Burnt polar bear bone (Polar Diamond 2009) Ackroyd & Harvey
In association with the Art, Science and Technology Reseach Group, Artists Ackroyd & Harvey discuss recent and forthcoming projects, with reference to their commission for a major public artwork for London 2012 and their more intimate gallery-based works. The Monday Lecture includes an in depth look at the overlaps between aesthetics, ecology, science and politics in their practice.
http://www.ackroydandharvey.com
Animated Emergence GIF by http://www.stefanieschwarz-graphicdesign.de
‘The world will never stop changing; new, exciting and potentially troubling phenomena will never stop emerging. Emergence is a process of evolution from the past to the future, encompassing the present.’ -Emanuelle Degli Eposti
The theme of the TEDxCentralSaintMartins Conference on March 28th is Emergence. TEDxCentralSaintMartins are inviting any student from the University of the Arts London to create an A1 poster or 30 second video in response
The five best entries will be displayed at TEDxCentralSaintMartins and the overall winner will receive a free ticket.
Please submit static work in low-res PDF or jpeg format, or video please send a youtube or vimeo link, and email them to me@jotta.com
Deadline: 10am Wednesday February 29th
The winner will be picked by Jotta creative director Ben James and will be informed by e-mail no later than Feb 29th.
We look forward to seeing your work!
For more information please visit the TEDxCentralSaintMartins website.
Support the Arts London News ‘Right to Ride’ campaign.
Following on from the success of 2011′s Right to Ride we are now moving into phase two of our campaign. During the first phase we successfully obtained over 1000 signatures on our petition and received messages of support from the management of all UAL campuses as well as heads of student bodies.
To protect the safety of cyclists traveling through the following five cycling accident black spots, we, the undersigned, would like to request that the management of all London universities and their students lobby Transport for London (TfL) to prioritise the redevelopment of these dangerous interchanges.
The five black spots are as follows:
1. St. George’s Road/ London Road/ Elephant & Castle Junction
2. Clapham Road/ Kennington Park Road/ Camberwell Road Junction
3. Waterloo Road/ Stamford St/ York Road Junction
4. King’s Cross Junction
5. Hyde Park Corner
For more information, and to add your signature, visit the Right to Ride petition
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Earlier this month, CSM and Afterall hosted a discussion in which Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer reflected upon their controversial exhibition ‘The Potosi Principle’.
The full video of the event is now available to watch online.
Great news for MA Industrial Design students who have been set an exciting challenge by Microsoft.
Microsoft have tasked MA Industrial Design students to peer into their crystal balls to demonstrate new concepts in man-machine interaction.
Central Saint Martins students are challenged to find an alternative to the mouse and keyboard, or technologies similar to those that are emerging today in the field of gesture, voice and facial recognition.
The results of this sponsored project will be unveiled at a showcase event at Central Saint Martin’s College in April this year, with students likely to present a range of creative hardware and user experience design solutions to an invited audience of design luminaries and media. One student will also be awarded the first Microsoft UK Design Award which comes attached with a cash prize.
Find out more:
- Read the full article on the MSN website
- MA Industrial Design course page
On Friday night the work of 20 students from Central Saint Martins’ MA Fashion was shown at London Fashion Week’s BFC space. 2012 graduates showed a diverse, controversial and exciting group of collections in Professor Louise Wilson’s twentieth year as Course Director.
Luke Brooks and Craig Green, both ex- CSM BA students, were joint winners of the L’Oréal Professionnel Creative Award 2012. Luke Brooks, previously a finalist of the CSM BA L’Oréal Professionnel Award, incorporated knitwear, hand painting, found objects and four inch fringed platform brogues. Last year’s Bally project winner, Craig Green’s print menswear collection was inspired by workwear and cults and featured papier maché burdens and a tie dye block print.
The work of all this year’s MA Fashion graduates across 5 pathways – Womenswear, Menswear, Knitwear, Textiles and Fashion Journalism – will be showing in the MA Studios at Central Saint Martins from March 12 – March 17 2012.
Coverage with pictures:
- Vogue.co.uk
- Vogue.com
- Show Studio
- iD
- Telegraph
CSM staff and students braved the cold to help out at the King’s Cross Skip Garden, based behind our new building.
The movable Skip Garden at King’s Cross consists of seven construction skips which have been transformed into mini gardens including an orchard, a wormery, a poly-tunnel skip, a herb skip and three crop-rotation skips. They are gardened by volunteers and young people from the local area, many of whom don’t have gardens of their own.
Volunteers from Central Saint Martins got involved in painting a shed that will provide a space for gardeners to take a break and reflect on their handywork.
Find out more about Green Week 2012
Visit our new sustainability site
Find out more about the King’s Cross Skip Garden
Still from promo for Tribes’ “When My Day Comes” directed by Mickey Voak & Dan White.
Tribes nominated for NME Best New Band award 2012.
Tribes, (“Camden’s urchin grunge…indie rock of the most rebellious kind” The Guardian) featuring CSM BA Fine Art graduate Dan White, and backed by promos directed by Dan, and a team of other BA Fine Art graduates including Giorgio Bruni, Toby Ross-Shouthall, Towa Noel Shimizu and Ralph Fuller, have been nominated for the NME’s Best New Band Award 2012.
The other nominees are: The Vaccines, Lana Del Ray, Wu Lyf and Foster the People. The winners will be unveiled at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on February 29, 2012.
Find out more:
-Vote for Tribes on the NME website
-BA Fine Art course page
Green Week 2012 is well underway!
We’ve had lots of exciting events take place so far at CSM, including BA Product Design’s ‘Dirty Washing’ project, which drew attention to correct use of the recycling bins at King’s Cross, and volunteers helping out at the King’s Cross Central Skip Garden. We have many more events still to come; for more details see the Green Week 2012 schedule.
To coincide with Green Week 2012, we’ve launched a new sustainability area on our website. The new area contains information about the college’s sustainability policies, the energy efficiency of our new building, examples of student projects addressing sustainability, including MA Communication Design’s Fish Factory project in Iceland and much more.
Find out more at the sustainability section of the CSM website
Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer discuss their controversial exhibition ‘The Potosi Principle’ on the circulation of art and wealth during Spanish colonial rule. Moderated by Melissa Gronlund.
Potosí, the famous silver-mining city in Bolivia, synonymous with immense wealth and unbridled exploitation, was the capital of the mining industry in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and played a crucial role in the development of European capitalism and the migrations associated with it. Even today, the expression ‘vale un Potosí’ / ‘worth a fortune’ is commonly used in Spanish.
‘The Potosi Principle’ offered a critical approach to the Bicentenario – the two hundredth anniversary of the independence movement in Latin America. It addressed the relationship between trade structures and ways of thinking in Latin America and Europe and their social effects on both continents, both before and after the citizens’ revolutions of the nineteenth century.
Details of this event can be found here.
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