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Film and TV Director/Producer to talk to Lincoln students

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:44 AM PDT




Johann Chan, Arts Editor of Digital Arts will chair a live discussion next month at the Universityof Lincoln, with guest speaker John Dower, Film & TV Director/Producer and winner of Banff World Television Awards Best Sports Documentary for 'Thriller in Manila'.

An inspirational and educational one hour live discussion is planned with chair and guest speaker to gain insight into the world of TV and Film Producer and Director John Dower.

The lecture will also look into the career and work life of a leading film director. John Dower will be taking questions from the floor as well as giving top tips for budding film makers on how to succeed in the industry.

The talk is one of four taking place at universities around the UK as part of the Young Creative Chevrolet 2013 competition.  YCC chose the University of Lincoln to host this guest lecture as the video category was won last year by Contemporary Lens Media student Kenny van Mierlo, which was also featured on this blog.  This year we are hoping for even more entrants from Lincoln, not only from Contemporary Lens Media, but also from film makers currently studying on Interactive Design, and from the School of Media.

For more information on the Young Creative Chevrolet competition please visit http://www.youngcreativechevrolet.eu/

No booking necessary – seats allocated on a first come first served basis.

Light/box: a collaborative project with Architecture

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 08:05 AM PDT




'light/box' - a one day collaborative project between first year BA (Hons) Architecture and BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media (Photography and Video) at the University of Lincoln, coordinated by Architecture tutor Doina Carter, and  Programme Leader for Lens Media, Adam Verity.


On Feb 14th 2013, students collaborated to produce a scale model of an interior, then light it and photograph it, followed by a peer review session and prize giving. The intention was to facilitate a cross programme collaboration, which would enable the sharing of student knowledge and offer an experience outside of the traditional remit of each course.


Although this was an extra-curricular activity for both sets of students, the basis of the event was a History of Architecture assignment for the Architecture students, who worked in small groups to transform a generic box into a room designed in a pre-20th Century style. 


The resulting 'dioramas' ranged from a Roman domestic atrium to Gothic halls with delicately detailed stained glass windows, and sinuously decorated Art Nouveau drawing rooms.



Students employed careful control over proportions, textures and colours, via the decoration and furnishing of the 'box', to suggest the ambiance of the chosen époque.




The meticulously crafted models then traveled from the Architecture studio to the Photographic studio, where the Contemporary Lens Media students used Digital SLR cameras and an array of lighting equipment, coloured gels and diffusion paper to create an individually tailored stylistic approach to photographing each model, in order to best convey the 'narrative' of the interior.



The images were then loaded into the screening room, where all 120 students were able to view the images they had created, on the big screen. The physical models were also displayed so that all groups were able to see the variety of approaches which had been taken.


To conclude the day there was an opportunity for peer feedback and review, as well as for students to vote for the group collaboration they felt had been the most successful overall.  Below Architecture tutor Marcin Kolakowski lends a helping hand.


The results were impressive; the images produced by the students speak of a genuine dialogue between the two courses.



Through experiences such as this, it is hoped that students will gain useful skills that are perhaps not formally taught within their programmes, but which can be applied to their respective disciplines. For the Contemporary Lens Media students this was their first experience of a 'real client', with specific requirements that they had to respond to using subject specific knowledge. For the Architecture students the event provided the experience of having their work 'seen', questioned and interpreted by peers from outside their discipline.

Entropic Union 23 March – 15 April 2013 Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:09 AM PDT



An installation of 40 photographic works by Head of School of Art and Design, Dr Alec Shepley and Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Interactive Design Clive McCarthy opens on Saturday 23 March at the Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland.

The exhibition "Entropic Union", which has been curated by Professor in Contemporary Art Practice, Steve Dutton, furthers the 'unfinished project' as a means to open up potential spaces for renewed practice.

The gallery is temporarily turned in a project space to re-imagine 'a place possibility' and to resist the 'grip' of commodification. The works in this project are related to a paper delivered by Alec and Steve at 'Sensuous Knowledge' 7 January 2013,  at the National Academy of Art in Bergen, Norway. In other words a place not yet reached by the enclosing grip of 'culture' (Phillipson, M. 1996).
Posted by Creative Midlands at 3/23/2013 11:06:00 am

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