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OCA’s online degree showcase – Live!
Posted: 30/07/21 06:13 |
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I am delighted to announce that our first ever degree showcase at OCA launches this week at https://showcase.oca.ac.uk/. Students from the Creative Arts, Creative Writing, Painting, Photography and Textiles undergraduate degrees are all represented and the work is absolutely stunning.
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Getting work ready for assessment and what to submit
Posted: 28/07/21 04:00 |
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Debbie Johnston is following the Creative Arts Degree and recently submitted Level 5, Graphic Design 2: Working with a Client, work for assessment.
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Student Association study event: Visual Art and Text
Posted: 28/06/21 09:47 |
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Join Bryan Eccleshall for two workshops (each two hours long) to explore how text has been used in visual art and to develop your own way of doing it.
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edge zine 11: Catalyst
Posted: 11/06/21 01:25 |
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We are pleased to announce the new issue of edge-zine is available now.
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A fruitful feedback session
Posted: 10/06/21 09:38 |
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Some feedback can be seen as daunting, unpredictable, too long, too dominating and a little bit too nice. But it is up to you how you want to direct it; you have ownership and drive it in a way which suits you. What do students want from feedback sessions? Critique, direction, progress, ruthlessness, compliments?
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Perception: Where Science and Art Meet. Sort Of.
Posted: 09/06/21 09:26 |
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The important point is our brains are wired in a certain way and we invent and build the world in our heads as much as perceive it as ‘truth’. This is important for anyone attempting to represent three dimensions in two. The world is indeed out there but perhaps capturing it requires more intervention than we might initially think.
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In conversation: OCA student Mel Brown & tutor Bryan Eccleshall
Posted: 06/05/21 09:40 |
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As a tutor that’s seen a lot of these projects, it’s perhaps important to mention that no two projects are the same and there isn’t really a ‘right’ answer. The important thing to take from this is that a complex project doesn’t arrive fully-formed but is developed over time. The final format (at least for now) of this work is a recreation of Mel’s teenage bedroom – something that she couldn’t have imagined when she started.
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Student work: Christine Bruce
Posted: 20/04/21 09:02 |
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OCA Programme Leader for Creative Arts, Doug Burton, in conversation with Christine Bruce.
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‘Dealing with the flood’?
Posted: 31/03/21 09:57 |
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OCA tutor, Helen Warburton recalls the discussion of image overload, and asks how do artists and designers deal with this now in the midst of a pandemic? During lockdown, I’ve been revisiting a 2013 WeAreOCA blog post that posed a provocative question: how do we deal with the flood of images? The discussion gravitated around […]
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Beeple’s ‘Everydays’: The Value of Digital Artwork
Posted: 18/03/21 09:37 |
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Last week an artwork sold at Christie’s Auction House for $65m (about £47m). ‘Everydays: The First 5,000 Days’ by the American artist Beeple (better known to his family as Mike Winkelmann) is now the most expensive piece of digital art ever created, but its provenance and value are not contained within the work itself, as […]
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