Creative Arts Department: A year in review
Posted: 08/09/22 11:12 | 1 Comments
The 2021/22 academic year has created many opportunities to enhance our Creative Arts Department and build on our strengths.
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A PDF-to-print zine as engagement for Creative Arts: Gesa Helms’ A/Folder: an instructive glossary
Posted: 12/08/22 09:16 | 0 Comments
This blog explores a distributed and self-printed form of engagement in my recently completed Creative Arts practice. A/Folder: an instructive glossary is a downloadable PDF-to-print zine. Each zine offers a prompt, a set of instructions, a method to explore. I want to unpack a little what this form allows for in terms of engagement as key modality of Sustain your Practice, and, should you be interested, invite you along.
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Practice-as-research and Research-as-practice. The Creative Arts work of Stage 3 student Gesa Helms.
Posted: 05/08/22 10:51 | 11 Comments
In May, after concluding Stage 3 of the Creative Arts pathway, tutor Rachel Smith spoke with student Gesa Helms to explore the interweaving between practical and theoretical work in her practice and how practice-as-research methods have informed her three Stage 3 modules.
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OCA Degree Show Showcase 21/22
Posted: 25/07/22 10:54 | 0 Comments
Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 21/22 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
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OCA News: Student Fees from August 2022
Posted: 17/05/22 02:59 | 8 Comments
We are announcing today, Tuesday 17th May 2022, the fees which will apply to the next academic year (from 1st August 2022 to 31st July 2023).
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Creative Arts, Part 3: Why are skills so important to becoming a creative artist?
Posted: 07/04/22 03:55 | 2 Comments
This might seem like an obvious question to answer, and perhaps I wanted to open a discussion on what opportunities there are for developing skills on the creative arts pathway.
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Augmented Reality – what place does this have in art?
Posted: 23/02/22 02:12 | 8 Comments
The primary focus for Artivive, going by their website, appears to be its use in galleries, but I was beginning to see the potential beyond that context. What if artists could add an audio track for people with literacy difficulties? Or a video of themselves talking about the work? Or how about a video comprising photos showing how the finished piece came about?
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LGBT+ History Month
Posted: 17/02/22 04:22 | 0 Comments
February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK, a month-long annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary history.
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Creative Arts 2021 Showcase ‘Crossing The Boundary’
Posted: 24/11/21 09:28 | 2 Comments
For the 2020/21 academic year, I wanted to develop a showcase of student work from across the Creative Arts (CA) programme at any stage of their study. I aspired to offer a view of what CA students are achieving through their interdisciplinary practices and hope to share this more widely with the OCA community and beyond.
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Image-making and image-faking
Posted: 21/09/21 10:14 | 2 Comments
How do you balance healthy scepticism (and the urge to debunk) with openness to new information and the desire to believe? Sometimes, when it comes to image-making and image-faking, all it takes is a few hoax fairy photos to remind you to maintain your sense of wonder…and look a little closer.
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