CRD Centre for Research Development Faculty of Arts and Architecture Research Newsletter / Spring 2003 / Edition 4

Above: 'Marriage of Materials' exhibition by Nick Gant

Right: ‘Embodied Interfaces' exhibition by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

New Research in the Perspex Brand and the Crafts Council in the case of ‘Marriage of Materials’. Architecture and Design The Marriage of Materials ‘Embodied Interfaces’ and ‘The Marriage of Materials’ opened in the Gallery at Grand The marriage of materials was conceived, Parade on the 6th December 2002. These designed and co-ordinated by Nick Gant and Tanya two shows were the first presentation of Dean, who joined the staff of the school two and a research and development work from the half years ago. Nick and Tanya are both graduates School of Architecture and Design for from the Wood, Metal, Plastics & Ceramics course nearly two years, and represent the diver- (WMC&P) and are now directors of their own very sity of research being explored across the successful design consultancy, BoBo design. This School by staff and also former graduates. year marks the 25th anniversary of the first gradu- ating cohort of this course and their work is exem- It also served to demonstrate the potential oppor- plary of its tradition of developing a language of tunities offered through drawing architecture and design and making through the exploration of interiors into the context of the Faculty of Arts and materials; most notably in their case, in plastics, Architecture, both across and beyond the bound- ‘Perspex’ and its various derivatives. aries of this school. The exhibition was first shown at 100% design in The two shows successfully exhibited positive September 2002 and grew from Nick and contrasts between the materiality, exploration Tanya’s desire to collaborate with other artists and and testing of materials to their limits in design- designers from a wide range of disciplinary back- ing and making of objects and artefacts along- grounds who brought their insight and inventive- side the magical experience of occupying and ness to explore a single material - in this case entering new kinds of spaces and engaging with ‘Perspex’. This generated a series of stimulating the temporal and sensual fuzziness of mixed discussions and produced not only a series of realities. Neither exhibition could have been extraordinary pieces but also the potential for new achieved with out the recognition and support of commercial applications. Their collaborators a number of external bodies, particularly the include sculptors, jewelers, metal and wood AHRB in the case of ‘Embodied Interfaces’ and designers, ceramicists and product designers. CRD Centre for Research Development Embodied Interfaces For this grant-aided “art meets science” one-off in the artists realm of say, drawing in space or pro- Industrial Design/Design Council's relationship with event, which was two years in planning, an unusu- ducing a surface in CAD modelling, with results retailers and consumers. In conjunction with the Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen teaches on the BA ally comprehensive range of practitioners, which could be ‘felt’ rather than seen. It emerged project Lesley will also become a Visiting Research In this issue course in Interior Architecture and joined the researchers, teachers, writers and research stu- that touch is evidently more sophisticated, and with Fellow in the Business History Unit at the London School two years ago. She was educated as an dents were invited to share insights into how we more degrees of freedom, sensitivity and complex- School of Economics. This research project is due New Research in Architecture & Architect and completed her postgraduate studies work with our hands, the language we use to ity than is vision. Since craft practice specialises in to start in February 2003. Design 2 at the Bartlett School of the Built Environment, appreciate the phenomena involved, and the the synthesis of touch and vision, it is easy for University College London. She is currently com- assumptions we tend to make in the process. The artists to overlook the distinction. In exploring this Frank Gray and the South East Film and Video Digital Dialogues; Technology and pleting an inter-disciplinary PhD there, researching four-day event became a developing dialogue issue with the scientists it emerged that such addi- Archive (SEFVA) The Hand 2 the subject of mixed realities, co-supervised by around aesthetics, technology, experience, craft, tional vectors, and especially in combination with professors from the Bartlett and the department of knowledge and expression. Studio work with each other, have only just recently begun to be SEFVA has been awarded £200,520, over three Staff Funding Successes 3 Computer Science. Both installations exhibited in ceramics, metal, paper, wood and fibres was explored in applications to date. Often such appli- years, from the AHRB resource enhancement the gallery were conceived and designed by brought together with digital media such as fibre- cations are very selective in what they use, for scheme. This is the highest level of AHRB funding Staff News 4 Mette together with various collaborators, optics, microcomputers, computer-controlled etch- example the virtual surgical interface was dealing received by the University to date. The project is a Jasminko Novak (for “Drawing Spaces”) and Chris ing, video imaging, motion sensing and virtual with a ‘touch = pressure’ metaphor. This can be digital access project and as part of this research Between the ‘Studio’ and the Parker, Jesper Mortensen and David Swapp (“I control systems. seen to be almost useless if you try to throw a project a case study investigation was conducted in ‘Library’ by Peter Seddon 7 See What you Hear”). ceramic pot, as Mandayam Srinivasan did in fact do the Autumn of 2001 into the views and experiences Unlike a conference format, the symposium was for the first time in his life. of those using public sector film archives. A sample Design Archives at Brighton 8 “Drawing Spaces” and “I See What you Hear” play- creatively organised around a collection of materials of academics in arts and humanities disciplines fully embodied her research in this field by chal- workshop projects, each of which was instigated by The Digital Dialogues and the Hand event is the were interviewed and it was discovered that few of Student News 9 lenging the relationship between the users of these an artist/scientist pairing, each workshop attempt- subject of a monograph (No. 14 in the Haystack the interviewees knew of the work of SEFVA and spaces and computed environments. By proposing ing to create hybrid projects which could draw in series) and the website is at; http://weblogs. few had considered the potential of the archive for Student Successes 10 new intuitive and body-centred interfaces she participants or provide unforeseen examples of col- media.mit.edu/digitaldialogues/about.html. their research. The findings of this case study indi- offered visitors to these spaces a sense of entry, or laborative process. One example of this approach cated that this project - an on-line resource with New Students 12 a presence within a digital dimension through was blacksmith Tom Joyce working with Justine Contact details for Haystack Mountain School of detailed catalogue entries, contextual documents exploring a virtual space, generated through their Cassell from the Gesture and Narrative Language Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine USA 04627-0518 and downloadable video files - would provide the Funding Opportunities 12 interaction with it – hence the exhibition title Group from the Media Lab, who together fabricat- [email protected]. Chris Rose can be academic community with a new and potentially ‘Embodied Interfaces’. The experience of these two ed a forged sculpture that retained and replayed contacted at [email protected]. very valuable gateway to SEFVA. Elaine Shepphard, Conferences & Seminars 13 installations brought the remoteness usually ‘memories’ of the stages of its making process SEFVA's current AHRB research fellow, will be this encountered in relation to virtual spaces, to the through sound and motion sensors linked with new project's manager. The project is due to start Theatre & Gallery Highlights 14 immediacy of physical space through excluding the video. Another example was ceramicist Bill Daley Staff Funding Successes on 1st July 2003. devices such as a screen and mouse and trans- working with Mandayam Srinivasan from the Touch CRD News 16 forming the experience into more fuzzy and fluid Lab, who despite his knowledge with virtual inter- The Centre for Research and Development is sense of presence. face design for remote surgical technology, experi- pleased to inform you that two members of Arts The symposium was creatively organised around enced for the first time the design, and making by and Architecture staff have recently been success- a collection of materials workshop projects, each Alongside this exhibition the Faculty also hosted a hand, a ceramic vessel using Bill’s method of pro- ful with external funding applications. one-day symposium of the same name on totyping forms with heavy tarpaper. These very of which was instigated by an artist/scientist Saturday 7th December which brought together physical arenas gave powerful departure points for Dr Lesley Whitworth, Assistant Curator, practitioners such as architects, fine artists and per- the dialogues, which while being rooted in complex Design History Research Centre pairing, each workshop attempting to create forming artists all working in the field of mixed real- experience, quickly extended to the challenges of ities. This was well attended and it is intended that our understanding of the hand in apparently dis- Lesley Whitworth's project 'Toward a Participatory hybrid projects which could draw in participants the presentations made will be edited and extend- parate fields. Consumer Democracy: Britain 1937 - 1987' is one ed later in the year. of sixteen projects to be supported nationally by the or provide unforeseen examples of collaborative To give the event some shape and to draw all of the Economic and Social Research Council/Arts & sixty-odd participants together periodically, a num- Humanities Research Board new Cultures of process. Chris Rose, Digital Dialogues. Digital Dialogues; ber of short prepared presentations were made to Consumption programme. The £62,931 funding explore defined or specialised areas of interest, and will allow her to concentrate full-time for a 24 In addition to these two successes, the faculty Technology and The Hand to set the scene for another difficult challenge month period on the archival research which will currently has a number of pending AHRB grant addressed by one of the research projects; that of assess the role of retailers in mediating Council applications and FRSF applications that will be Chris Rose, Academic Programme Leader in capturing or providing access to everything that messages about robust consumption practices assessed this term. Further details regarding these 3D and Materials Practice in the School of happens at complex meetings. This was achieved among the post-war British buying public. will be forwarded when the relevant announce- Architecture and Design, attended the ‘Digital with a virtual storyboarding project, the website ments are made. Dialogues: Technology & The Hand’ event, address of which is given below. Lesley's proposal was one of 16 successful entries which was a multidisciplinary symposium to receive funding out of the 264 received by the ADC-LTSN held by the M.I.T. Media Lab and Haystack Artists and craftspeople at this event were per- Economic and Social Research Council/Arts & Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, plexed at the contradiction between the apparent Humanities Research Board. Part of the award will Linda Ball is funded to work as part-time September 2002. Chris was invited to give an sophistication of the technology when applied to pay for a replacement member of staff in the DHRC Academic Developer with responsibility for illustrated presentation on the history of the tools and equipment for example, and the unpleas- Archives to allow Lesley to work full-time over the Employability in the Art, Design and relationship between Craft and Technology. ant crudeness of the interface devices when placed next two years on her investigation of the Council of Communication Learning and Teaching Support 2 3 CRD Centre for Research Development Architecture in the Islamic World’ Thames and Professor Mike Tucker Hudson 2001), and attended the award ceremo- Panorama of Yahapath Endera Farm School, ny in Syria where he gave the main acceptance Professor Tucker has received 22,000 Swiss francs Hanwella 1965-71from 'Geoffrey Bawa The Complete Works' speech on Bawa’s behalf. In April 2002 David from the Swiss AAS Council Pro Helvetia, for the was invited to Colombo to a special ceremony forthcoming exhibition in March 2003, ‘Jedlicka: hosted by the President of Sri Lanka to celebrate Maremma 1980-2001’. This is equivalent to an the Aga Khan Award, and delivered a tribute award of £10,000 and is to be shared with the to Bawa before a gathering of his friends other institution which the exhibition is going to, and collaborators. Museo d’Arte, Cantonale, Lugano.

The monograph was published in November Mike has also received a grant from South East Arts 2002 by Thames and Hudson under the title for the University of Brighton Festival Show ‘Dream Network Centre (ADC-LTSN) at 68 Grand Parade, Dr Graham Dawson was awarded an FRSF grant “Bawa, the complete works” to critical acclaim. Traces: A Celebration of Contemporary Aboriginal following a successful application to HEFCE for his project 'Remembering the Brighton Bomb: Art’. This grant was received as a result of Professor resulting in £10,000 for 2002 and a further Memory, Commemoration and Local Legacies of During 2002 David curated three separate exhi- Tucker’s work in conjunction with freelance £5,000 in 2003. The ADC-LTSN is one of eight the Irish Troubles in England' which will examine bitions of Bawa drawings, at the Paradise Road fundraiser Mr Richard Davies. Subject Centres taking part in a pilot project, co- how the IRA's bombing campaign in England has Gallery in Colombo, the Architectural Association ordinated by the Enhancing Student been remembered, focusing on the 1984 in London and the iPreciation Gallery in Sue Gollifer Employability Co-ordination Team (ESECT) at the Brighton Bomb. Cynthia Cousens has been Singapore. He is now working with Bawa’s LTSN Generic Centre in York. Some of the things granted an FRSF award to complete her project Trustees to create a Bawa Archive based largely Sue Gollifer is giving a paper at the 91st Annual the HE employability agenda intends to focus on 'Transcience - new research and jewellery based on material which he has collected over the Conference of the College Art Association, which will are curriculum integration of employability skills, on landscape of New Zealand'. Mette Ramsgard years and which is currently stored in Brighton. be held in New York City from February 19th - 22nd, extra-curricular activities and vocational and work Thomsen was granted an FRSF award for her This material will form the basis of a major retro- 2003. She is on a panel titled Reproducing Likeness: based provision. AHRB funded exhibition 'Embodied Interfaces: spective exhibition, which he has been commis- To Change the Teaching of Print Media and her paper Intuitive Interfaces for Mixed Realities'. sioned to curate for the Deutches Architektur is on 'The Impact of New Technology on the Nature She has also been successful in attracting further Museum in Frankfurt in 2004. The exhibition will of Teaching Printmaking in the 21st Century.' funding of £4,800 for 2003 from a consortium of travel to Barcelona, Singapore and Tokyo, before higher education institutions involved in the 1999 Staff News finally returning to Sri Lanka where it will hope- The USA Annual Conference of the College Art Portrait of Geoffrey Bawa from 'Geoffrey Bawa National Destinations and Reflections study of fully form the core of permanent Bawa Archive Association is the largest national forum for profes- The Complete Works' the Careers of British Art, Craft Design Professor David Robson in Colombo. sionals in the visual arts. The Conference program Graduates, and CHEAD (Council for Higher incorporates over one hundred sessions, including Education in Art and Design) to produce a strat- Professor David Robson, School of Architecture Re-making Londoners: Models of a Healthy egy for future employability research in the and Design has written a book on Geoffrey Society in the Nation’s Capital, 1918-1939 Dr Graham Dawson’s project 'Remembering creative industries. Bawa, the Sri-Lankan architect. Dr Elizabeth Darling of the School of Architecture the Brighton Bomb: Memory, Commemoration If you would like to know more about this work, David Robson first met Bawa in 1970, and devel- and Design co-convened with Dr Andrea Tanner of or if you are involved in curriculum development oped a profound admiration for his work. Bawa Kingston University this inter-disciplinary workshop, and Local Legacies of the Irish Troubles in or research in these areas in relation to the cre- had come late to architecture, having started his which was held under the auspices of the ative industries, then Linda would be delighted to practice in 1957 at the age of thirty-eight. During University of London’s Centre for Metropolitan England' examines how the IRA's bombing hear from you. Email: [email protected]. ADC- the 1980s he began to gain recognition abroad, History on Wednesday 13th November 2002. campaign in England has been remembered, LTSN website: http://www.bton.ac.uk/adc-ltsn. and finally embarked on his two most significant projects, the Sri Lanka Parliament at Kotte and The aim of the workshop was to create a forum focusing on the 1984 Brighton Bomb. Staff Awards from the Faculty Research Support Fund the Ruhunu University Campus at Matara. After in which scholars could speak about recent 1990 David wrote a number of articles on Bawa’s research into the discourse of social reform and Funding Successes Professor John McKean was granted an FRSF work, and in 1997 Bawa invited him to collabo- modernity in the fields of housing and health in award for his research on Giancarlo De Carlo. rate on an ambitious monograph, which would the 1930s. Speakers included Dr John Stewart, those sponsored by committees and affiliated soci- Centre Pompidou has decided to hold an exhibi- serve as his final testament. However, this proj- Director of the Centre for Health, Medicine and eties. Sue is a selected member of the CAA tion of his work which is scheduled for early ect was nipped in the bud in March 1998 when Society: Past and Present, at Oxford Brookes Education Committee, which promotes the visual 2004. Centre Pompidou has committed to pub- the architect suffered a terrible stroke, which left University, Stuart Evans of Central Saint Martins arts as an essential aspect of human activity, both as lishing a book to accompany the exhibition; this him paralysed and unable to communicate. College of Art and Design and Dr Timothy Boon, a creative endeavour and as the subject of historical will be entirely written by John McKean, as a Head of Collections at the Science Museum, inquiry and criticism. It focuses on pedagogy at the new book developing from his ongoing work, In 2001 Bawa’s work received the ultimate London. Elizabeth Darling also gave a paper. higher education level in art history, studio, aesthet- which will also act as their exhibition catalogue. recognition when he gained the special chair- ics, and art criticism and the interface between The exhibition will also be going to Geneva, man’s prize in the eighth cycle of the Aga Khan Papers considered - inter alia - the activities of the teaching and learning research and practice. Frankfurt, Chicago and Berkeley and there are Award for Architecture, becoming only the third Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham; the work of ongoing discussions about Italian and UK ven- architect and the first non-Muslim to be hon- Medical Officers of Health in South London; and Sue is also to be a participant on the Education ues. The book will be published simultaneously oured. David was then invited to write the main the use of film in the construction of a discourse of Committee panel at the conferences, ‘What Makes in French and English language co-editions – article in the award book Frampton K., Correa C. reform. It is anticipated that the papers will be pub- You Think That Whatever You Do...Works? something Pompidou has never done before. & Robson D. ‘Modernity and Community, lished as a special issue of the London Journal. Theories/Strategies for Art/Art History Pedagogy’ 4 5 CRD Centre for Research Development and the Professional Practices Committees panel: was an aspiration achieved, and thanks must go not ‘Online Education: Teaching, Learning, and only to the speakers and the participants in work- Between the ‘Studio’ and work with distance; with someone from outside Professional Concerns’. shop discussions but also to all the students from without too much familiarity or history. SHACS without whose work it would not have been the ‘Library’ Dr Mary Anne Francis possible, and to the janitorial, technical and catering My AHRB grant was to support a highly specific staff at Grand Parade whose effort, energy and In the first of our featured articles, Peter project detailing the historiography of images In November, the Centre for Research and enthusiasm were exemplary, and made a major Seddon, Academic Programme Leader for associated with the British Civil Wars of the Development hosted the launch of 'The Faust contribution to the success of the event. Thanks Fine Art, reflects on the demands of practice Cromwellian period 1640-1660. I was worried Supplement' from Variety Press, featuring the mul- must also be registered for the support received and the place of research in relation to his how this might clash with the more speculative recent AHRB small grant application, and tifarious work of the artist M A Faust. This publica- from the Centre for Research & Development. intentions of the APDS mentoring scheme. In the his work with the Artists Professional tion was produced as part of an AHRB Small Grant end the AHRB did provide some kind of focus for Development Scheme. award made to Dr Mary Anne Francis. The proceedings of the conference will not be the APDS and the APDS reshaped the original published but an edited collection of essays will be ideas behind the AHRB in unexpectedly fruitful Dr Anita Rupprecht and Tom Hickey, SHACS produced later in the year. In line with the ethos of Many artists working in the art schools get a little ways. The APDS is conversation based with men- Politics, Culture, Resistance: Globalisation and the event itself, these essays will be designed and tetchy, even harassed, when the topic of ‘practice’ toring sessions lasting two to three hours. It its Discontents 2 written as contributions to the development of the and research raises its head. Definitions and sounds like ‘therapy for practitioners’ or a form of relationship between academic reflection on, and approaches to practice, its twists and turns devel- counselling, but it is more like having a walking This second, international conference held at engagement with, their respective issues. Details oped over the years of a career, sometimes do, companion whilst traversing difficult terrain. The

'The Faust Supplement' by Mary Anne Francis Brighton took place on 3rd November 2002, and of publication will be notified in a future issue of but even more frequently don’t, sit very comfort- work I was doing was in a sense cumbersome and was again a marked success. the Newsletter. ably with the kind of plotted out projects, slow, overly beholden as the mentor suggested to methodologies and outcomes demanded by for its references rather than its materials. We deter- Next year, the event (Globalisation and its discon- example, AHRB application forms. The fact that mined the practice should be paper-based, faster Nick is currently developing a new frameless tents3) will also be in the Autumn term. Amongst the AHRB sees no visual evidence but depends paced in terms of output, cheaply produced using others, it is hoped to have as speakers: Noam solely on peer assessment of written descriptions image and text and digital means. This would turn geodesic dome structure to be a disposable or Chomsky from MIT, the journalist and writer raises even more suspicion that the quirky unpre- the restrictions of my studio space at home into an recyclable exterior building. Nick Gant, Staff News Melanie Klein, Frederick Jameson from Duke, and dictability of ‘the studio’ is somehow not quite advantage. This meant bringing together literally Daniel Bensaid from Paris. accounted for. and metaphorically my studio and my library. As a consequence of this my AHRB project has been Drawing colleagues from San Diego, Michigan, The Degradation of Higher Education in the UK Over the last twenty months I have been in the refocused and will result in an exhibition in UCLA, Paris and Victoria, as well as from the UK, it intriguing position of contrasting the demands of Rochdale City Art Gallery together with an accom- was opened by Professor Stuart Laing, Pro-Vice- This one-day conference held in UCL on 25th ‘practice’ and the demands of ‘research’ in two panying booklet of conversations and exchanges Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and registered over January 2002, was organised by colleagues from schemes of work running simultaneously. These between Andrew Wheatley and myself. 220 participants. Issues addressed included: the Brighton and London, and had speakers from both were a programme of ‘practice based research’ relationships between 'globalisation', international the old and the new universities, contributions from mapped by a successful AHRB small grants appli- This, based on APDS experience leads me final- relations and war in the contemporary world sys- the Presidents of the AUT and of NATFHE, the HE cation and an opportunity to be mentored by ly to some observations about research supervi- tem; the impact of globalisation on higher education lecturers' unions, and a keynote address from the Andrew Wheatley, a curator, under the Artists sion. A great strength of the APDS, is its separa- and its institutions; the relationship between Islam Director of The School of Oriental and African Professional Development Scheme (APDS) run by tion from educational bureaucracy and its con- and Western liberalism; the nature of the different Studies, London University, Colin Bundy. the independent arts organisation ‘Education nections into the professional art and gallery 'anti-globalisation' movements; patterns of repre- Through Art’. world. Nevertheless something could be carried sentation in a global culture; changing social struc- Amongst the issues discussed were: the decades over such as the demand that PhD by practice tures across continents at different level of develop- of underfunding and the stretching of resources, The AHRB is concerned with defining the research students regularly test out work by exhibiting it, ment; prospects for economic stability and instabili- the fragmentation of knowledge consequent on the questions to be asked, the methodologies to be not just to supervisors but to the wider research ty; and the growing economic, financial and fiduci- modular Americanisation of learning, the disruption employed, and the outcomes in which the findings community in the faculty at appropriate stages ary importance of death in a global capital market. of the learning environment caused by the semes- of the research will be demonstrated. The practice, in the academic year. Every artist is different but terisation of delivery patterns, the impact of infor- particularly individual studio practice, tends to be the sites of practice in this more inclusive sense Of interest to colleagues in Arts and Architecture mation and communications technology on teach- seen as a ‘given’ in which the research is demon- of library and seminar room as well as studio was the semiotic lesson of the conference conse- ing and learning styles, and the affect of standards strated or disseminated to an audience. should be a conscious part of every PhD by quent on the response to its publicity material. The regimes and quality assessment processes on the practice student’s agenda. One part of the APDS dramatic representation of the dramatic issues to academic environment. The APDS in contrast is emphatically not about I found especially useful, was the regular writing be discussed generated confusion and unease outcomes. It is not, and this is its great advan- up and reflections upon the conversations and amongst some. Speakers from Brighton included Peter Seddon tage, part of academia. It is about seeking out arguments I had with Andrew and others. This is (School of Arts & Communication), Bob Brecher what is missing about uncertainty, about recon- perhaps our equivalent of the laboratory note This conference, like its predecessor in 2001, was and Tom Hickey (SHACS), and Richard Faragher figuring, reconstructing, practice through book and perhaps one of the ways of mapping aimed at involving more than the normal participa- (Pharmacy). Others included Mary Davis (History, intense conversations which allow time to a path through inevitable uncertainty of the fog tion in academic debates. It aspired to draw togeth- London Met), Alice Roberts (Anatomy, Bristol), reconsider things. It is an uncomfortable of practice. er the scholarly reflection of colleagues in the acad- Gerry Mars (Business, Newcastle), Cécile Deer process in which your work is questioned and emy with the experiences of those directly or indi- (Economics, Balliol), Paul Taylor (SocSci, Salford), gets reshaped. It requires trust and an ability to Peter Seddon, Academic Programme Leader for rectly affected by the globalisation process, and/or Miriam David (Education, Keele), David Weir listen on both sides and it seems to me can only Fine Art. who are involved in activity to mould or contain it. It (Management, Ceram, France). 6 7 CRD Centre for Research Development Images from 'Navigating Stevenson' exhibition by Sara Gadd

Nick Gant Nick is currently developing a new frameless geo- 1956) was seen as sufficiently important to be Rick Sheridan’s accelerated learning website desic dome structure to be launched in 2003 as a included in the Museum of Modern Art, New York’s Commencing in 2000, Nick created and presented flat pack, disposable/recyclable or semi-perma- second architectural exhibition, Modern has a brief description of several established the ongoing ‘Realspace’ virtual and physical mate- nent architectural product from a prototype com- Architecture in England –1937. A significant, though rials exploration and promotion project at 100% missioned by the Ministry of Defence in collabo- modestly-sized, collection of his papers, photo- accelerated learning techniques, such as Design (Oct 2000), to critical acclaim and compre- ration with Cheltec Ltd. Also to be developed as a graphs and related materials have recently come to hensive press coverage, including: Blueprint, FX, disposable exterior building. the Design Archives at Brighton following discus- Neuro-Linguistic Programming, mindmapping, Design Week, Elle Decoration, and the project was sions with his daughter Jocelyn Underwood and picked as ‘best of show by’ in the exhibition/show- Design Archives at family. It is particularly fitting that these should join speed reading, brainstorming, and others. room edition of International ‘Frame’ magazine. This a small number of the films that Emberton made Student News project has been evolving continually and has Brighton that are held in the South East Film and Video received over 100,000 hits to the website. Archive (SEFVA) at the University. ICOGRADA Poster Collection site has a brief description of several established Work from Nick and Tanya Dean’s design consul- Though most widely known in architectural histo- accelerated learning techniques, such as Neuro- tancy BoBo, was presented to the Colour Group The extensive holdings of the ICOGRADA Archive, ries for his modernist Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Linguistic Programming (NLP), mindmapping, Conference held at the Royal Society of Arts 'One much of which has now been delivered to the (1931), other important Emberton commissions of speed reading, brainstorming, and others. Also Step Beyond' and the Colour Marketing Group of University, includes the organisation’s historically the inter-war years included Simpson’s in included are links and descriptions of several America International Conference in Boston, USA and aesthetically significant poster archive. Piccadilly, London (1936) - for which he designed Internet research tools, such as multiple search 'European Future.' Also due to be shown at Comprising more than 1,070 posters from 33 coun- the building, interiors, lighting, furniture and fit- engines and Web robots (bots), along with other American (Ideal) Standard and conference and to tries dating from the early 1960s through to the late tings – and the HMV Store in Oxford Street, methods of improving anyone's online research Samsung 'Futures' group- shown by Russell 1980s, the collection affords the opportunity to London (1939). His prolific output included hous- and learning skills. The site is available to anyone studio consultants. study aspects of the visual history of countries ing, shops, factories, offices, international exhibi- at: http://www.accel-learning.com/ and http:// whose output has been largely overlooked in main- tion buildings (including the British Empire www.accel-learning.com/. The extensive ICOGRADA Archive comprises stream histories of design. As might be expected Exhibitions of 1924 and 1938 and Exposition from an organisation whose origins were European, Internationale at Paris 1937) and entertainment Sara Gadd, MPhil/PhD student, is undertaking more than 1,070 posters from 33 countries the major holdings are represented by Germany (170 buildings. The latter included a number of build- an exhibition ‘Navigating Stevenson’, which posters), Britain (130), the former Czechoslovakia ings at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the late opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on dating from the early 1960s through to the late (108), the USA (86) and Switzerland (83). 1930s, including the Fun House (1935), the Grand 1st February 2003 running until 11th May 2003. Nonetheless, there are also a number of interesting National (1936) and the Casino (1939). The project is a visual portrait of the 19th centu- 1980s. Design Archives at Brighton groups of posters from elsewhere including Japan Interestingly Blackpool was included in the Mass ry Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, as he (57), Belgium (52), Poland (31), Italy (25), Iran (24), Observation ‘Worktown’ Project, papers relating to crossed the South Pacific Ocean at the end of In 2001, one of BoBo’s new products - BoBo India (22), the former GDR (22), Hungary (16) and which can be seen at the MO Archive at the the nineteenth century. The exhibition consists ‘Frosted Glonuts’ made front page of the Cuba (16), as well as a significant number from University of Sussex. Important post-war work of nine digital artworks, The Stevenson family Independent and Independent magazine and was Scandinavia (totalling 86). Although it is believed included housing developments as well as his photograph albums and the Count Nerli Oil finalist in the Independent’s top 50 lighting prod- that there is a basic catalogue of this particular col- interesting and striking proposals for the redevel- Portrait from the SNPG. The work is an amalga- ucts selection. This product also received coverage lection (formerly located at the Typography opment of the Paternoster site near St Paul’s, mation of photography, digital imaging and 3D in Design Week, The Times, The Sunday Times, Department at the University of Reading), the pro- London (1956). The Emberton Archive will need to CAD design. Frame magazine, The Telegraph, World of Interiors, duction of a definitive version will be a high priority be catalogued prior to making it more widely Architecture Today, Lighting Design magazine, in order to make the poster collection accessible to available to researchers. The exhibition will tour to Callendar House, Exposure (Japan), Azure (Canada), The London researchers at the earliest opportunity. Falkirk 13th-14th November 2003; Collins Evening Standard, Moebel Interior Design (EUR) Gallery, Strathclyde University, Glasgow 29th and Elle Voken (NL), amongst others. The product Emberton Archive of Architecture and Design Student News November-23rd December 2003 and Brighton has been chosen as the icon product to represent Museum & Art Gallery in October 2004. the future for the100% Design Show 2002 featur- Not always recognised today as the historically sig- Rick Sheridan, PhD Student, who teaches at ing in all promotional publicity literature and infor- nificant and revealing Modernist architect and California State University, was recently awarded a There will be an accompanying publication with mation. It has also been entered into the Peugeot designer that he was - even if he sought to distance grant for the second year in a row to further the exhibition which includes texts by Dr Design Awards 2002. himself from the term - Joseph Emberton (1889- develop his accelerated learning website. This Catherine Moriarty - Senior Curator, Design 8 9 CRD Centre for Research Development The British Empire Exhibition was huge. It

Left to right: 'Cauldon Blue & White Plate', attracted 17.5 million visitors, covered 216 acres 'Carlton Stadium Model', and 'Goss Pot' (Wembley stadium covered less than a tenth of the site), and was served by three new railway stations. Jenny Hill, Student News

History Research Centre, University of Brighton, Many companies, including Goss, Cauldon, winning of this year's Turner prize an inevitability we How would I move? How would I know when to Dr Duncan Forbes - Senior Curator of Wembley China, Ashtead Potters and Paragon, pro- are delighted to see, and which he much deserves.” join one of those flying circles and then break Photography, The Scottish National Photography duced commemorative pottery for the BEE, mainly away? As the questions crowded into my mind, I Collection; Dr Jim Lawson - Edinburgh University crested china. These items were small, mostly inex- Yung-Hsien Chen: December 2002 slipped into a deeper meditation in which I began and Elaine Greig, Curator, The Writers Museum. pensive and came in a vast array of shapes to to mentally fly using my own breath and examined encourage collecting. They were sold in shops, A previous winner of a Beck’s Award for Film (TIME the ideas of order and disorder, which gradually Nick Warr, who is currently completing his PhD stalls and kiosks at the BEE. This article highlights OUT April 2002) who had a one man show at became a consideration on the role of freedom in in the School of Historical and Critical Studies, has the main firms to make BEE commemorative SoviArt Gallery in London 2002 Yung-Hsien Chen is my life.” recently had a paper published by the Institut ceramics, showing the different crests made by one of 12 artists showing at Jeff Hsu’s gallery (the Wiener Kreis in Vienna. The paper, entitled each company and some of the various shapes biggest in Taipei). He contributes ‘Heart Sutra’ and Yung Hsien is presently in the process of writing up "Siegfried Kracauer's Extraterritorial Critique”, produced. The lion featured strongly, being a theme three paintings. The exhibition repeats the basic his thesis for the School of Arts and appears in the volume "Intellectual Migration and of the exhibition. Buildings from the Exhibition were structure of the installation shown at the Communication at the University of Brighton. Cultural Transformation. Refugees from National also popular, such as the Palace of Industry and International Container Arts exhibition in 2001, Socialism in the English-speaking World Wembley Stadium. opened by the President of Taiwan, and a great crit- Adele Carroll ‘One Continuous Take’ (Wien/New York: Springer, 2002)". This collection ical success. For further information see of essays, edited by Edward Timms and Jon The first half of Jenny’s 16 page article appears in the http://www.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA. After her successful prizewinning documentary Hughes, were originally presented as papers at Exhibition Study Group Journal, no. 67, Winter 2002. COURSE/0/YH4.htm ‘This is the League that Jane Joined…The the international conference "Intellectual Women’s League of Health and Beauty’, Adele Migration and Cultural Transformation: The From January to March 2003 Yung-Hsien has been Carroll extended her PhD researches with the Movement of Ideas from German-speaking Student Successes invited to contribute to a large show in Taipai Fine University to another film on the film-maker Kay Europe to the Anglo-Saxon World" organised by Art Museum joining a group of predominately Mander (b.1915), ‘One Continuous Take’. Adele’s the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at Turner Prize – 1st for Brighton German artists. His piece will be an installation film about this unjustly neglected woman director theUniversity of Sussex in September 2000. using imagery of seagulls shot in Brighton. The was made in London and in Kay’s home in Keith Tyson, winner of the Turner Prize at The work is entitled ‘Free Flying’ and the exhibition title Scotland. It also involves interviews with colleagues Jenny Hill: British Empire Exhibition (1924-25): Tate, Britain is a past graduate of the University ‘Streams of Encounter’, the show will be curated by such as the Oscar winning Director of Photography 'Seigfried Kracauer's Extraterritorial Critique' by Commemorative Ceramics of Brighton. Andreas Walther. Below is an excerpt taken from David Watkin and the distinguished photographer Nick Warr the catalogue introduction. and cameraman Wolfgang Suschitzky. Adele’s film The British Empire Exhibition (BEE) was the most Since leaving the University of Brighton Keith traces Kay’s life in film, from work in the interna- prestigious inter-war event in the UK. Designed returned in 2001 to have his work included in an “I was looking over the sea towards the horizon and tional film congress set up by Joseph Goebbels in to encourage trade between Britain and its important exhibition, entitled ‘Makeshift’ (curated by my attention was caught by the gulls circling over the nineteen thirties through to work for the UN and Empire in a time of economic struggle for Britain, David Green) here in the University gallery. The the waves. For one moment they would fly together Malay Film Unit, and includes her blacklisting as a it attracted 17.5 million visitors in the 1924 sea- piece he showed in this exhibition was entitled ‘Ram in order, the next they reeled off in seeming chaos, unionist activist in the nineteen fifties. son. For comparison, the Great Exhibition of 1851 Goblet with Nibbles Bowl’. This was generated by flapping off in no discernible direction. I wondered attracted just six million over a similar period. Keith's invention of the ArtMachine - a software sys- then whether they knew where they were going to ‘One Continuous Take’ was shown at the Curzon, The BEE was huge, covering 216 acres and tem of computer flowcharts and spreadsheets that or whether they were just enjoying the feeling of fly- Soho, London on Saturday 7th December 2002. served by three new railway stations. It was he used to generate proposals for artworks. These ing so much that they had forgotten where there Kay Mander will talk to the audience after the mainly built in concrete, a contemporary materi- became the basis for an algorithmic flowchart that was supposed to be a reason for it.” screening on a platform with Adele and David al reflecting the desired image of a modern progressively narrowed the number of possible Watkin (who is supervising her thesis with the Britain. options used to produce the final art object. “As I stood there, staring into the sky, I fell into a School of Arts and Communication). mild meditation about the gulls... So relaxed I had Countries from all over the Empire took part. To Professor Bruce Brown commenting on this year’s become, that I lay on my back on the pebbly beach The film has generated much interest and enthusi- give an idea of its vast scale, Wembley stadium prize noted that “Throughout Keith’s career as a stu- and just stared into the sky. There was so much to asm in advance of its showing, and the event will covered less than a tenth of the site. dent the great promise he demonstrated makes the consider here: if I were a bird, what would I feel? be an excuse for the meeting and celebration of 10 11 CRD Centre for Research Development Kay Mander’s generation of people involved in scholarly research in the following disciplines: England) have recently released details of a joint Deafway Theatre’s ‘Sign#1’ will be a unique British Film. archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film or fellowship scheme to support collaborative video, history, landscape architecture, literature, research in arts and science. The Fellowship must theatrical experience. The language used music, philosophy, theatre and visual arts. be hosted by a Higher Education Institution (HEI) New Students Fellowships usually have a duration of one month directly funded by the Higher Education Funding throughout the performance will be British or, in some cases, a half semester. Residencies Council for England (HEFCE). Fawzi Al Zamil, School of Architecture & Design of other lengths may possibly be approved. Sign Language. No voice will be used by the F/T New Route MPhil/PhD started January 2003 - There are two opportunities to apply each year, Applications should be made by the person within Design Elements and Their Impact on Kuwaiti the current deadline for Winter-Spring semester the HEI who will have direct responsibility for the actors. Theatre & Gallery Highlights Family Interaction; 2003 is 15th April 2003. See http://www. project. This person could - but need not necessar- researchresearch.com/jump.cfm/fop/EN/_/ ily - be involved directly in the actual research, and Sessions will take place in the Board Room, Jenny Hill, SHACS F/T MPhil/PhD started January 107159 also the website at http://www. would have responsibility on behalf of the HEI for Mezzanine, Grand Parade, except those asterisked, 2003 - Britain v France: a Comparison of the State liguriastudycenter.org/ managing the project for the duration of the which will be held in room G7, Pavilion Parade. of the Decorative Arts in Britain and France in the Fellowship. The proposed Fellow must: Start time is 5.45pm; papers are fifty minutes long 1920’s with Particular Reference to Ceramics; Arts and Humanities Research Board and questions follow. • Be a professional working in any aspect of the Nicola Ashmore, SHACS F/T MPhil/PhD started Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts creative and performing arts; • 4th February: Professor John McKean, University January 2003 – A Critical Study of the Shifting Role • Be able to demonstrate a commitment to pur- of Brighton. Hermeneutic methods: speaking in of Museums, Curators and Collections. The Small Grants in the Creative and Performing suing research; whose voice? A discussion of the architect Arts scheme provides awards up to a maximum • Have a proven record of high quality work; Giancarlo De Carlo; of £5,000 to meet the costs directly related to • Be able to demonstrate some experience of •11th February: Professor Craig Clunas, University Funding Opportunities advanced research projects in the creative and successful collaboration; of Sussex. Design History and Global History - performing arts. The scheme will support • Be able to demonstrate experience of undertak- who has the right stuff?; The Japan Design Foundation has sent the CRD research activity of the highest quality conducted ing successfully other funded projects; •18th February: Trevor Keeble, Kingston University. details of the International Design Competition by individual scholars across all areas of the cre- • Be able to demonstrate research skills and The social life of the Victorian interior; Osaka (IDCO) for 2003. This 10th competition ative and performing arts and thereby to enable experience. • 25th February: Mark Haworth-Booth, Acting from IDCO aims to form a bridge between them to realise their potential to improve the Head of Research and Curator of Photography, design and business by making proposals to depth and breadth of our knowledge of human The complete guidance notes and an application V&A. Seeing Things: the photography of solve various social issues facing the world culture both past and present. The next deadline form can be found on http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/. In objects and the photograph as object; today. Any individual or group from any design for this scheme is 30th April 2003. the first instance potential applicants should con- • 4th March: Rachel Bowlby, University of York. field from anywhere in the world is eligible to tact Sean Tonkin in CRD, and their Head of School, Full of Shopping: How Consumer Culture is enter under a number of categories. Entries are Research Grant Scheme if they require further details of this programme or (Always) Taking Over; accepted between February 1st 2003 and March have an interest in making an application. The •11th March: Professor Hilde Heynen, Katholieke 31st 2003 and funding/prizes range from The Research Grants scheme is designed to sup- deadline for applications is 14th March 2003. Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Domesticity in $3,000 to $20,000. If you would like more spe- port both small and large-scale projects of vari- Modern Architecture; cific details on the IDCO and this competition ous lengths and costs. You can apply for awards British Academy: Small Grants •18th March: Ben Campkin, PhD candidate, The please contact the Centre for Research and from £5,000 to £500,000. The maximum length Bartlett, UCL. Degeneration/Regeneration: the Development. There is also a supporting website of an award is five years, with maximum expen- British Academy small grants provide up to £5,000 accumulation and eradication of dirt in King's at: http://www.jdf.or.jp/ diture of £100,000 permitted in any one year. over periods of up to 12 months and are available Cross; Amounts applied for and awarded should be for the direct costs of primary research including: • 25th March: Taine Rikala, University of Bath. ‘Throughout Keith’s career as a student the great directly related to, and justified in terms of, the travel and maintenance away from home; consum- Paper will deal with the work of housing length and scale of the project. The next dead- ables and specialist software; costs of interpreters in reformer Catherine Bauer; promise he demonstrated makes the winning of line for this scheme is 30th May 2003. the field; research assistance and in certain cases, • 29th April: Jane Pavitt, University of Brighton costs of preparing illustrative material and fees for Research Fellow at the V&A. A New 20th this year's Turner prize an inevitability we are Research Leave reproduction rights of text or other images. The next Century Gallery for the V&A: Context and deadline for this scheme is 28th February 2003. Approaches. delighted to see, and which he much deserves.’ This scheme provides funds for periods of research Prof. Bruce Brown on Turner Prize winner, leave of three or four months. The period of leave Politics, Philosophy, Aesthetics Seminar Series funded by the Board must be matched by an Conferences & Seminars Keith Tyson, Student News immediately preceding period funded by the This new series, primarily aimed at Faculty employing institution. The Board meets the full DHRC Seminar Series members and post-graduate students, contin- salary costs of the award-holder during the ues this Spring term, with talks and discussions Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship Programme research leave period that it funds. The next dead- Lesley Whitworth and Elizabeth Darling, DHRC on 6th February, 6th March and 20th March. line for this scheme is 31st March 2003. Series Co-ordinators, have great pleasure in The talks commence at 6pm in the Board Room, The Bogliasco Foundation invites applications announcing the programme for the forthcoming Mezzanine Floor, Grand Parade, and are fol- under its fellowship program. Fellowships are for ACE/AHRB Arts and Science Research series of Design History Research Centre Seminars, lowed by a glass of wine before the discussion scholars or artists to work at the Liguria Study Fellowship in association with the Research Department of the ensues. All are welcome. Last term, the series Center in Bogliasco, Italy. They are open to qual- V&A and the School of Architecture & Design for hosted Simon Critchley, Jan Campbell and ified persons doing advanced creative work or The AHRB (in conjunction with the Arts Council of 2003, to which all are welcome. Julian Stallabrass. 12 13 CRD Centre for Research Development This term's visiting lecturers include the following. Hirota and the Taiko Drummers and 'Taiko to Tabla' in painting, what does it mean to be ‘abstract’ and Dream Traces: A Celebration of Contemporary Full details of the talks will be provided to all staff by with fellow percussionist extrordinaire Pete Locket. what is ‘time’ in and for painting. e-mail, and will be advertised by poster and hand- Joji is also much in demand for sound track work Australian Aboriginal Art will will demonstrate outs to students. and composing which can be heard on 'The Gate' Joint University of Brighton/Costume which he performs live utilizing a string ensemble. Society Study Day Wed 5th February, 10.45am. the extraordinary quality and freshness of recent • Laura Mulvey, lecturer in Film Studies at Birkbeck College; Eric Bibb Sat 1st March, doors 8pm. Tickets £12/10. Bell and Posy Simmonds - Satire, Cartoons & Aboriginal art, across a variety of media includ- • Marcus Wood, lecturer in the School of English Fashion and American Studies, University of Sussex, and Julie Felix Thurs 6th March, 8pm. Tickets £6. ing painting, printmaking, sculpture, batiks, pho- artist and film maker; ‘Graphic satires of society and dress of the tography and film.Theatre & Gallery Hightlights • Jess Dubow, cultural geographer from the Batafon Arts Sat 15th March. Georgian Period and of today.' Department of Geography, University of Nottingham; and Batafon Arts is a vibrant West African group pre- Brighton Museum is now hosting a major Arts Council Teatime Gallery Talks •Alan Findlayson, lecturer in cultural studies and senting it’s own brand of powerful West African exhibition Followers of Fashion-graphic satires from media, Department of Politics, University of rhythm and dance. In this special performance, pro- the Georgian period. Curated by Prof. Diana Donald of The gallery continues it’s successful programme Wales in Swansea. fessional musicians from Guinea Conakry and The Manchester Metropolitan University, who joins us for of informal afternoon talks with a number of Gambia come together to share their heritage this day, this exhibition contains over 90 cartoons dat- events hosted by artists and curators that explore For more information about the series, contact through music. ing from 1746-1814, including work by Hogarth, some of the ideas behind Jan Jedlicka’s work. Dr Anita Rupprecht or Mark Devenney in the School Rowlandson and Cruickshank as well as 18 cartoons Please call 01273 643728 or visit the web site for of Historical and Critical Studies. Theatre by Posy Simmonds. further information and a programme.

Deafway Theatre presents ‘Sign#1’ Sat 22nd To celebrate the work of the cartoonist today, Posy Dream Traces: A Celebration of Brighton Museum is hosting ‘Followers of March, 8pm. Directed by Paula Garfield and Jessica Simmonds and Steve Bell will discuss their work Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art Higgs and produced by Deafway. Funded by and the role that dress plays within it, and Rebecca 22nd April-24th May 2003. Open Monday- Fashion – graphic satires from the Georgian Southern and South East Arts Board. Tickets Quinton, Asst. Curator of Costume in Brighton Saturday 10am-5pm, Sundays 2-5pm. Closed £5/£2.50. Museum, will identify the clothing satirized in the bank holiday weekend. period’. The exhibition contains over 90 cartoons Regency cartoons. dating from 1746-1814, including work by This will be a unique theatrical experience. The lan- The Sydney Olympics in 2000 helped draw the guage used throughout the performance will be British Professor Sergei Sazhin Inaugural Lecture. world’s attention to the quality of art and music Hogarth, Rowlandson and Cruickshank and Posy Sign Language. No voice will be used by the actors. “Modelling and Reality” Tue 4th March 6.30pm. being made by Aboriginal communities in The performance will be made accessible to hearing Australia today. The exhibition documents that Simmonds.Theatre & Gallery Hightlights members of the audience by sign language inter- Patrick Moore talk Thursday 6th February, creativity with a multi-media show of traditional preters who will provide live ‘voice-over’ for the actors. 7.30pm. Tickets £10/£8. and contemporary painting, printmaking, sculp- ture, video and photography. Drawn from the Fashion show Wed 26th March. Tickets £5 -at the Exhibitions most productive and exciting areas of Aboriginal Theatre & Gallery door or email [email protected]. life today, Arnhem Land in the north of Australia Jan Jedlicka: Maremma 1980-2001 10th to Sydney in the South, the exhibition focuses on Highlights The Sallis Benney Theatre will be hosting the huge- March-12th April 2003. the role that women have played recently in gen- ly popular charity show, with garment designs from erating some of the most memorable contempo- Global Beats presents: ‘The Carnival Fiesta’ first and second year students on the fashion and Domiciled in Zurich, the Czech multi-media artist Jan rary art inspired by the archetypal idea of the Sat 15th February 8pm. Tickets £8/£6. textiles BA. hons courses. There will be many raffle Jedlicka (born Prague, 1944) has spent over 20 years Dream Time. sales, proceeds for which will be divided between working in the coastal Maremma region of southern The Official Global Beats Festival Finale coinciding part funding of final year students collection and Tuscany, investigating the many facets of this extraor- This will be the biggest showing of Australian with the Fiesta in Spain and Carnival in the the Breast cancer Care charity. dinary, part natural, part man-made environment. He Aboriginal contemporary art in Britain since the Southern Hemisphere. works in a variety of media: painting and printmaking, 1993 and 1997 shows at the Hayward Gallery, Open Lectures watercolour, pure line drawing, photography and film London and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Joji Hirota and the Taiko Drummers Plus and documents both the essentially lyrical quality of The exhibition will demonstrate the extraordinary Tamashii Daiko Friday 21st February 8pm. A All lectures are free and open to the public unless his work in all these media and the various levels of quality and freshness of recent Aboriginal art, South West Anglo-Japanese Society promotion. otherwise stated. interaction between them. Jedlicka has exhibited across a variety of media including painting, Tickets £10/£8.50 from the Dome Box Office widely in Europe and this is his first one-person exhi- printmaking, sculpture, batiks, photography and 01273 709709. Ian Mc Keever Wed 5th March. bition in Britain. His work was featured in the University film. There will be a contextual film programme of Brighton Gallery 1999 Selected Signs exhibition of at the Duke of Yorks and a substantial educa- Joji Hirota is a remarkable percussionist, whose The Ian is a visiting Professor of Painting at the cover sleeves he designed for the record label ECM tional outreach programme. The accompanying Gate album has earned him a new audience for his University of Brighton. He will be presenting the (Edition of Contemporary Music). symposium on 3/4 May features lead authorities Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo Flute), voice and second of a series of lectures entitled Thinking in the field, such as Nevill Drury, Anna Voigt, percussion interpretations of his homeland memo- about Painting, addressing some of the basic ques- Jan Jedlicka: Maremma 1980-2001 is a University Rebecca Hossack and Herb Wharton. There will ries. Joji branched out from his classical training tions relating to painting. Across the three lectures of Brighton touring exhibition and is continuing on be visits from Aboriginal artists and storytellers. many years ago and is much in demand with his var- he will try to evolve a line of thought which to Museo d’Arte, Cantonale Lugano. A fully illustrat- All in all, this will be the most important cultural ious collaborations the most regular of which are Joji addresses such questions as what is omnipresent ed publication accompanies the exhibition. event of its kind since the 1993 Hayward exhibi- 14 15 CRD Centre for Research Development

‘Embodied Interfaces' exhibition by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

tion and the most important exposition of Australian Aboriginal art and culture ever mount- CRD News ed in the south of England. There will be a pub- lication to accompany the exhibition and related New Administrative Assistant in the Centre events, with contributions from Rebecca for Research Development Hossack, Herb Wharton, Nevill Drury, Anna Voigt and Michael Tucker plus and extensive contem- Lena Warming started with the CRD on 9th porary selective bibliography. December as the new full time research student administrator. Lena will be running the administra- The exhibition and publication will make a major tion of the Research Student Division in Arts and contribution to the documentation and develop- Architecture and will contact staff in relation to stu- ment of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art. dent interviews and all related progress meetings. It will stimulate wider debates in the contempo- rary art world concerning the development of In addition Lena will be co-ordinating the Research imagery today, taking into account factors of Student Days and the next one of these is now indigenous and European art history, politics, scheduled for the end of March. Further details of history and myth. this event will be announced shortly.

Next Issue This is the first issue of the re-designed Faculty Research Newsletter which has been designed to compliment the style of other recent CRD publications including the website and faculty e- papers. The new newsletter will be published twice a term and the deadline for articles for the next issue is 7th March 2003 with an anticipated publication date of 24th March 2003.

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