Final Discussion

Between 19th Jun to 29th Jun (During Final Show)
Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

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RED TAPE 01

Tactics of Protest Now

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm, 1st February 2012
Performing Art Lab, Stevens Building Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

This discussion explores tactical media in contemporary culture and social movements. In response to a deep economic, political, and cultural crisis, new social movements are challenging the dominant political and economic order. Tactical media, David Garcia says, has emerged through, ‘the impact of the rise of small-scale DIY media, tools and networks in art, social and political activism, and the rise of new social movements.’ How can tactical media connect with and re-contextualise the traditional methods of propaganda and create new alternative forms of action for the future?

David Garcia (Chair Person)
Garvin Grindon
Ken Garland
Tzortzis Rallis (Occupied Times)
Steve Maclean (Occupied Times)

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E-mail Inquiry: min.huh@network.rca.ac.uk

RED TAPE 02

Local/Global: The role of culture in the creation and reception of visual communication

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm15th February 2012
Performing Art Lab, Stevens Building Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

In the tensions between local and global, (very often local ignores global and global ignores local), which is the way forward? It is only by appreciating a culture that is profoundly different from our own, that we can realize the extent to which our own beliefs and activities are culture-bound, rather than natural or universal. Melville J. Herskovits reminds us, ‘Judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation’. As visual communicators, how do we become aware of the unconscious bonds and perceptions of our own culture to develop a more self-conscious position for practice? With this awareness what can our audiences gain?

Christine Guth (Chair Person)
Christopher Pinney
John Hutnyk
Rian Hughes

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RED TAPE 03

Our Future: Education & Creativity

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm, 14th March 2012
ArtBar, Darwin Building Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

The world is changing rapidly but is our education system keeping pace? How do we educate ourselves in order to meet the challenges of the future? And what is the point of education anyway? Our government, through cuts in funding to the humanities and arts are casting a resounding vote for traditional STEM subjects such as science or maths, promoting them as the way forward for our culture, politics and economy. Other voices are saying that for a successful future we need to embrace collaboration and encourage creativity, or that we must look beyond established education institutions.

Dr Paul Thompson
Brave New Alps
Richard Gerver
Teal Triggs

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RED TAPE 04

Design as Politics: Power and Shadow

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, 28th March 2012
Red Room, Stevens Building Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

This discussion is about how visual communicators deal with the political landscape within a shift in communication methods. As Yochai Benkler says, the traditional ways of owning and sharing information and knowledge are being inverted to new ways of communication relying on every person connected by the internet. As we can see from Google, Wikileaks, P2P networks, open source software or skype telecommunications, the decentralized authority and capacity to contribute to effective action have emerged not only as a modality of economic production but also as a transparent and democratic way of social communication. By these means, regional problems and personal knowledge are no longer local matters, but are rather becoming altering factors of the whole patterns of the global economy and politics. In this circumstance, how can visual communicators shape the image of a new communication paradigm in order to cope with a new social, cultural, and economic landscape?

Rick Poynor
Metahaven: Daniel van der Velden
Noel Doulas

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RED TAPE 05

Storytelling: New forms

6:00 pm - 7:45 pm, 25th April 2012
Performing Art Lab, Stevens Building Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

As usage of the Internet increases and the demands of a hyper-mediated society permeate all aspects of our lives, some anthropologists are saying that human cognition is changing. The way we share, access, and process the world around us is being transformed, and so is the way we tell stories and understand narratives. Within the framework of the web, new narrative forms are emerging, and online interaction and participation are playing an integral role. This discussion explores new narrative forms, their effects on the storytelling process, and the practitioners who are finding ways to tell stories with the help of technology.

Adrian Shaughnessy
Simon Faithfull
John Jordan (The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination)
Alex Butterworth

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