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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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Roland Ross

A Common Market is a free trade area with a relatively free movement of capital and services. The European Economic Community is sometimes referred to as the ‘The Common Market’. ‘The Common Market’ is also a small producers’ fair that encourages the free movement of ideas by trading conceptual goods and services by students, staff and alumni of ...

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Kat McGrath, Betty Brunfaut

Chapter 1: Call / Response The WIP provides a space to gauge, question, ask, survey, prototype, fail, succeed, communicate, destroy. The show embodies the various cultures of each of the School of Communication (SoC) programs. Each to their own; the work manifests itself in various forms, spheres, themes, mediums. Yet, commonalities present themselves. This year, the most interesting ...

WHO DO YOU FANCY?

eilis searson

dear you, the new pluralist will be released on valentines day if you fancy somebody at the royal college of art at the moment, what better place to confess your love for them? eilis searson will be organising a section of the newspaper for you to write in and send your confessions please send any love no...

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Céline Strolz

early hours of the morning. the day before; “grab a stall”. one merchant next to the other displaying our goods. “this is not another exhibition!” a tour of rye lane, news on demand, or a loaf of bread worth half a month’s rent. depicting 1950s Napoli, i am pouring coffee. lunch break. the place is buzzing.ti...

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