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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

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)

@LCCLondon #lccexhibitionists

Find out more about show’s 2 & 3.

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

Image: Coutesy Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

Parasol unit | Talks & Lectures

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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Bowie: Pop Culture in Mainstream Museums

The LCF Performance Hub Presents:
Bowie: Pop Culture in Mainstream Museums

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Date: Wednesday 29 May 2013
Time: 17:30 – 19:00
Location: RHS East Space, London College of Fashion, 20 John Prince’s Street, London W1G 0BJ

David Bowie Is, the first major retrospective on David Bowie’s career, has been acclaimed by critics and is the Victoria and Albert Museum’s fastest selling exhibition. Victoria Broackes, co-curator and Head of Theatre and Performance exhibitions at the V&A, will discuss the development of the exhibition and put it in the context of the V&A’s rock and pop collections and broader display programme. As well as giving insights into the making of the exhibition she will explore the challenges, and value, of displaying pop culture at the V&A, the world’s largest museum of art and design.

Victoria Broackes’ presentation will be followed by an in-conversation with filmmaker and Bowie fan Pratap Rughani.

Victoria Broackes is Head of Exhibitions for the V&A Department of Theatre & Performance, and Head of Festival for the London Design Festival at the V&A. She is co-curator of David Bowie is (2013) and has developed a several other popular music displays for the V&A, from Kylie: The Exhibition (2007) to The Story of the Supremes (2008) and The House of Annie Lennox (2011).

Pratap Rughani’s work as a documentary maker includes twenty-five films for BBC 2 and Channel 4; commissions from The British Council and research-supported projects designed for exhibition in gallery spaces such as Modern Art Oxford. He is Course Director for MA, Documentary Film at LCC.

This event is hosted by the Performance Research Hub at LCF, which is co-ordinated by Donatella Barbieri, Senior Research Fellow, Design for Performance, jointly LCF and V&A.

This event is RSVP only, it is open to external guests, UAL staff and post- graduate students from across UAL. To secure your place please RSVP ASAP to Luella Allen stating the event name, your name and course (if applicable), please state if you are external to UAL so that reception can allow you entry to the building.

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.

Never Seeing Nothing

MA Photojournalism 2012

Private View: Wednesday 15 May 2013, 6-9pm
Exhibition open from Monday 13 – Friday 17 May 2013, 10-5pm

Never Seeing Nothing

Join recent graduates of the MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography (Part-time Online Mode) for their final show.

Featuring photographic and multimedia projects by:
Uta Beyer / Lara Ciarabellini / Max Colson / Richard English / Tracey Fahy / Veronika Lukasova / Linka Odom / Italo Morales / Gunta Podina / Franziska Rieder / Sahide Sanin / Christina Vazou / Dan Weill

More information neverseeingnothing.com/

Talk by Richard Wentworth

Thingness: The Collection / photo: Paolo Giudici

‘Humans See Round Corners’, but Cameras Don’t‘ a talk by Richard Wentworth as part of Thingness: The Collection exhibition at Camberwell Space.

Richard Wentworth has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 70s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as photography. By transforming and manipulating industrial and/or found objects into works of art, Wentworth subverts their original function and extends our understanding of them by breaking the conventional system of classification.

Date: 22 May 2013, 5.30 – 6.30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Wilson Road, Camberwell College of Arts
Places are limited, please arrive early.

LUX MRes Public Lecture Series – From Reform to Resource: Contemporary Art Practice and the Television Industry

Image: A man and a woman make love, Gerard Byrne (2012)

The LUX Mres Art: Moving Image Public Lecture Series is a new public lecture series featuring key thinkers on contemporary moving image practice sponsored by the LUX/ Central Saint Martins Mres Art: Moving Image programme.

From Reform to Resource: Contemporary Art Practice and the Television Industry/
Maeve Connolly
For many decades, the relationship between art and the television industry was framed in terms of opposition, but in recent years television has tended to function as a resource for artists, rather than as an object of reform or reinvention. In particular, the late 2000s have witnessed a number of cross-institutional collaborations between artists, art institutions and broadcasters in Ireland, Mexico and Sweden, by artists such as Gerard Byrne, Christian Jankowski and Liz Magic Laser. These collaborations are not ‘interventions’ in broadcasting, since all three artists worked with television crews and studios to realize moving image works for gallery installations. Informed by these collaborations, the lecture explores convergences and tensions between art and television production cultures.

Date: Tuesday 14 May 2013
Time: 7pm
Location: LUX, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Booking: £3, advance booking only at Eventbrite

Maeve Connolly is a writer, lecturer and researcher whose work centres on concepts and forms of publicness in contemporary art, culture, and media. Since 2003, she has been a full-time faculty member of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland, where she contributes to undergraduate and graduate programmes on art and media. She is currently completing a book entitled TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television, to be published by Intellect, which examines the changing relationship between art and television in Europe and North America. Focusing on developments since the early 2000s, TV Museum includes chapters on exhibiting television; soaps, sitcoms and symbolic value in art and television; reality TV and the social turn in contemporary art; TV archives, television memory and media events; broadcasting and art in the public realm; television talk in curating and public programming; artists, television workers and changing production cultures.

Find out more:
- MRes Art: Moving Image course page
- LUX website

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