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multiplexer OPEN lectures: Marguerite Humeau

On Friday, March 4, Vehicles for Experimental Practice and the MULTIPLEXER team are inviting you to a talk with Marguerite Humeau, artist and visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths.

Marguerite Humeau’s work explores the possibility of communication between worlds and the means by which knowledge is generated in the absence of evidence or through the impossibility of reaching the object of investigation. Humeau weaves factual events into speculative narratives, therefore enabling unknown, invisible, extinct forms of life to erupt in grandiose splendour. Combining prehistory, occult biology and science fiction in a disconcerting spectacle – the works resuscitate the past, conflate subterranean and subcutaneous, all the while updating the quest genre for the information age.

Marguerite Humeau has exhibited her work in the most prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (Talk to Me, 2011, curated by Paola Antonelli), the Hayward Gallery (The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, 2013, curated by Mark Leckey), Serpentine Gallery (Extinction Marathon curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist), De la Warr Pavilion, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was initially noticed through her diploma project at the Royal College of Art entitled Proposal for Resuscitating Prehistoric Creatures: an odyssey with a quest to resuscitate the sound and create an opera of prehistoric creatures. Her work has also been acquired by the MoMA New York for their permanent collection.

The talk will take place at Goldsmiths in Room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building, starting 5 pm.

“Known Unknowns”: the 2016 Undergraduate show

We now have a name for this year’s Undergraduate Degree show: “Known Unknowns”!

We assemble independent investigations connected under one theme: the lack of understanding inherent to expanding knowledge, which we see in our own practice and within broader design discourse.

The show will open for private view on the evening of June 16; members of the public will be welcomed from June 17 to June 20. More information will be available soon.

Curating Design talk with Dr Katherine Moline

Today, Friday the 29th of January, Dr Katherine Moline will hold a free talk on curating design. The talk will take place in the Nic Hughes Studios at Goldsmiths Design, room 301, starting 2 pm.

Dr Katherine Moline has recently curated a set of exhibitions that take speculative design and experimental research as a partial focus. In this talk she will offer her perspective as an art-historian on ECDC, a research project based in the Interaction Research Studio here in the design department.

Katherine is a Senior Lecturer in research practices and Postgraduate Coordinator: Admissions for Masters by Research and PhDs in Art & Design at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her work explores the cross-overs between avant-gardism in visual art and contemporary experimental design. Her particular interests are how experimental design reformulates strategies of historic artistic avant-gardes and the social pacts of design.

multiplexer OPEN lectures: JODI

On Friday, 29 January, Goldsmiths Design will host a lecture by art collective JODI, known for their original, ground-breaking web work. This is a great opportunity to hear them speak and become more familiar with their work! The talk takes place at 5 pm in room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building.

“JODI pioneered Web art in the mid-1990s. Based in The Netherlands, JODI were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the Internet, computer programs, and video and computer games. Radically disrupting the very language of these systems, including visual aesthetics, interface elements, commands, errors and code. JODI stages extreme digital interventions that destabilize the relationship between computer technology and its users by subverting our expectations about the functionalities and conventions of the systems that we depend upon every day.

Their work uses the widest possible variety of media and techniques, from installations, software and websites to performances and exhibitions. The JODI.ORG website launched in 1995.”