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The Spatial Communication Programme presents Linda Florence, surface and installation designer

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Wednesday 22 May 5-6pm
Podium Lecture Theatre

Linda Florence produces bespoke hand printed wallpaper and installation artwork for public, commercial and domestic interiors. Florence’s printing techniques incorporate a mixture of traditional and new technologies. Clients include the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Jerwood Space, Swarovski, The National Trust, Ted Baker and Penguin. Florence has won multiple design awards including a British Design Award and is currently visiting professor Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin and Senior Lecturer at CSM.

This presentation and discussion of Linda Florence’s work is part of a series of events organised by the Spatial Communication Programme Group as a platform for the discussion of future developments in the field. Key thinkers and practitioners working across boundaries and at the cutting edge of their disciplines have been invited to present their work at LCC.

LCF students showcase dye garden at the Chelsea Flower Show

Posted on May 17, 2013 by sjairath

MA Fashion and the Environment students are to design and host one of the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Retreats.

The summer house will feature a Dye Garden installation and is one of only six retreats in the Flower Show. The retreats are reserved to exhibit the best and most innovative in garden style, arts and creation.

The Dye Garden Retreat will be manned by MA Fashion and the Environment students past and present, and will sit alongside retreats decorated by top UK designers and artists including Wayne Hemmingway, Cath Kidston and Rob Ryan.

Seeking to marry innovative fashion design with ethics and pleasure, the MA Fashion and the Environment students have been using plant dyes to create a range of subtle and beautiful colours and patterns on cloth. The collections exhibited in the Retreat have each been created with natural dyes grown by the students in their dye garden at Mare Street in Hackney, or harvested from within a 15 mile radius.

Their beautiful and sustainable designs will be on show for the Flower Show’s 161,000 thousand visitors as well as 1,300 journalists, photographers and BBC TV.

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David Redfern mesmerises a packed out house at CHELSEA space

Posted on May 16, 2013 by gfreeborn

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World renowned British Photographer David Redfern packed the house out at CHELSEA space last night with a presentation of some of his life’s work documenting many of the world’s greatest musicians, accompanied by many a wonderful story. From The Beatles to Frank Sinatra, London to New York, we were treated to a photo essay that left the crowd mesmerised. The images were a selection from David’s book The Unclosed Eye and other material from his career. David has also kindly lent his collection of vintage photographs of the Newport Jazz Festival as part of the Dobells exhibition.

This legendary Jazz, Blues and Folk record shop was on Charing Cross Road for many seminal decades for music in the 20^th century. Dobells became an iconic venue, importing records from around the world and was a creative influence for icons in the making such as regular customer young David Bowie. This melting pot of culture created rich history in Dobells and made many more alike.

Movement in a Static Space

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Students from BA CCC, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, are pleased to bring you Movement in a Static Space, showcasing works from a select range of London artists.

Dates: Friday 24 May – Saturday 8 June 2013
Times: Monday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Location: 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, 194-198 Railton Rd, SE24 0JT
Private View: Friday 24 May, 6.30-9pm

This exhibition explores our relationship with the space around us, our continuous movements through space and the unconscious impressions we can leave on our surroundings. Using a range of different mediums and techniques, each artist examines personal memories of locations, an awareness of our environment and the alterations of space over time.

The work of Caroline Underwood alters the natural path of movement inviting reflection on personal experiences of space. Artist Elena Colman takes a theatrical approach, creating an immersive space of wonder, using high-powered flash and phosphorous ink. Eleanor Lines works with unique printing techniques creating geometric illusions that manipulate light and capture impressions of movement. ‘Insert Life Here’ by Rachel Ridge, creates a distorted kaleidoscope-like image, examining the influx of space and time. David Stupple’s physical documentation of movement highlights the numerous possibilities present in the simplest of actions.

This collaborative exhibition hopes to heighten awareness of space and encourage personal contemplation of your surroundings.

Exhibition Events:
Artists in Conversation
Saturday 1 June, 12pm
Join us at 198 for a series of discussions between the exhibiting artists.

Movement in a Static Space, has been curated by Phoebe Antoniw, Clara Hatfield, Saskia Mercuri, Sergio Nieves, Camila de Szyszlo, Emma Vooght and Jason Yen students of BA (Honours) Criticism, Communication and Curation, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. For further information about this exhibition contact 198project.2013@gmail.com

Find out more:
- Movement in a Static Space website
- Movement in a a Static Space Twitter
- BA Criticism, Communication and Curation course page

KX Archive Project

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Exhibition by staff and students in response to the new KX site.

Display 1: 20th May – 2nd June
Display 2: 4th – 16th June
Display 3: 18th – 30th June

Times: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm, Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Location: Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, N1C 4AA

Opening Drinks: Monday 20 May 2013, 6pm, Archive Office, Central Saint Martins

Find out more:
- Museum and Study Collection website
- KX Archive Project on Facebook
- KX Archive Project on Twitter

Peter Blake: Four Decades exhibition at Chelsea Futurespace

Posted on May 16, 2013 by gfreeborn

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Tuesday night saw a fantastic private view at Chelsea Futurespace of Peter Blake’s prints across four decades. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to honour a great artist and celebrate his contribution to British Art. The show features a selection by Sir Peter of his prints, including his ‘Appropriated Alphabets’, ‘Homage to Schwitters’ series and the ‘London’ and ‘Love’ Suites.

The exhibition is open daily 11am – 6pm until 28^th July, admission free.

Kindly supported by CCA Galleries, Paul Stolper Gallery and Berkley Group.

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One Photograph Readings

One Photograph Readings

6.30 – 8.30pm, 22 May 2013

One Photograph has been a featured section in Photography & Culture since 2011, and aims to encourage literary and biographical writing about photography. The Journal of Photography & Culture has invited writers, including Angus Carlyle, Marjolaine Ryley, Simon Watney and Andrew Cross, to reflect on the meanings inherent in a single image.

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PR and Disruption: Embracing and Managing Change | One-day conference

Wednesday 10 July 2013
9am-4.30pm

How does PR respond to and use disruption – hear from academics and practitioners and embrace disruption by attending “face-off” debates and getting your hands dirty with practical sessions.

PR professionals and academics are invited to attend ‘PR and Disruption: Embracing and Managing Change’, a one-day, low-cost conference exploring the knowledge, strategies and skills needed to communicate successfully in contemporary society being held in central London on 10th July 2013.

The conference, curated by PR academics at the London College of Communication, will feature keynote presentations, case studies and a series of debates by leading international practitioners and scholars. In addition, delegates will have the chance to learn key disruptive PR skills through a range of practical workshops, including app development, creating infographics and film-making.

Confirmed speakers include:
•    Oyvind Ihlen – Professor of Media and Communications, University of Oslo and internationally renowned and prize winning academic
•    Nic Newman – Digital strategist and fellow at Oxford University’s Reuter’s Journalism Institute
•    Dom Burch – Head of Social Media, Walmart-UK
•    John Shewell – Founder and MD at Colab and ex-Head of Communications, Brighton and Hove Council
•    Drew Benvie – Founder and MD, Battenhall and ex-CEO, Hotwire
•    Paul Seaman – MD of West PR-Seaman and PR blogger
•    Tom Allan – International Campaigns Manager, ActionAid

Each speaker has been selected according to their expertise in one of following areas of PR and disruption and will explore one of the following areas:
• Disruptive skills for effective PR: what is required by a PR practitioner in a world of business disruption? Should they be creative, be able to write well but think visually, be curious, challenging and radical but supportive, empathic and corporate?

• PR and disruptive media: in a digital media age PR must evolve to deal with multi-media communication across multiple platforms. What does this new ‘media ecosystem’ look like and how can we deal with it?

• Disruptive PR and society: how does PR best support management by helping the senior team to disrupt and rethink organisational conventions in order to survive the rapidly changing societal and cultural landscape

The event will conclude with networking and drinks among delegates and a wider group of London College of Communication PR alumni. A full itinerary for the day can be downloaded here.

Costs have been kept low to help drive engagement with what the organisers believe to be a range of key challenges and opportunities for the future of PR.

Fees: Full-day tickets: £125 (inc VAT). Half-day tickets (morning or afternoon only): £75 (inc VAT)
Location: London College of Communication, central London
Booking: http://bit.ly/PRdisrupt
Hashtag: #PRdisrupt
Contact: For more information email Simon Collister

London College of Exhibitionists | Show 1

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The first of three fantastic exhibitions showcasing the work of LCC’s graduating students.

Show 1
Private View, Monday 3 June 2013, 6-9pm
Opens from Saturday 1 June – Wednesday 5 June 2013
Monday – Wednesday 10am-5pm
Saturday 11am -4pm (closed Sundays)

BA (Hons) Photography // BA (Hons) Photojournalism // BA (Hons) Sound Arts and Design // BA (Hons) Film and Television // Access to HE Diploma (Design) // Access to HE Diploma (Media Communication)

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Find out more about show’s 2 & 3.

Symposium: Looking at L’Herbier

Film Still from ‘Le Vertige’ (1928) by Marcel L’Herbier

Looking at L’Herbier: French Modernism between the Wars
Friday 17 May 2013, 2:30 – 5:30pm, Free entry (rsvp)
LVMH Lecture Theatre, CSM, 1 Granary Square, London

Organised in conjunction with the film festival Marcel L’Herbier: Fabricating Dreams, this half-day symposium looks at fashion, cinema and inter-war Paris.

Bringing together a number of scholars working across fashion, film, art and design history, and featuring rare film clips, Looking at L’Herbier offers a critical reassessment of a prolific and important film director in the context of modernism. Part of the artistic milieu of Paris in the inter-war years, L’Herbier collaborated with many major cultural figures including the painters Fernand Léger, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, the composers Darius Milhaud and Arthur Honegger, the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, designers Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara, and couturiers Paul Poiret, Lucien Lelong and Louise Boulanger.

The symposium will investigate L’Herbier’s role in modernist aesthetics and cultural production, spanning not only art and design but also the shifting gender formations of the 1920s and 30s against the backdrop of both the Parisian avant-garde and the worlds of style, interiors and fashion.

Programme

2.30 – 2.45

Introduction from festival co-curator Caroline Evans (Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins)

2.45 – 3.45

Keynote lecture by Mireille Beaulieu (Paris-based independent film curator and L’Herbier specialist) entitled ‘Marcel L’Herbier: moving human decor’ on Marcel L’Herbier’s work with costume and fashion designers, within his concept of “cinéma total”.

3.45 – 4.15

Break

4.15 – 4.45

Dr Tag Gronberg (Reader in History of Art and Design, Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk entitled ‘Femininity, Modernity and Motion Pictures’, on art, design and images of women, focussing on issues raised by L’Herbier’s collaboration with the artists Robert and Sonia Delaunay.

4.45 – 5.15

Dr Joan Tumblety (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Southampton) will give a talk entitled ’Jaque Catelain and the cultural negotiation of manhood in 1920s France’. This talk sets the ‘ephebic’ masculinity of one of Marcel L’Herbier’s favourite lead actors in relation to emerging post-war cultures of celebrity, and to the shifting gender ideals of the period.

5.15 – 5.45

Esther Leslie (Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk on ’Film and Flimsy’ that evokes the materiality of film itself by examining the fabrics (some filmy) that best suit filming, emphasizing reflections, play of light, and luxurious textures. Her talk also investigates the language we use to describe both film and fabric.

Please rsvp on the event page.

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