Graphic Design at UCK

From an email for students:

Somerset House Embankment Galleries is holding an event next week as part of the exhibition Wouldn’t it be nice…wishful thinking in art and design  of particular interest to design students: Dot Dot Dot, Dexter Sinister and guests, 29-31 Oct. Students are eligible for a special group student ticket price (£4 each) if a few of them are interested in going to see the exhibtion.

Dot Dot Dot (evenings 29-31 Oct. 7pm)

Dot Dot Dot is an arts journal published by Dexter Sinister, a collective working from New York. In recent years the biannual journal’s form and content has been influenced by the specific context of its production.

Over three evenings content for Dot Dot Dot issue 17 will be articulated ‘live’, through dialogue, talks and visual presentations from contributors including James Goggin, Jennifer Higgie, Will Holder, Richard Hollis and Dan Fox. The idea is to ‘speak’ the issue in advance of it’s printed version, and the various forms of presentation will directly inform their various modes of graphic and linguistic translation. The resultant publication will be available from Somerset House Embankment Galleries at the end of the exhibition Wouldn’t It Be Nice…

Tickets are £5 for each night with a £1 bar  

For more information and tickets please go to somersethouse.org.uk 

Full Line-up

The programme is open to change, but as of today:

WEDNESDAY 29 OCT

James Goggin (and others) will itemize ways of reading in London, 2008; Richard Hollis will listen to the image; Will Holder will speak of the poetics of concrete poetry and documenting the work of Falke Pisano; Mike Sperlinger will introduce Stefan Themerson & Language

THURSDAY 30 OCT

Jennifer Higgie and Johnny Vivash will read from (and around) Carnival Theory, a play-in-progress; Dan Fox will play an extended version of Refracted Light Through Armory; Show Agency will recount the copyright case of Papa Hemingway

FRIDAY 31 OCT

David Reinfurt will explain Naive Set Theory with an overhead projector; Malcolm McLaren (in absentia) will talk to Mark & Stephen Beasley (in absentia); Stuart Bailey will describe the science, fiction of E.C. Large, and inaugurate the republishing of 2 novels accompanied by mute works from Janice Kerbel, Walead Beshty, Alex Klein and Dexter Sinister

All evenings start at 7pm prompt

We just got posters in the mail from the University of Gloucestershire to hang on the college bulletin boards so I wanted to pass on the info for these events in case anyone is interested.

The first one is called The Independent Line. It is a “one day symposium exploring autonomies and alternatives for the new generation of narrative illustrators.” It takes place Wednesday, 15th October and features Paul Gravett, Steve Braund, Jackie Batey, Damien Gascoigne and Benoit Jacques. Chaired by Chris Mullen. The address is University of Gloucestershire, Pittyville Studios, Albert Road, Cheltenham.

The other event, the Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2008, takes place from October 16 – 31 at the same location. It is open daily from 10 – 4. It is called Tall Tales: Exhibition and features narrative illustration from students, emerging talent and professionals.

Web: www.cheltillustrationawards.glos.ac.uk; www.cheltemham-illustration-awards.com; www.pittvillepress.co.uk