It’s invitation only, by the looks of it. 18th February 2010, 9.30am to 4pm. NTI Birmingham, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham…
“The Future of Digital Content [...] bringing together some of the brightest minds to explore how the future can be created. What new business models, what policies, what industry partnerships need to be created to deliver world class digital content to people in the most compelling manner? Using the outputs of a previous phase of workshops, TheAlloy have created a range of scenarios exploring the digital content needs of a wide variety of people across a range of contexts, 3-7 years from now. [...] We are looking for people who not only have the imagination to build on these scenarios, but who know how they could be delivered. We are looking for people who can help shape the future of digital content consumption in the UK. Please if you are interested in attending this workshop email: events@citin.org”
“Universities across the country are preparing to axe thousands of teaching jobs, close campuses and ditch courses to cope with government funding cuts, the Guardian has learned. Other plans include using post-graduates rather than professors for teaching [*] and the delay of major building projects. [...] arts and humanities courses are being dropped.”
Alarming, but not exactly new news. It’s been looming since well before Christmas, if you knew how to read the policy runes.
* “cos’ anyone can teach. u don’t need no training or experiunce”
All the BBC Radio 4 archives for In Our Time have just been switched over to using the BBC iPlayer. Which I think might be annoying for listeners outside of the UK, since I understand iPlayer access is only available to those in the UK. Previously, anyone in the world could listen. So, for those outside of the UK, I now feel free to link to torrents of the complete archive from 2002-2009, and the complete archive from 1998-2001.
This sounds deliciously likely to annoy museums that claim ownership of visitor pictures of public-domain works: the Britain Loves Wikipedia event…
“is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest running in museums and cultural institutions across the UK through February 2010. The aim is to increase the number of pictures available to illustrate Wikipedia articles, and to inspire new articles [...] you can go to most museums on your own at any time during the month.”
And if you have a camera that takes macro close-ups, I might also suggest hunting down a few of the pre-1926 art books in your university library — since the images will likely count as being in the public domain in the USA, and thus be able to slip past the increasingly snotty wikipolice on Wikipedia.
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One of my dissertation students has published his dissertation online. The first to do so, I think. It was on typography / type design for mobile devices.
Eligible Programmes for Professional Preparation Masters Awards: M.A. Design Management; M.A. Interior Design; M.A. Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products; M.A. Product Design; M.A. Textiles, Fashion and Surface Design
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How not to write a PhD thesis, in this week’s THES. Valuable advice, it seems. But it’s rather disappointing to find that common third-year B.A. dissertation errors can somehow be carried over into someone’s PhD thesis.
Not only is DAZ Studio 3 free but, as of a few days ago, all the 3D human base models are also free. Very useful human-figure reference software for comics artists and figurative painters, although if you want domestic animals you still have to buy them.
“business investment [ in the arts ] in the Midlands fell by 16 per cent, to £7.3 million, funding from trusts and foundations decreased by 36 per cent to £5.7 million and donations from individuals by 23 per cent, to £6 million. The fall in the Midlands was way above the national picture, where business investment fell by six per cent, to £157 million, and donations from individuals by seven per cent, to £363 million.”
Filed under: Artist(s), neu-real — site admin @ in the early evening
On now in New York, the exhibition Metamorphosis Victorianus. The names in the gallery’s introduction are actually links to galleries of works in the exhibition, albeit shown too small to see much detail…
“Ubu Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition, curated by Meredith Harper, of 20th Century collages all united in their focus on the transformation of Victorian engravings.”
Max Ernst, self-portrait. ‘The Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti’. (1920)
