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MA Graphic Media Design

CONTENTS

OPEN (ONLINE) STUDIO

We invite you to join us for a series of OPEN (ONLINE) STUDIO sessions; an opportunity to meet with the course team and participants to learn about the philosophy and intentions of the course.

Current participants will share insights from their research practices and lead a discussion on the opportunities that have encountered throughout the course.

Bookings

The Clive Baillie Scholarship, worth £5,000, is now welcoming applications. Full details of the application and selection process are available here.

Shauna Wilkinson, the recipient of the scholarship this year, shares insights to her experience and her current research:

I was fortunate enough to receive the Clive Baillie Scholarship for the year 2019/20, which has made an incredible difference to both my research and design practice as a practitioner on the MA Graphic Media Design course. My current research explores the idiosyncrasies of Gravesend’s history (my hometown). I am interested in investigating this through the lens of spatial-cultural discourse and place-identity theory, in order to examine the concept of home through tangible design?

Welcoming common-interest

We are delighted to welcome common-interest to the ALWFAV team. Corinne Gisel and Nina Pain will join as advisors for volume 4, working with the MA GMD participants and guests towards publication in December 2020.

common-interest is a non-profit design research practice, operating at the intersection of knowledge production, exchange, and mediation. They use design as both a lens to critically look at the world, a tool to bring people together, and as a means to make socially relevant insights public. For them, design research is an activist tool for issue advocacy, collectivity building, and commoning knowledge.

As we progress with plans for the next volume, we invite you to read previous volumes online: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3

Whilst we navigate our response to the pandemic, the ALWFAV team continue to accept orders for Volume 3 to be dispatched on our return to LCC in the coming months. Please contact p.bailey@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Otherwise, there is limited stock is available at MagCulture, who also kindly recently featured the publication, announcing:

A really impressive third issue from the MA Graphic Media Design course; this is what independent magazine-making is all about.

The Reciprocal Studio: Imagining Otherwise

Drawing on Carl DiSalvo’s notion of using design to ‘foster knowledge through engagement’, What if Our World is Their Heaven? led by Haunted Machines (Natalie Kane and Tobias Revell) introduced a mixture of critical media and design techniques to identify and speculate on the implications of automated visual culture. Documentation and resources from the workshop are available via Haunted Machines.

Quale, Song led by Paul Elliman intended to raise questions regarding the production of language, and to reconsider communication as a direct feature and function of the body. It set out to remind us that language is reciprocal; the product of a response to something or someone. The workshop considered these values and properties by using song as the productive form. Listen to tracks produced/sourced in the workshop over on Innommable Radio*.

Evening Class guided the participants through a series of exercises, excursions and actions concerned with workers’ inquiries. Driven by an investigation into conditions in education and work Collective Inquiry set out to alleviate the pressures of navigating precarity and provide insights into prototyping alternatives for practice/s.

Climate Conversations hosted by Adaptive Capacity set out to explore the discourse surrounding climate change with a view to developing a range of tools that help (re)position ourselves as communicators, to evolve our own theories, advance/contest the opinions of others and promote successful action on the current climate crisis.

Whilst the workshop period has now concluded, the conversations and actions persist, and are finding form within the participants emergent research projects.

MA GMD: Out & About

Laura Dirzyte and Bruna Osthoff share insights into their project ‘Notes on Dynamic interventions’ in a recent interview by Collide 24: Publishing in Times of Information Crisis

Laura Dirzyte has also recently become an editorial contributor at Femme Type – a platform celebrating the work of womxn who are part of the type and typography industry. Features include Jessica Hische, Margot Lévêque and most recently Eleni Beveratou.

Jaya Modi, shares insights on her graduate research project E.A.T (Evolution. Aesthetics. Technology) in a recent feature by The Earth Issue.

Daphne Tsang’s ‘poignant graphic design that highlights deeply rooted socio-cultural issues’ is featured by Intern Magazine.

Francisca Roseiro, Masumi Ishii and Antony Price have contributed to €uro-vision, a research project initiated by course correspondents and friends FRAUD. €uro-vision explores the extractivist gaze of the EU’s migration policy and its inscriptive operations on territories and bodies at its peripheries. Further information about the project and opportunities to contribute to the archive here.

On A Clear Day You Can See
The Revolution From Here

View trailer here.

The film brings into focus Kazakhstan’s search for a post-Soviet identity and a state-sponsored programme of cultural production that on the one hand connects back to the ancient folklore and belief systems of the Silk Road, while on the other, seeks to embrace the values of Western capitalism. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the landscape taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.

‘On A Clear Day…’ provides a meditative faux observational film about the continual process of construction involved in nationhood and national identity. A film whose facts are always based on fictions – the ancient myths and folklore of Kazakhstan itself.

The film selected by Visions du Reel Festival in Switzerland will be premiered online 25 April – 2 May.

Thoughts & Care

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