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Student work: Archive as Creative Presentation
Posted: 13/07/23 11:54 |
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This blog post introduces the production of a creative archive by ECA student Tim Harbridge. Tim’s Box Concert archive demonstrates an excellent and engaging use of combined methods across film, audio, physical objects, and installation.
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OCA News: Creative Arts – A review of our programme
Posted: 21/03/23 02:41 |
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The online department has produced more communities of practice and allowed us to meet and communicate more readily with students as a group of engaged, diverse creatives, which has been a great move forward.
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Highlights from a vibrant Creative Arts assessment
Posted: 17/01/23 11:12 |
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As is often the case, assessment events offer great insight into the diverse BA (Hons) Creative Arts community and the wide range of approaches to interdisciplinary practice on the programme.
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Creative Arts Department: A year in review
Posted: 08/09/22 11:12 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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