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‘Content free’ means just that: the content on this site is free. Free at the point of demand, and free in expression and opinion. It is a portal into a world of thinking and making. It is a living archive of reflection and activity. It is the place where the students and staff from the Visual Communication programme at the RCA can freely place ‘content’, and where visitors are free to browse and interact with what they find.

In the electronic era, with its always-on, limitless landscape to fill, content has become a weasel word – a generic flavourless noun that relegates words, images, sound and film as placeholder material. Our use of the word is of course, ironic. We take the view that content has to have meaning and offer engagement. Without meaning and engagement, it is just that … content.

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‘Content free’ means just that: the content on this site is free. Free at the point of demand, and free in expression and opinion. It is a portal into a world of thinking and making. It is a living archive of reflection and activity. It is the place where the students and staff from the Visual Communication programme at the RCA can freely place ‘content’, and where visitors are free to browse and interact with what they find.

In the electronic era, with its always-on, limitless landscape to fill, content has become a weasel word – a generic flavourless noun that relegates words, images, sound and film as placeholder material. Our use of the word is of course, ironic. We take the view that content has to have meaning and offer engagement. Without meaning and engagement, it is just that … content.

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Happenings

Happenings

Explain Yourself: Covid 20/20

Ken Hollings

Edited by Ken Hollings and Sheena Calvert with design by Rocco Punghellini, Covid 20/20 is the outcome of the ‘Explain Yourself’ writing workshops in which Year 2 Visual Communication students are encouraged to compose short statements that define some key aspect of their individual practices. This year’s collective responses offer a subtle and complex portrait of a strang...

RDP Index

Lottie Brzozowski, Myrna Marianovits, Lifan Lai, Mintra Morrison, Amir Saidani, Jin-Hoo Park, Jingye Yao, Xinyu Jin, Yanxin Chen, Chenyue Yuan, Chieh Pai, Chenyu Jiang, Shuning Jiang, Jiazhen Cai, Biyan Qian, Jiacun Li

RDP (Research Design Participate) is a research-based elective on the Visual Communication course at the Royal College of Art. The elective encourages students to engage with social issues, individuals, groups and public space while expanding their Visual Communication practices through critical understanding of their findings. Whilst often taking place outside the boundaries of the college, RDP ...

Content-Full Issue #2 Open Call

Kat McGrath, Sian Matthews

Hello all, We’re looking for contributions for Issue #2! We have decided to carry on with Content-Full, and are hoping to produce a summer issue which will be a mail-out, in addition to joining our first issue in the White City library (when it is safe to do so). We’re also very excited to be work...

Fugitive Voices invite you to enter the Loop

Kelly Macbeth Mackay

Live at l0o0ops.co.uk/index.html If you stare into the world of your own looping mechanisms, are you in control of your repetitions or do they manage you themselves? Travel through a maze of projects, designed and curated by Fugitive Voices, which will challenge you to look introspectively at the loops in ...

Digital Aesthetics 2019/20

Jamie Jenkinson

Below are selected projects from RCA students on the Digital Aesthetics workshop. The works are made in response to six weekly experiments and discussions around the impact of digital technology, user culture and post-digital outlooks. Each work is designed to be viewed online. Keywords: Internet Explorers, personalised ads, Ghost in the Machine, Hockbot Excursions, Lottie Brzozowskiexcursions....

Many people are typing

Max Kohler, Kat McGrath, Roland Ross

Many people are typing is a new discussion platform/publication-progress about the environments, social structures, and economies where design is taught and practiced by Kat, Roland, me, and Julia Schäfer. This project is the product of discussions that started around the WIP show, which abandoned the usual gallery-style hang and instead proposed a collaborative environment w...

Frame

Frame

The contents of this writing seek to define the collaboration occurring in Issue #2. A dialogue between the editors of Content-Full and the minds behind Sold Out Publishing.

Kat McGrath, Sian Matthews, Bakhtawer Haider, Betty Brunfaut

Kat It is 1 July, 2020. I’m sitting down to write this from my kitchen table. I have been procrastinating writing this. My attention has shifted and flickered several times throughout the day, as it has for months; the past 4 have been an incredibly difficult time. I don’t think any of us would have predicted we’d be f...

bpm 6 x dj working class

Josh Woolford

A mix of very Brazilian, notorious & fresh flavours that are busting now. Mostly Black female (trans/cis) artists. DJ Working Class feels hopeful, represented, agitated and refreshed by their excellence and strong existences. Their motion and cause of friction - that’s the energy we need to go forward! Listen to bpm 6 x dj working cl...

#WithForAbout2020 – A statement on a slow conference for a fast evolving crisis, by Cecilia Wee and the vacuum cleaner

Cecilia Wee

Image above: The Hologram, Cassie Thornton. bell hooks: ‘I want to talk about what it means to maintain that marginality even as one works, produces, lives if you will at the centre’. Edgar Villenueva: ‘Everyone has a role in the process of healing….All our suffering is mutual. All our healing is mutual. All our thriving is mutua...

A Journey of Differences

Nayonika Ghosh, Aparna Ashok

Welcome to our journey of differences. Over the past couple of months, most of us have been displaced, confused and uncertain of our existence as human beings. Some of us have got completely cut off from friends and family, while others have the luxury of being in the company of our loved ones. That being said, ...

Report on the state of grey affairs. Monday 25 May 2020

Clem Rousset

There is a poster not too far from my flat. It is displayed on the side of a bus stop, behind a layer of plexiglass. An ad for the latest Burger King sandwiches: Only £4,99 for a double melt, fries, a side and a drink. In the centre of the poster, three impossibly rotund and shiny burgers t...

The Business of Design

Max Kohler, Roland Ross

Welcome to the second edition of the Vice Chancellor’s lectures. The raising-your-hand feature will not be used on this occasion, and the Chatham House rule still applies1. Tonight’s speaker Gerry McGovern is to Land Rover what Tom Ford is to Gucci and Jony Ive was to Apple. McGovern begins his lecture by recalling his visi...

Fodder

Fodder

.A Alumni Reflections

30 July 20
RCA Only

Collective e-Choir (Part 2: workshop)

30 July 20
Public

Critic/Curator panel #4 - David Manley / Helen Ralli / Hart Club + Neurodiversity in Albertopolis + Roland Ross

29 July 20
RCA Only

Doing Disability Differently

28 July 20
Public

Critic/Curator panel #3 - Irini Papadimitriou

28 July 20
RCA Only

Understanding the Field in Three Acts

27 July 20
Public

The Practice of Media Ecology: Applied McLuhan in 2020

26 July 20
RCA Only

DIY Art School

26 July 20
Public

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