BA Contemporary Visual Culture

  A Public Seminar on Acts of Resistance  in Ireland using the street as a platform. Monday,  28 November 2016, 5:30pm – 7:30pm The Robert Emmet Community Development Project,  3-8 Usher Street, Dublin 8. A seminar on the visual culture of resistance within Ireland from past and present. We aim to investigating these visuals through means of street art, murals, posters and other elements of visual culture that influence the society we live in.  Our chair for the evening is Dr. Tina Kinsella who will direct the conversation of the Art of Street Resistance. The past year has sparked numerous debate and discourse surrounding topics like same sex marriage, abortion and the right to water. As celebrations of 1916 are soon coming to an end, the final year class of Visual and Critical Studies have organized a seminar to present a collection of five conversations. Each will stem from a common theme of street art. Attendees will experience an explora...

An essay by CVC lecturer Mary Ann Bolger is included in the forthcoming anthology Death and the Irish: a miscellany , edited by Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. The book will be launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 10th November. Mary Ann's research interests include the design of everyday religious and memorial objects –– this essay looks at the interplay between spiritual and commercial agendas in the design of Irish Catholic memorial cards. More details about the book are available on the publisher'swebsite:   http://wordwellbooks.com/Death

Contemporary Visual Culture Lecturer Mary Ann Bolger is presenting at the Mise Éire? Shaping a Nation through Design Conference on 4 -5 November 2016 at the N ational Museum of Ireland . Mary Ann Bolger Mise Éire? Shaping a Nation through Design is a partnership project and part of the 2016 centenary programme of both bodies, will see design historians, academics and practitioners explore the expression of collective and national identity in Ireland through the lens of design and craft. The conference is aimed at design and craft historians and academics, practitioners, students and anyone with a general interest in design and collective and national identity. Full details on this event here: http://miseeireconference.ie/

BA Contemporary Visual Culture Lecturers, Mary Ann Bolger and Clare Bell, have organized: Typography Ireland | Type Together | Typeface Design Workshop | Dublin 18–20 November 2016 Typography Ireland are delighted to announce the details of our second Type Together typeface design workshop to take place from 18th to 20th November 2016, organised by Typography Ireland in association with the Dublin School of Creative Arts, DIT and the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) . This workshop, led by internationally renowned Type Together typeface designers Veronika Burian (Type Together) and José Scaglione (President of ATypI, Type Together) will cover the essential aspects of the type-design process, including glyph-drawing, spacing, kerning techniques and multiple-master technology. Winners of the ISTD's Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design, Veronika and José will lead intensive practical sessions, combined with open critiques and short lectures, creating...

EL Putnam performing Whisper Almost Without Sound ,  multimedia installation and performance  with  wearable electronics  at Mobius,  Cambridge, MA, 2016.  Image credit: Melanie Hedlund. BA Contemporary Visual Culture Lecturer, EL Putnam, will be performing   Circuit at "Stance," a performance event organised by Justine McDonnell and Rachel Rankin at the Pollen Studios, Belfast, 3 November 6 to 9 pm. EL will also be presenting a paper, "“Neglect of Their Duties:” Feminist Maternal Ethics and the Irish Intimate Public Sphere" at the upcoming SWIP-Ireland conference “Feminist Ethics in Theory and Practice: Challenging practices in contested domains”, December 2-4, in Galway, Ireland. Click here for more on:  Society for Women in Philosophy website

BA Contemporary Visual Culture lecturer Mary Ann Bolger will speak at the forthcoming symposium at the University of Brighton, ‘Facing the World Differently? Seventy years on from the Britain Can Make It Exhibition’ on  Friday 7 October 2016.   Catalogue for Irish Design Exhibition 1956,  designed by Thurloe Conolly  at The Design Research Unit of Ireland for the Arts Council. IMMA Collection The symposium sets out to consider the impact and legacy of the 1946 exhibition, Britain Can Make It, held at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition reflected a desire to reaffirm Britain’s global position in design and manufacturing after World War Two. Mary Ann’s paper will contribute to the debate about the implications of imperial models of design practice, education, exhibition and professional organization, focusing on the situation in the self-consciously modernising Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s. Her paper examines how design was mobilized ...

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