst writing  her dissertation, Brigitte became interested in social division and a lack of understanding between the rich and powerful, ordinary people and those living in poverty.  Looking into possibilities of reversing this alienation, Brigitte came across current scientific research proving that stories are the perfect vehicles for creating understanding and empathy. This gave her the idea for an artist game that would use storytelling and game playing in order to reach and engage people from all walks of life. Its goal is one of empathy rather than victory and its mode of operation will be collaboration and problem solving instead of conflict.

The SHM Foundation works globally to bring about positive social change through projects in the areas of learning and citizenship, health and the arts and providing communities and individuals with the practical tools to develop solutions and social change.  The Foundation’s board loved Brigitte’s proposal and as well as providing her with financial support to realise her project, Brigitte will also get access to the Foundation’s academic and professional expertise when she starts this August.

Brigitte’s degree show piece, a six panel textile comic strip, is currently on display at the College until 22 June 2013.

Well done Brigitte!

 

 

Riot Offspring: National Youth Dance Company Celebrate Stravinsky Centenary

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Riot Offspring, National Youth Dance Company, Photos: Bettina Strenske June 2013

Riot Offspring, National Youth Dance Company, Photos: Bettina Strenske June 2013

Abby Hammond, Pathway Leader of BA (Hons) Theatre & Screen: Costume Design at Wimbledon College of Art designed the costumes for ‘Riot Offspring’ by the National Youth Dance Company at Sadler’s Well, as part of the centenary of ‘The Rites of Spring’ by Stravinsky. Working alongside Abby were 2 familiar faces who had graduated from the Costume Design pathway at Wimbledon as well as a current student undertaking work placement as part of the course.

Abby explains, “My costume supervisors were Joanna Beart Albrecht , who graduated from Costume Design at Wimbledon College of Art two years ago and Danute Daniene, who graduated 3yrs ago. I was also assisted by Jessie McKensie who is currently in 2nd year of Costume Design and undertook the work placement as part of the professional development module.”

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Riot Offspring, National Youth Dance Company, Photos: Bettina Strenske June 2013

Abby was the resident costume designer for the original National Youth Dance Company for 13 years before it ceased to be Arts Council funded in 2002. The Artistic Director at that time was John Chesworth, previously a dancer and then director of Ballet Rambert.

“The current Artistic Director is Jasmin Vardimon, an associate choreographer at Sadler’s Wells and I have designed costumes for her last 2 large scale productions, Freedom and 7734.” says Abby of her return to designing for the Company.

Riot Offspring, National Youth Dance Company, Photos: Bettina Strenske June 2013

Riot Offspring, National Youth Dance Company, Photos: Bettina Strenske June 2013

The performance came at an extremely busy time for Abby as it coincided with the Wimbledon College of Art Costume Parade, held in the Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace as part of the In Fine style exhibition where the costumes from the paintings of the Queens Gallery were brought to life by the Costume Design and Costume Interpretation students.

Costume Parade 'In Fine Style' at the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Photo: Belinda Lawley

Wimbledon College of Art Costume Parade ‘In Fine Style’ at the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Photo: Belinda Lawley

For more fantastic photographs from the Costume Parade have a look at the Wimbledon College of Art flickr Page.

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Camberwell Dean Nick Gorse discusses his workshop at Open House 2013

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With Camberwell’s Private View only hours away, Nick Gorse the Dean of Camberwell College of Arts discusses his upcoming workshop at the Open House event, Art Education and how he foresees Camberwell interacting with the locality in the future.

 

Nick, could you explain the ‘Raku Firing’ workshop you are planning on doing at the Open House?

Raku is a type of Japanese pottery that is traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony, most often in the form of tea bowls. It is traditionally characterised by being hand shaped rather than thrown; fairly porous vessels, which result from low firing temperatures; glazes; and the removal of pieces from the Kiln while still glowing hot. In the traditional Japanese process, the fired raku piece is removed from the hot kiln and is allowed to cool in the open air or in a container filled with combustible material.

For the Open House we want people to paint designs onto pre-prepared tiles and then we will fire/bake these tiles in the Raku kiln and can be taken home on the day

Do you think there is a need for traditional processes to be taught within art education?

We need to learn traditional processes in order to understand how we can experiment

How do you foresee Camberwell interacting with the locality in the future?

In many different ways, I would like to Camberwell College to work more closely with the local community and I want more people to come into the college and see what we do

Where do you see art education going?

Its extremely important the arts and design are part of our education they are a key part of learning and as just as important as the other humanities subjects

What do you see as the career paths within art education?

There are many career paths that our graduates move into. The key thing is that our graduates will normally have many different jobs at any one time

Click here to find out more about Open House 2013

 

LCF alumni at London Collections: Men

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SS14 from Menswear alumni Baartmans and Siegel showcased at the LCFMasterclass. Image Alex Maguire.

Seven talented LCF alumni are to launch collections at this year’s London Collections: Men showcase.

Taking place over the 16th, 17th and 18th of June, the show will put the breadth of the best British fashion talent on display.

The opening event of London’s menswear calendar will include the following alumni as part of its top British brands and businesses:

  • MA Fashion Design and Technology, Menswear (2010) alumnus, Domingo Rodriguez, who was also part of the inaugral LCF Masterclass.
  • 2010 graduates of Fashion Design and Technology: Menswear BA and MA, Wouter Baartmans and Amber Siegel who make up the luxury menswear label, Baartmans & Seigel, and also featured as part of LCF Masterclass.
  • MA Fashion Design Technology, Menswear (2012) alumnus, Kay Kwok.
  • Innovative designer and BA Fashion Design Technology: Menswear alumnus, JW Anderson
  • BA Fashion Design Technology: Menswear alumnus and Centre for Fashion Enterprise designer, James Long.
  • MA Fashion Design Technology, Menswear (2012) alumnus, Joseph Turvey is presenting as part of Fashion East stand at Mercer Street Studios
  • Collaborators, BA Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear, alumna Ada Zanditon and Nik Thakkar, who will launch Ada+Nik, a luxury menswear brand which brings together Ada’s unique womenswear aesthetics and Nik’s creative vision.
Ada+Nik launches for SS14

Ada+Nik launches for SS14

The showcase is sure to challenge and inspire by celebrating the British cultural landscape which shapes these creatively and commercially important designers and their labels.

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London College of… Cutting Edge Filmmakers // LCC films premiere at the BFI

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On Friday 14 June London College of Communication’s finest BA (Hons) Film and television students presented their final projects at the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank. The evening began with an introduction by the course director David Knight, who declared “Tonight we will see nine world premieres”.

The location and presentation of the screenings added a well-deserved touch of grandeur to the proceedings and guests certainly felt that they were watching the stars of the future.

The nine films consistently demonstrated both skill and wit as technical brilliance was balanced with artistic exploration in films that covered a range of genres. The first film shown was a pilot episode of ‘Transmission Woo’, a brilliantly put together early 90s style television show presented by the immense Johnny Woo. The audience were captivated by the mix of razor sharp editing and hilarious content.

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Transmission Woo

Following the playful start, the films took a turn for the bleak, as the remaining projects all explored darker themes with varying degrees of severity. ‘The Minotaur’ followed the story of a psychotic theatre security guard, who stalked a young performer, brutally murdering her lover before finally confronting her. The crisp quality of the film and clever use of sound and silence, this piece sent shivers down the spine of the members of the audience.

Despite featuring an attempted suicide, the black comedy in ‘Ticket Man’ had the audience in stitches from start to finish. The element of realism in the characters and settings, coupled with the absurd was a bright twist on the otherwise desolate theme.

Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher

Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher

The final film of the evening left the audience stunned by the complexity and depth of the storyline, the exquisite production, and thoughtful cinematography. The Orwellian epic ‘Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher” was a social statement regarding the human race’s obsession with being visible.

With an ever-expanding social media and the value of fame and celebrity being priced higher than ever, it seems the makers of this film wanted to question the difficulties we as a society would face if we were only visible when seen by others. Exploring the nature of modern human identity it was easy to imagine this film developing into a much larger project, and gaining attention those who have already been successful within the film industry.

Learn more about BA (Hons) Film & Television at LCC 

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Morgana Edwards

LCC Storyteller and BA (Hons) Journalism graduate Morgana Edwards reports on the LCC Summer Shows 2013. Follow her @EdwardsMorgana

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Central Saint Martins to curate the UK Pavilion at the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale

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We’re very pleased to announce that the design and curation of the pavilion will be undertaken by CSM students and staff. There will be two animations by students from MA Character Animation and two films by MA Communication Design students.

Each will be 129 seconds long, the average time a visitor spends in a Biennale pavilion. The theme of the films will be based on the proposal submitted by Jeremy Till, Head of College:

We live, Zygmunt Bauman tells us, in an age of liquid modernity. Labour, capital, time and commodities have achieved an unheard-of sense of fluidity as global flows of people, money, the virtual and goods dissolve previously stable conditions. And yet against this socio-temporal liquidity, space has apparently hardened, throwing up ever more rigid boundaries as the production of space is increasingly codified and commodified. The proposal for the UK pavilion at the Shenzhen Biennale investigates how a new generation of British architects, spatial agents and activists are challenging the fixity of boundaries and the regulation of space.


About the Shenzhen Biennale:

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) is currently the only bi-annual exposition in the world to be based exclusively on the set themes of city and urbanization. Co-organized by the two neighboring and closely interacting cities of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, UABB situates itself within the regional context of the rapidly urbanizing Pearl River Delta, concerns itself with globally common urban issues, extensively communicates and interacts with the wider public, is presented using expressions of contemporary visual culture, and engages international, avant-garde dimensions as well as discourses of public interest.

Find out more:
- Call for proposals
- Shenzhen Biennale website

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Free student places at exclusive Mobile World conference

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Knowledge networking business Editorial Intelligence’s annual invite-only Mobile World conference attracts luminaries from across the fields of media, culture, technology, digital and research. The event presents the latest horizons in  the social, political, technical, cultural and media impacts of information, through a programme of short, keynote addresses, discussions and debates and this year they are offering ten UAL students the chance to attend.

The speakers for 2013 include: Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries; Kirsty Lang, Broadcaster, BBC; Melanie Phillips, Publisher ; Ravi Mattu, Editor, Business Life, Financial Times and Maggie Philbin, CEO, TeenTech and BBC Reporter, Bang Goes The Theory.

Editorial Intelligence have reserved 10 places for UAL students at this exclusive invitation-only  event, which is attended by 150 key opinion formers.  Spaces will be given on a first come first served basis, to apply email a.castletonsimmons@arts.ac.uk with Mobile World in the subject line and your mobile number.

The 2013 Mobile World conference takes place on 19 June from 8.30am-11pm in Central London. Students are welcome to attend the whole conference or some selected sessions from the programme.

Read the full programme

 

Artsmart 2013, starts Monday – book now!!

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17 June – 5 July
Across the colleges of University of the Arts London

Artsmart 2013 is a three-week long summer festival of events, activities and workshops to help you get smart and make it happen in the creative industries.

This year Artsmart boasts over 70 talks and workshops to help you develop the practical skills you need to build a creative future in your chosen field.

Artsmart 2013 is free to all University of the Arts London students, graduates and staff.

For full listings, further information and opportunities visit: artsmartlondon.co.uk

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