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Campaign for Drawing Special Event in London

Campaign for Drawing — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:20:25 +0000

Don’t miss Celebrity Come Draw with Me! 26 January, 6-8pm at the National Portrait Gallery.

Join six internationally acclaimed artists and celebrities Aggie MacKenzie,Vic Reeves, Levi Roots, Alison Steadman and Lynne Truss for two hours of drawing in the inspirational surroundings of the National Portrait Gallery. Celebrity Come Draw With Me! from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday 26 January 2012 is a unique opportunity to draw in their company.

The National Portrait Gallery’s Victorian Galleries will be transformed into six exciting studios, where artists Rupert Alexander, Dryden Goodwin, Timothy Hyman RA, Michael Landy RA, Chris Orr RA and Posy Simmonds will lead workshops inspired by the collection. This is a special Big Draw event and places are limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.

Tickets £15
Only available online from the Big Draw Shop.

All ticket sales support the Campaign for Drawing, which co-ordinates the October Big Draw in 22 countries world-wide.

A day without drawing is a day without seeing
- Andrew Marr, Campaign for Drawing Patron, broadcaster and writer

The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing!

Drawing can promote engagement with museum and gallery collections, encourage civic participation and unite people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures. It is accessible and economical, requiring only pencil and paper. The Campaign pursues its aim through the year-round Drawing Action programme and its annual October Big Draw festival.
– Campaign For Drawing

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Stephanie Black — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:07 +0000

An exhibition of drawing by: Stephanie Black, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Lynn Imperatore, Vicki Kaye, Jane Lee, Orla O’Carroll, Wendy Rhodes, Rebecca Teigland.

Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, Vaskerelven 8, 5014 Bergen
9/1/2012 – 13/1/2012, 13:00 – 18:00
BISENSUAL 9 – 13 January 2012 Rom8, Bergen, Norway

Explorations into sensory ambiguities form a starting point for the work of eight artists, based in Bristol UK, in an exhibition of drawings that reveals a varied approach to the medium and its practice. From investigative activity to observational acumen, works include a mix of hands-on, digital and other multiple processes, with additional soundscape. Material and speculative engagement is subtly poised in this eclectic gathering of work with its surprising twists, and nuanced appreciation of directions in contemporary drawing. All eight artists follow discrete practices in which drawing is a primary concern, and are research practitioners at the School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England. They are contributors to the University’s Advanced Centre in Drawing (ACID).

For further information contact: John France, Convenor Advanced Centre in Drawing, Senior Lecturer Drawing and Applied Arts, UWE. Email: john.france@uwe.ac.uk

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New book on Drawing and Philosophy by Jac Saorsa

Jac Saorsa — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:30:45 +0000

Narrating the Catastrophe: An Artist’s Dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, is published by Intellect.

An extraordinary collaboration between contemporary art and critical discourse, Narrating the Catastrophe guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where “being” is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa establishes an alternative perspective from which to interpret and engage with the world around us. A highly original – and visually appealing – take on a high-profile issue in contemporary critical debate, this book will appeal to all those interested in visual arts and philosophy. – Intellect

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ISEA ’10: Unfolding Space

Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:30:59 +0000

From 20th to 29th August 2010, the international academic conference has brought together 230 speakers, including artists, academic researchers, scientists and other professionals from 40 countries e.g. many European countries, Brazil, Japan, North America, the UK and others. To achieve the highest standards, all conference contributions have been selected from over thousand proposals through a peer-reviewing process.

The ISEA International Reviewing Committee included 88 experts of 29 different nationalities from various media art related fields. Apart from the presentation panels, the ISEA Conference has also included a keynote program with Brian Massumi, Peter Weibel, Roy Ascott, Margaret Morse, Harald Welzer with Marko Peljhan, David d’Heilly with Fernando Garcia Dory, round-tables and workshops that have been realised with the cooperating institutions.

At the ISEA Ruhr 2010 Conference, crucial issues of the current debates in electronic art and media philosophy have beendiscussed. The themes have varied from aesthetic discourses to questions of art and engineering. The focal points of the Conference have been ‘Sounds’ and ‘Ecologies’. Among others, there have been panels on art and media in Latin America, on new art theory, on preservation of historical media art, on the phenomenon of materialisation and dematerialisation, on the role of the user in digital art, on the emerging notions of spatial layering & hybrid realities, on the latest developments in code art etc.

Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou presented her lecture Unfolding Space at the Algorithmic Topologypanel, one of the 51 panels of the ISEA Ruhr 2010 Conference. The panel was moderated by Timothy Druckrey (Director of the Graduate Photographic & Electronic Media program at MICA, curator, writer & editor) and took place on 27th August 2010 at VolksHochSchule Dortmund.

The focal point of the paper has been the ways in which the cosmological understanding of space as an uncontrollably changing informational substance and the expanded use of virtual environments necessitate new spatial research strategies for advancing site-specific art. The author’s research into interspatiality has inspired the creation of interpassages between digital and built spaces, enabling innovative spatial interventions. The conventional modes of VR are challenged, as built boundaries unfold to reveal the hidden dimensions of architecture by visualising paradoxical heterogeneous spaces in a virtual environment. Most importantly, the inherent abstraction and flaws of VR are revealed through innovative types of site-specific digital drawing.

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ISEA ’11: Mapping Uncertainty

Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:30:58 +0000

The 17th edition of the International Symposium on Electronic Art – the leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology – took place in Istanbul from 14 to 21 September 2011. The Symposium was the outcome of the synergy that was developed between the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Sabanci University of Istanbul. Moreover, the ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition Uncontainable was an official Parallel Event of the Istanbul Biennale.

ISEA 2011 Istanbul Conference was the academic core of the Symposium and took place mainly at the prestigious Sabanci Center’s towers situated at Levent, the rapidly developing and expanding business district of Istanbul. The ISEA2011 Istanbul Conference hosted more than 450 paper presentations, over 70 panels and 60 workshops that were complemented by fora, networking, meetings and special events. All submissions were selected and reviewed by an international jury of professionals and academics from various disciplinary backgrounds. Sean Cubitt, Roman Verostko, Oliver Grau, William Uricchio, Jay Bolter, Sara Diamond, Christiane Paul and Terrence Masson contributed as keynote speakers. The Conference comprised of a rich variety of topics including mapping, user experience and space; perfection, error and the sublime; art and activism in the digital age; interdisciplinary teaching and new media arts; algorithmic art; robotics; sound; bacteria art; consumption; augmented reality; hacking, and many others. The combination of presenters, the themes and the structure of presentations inspired rigorous discussions on emerging issues, inspired new ideas and potential, while facilitating the development of new collaborations and partnerships.

Mapping & the User Experience was one of the paper sessions of the ISEA2011 Istanbul Conference andtook place on 19 September 2011 at Sabanci Center. The issue of mapping was one of the most important emerging topics that dominated several paper sessions and workshops such as Mapping the City and Urban Identity, Mapping and the Subject as Body, Mapping as Walking as Learning to See in the Digital Age as well as exhibitions and events dealing not only with space and architecture but also with a rich variety of other emerging fields, discourses, inter-disciplinary types of international research and practice. The importance of mapping is recognised and highlighted as a challenging integral part of spatial practice and research across digital and electronic media arts, hard sciences and the humanities. The issue of exactitude in ‘mapping’ the physical world has been debated extensively in science and has deeply influenced the formulation of scientific paradigms. As we pass from Modernist reduction and mathematical formalism to contemporary complexity, uncertainty and complementarity, our perception and understanding of the relationship between physical and virtual worlds are changing in the most unexpected manner. In particular, the developments in Quantum physics and scientific visualisation have revealed an emerging kind of multi-dimensionality that characterises the fuzzy boundaries between reality and virtuality and probes new relationships between part and whole. As a result, a new understanding of space and reality in general, as well as of the limitations of science, is developing.

A synopsis of Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou’s paper Mapping Uncertainty follows:

The issue of exactitude in ‘mapping’ the physical world has been debated extensively in science and has deeply influenced the formulation of scientific paradigms. As we pass from Modernist reduction and mathematical formalism to contemporary complexity, uncertainty and complementarity, our perception and understanding of the relationship between physical and virtual worlds are changing in the most unexpected manner. In particular, the developments in Quantum physics and scientific visualisation have revealed an emerging kind of multi-dimensionality that characterises the fuzzy boundaries between reality and virtuality and probes new relationships between part and whole. As a result, a new understanding of space and reality in general, as well as of the limitations of science, is developing.

In contemporary art, architecture and the related disciplines, the changing relationship of data flows and data matrices inspires new types of spatial research and practice. As a designed environment, built space can be perceived as a fragment of an excessive superimposition of dynamically interacting algorithmic, geometrical, topological and structural grids. A creative exploration of the data flows into, from and within the physical structures of the built environment, challenges our common assumptions about space and our experience of it.

Emerging types of site-specific digital art are developing, for creatively investigating the point of intersection between the various types of reality and their ‘exchanges’. This paper offers an investigation into the ways through which, potential in-between spaces can be creatively revealed, through new kinds of site-specific intervention. The emphasis is placed on how it is possible to ‘trace’ and interact with the half- and by- products of algorithmic flows that remain unbuilt, their meta-dimentionality and the emerging paradoxes, through different modes of innovative spatial intervention such as, mixed realities para-sites, ‘injections’, ‘cuts’, interruptive site-specificity and others. Selected cases from the author’s own practice and research in digital site-specific art and other examples of spatial practices and research in art and architecture are discussed in conjunction with the relevant scientific, cosmological and philosophical theories.

For more information visit: http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/content/mapping-and-user-experience

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Operative Transformations

Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:30:11 +0000

DIGICULT is an Italian platform created to spread digital art and culture worldwide. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art design culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT is the editor of the magazine DIGIMAG which focuses on cultural and artistic issues e.g. art & science software art design etc. Below is an excerpt from Operative Transformations, the new article by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou from the magazine:

Having its roots in cinematic modes of presentation and spectatorship as well as in scientific simulation, data visualisation and statistics, the development of animation has been influenced by the paradigms deriving from these fields. Contemporary forms of animation enable an evolutionary endogenic design that is complex, transitory and emergent. The ‘spaces’ that are generated, differ from the outworn model of Cartesian space, that is, of a stable, ordered, inert, neutral and void space that is fully controllable through the use of Cartesian co-ordinates. Essentially therefore, the ‘spaces’ emerge from the fields of cymatics & Quantum Physics, the contexts of informationalism and connectivity.

The new kinds of space emerge through informational fields & flows, they are dynamically multi-causal, nonlinear, relational, irreducible and incidental, as constants have been substituted with variables. Consequently those spaces conform neither to the notions of ‘ground zero’, singularity and objecthood, nor and the norms of Modernist abstraction and disciplinary autonomies.

The architectural designer, theorist and academic Greg Lynn’s work is based on a creative investigation of the ways in which digital animation can be adapted as a tool for architectural design, through an in-depth engagement with the dialogue between architecture and animation and the ways the one changes the other. As we can see in Lynn’s work, Computer Aided Design provides the opportunity to “retool and rethink” architecture, as “calculus-based design” is introduced. Such a digital tool enables the creation of spaces of emergence, through non-linearbehaviour (interaction) and new kinds of geometry such as “motion or action” geometry, as termed by Lynn.

Please see Digimag online magazine for the full articles. There are two articles in this series. You can also see the Archives for Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou. Also available in Italian.

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The Sporting League

marcrenshaw — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:00:34 +0000

Intricate text panels produced in biro on large sheets of off-whitepaper line a whole wall of the gallery. Match results and league tables from ten seasons have been faithfully recorded with the dryness of a serious statistical archive, yet rendered with an obsessive and imperfect drive that appears self-indulgent. Although the project may have an appearance of obsession, it retains sophistication and an understanding of itself within a wider art historical context.

29.10.11 – 27.11.11
The Artspace
The Ropewalk Gallery
Maltkiln Road
Barton UponHumber
North Lincolnshire
DN18 5JT
Tel: 01652 660380

Admission Free
Open Monday – Saturday – 10am – 5pm, Sundays & Bank Holidays – 10am – 4pm

The exhibition in The Ropewalk Artspace Gallery offers The Sporting League project up for public consumption. Visitors can participate in score prediction and compete at table soccer. The artist will be relaying The Sporting League fixtures live in the gallery space each Saturday for the duration of the show. The Sporting League’s official blog is also featured on a-n’s Artists Talking website which provides all the latest news and developments from the project. See the Sporting League Blog and Marc’s website at www.marcrenshaw.com

This exhibition is funded by Arts Council England.

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Interesting and Inspiring Drawing Links and Videos

Peter Simcoe — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:43:21 +0000

Below are a variety of inspirational links you may wish to check out during a break in your day. There are some great drawing examples here and if I had significant time to spare I would love to try my hand at some rotoscoping [and if I could purchase one of those light harps to play in between times, even better]. Feel free to add relevant recommendations and links in the comments section.

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Funded PhD Opportunity

Edward Webb-Ingall — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:15:42 +0000

The information below outlines the PhD and includes links to Terms and Conditions and an Application Pack:

Project Supervision: Director of Studies Stephen Farthing RA, Rootstein Hopkins Research Professor in Drawing at the University of the Arts London.
Project Funding: The Rootstein Hopkins Foundation

Project Aim & Research Question: To establish the role of drawing in planning the 2012 Olympics in London.

The Context: At a time in history when the relationship between the drawn image and text has become of considerable interest, to those involved in curriculum development and the teaching of creativity. The planning of the Olympic Games offers researchers an unusually focused opportunity to take a snap shot of how drawing was used across a broad range of areas of creative thinking in the UK during the decade leading up to 2012.

Project Goals:
• To support a PhD studentship and thesis.
• To make a contribution to the scholarly understanding of the role of drawing in planning.
• To publish the findings through a conference, a book and exhibition.
• In terms of heritage the organizers and funders see this project as not simply a way of auditing the use of drawing in London 2012 but as a means of creating an accessible archival heritage that will be of considerable pedagogical value.

Method: Mindful of the scale of the project and the vast amount of material that may or may not be made available to our researcher, our proposal is, that in the first instance we should take three time slices through the material. Group 1 will comprise of drawings made between 1997 and Dec.2000 in relation to the BOA report prepared for Government ministers. Group 2 will comprise of drawings made post 6 July 2005 announcement and before 24th Aug 2008, Group 3 will comprise of drawings made post Beijing during the period 24th Aug 2008 – 27th July 2012. We would expect that during the period Feb 2012- Sept 2013 the appointed PhD student will be given reasonable access to as wide a range as possible of drawings produced during the planning process, the practicalities of this will clearly need to be worked on. It is important to note that research at UAL is controlled by an Ethics Committee that will ensure confidentiality.

The Material: During our review of the “Bigger Picture of Drawing” as it relates to London 2012 we would expect to view : Maps, Diagrams, Plans, Perspectives and Doodles that are both hand and computer generated, these will include Early Concept Drawings, Working Drawings, Sketches and Presentation Drawings. In terms of subject matter or professional source we would ideally like to review drawings from the following areas: General Master Planning, Architectural Design relating to a range of Olympic Buildings, Public Transport( road and rail). Logo Design, Equipment design, Event Design , Opening and Closing Ceremony Design , Clothes Design, Merchandising Design . This list is clearly not definitive, we would expect it to take its own shape as the project develops but what we are certain of from the outset is that our review will not attempt to be definitive. Clearly some of our sources: especially stamp and coin designs, retail outlet design we expect be able to access without your help, so what we are looking for at this stage is help with access to the core components.

Time Line: It is anticipated that the project will formally start during this coming Autumn (probably November 2011 and conclude in October 2014).
Between October 2011 – January 2012 we will aim to Define the Scope of the Review.
Between February 2012 – September 2013 we will aim to Review Material and Create a Virtual Archive.
From January 2014 the PhD student will be engaged in Writing Up, while The Project Supervisor develops the Exhibition and Book.

Please read the CCW (Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon) Rootstein Hopkins Doctoral Bursary Terms and Conditions

You can download the Application Pack from the University of the Arts website.

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Submit a Paper for Drawing Out

Edward Webb-Ingall — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:08:14 +0000

DRAWING OUT: 2012 is a transdisciplinary conference and collaboration between RMIT Melbourne & The University of the Arts London.

Submissions are be sought from academics, industry professionals, practitioners and others engaged in the fields of: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Practices; Art and Design , Digital Schemas; Fashion Templates; Architectural and Engineering Designs; Creative Writing; Mathematical, Musical and Dance notation, Media and Communications Concepts; Cartography and Scientific Schematics; Architectural and Mathematical Modeling; Business and Financial Mapping; Legal, Educational and Political Visualisations. Proposals for papers, workshops, panels and other innovative modes of presentation will be sought in three broad streams, that address the following themes:

1. Drawing and Notation. Drawing as a sometimes intuitive other times driven by convention means of mapping appearance and movement . With special reference to innovative methods of notation .

2. Drawing as Writing Drawing after, before and as a part of writing. An exploration of literacy and communication.

3. Drawing: recording and discovery. Drawing as a speculative activity and means of holding and transferring information.

All proposals should be 30 minutes in duration – please refer to your chosen theme in your abstract. Please use the following link to register and submit an abstract for Drawing Out: 2012

Schedule for submissions:

Authors submit their abstracts by 28th October 2011
The abstracts are plain text, and are entered directly into the webpage.
There is no need for any uploading of PDF’s at this stage. All abstract submissions will be via an external website, authors must create their own log in name and password
Abstracts are reviewed and accepted/rejected by 18th November 2011
Authors are notified of acceptance/rejection by 30th November 2011
Authors log into the system and upload their papers by January 6th 2012
Feedback on papers recived by 3rd February 2012

Authors log into the system and download/print the reviews, then upload the final/edited version of the papers by 17th February 2012. Powerpoints to e.webb-ingall@chelsea.arts.ac.uk by 24th February 2012. Please see below for proposed schedule for the 3 day conference:

Wednesday 28th March 2012 daytime

National Gallery, London – Theme: What makes a good drawing?

Wednesday 28th March 2012 evening

Opening of Exhibtion at Central Saint Martins Gallery, Kings Cross, London

Details of exhibition TBC

Thursday 29th March 2012 daytime

Chelsea College of Art and Design, 45 Millbank, London

Friday 30th March 2012 daytime

Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London

Friday 30th March 2012 evening

Closing conference event at Wimbledon Gallery

Details of exhibition TBC

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