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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

Lounge Exchange

Maria do Carmo Ravara Pinheiro de Melo

Lounge Exchange is an experimental radio station initiated by RCA Visual Communication students. This live platform offers the opportunity for creatives to explore the medium of radio broadcasting with large spectrum of programmes, ranging from podcasts and live mixes to sound interferences. Following an experimental agenda (on every other Monday), this platform is a tool to ...

The Studio – The 2020 Work in Progress (WIP) Show

Kat McGrath, Roland Ross, Max Kohler

The Studio is a live, working studio space occupied by second year MA Visual Communication students at the Royal College of Art. The space has been designed to sustain a studio practice for students, while inviting the public to observe, engage, and interact with the works displayed. Students will be active in the space for the ...

Content-Full

Kat McGrath, Sian Matthews

A printed publication format that coexists alongside content-free, Visual Communication’s digital “portal into a world of thinking and making”. The publication will be produced twice a year to coincide with the WIP show, and the Final show. Content-Full ‘Content-Full’ means just that: a publication full of content. Free at the point of demand, and full of express...

A Reading of p.3 - p.177 by The Reader

Siddhi Gupta, Aakriti Khurana

The Reader read what the author wrote, and more from between the lines. The Reader then authored what he read, visually and verbally, and we read that and more from between the lines.

Mudlarks

Laura Gordon

Mudlarks was a pilot project co-organised by the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and Urbanwise, a voluntary organisation that works with people of all ages in learning about the local environment and environmental issues. The project worked with six local primary schools in the borough to raise awareness and influence local change in environmental practices. ...

You Come In, I Come Out

Bakhtawer Haider

Jeram Yunghun Kang is a London based designer and author of ‘You Come In, I Come Out’ which is based on his experiences in the South Korean army. At his workshop talk at SOAS, University of London on 3rd December, he discussed his traumatic experience of coming out as gay and having to face institutional homophobia in a ...

Frame

Frame

Report on the state of grey affairs. Friday 03 April 2020

Clem Rousset

I’m starting to worry, just a bit. I’m starting to worry that, soon enough, there won’t be much for me to report. It might be completely trivial to worry about something like that right now, when you think about it. But still. The thing is, grey is there now, and there is not much e...

Zoom Zoom Zoom

Max Kohler

I recently wrote about the privatisation of university buildings1 and how that’s a Bad Thing™. Between the time I enrolled and graduated at Camberwell College of Arts, the building went from being largely open to the public to a situation where access to the building, and movement inside it is tightly controlled by access cards, remo...

Report on the state of grey affairs. Friday 27 March 2020

Clem Rousset

Hello. I’m chiming in to confirm the general progression of grey. It is definitely here, and it’s settling in. No doubt about it now. Or actually, so much doubt, leaving none when it comes to the installment of greyness. I wish I could show some figures to demonstrate this. I wish I could use quot...

Report on the state of grey affairs. Monday 23 March 2020

Clem Rousset

I don’t know where to begin. I just feel like there is a need for an update on the current state of grey things. And I feel like it is my responsibility now to keep people informed, to bring news from the field. Vanity, probably. Who am I really, to take on the job. What ri...

bpm playlist 4: invitation to the voyage

Josh Woolford

A total departure from vocals - towards relaxing electronic and instrumental tracks, perfect for a deep space journey to the next world. If literal space travel isn’t for you, perhaps a relaxing trip with your hallucinogen of choice, breathing exercises or a gentle jog around the lake. Listen to bpm playlist 4: invitation to the voyage by...

Collaboration on Collaboration 2

Maya Gulieva, Betty Brunfaut, Bakhtawer Haider

This column showcases a variety of positions on collaboration. We asked people who we loved and hated collaborating with in the past, people we are collaborating with now, and people we hope to collaborate with in the future to respond to the same question: What is collaboration to you? Each writer will build up and respond ...

Fodder

Fodder

Collective Joy

A day of dancing, eating, and talking in support of UCU industrial action.
09 March 20
Public

Typewriter Orchestra

04 February 20
RCA Only

The 2020 Work in Progress (WIP) Show

The Studio is a live, working studio space occupied by second year students
31 January 20
Public

Faboo

25 January 20
Public

Show 2019

29 June 19
Public

A Traditional Evening of Please

08 May 19
Public

C3 : Command Control Communicate

07 May 19
Public

RDP (Research Design Publish)

04 May 19
Public

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