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Winter graduation ceremonies for Design

Next month will see another generation of Goldsmiths graduates celebrating their achievements at the Winter presentation ceremonies. If you are eager to don your cap and gown, don’t forget you have until February 2nd to book tickets for the ceremony and hire your gown online.

Design students will have their presentation ceremonies on Wednesday, 18 February, starting 10:30 am, namely graduates from the following programmes:

BA Design, Creativity & Learning (QTS)
MA Design & Environment
MA Design: Critical Practice
MA Design Education
MA Design Futures
MA Design Futures & Metadesign
MA Fashion
MA Innovation in Practice
MA Interaction Design
MEng Design & Innovation (with Queen Mary, University of London)
MRes Design
MPhil/PhD Design Studies

Goldsmiths Design on Tumblr

We know that a lot of our students and graduates are on Tumblr, sharing and discussing their work and their inspiration, so we thought we’d join them! If you have a tumblr blog, let us know about you, we want to read it. Who else should we follow? We’re looking forward to your suggestions.

Matthew Plummer-Fernandez launches art blogging bot

Digital artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, who is a Research Fellow in the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths, has created a tumblr bot that generates descriptions of abstract art. The project is called “Novice Art Blogger” and it is based on Deep Learning algorithms developed by scientists at the University of Toronto. You can read a description of the project on Matthew’s website. You can also follow the art blogging bot on Twitter!

Matthew’s idea has attracted attention from the press. In an interview for Dazed Magazine, he says: I think there is a value in having a machine describe art without the burden of prior art knowledge, art history, trends, and favouritism. It makes us reflect on whether art should be able to stand on its own and elicit unaffected experiences of art, or whether to read art we need that cultural context and formative background, or a mix of both”. The Novice Art Blogger has also been mentioned by Fast CoDesign, DailyDot, Pacific Standard magazine, Blouin Artinfo, Good magazine, etc.

Design Star PhD Studentships open for applications

The Design Star consortium, which includes Goldsmiths, is opening for applications 12 PhD studentships in its member universities. To be eligible, applicants will need to have been accepted for a PhD at their Design Star institution of choice (the deadline for applications is 27 February 2015). To find out more about the studentships, visit the Design Star website or go to the Open Day at the Open University on 14 January 2015. The contact person for the project is Ella Hutchings (e.hutchings[at]reading.ac.uk).

You can read the full call for applicants here.