End+of+Year+Shows

Middlesex MA Design for Interactive Media finalist show announced
The annual exhibition of the MA Design for Interactive Media will take place from 5 to 7 September 2008. This year it will be at the brand-new London premises of the SAE Institute. MIddlesex run a similar course to Camberwell - with more emphasis on teaching programming. http://www.mind-the-gap.info/ Private view: Friday 5th Sept 6pm SAE Institute London, 297 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DD

London College Communication 16/17/18th JuLY
This show had an emphasis on technology used in social interactions - there were a few mobile phone extension type pieces - a game for a tube platform and a cool VR piece which actually worked! http://maimm.arts.ac.uk/~fmp78d/ here's a picture they gave to each visitor - this one of me using the VR camera - of an empty space over which they had layered 3d objects cued by barcodes on the wall - i think they said using an open source vr system they had adapted called DART or DARE.

Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU - june/july
Nearest Tube: High Street Kensington/South Kensington Buses: 9, 10, 52, 452

The second part of the graduate shows will include work by students from the following courses: Animation, Architecture, Communication Art &amp; Design, Conservation, Design Products, **Design Interactions**, Fashion Footwear and Accessories, History of Design, Industrial Design Engineering, Textiles and Vehicle Design. Some work will be for sale or commission. http://www.show2008.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=501913&CategoryID=60052 I didn't get to this but looks interesting - i thnik they are taught some electronics as there are a few robotics projects here.

-RW [Rewritable] (Goldsmiths) 3/4/5th JULY
MA in Interactive Media Degree Show Location: Rooms 301-306, Richard Hoggart Building

"The Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths presents '-RW [Rewritable]', an event by MA Interactive Media students. This MA develops a new philosophical direction in the study of digital media that engages with the materiality of conceptual, technical and aesthetic production."

"-RW develops techniques that complicate and de-familiarize various aspects of culture through an investigation of media ecologies."

"Experimenting within open source and DIY culture in an attempt to literally rewrite habitual practices of communication the works provoke contemplation on interactive media use, introducing and developing unlikely connections and odd couplings within media practices by reconfiguring formats, activating new platforms of intersection and mutating logic. In this bizarre and peculiar affair 14 practitioners from the 7 seas invite visitors to take part in processual creation. The diverse backgrounds of the practitioners has facilitated imaginative approaches to media, revealing alternative perspectives by winding thoughts through a hotchpotch of media, networking, philosophy, art, computer science, activism, anthropology and critical theory. Join this motley crew as they invent alternative social fictions." The emphasis here was on a critique of how technology is used within culture - the show was arranged as an expo with each artist sitting at a desk - which was a neat idea to look at, but meant the show was quite intimidating to get round as people would grab you and explain their project and give you handouts - there was a lot to read at this show.

Central St. MArtins Dates: Friday 13 to Thursday 19 June
Dates: Friday 13 - Thursday 19 June
 * MA Communication Design**

Venue: Mall Galleries, The Mall, 17 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5BD http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/43566.htm emphasis on design (doh!)