Art, FutureProofing - BBC Radio 4

Interesting broadcast on Radio 4 last night discussing art in the 21st century and attempting to disabuse us of some of our more romantic notions. How will art survive the digital revolution? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088fkyn

For those who have signed up to the medical imaging project. We are meeting this morning at 9am in Mary Secole room g07. Hope to see you there

Buy Tickets - TicketSource

The Brechtfast Club present The Threepenny Opera on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th January at 7.30pm in the New Adelphi Theatre. Tickets are free. Book via: bit.do/ThreepennyOpera https://pl.fievent.com/e/brechtfast-club-theatre-presents-the-threepenny-opera/5882238

World reacts to “brilliant” Trump inauguration synopsis in Sunday Herald TV listings

Post-Truth continued... Sometimes a lie reveals a greater truth and a discomforting and unnerving one too. Enjoy the jest. It may not be funny for long. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15024879.World_reacts_to____brilliant____Trump_inauguration_synopsis_in_Sunday_Herald_TV_listings/

Jake Chapman is right to criticise Ai Weiwei's drowned boy artwork

Jake Chapman criticises Ai Weiwei's 'Drowned Boy' image. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/jan/13/jake-chapman-ai-weiwei-refugee-crisis

Tate’s first woman director brings colourful pedigree and quirky art

Why drawing needs to be a curriculum essential

What does post-truth mean for a philosopher? - BBC News

Could the Post-Truth world look any more absurd or undignified? Here's Professor AC Grayling to offer some sober reflections. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38557838

Why social media is like the railways – and must be saved

For those signed up to the inter-semester project 'Art in the Post- Truth Era', take a look at this article in today's Guardian. Paul Mason writes on the problems of social media - and Facebook in particular - in the dissemination of fake news and misinformation. Mason writes of the demand to ensure content is short, 'as if for idiots' and explains the corporate imperatives that lie behind the practice. As we discussed on Monday in this way our language is stripped of the possibility to articulate lived experience. Orwellian 'Newspeak' for the digital age? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/social-media-fake-news-soundcloud-medium-facebook

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Today we launched the inter-semester project 'Art in the Post-Truth Era'. We were delighted to welcome London based US artist Doug Fishbone to join us. Doug's work - the film Elmina (first shown at Tate Britain), Made in China (Dulwich Picture Gallery) and Leisure Land Golf (Venice Biennale) - chimed so well with the ideas we discussed this am. It was a fabulous presentation. Many thanks to Doug.

Doug Fishbone - Everybody Loves a Winner

Here's an early video work from Doug Fishbone from 2004. Come along on Monday at 2pm to learn more about Doug's work.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMRKgV1BXE4&t=60s

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The Big Heritage Project Hi everyone, i am leading on the Big Heritage project that is taking place over January starting on the 10th. This is a great opportunity to look at creating artwork in response to a specific location on the Salford Trafford Border. This is a school wide project with students from other programmes already signed up, It would be great to have some visual arts students on board as well. The Project Peel Holdings together with Salford City Council and Trafford Council are working on a Heritage Lottery Bid to transform the area around the Barton Bridge Swing Aqueduct, the first and only swing aqueduct in the world. They have asked the University of Salford to work with them to research the area to capture and visualise its history and document its use from its past to the present. If you want to get involved contact me Sam Ingleson Dates First briefing 10th January 12pm, NEW ADELPHI ROOM 1.12. Overview of the site in question and a opportunity to meet with Peel/ Plan IT consultants to hear about the project development and 10th Jan 1.30 pm – Site visit – guided tour of the Barton Bridge site with the engineers from Peel Weds 11th jan – 11am VR Demo Room, Thinklab Tuesday 17th 1.30pm – meet up to share work in progress Monday 23rd Jan – Meet to discuss exhibiting outcomes and next steps Outcomes & Benefits This is an opportunity to work to an industry generated brief; enhance your portfolio and CV; and experience collaborative working with peers and technical staff. The work created in January will be presented to Peel and exhibited in the atrium. We are working with Peel on a Heritage Lottery Bid. If the bid is successful students will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of professional content for an augmented app of the area, OR music, OR performances, OR website content and school packs. This is the start of an on going project over the next few years that you are welcome to commit further to if you so wish.