This is the blogspot for the BA Contemporary Visual Culture at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, Grangegorman.
BA CVC assist in National Print Museum exhibition and DSCA Symposium, May 2017
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Third year student Rebecca Quinn has been working with the National Print Museum in preparation for the Green Sleeves exhibitionwhich opened on May 4th and runs until October. Rebecca helped with press and publicity in the lead up to the exhibition.
BA Contemporary Visual Culture students also helped out with the accompanying symposium, organised by Dublin School of Creative Arts research group Typography Ireland.
Tim's panel is called Weird Systems and will examine the weirder aspects of cybernetics in post-war artistic and literary culture. The panel will consider what we might still learn from those occasions where systems become weird. The panel, chaired by Dr Tim Stott (Dublin Institute of Technology), will include the following papers: Professor Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University), ‘Cosmic Weirdness in John Lilly’s The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography’, Professor Philip Thurtle (University of Washington), ‘William Bateson’s Waves of Living Flesh’, Dr Francis Halsall (National College of Art and Design, Dublin & University of the Free State, Bloemfontein), ‘Occult Systems: ‘Thinking the Absolute’ in Luhmanns’s Systems Theory’. For full Conference Programme, click here: litsciarts Conference Programme 2016
Wendy Williams's talk today dealt with how her experience as a design historian has influenced her work as a graphic and exhibition designer. She focused on two case studies, Conserving The Dream at St Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork and the Eileen Gray exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland -- Collins Barracks. The lecture was also well attended by colleagues from the BA Visual Merchandising at DIT.
BA Contemporary Visual Culture lecturers Tim Stott and Mary Ann Bolger have both had papers accepted for the 2017 Design History Society Annual Conference in Oslo this September. Mary Ann Bolger Mary Ann will be speaking as part of the special anniversary strand, “Making and Unmaking Design History” which addresses the history and historiography of the discipline in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the first DHS Conference, held in Brighton in 1977. Her paper is presented as part of a panel devised in collaboration with two colleagues, Dr Lisa Godson and Dr Sorcha O’Brien, which is entitled “ Making and Unmaking National Identity: Design ‘In’, ‘Of’ and ‘From’ Ireland.” This sets out to interrogate some of the limits and possibilities of a “national history of design” using the emerging field of Irish design history as a case study. Mary Ann’s paper is called “Putting the ‘Irish’ into Irish design 1950-2015” and looks at some aspects of the Irish government’s atte...