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New press page with links for Goldsmiths Design website

We love it when the projects of our staff, students and graduates receives the attention they deserve, so If you’re in any way related to Goldsmiths Design and your work has been covered in the media, don’t hesitate to send the links our way to n.barbu[@].gold.ac.uk. As of now, the press clippings page on the Design section of the Goldsmiths website includes links to the original articles- take a look.

The MA in Innovation in Practice featured in NCUB report

The MA in Innovation in Practice at Goldsmiths Design, whose programme leader is Mike Waller, is the subject of a case study in the first annual “State of the Relationship” report of collaboration between universities and businesses, released by the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB).

“The MA Innovation in Practice and the Post Graduate Innovation Apprenticeships both offer unique ways of leveraging university teaching expertise, innovation, and a hands-on approach to collaboration and consultancy”, is the conclusion of the article, which you can read in full at page 26 of the report.

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Skin in what game? Working at the intersection of Art, Science and Design

The Department of Design and the Interaction Research Studio are pleased to announce a talk by Simon Penny, at 2pm on Thursday 8 May, in room 314 of the New Academic Building .

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“The creation and development of custom computational/interactive technologies for cultural and aesthetic ends demands an almost psychotic complexity of clashing criteria, sensibilities and skillsets. Arguably the most important skills in this mix are the balancing of them all, and the determination of salience. In this talk I will explore these issues, taking video documentation of projects spanning 25 years as examples.”

“Simon Penny is an Australian practitioner in the fields of Digital Cultural Practices, Embodied Interaction and Interactive Art. His practice has included artistic practice, technical research, theoretical writing, pedagogy and institution building. Over the last twenty-five years, he has made interactive and robotic installations which address critical issues arising at the intersection of culture and technology, informed by traditions of practice in the arts including sculpture, video-art, installation and performance; and by theoretical research in enactive and embodied cognition, ethology, neurology, phenomenology, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, robotics, critical theory, cultural and media studies.” (From Simon Penny’s website.)

Goldsmiths Graduate Festival

This year’s Goldsmiths Graduate Festival starts next week, on Thursday May 8, and it will be open and free to attend, offering presentations and performances from students and staff showcasing postgraduate research work from Goldsmiths, and other universities.

You can find a full programme of the events here, for now, we are only going to mention that Design PhD student Maria Portugal will exhibit her installation ‘The Gym- A space in transition” in the NAB Cafeteria, as part of the Festival: “The Gym is a small visual project where the digital composition stands as the main pictorial report, creating and re-creating new transitions and unexplained forms of
migration”.