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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.

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

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.

Hostings 12: GHost-dance II

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An evening of performance and perfromative presentations exploring the idea of ghosts as cultural and political movement.

Date: 21 May 2013
Time: 6pm-9.30pm
Location: Studio Theatre, Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, N1C 4AA

This event is free, but booking is compulsory. Book your ticket on the Hostings 12: GHost-dance II eventbrite page.

Programme

Gen Doy, Song for the Deaf and Blind
Christian Weaver, Trillando en el cajón: mediating positive and negative forces in the realm of the dead through music and dance.
Mitsu Salmon, Skating
Michelle Hannah, BLACKCAT (pictured above)
The SaVAge K’Lub: Rosanna Raymond – Sistar S’pacific, Emine, Jo Walsh, Dr Mark James Hamilton, SaVAge SEAnce: An Invitation to Activate Your Ancestry.
Jennie Fagerstrom, Skogsrå

Object as Process #3: Conversation with Artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

Image: Coutesy Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

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London-based artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez discusses his practise in conversation with Caroline Till, director of trend forecasting agency FranklinTill and Course Leader of MA Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins. Plummer-Fernandez’s work investigates the relationship between digital aesthetics and artistic production. The talk will explore current trends in art and design, considering the blurred boundaries between the origin and production of objects.

Date: Thursday 16 May 2013
Time: 7pm
Location: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW

£6/£5 concessions

Find out more:
- Parasol unit website
- MA Textile Futures course page

Moose on the Loose: Book Launch and Signings

Moose welcomes you to an evening event launching books by Stuart Griffiths, Tom Hunter, Chris Harrison, Grace Lau, David Moore and Marjolaine Ryley, plus the latest issues of the journal Photography & Culture and Fieldstudy. The photographers will give a short introduction to the ideas and processes behind their books. Bring along a drink and your favourite glass. Best Glass Prize awarded on the night by MacDonaldStrand and GOST. MacDonaldStrand will also be organising a photography quiz, with a prize…

Join us on the 16th May, from 7 -9pm at Shoreditch Town Hall, Council Chambers, 380 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LT

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Enabling the Curators : A Conversation with Dame Rosalind Savill and Christopher Cook

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The LCF Curation Series presents:
Enabling the Curators : A Conversation with Dame Rosalind Savill and Christopher Cook

Date: Thursday 30 May 2013
Time: 17:30 – 18:30
Location: RHS West Space, London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, London, W1G 0BJ

Dame Rosalind Savill, former director of the Wallace Collection, in conversation with Christopher Cook, talks about leading and enabling a team of curators at a time of change in ideas about the role of curatorship and the nature of the institution that they work within. How are the competing claims of scholarship and an exhibition policy that will increase visitor numbers to be negotiated? Is specialist knowledge of one particular area of a collection the only criterion for a successful team of curators?

Please RSVP to Laura Thornley ASAP.

Visitors that have a physical disability which may affect their mobility are asked to contact us in advance to discuss their access needs. Information about the building can be found on the Locations area of our website, please note that not all areas of JPS are accessible. The event space at John Princes Street is accessed via one flight of stairs. Visitors who will need support to enter or exit the building are asked to make themselves known to the LCF Events team team when booking.

State of Matter: Collisions and Connections in Art and Science Symposium

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The Art and Science MA course at Central Saint Martins is the first of its kind in the UK and encourages exploration and investigation into the relationships between art and science. In conjunction with their degree show (24-29 May), the course is hosting an afternoon symposium of presentations, discussion and debate.

Highlights of the symposium addressing the theme of ‘State of Matter; Collisions and Connections in Art and Science’, include an outstanding panel of guest speakers: Sir Jonathan Miller CBE, doctor, artist, director, writer, and curator; Dr Daniel Glaser, Director of Science Engagement at the King’s Cultural Institute, King’s College London, and Ariane Koek, Clore Fellow and Director of Collide@CERN, plus presentations by the graduating students from the MA Art and Science. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion about the value of art and science research and practice, including speakers and audience participation.

Throughout the symposium, the subject of art and science as an interdisciplinary practice will be probed, scrutinised, questioned and debated.

There will also be complementary performances before and after the symposium and opportunities to participate in activities and workshops run by graduating students from the MA Art and Science.

Date: Wednesday May 29 2013
Time: 2pm to 5.30pm
Location: E002, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA

Please note: tickets are free but space is limited. Booking is essential and any spaces not occupied by 2pm may be reallocated to others. To book your ticket please visit the State of Matter eventbrite page.

Schedule
12.00-1.00pm – workshops and activities
1.00-2.00pm – symposium registration, performance, activities
2.00-5.30pm – symposium
5.30-6.00pm – performance, refreshments.

Find out more:
- MA Art and Science course page
- MA Art and Science blog

From A-B via Z: Dress and the African Diaspora as a Methodology

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Artefact & Curation Research Hub presents:
FROM A-B VIA Z: DRESS AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AS A METHODOLOGY
Professor Carol Tulloch, CCW Graduate School, UAL

Date: Wednesday 5th June 2013
Time: 17.30 – 19.00, followed by a reception on the Terrace
Location: RHS Centre Space, London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, W1G 0BJ

In a recent summary of Tulloch’s practice as a writer and curator, she claimed that her research interest in dress and the African diaspora had led to making the subject into a methodology. The exhibitions she has curated provided the space, literally and conceptually, to develop this. This talk will review the mechanisms that have informed this curatorial process.

Carol Tulloch is Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London. She is based at the CCW Graduate School, and is a member of the Transnational Arts, Identity and Nation Research Centre (TrAIN). She is also the TrAIN/V&A Fellow at the V&A Museum. As a curator and writer Carol has explored a range of issues on dress and black identities, style narratives, cross cultural and transnational relations, cultural heritage, auto/biography and personal archives. Her work includes the exhibitions: A Riot of Our Own (2008-2012) Handmade Tales: Women and Domestic Crafts (2010-11) and Black British Style (co-curator 2004). Grow Up!: Advice and the Teenage Girl Exhibition (2003), Curator Tools of the Trade: Memories of Black British Hairdressing Exhibition. Her publications include: ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back: Freedom and the Dynamics of the African Diaspora’ (2012), ‘Dress and the African Diaspora’, special issue of Fashion Theory, Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (editor, 2010), Style-Fashion-Dress: From ‘Black’ to ‘Post-black’ (2010), Being at Home: Familial Dress Relations and the West Indian Front Room (2009), Resounding Power of the Afro Comb (2008), Black Style (editor, 2004).

This event is open to staff, students and external guests, please RSVP to Hub Coordinator, Dr Wessie Ling.

The Artefact and Curation Hub is a UAL wide London College Fashion based research hub, coordinated by Dr Wessie Ling. It is an informal forum to discuss practices related to artefact and curation. We welcome university-wide colleagues and postgraduate students to share their practice-base research and interest in our hub meetings.

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