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Tutor news: Caroline Wright
Posted: 09/06/22 12:07 |
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Caroline, alongside others, worked on SPIRAL, a project that explored multi-sensory dimensions of materials with disabled people. They aimed to explore if creative approaches could intersect with the work of UCL researchers to bring new and stimulating experiences to people.
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Student stories: Anna Sellen
Posted: 16/05/22 12:20 |
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Winner of FORMAT2021 Shutter Hub portfolio award, Wales-based photographer, artist and OCA student Anna Sellen launches virtual multimedia exhibition ‘Drip by drip, we are fed with concrete’ at CULTVR Portal this month.
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Drawing Invisible Cities: A Close-Reading and Drawing Workshop
Posted: 12/04/22 01:40 |
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Using selected extracts from Italo Calvino’s book ‘Invisible Cities’, on Wednesday 23 March I held a drawing and close-reading workshop to explore his writing and create a series of speculative drawings that imagine the cities he describes.
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Augmented Reality – what place does this have in art?
Posted: 23/02/22 02:12 |
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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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More Than Sum Parts: Exhibition News!
Posted: 20/12/21 09:02 |
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OCA students Kym (Coratin) Walker and Steve Meyfroidt are delighted their work ‘fragile power’ is currently on display in the RE:FORM Exhibition at Florence Arts Centre, North Cumbria.
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Study event review: Chain Reaction
Posted: 19/11/21 09:47 |
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OCA student Kate Nicholson reviews her experience of a recent study event.
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Postcard from the edge of Art and Science
Posted: 19/10/21 11:37 |
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Increasingly fascinated with the connections between Art and Science, I was delighted to secure a place on Edinburgh University’s ASCUS* Art and Science on a Postcard 2021 event which took place earlier this year over three consecutive weekends.
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Image-making and image-faking
Posted: 21/09/21 10:14 |
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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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OCA is evolving
Posted: 04/08/21 04:41 |
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The slideshow below provides an overview of changes to the areas of learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum at OCA.
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Thinking about making and physical objects
Posted: 26/07/21 09:58 |
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It’s important for us, as designers of space, to consider our projects three-dimensionally; to consider how our designed components come together to function spatially. A crucial method of exploring this is through the production of models and the assemblage of physical objects.
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