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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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Collaboration: Cherished Child or Frankenstein’s Monster?
Posted: 08/08/22 12:06 |
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We are five students studying Undergraduate Degrees on Drawing, Painting and Fine Art at levels one and two with OCA. We have been meeting for a number of years to support each other with our studies. Last year we agreed to work together on a collaboration project, none of us had tried this before.
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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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Student stories: From Big Draw participant to Psychogeographer
Posted: 13/07/21 09:51 |
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Nina is an Investigating Place with Psychogeography student, in this piece she writes about her journey in the OCA.
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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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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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Study event: OCA East of England
Posted: 13/05/21 10:05 |
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Join us on 29 May 2021 as Andrew Fitzgibbon talks about his photography project and short film Drifting by the Leeds & Liverpool.
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Art-Scientific: A student collective. Are you interested?
Posted: 26/04/21 09:32 |
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Art-Scientific is a cross-discipline collective recently set up by a group of OCA students interested in exploring scientific themes within their art practice. The group is open to any student with an interest in exploring links and connections between art and science.
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How to make research writing easier!
Posted: 21/10/20 09:10 |
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A Win-Win situation: citation software… What would you say if you were offered less work, better-focused research, easier and quicker writing, better accuracy of citations and bibliography and everything as neatly organised as a series of music playlists? Okay, who wouldn’t say yes? However, this is a post about one of the most boring topics […]
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