Archive for the ‘Workshops’ Category

Show Films All Day Long

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Visual Spaces Workshop Series: Day 3. ‘We’re taking over the lecture theatre for 10 hours of short films, long films, student animations, and abnormal cinema. Open for contributions and recommendations.’

After two days of vigorous activity in the first two workshops it was good to look forward to a whole day in the sofa watching the big screen. For the film day Joana and I converted the lecture theatre into something resembling a living room complete with lamps, coffee tables, a rug and a silver gnome. We started off proceedings with Jubilee, 1978 directed by Derek Jarman.

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I Know You’ve Got Skills

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Visual Spaces Workshop Series: Day 2. ‘Swap and share knowledge and skills at an all day exchange of ideas.’

Hoating was the first to start the skill share day by demonstrating some chinese painting. She also talked a bit about different styles and showed us the stone blocks used from printing the artists signature.

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Typography in the Trees

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Visual Spaces Workshop Series: Day 1. ‘Using any found objects, junk and detritus, we will collaborate to develop a three dimensional visual language, that will make the first step in transforming the car park into a new environment’.

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Visual Spaces Workshop Series

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Three days of workshops organised by myself and Joana Montiero. While arranging the Visual Voices Lecture Series, we decided to continue and arrange some other things at college, hoping to encourage communication between different levels of study: BA and MA.

Letters are Things (and Pictures of Things That Look Like Letters)

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Eric Gill once wrote “Letters are things, not pictures of things.” Something that I am interested in is the ‘thingness’ of language, that language is so powerful despite being so ephemeral. Language takes its written form through letters, so if they are also things in themselves then the whole ‘thing’ that is language becomes extremely thingy indeed.

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Derek Birdsall

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

As part of his typography workshop, guest tutor Sam Wintson set a task for each student, to research a particular artist or designer, and prepare a single page of text and image to share with the rest of the class. The choices were wide ranging, including as diverse talents as Dieter Roth, Jenny Holzer, and Derek Birdsall, I was assigned the latter. The text that follows is my summary, biographical information came from the Design Museum website.

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Stop. Swap. Åbäke

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

On the 7th October I went to the Stop Swap workshop at the RCA. It was organised by Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz of Brave New Alps.
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