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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

Open Call: Have you seen santa?

Alice Kell

Have you seen Santa? December is fast approaching and we want to see what Santa looks like wherever you are in the world! The more odd/ creepy/ strange/ cute/ kitsch the better! Send your submissions to Alice at 248563@network.rca.ac.uk. Submissions will be released throughout December as an advent calendar, so keep your eyes pee...

Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work

Laura Gordon, Richard Doust

Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work has recently opened at the Design Museum and is scheduled to run until January 2021. With a career spanning six decades, RCA lecturer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with...

Varley Award Winners 2020

Richard Doust

Pat, Wing Shan Wong 2020 Most of my art projects focus on the site-specific investigation of the well-being of minorities. This, I define as a type of alternative journalism. Through my investigations, I lean towards revealing the layers of socio-political affairs. My creative content is enriched through primary research, face to face interaction and object collection. Interacting ...

OPEN CALL: Walkative Society presents INVISIBLE BORDERS

Pat Wong, Alastair Kwan

OPEN CALL: Walkative Society presents INVISIBLE BORDERS, For applying, please send a proposal of no more than 300 words to this year’s co-presidents of the Walkative Society, Pat and Alastair at wingshan.wong@network.rca.ac.uk by 14 October (Wed) 4pm. Walkative project explores how the process of walking can be used as a means of makin...

RCA2020 .A Graphic Reflections

Richard Doust, Lol Sargent

In this unprecedented (and unique) year for Visual Communication graduates, the School of Communication hosted a unique webinar with some of its highly successful Alumni, which included; Mark Bonner (Graphic Design 1993), Michele Jannuzzi (Graphic Design 1992), Chrissy Levett (Graphic Design 1989), Hazel Macmillan (Graphic Design 1993), Morag Myerscough (Graphic Design 1988), Amelia Noble (Graphic Design 1997), Marina Willer (Graphic Design 1997), Tomi ...

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...

Frame

Frame

Lithography

Kristina Kapeljuh

Fact and simultaneously, a statement to digest: zinc plate has a memory. The entire ritual of lithography circulates around the idea of its trace. around the process of its revealing and creating a narrative around the plate’s memory is the core for it to be embodied with oil and to be revealed through water through a ...

SERIOUS SATIRE: LESSONS FROM ASPERGESTAN

Kaiya Waerea

“I’m Hamja Ahsan and I’m the commander in chief of the global decolonial movement to overthrow extrovert-supremacy and I’m on a never ending world tour until that oppression system is overthrown.” Speaking with deep sincerity and incisive sarcasm, Hamja Ahsan introduces himself as “a shy radical” at a talk titled Introvert Speculative Activism Design. Hosted...

JOKES, IRRITATION AND FURY: THE TRANSGRESSING VOICES OF ELIZABETH PRICE

Maya Gulieva

The world held its breath, watching two suited white men compete for the title of the USA President 2020. Repeating the narrative of choosing between bad and worse is as worn-out as the looping song of the socially under-privileged, the lament of zero-hour contractees, and the breathless ballad of feminists. Now that air has re-entered our lungs ...

Report on the state of grey affairs. Tuesday 03 November 2020

Clem Rousset

It’s been a while since I last wrote. I apologise to whoever it may concern for the highly unprofessional behavior I displayed as I abandoned my post mid-watch. I am sorry. But in my defence, I must say that my input may not have been needed to fill you in on the state of grey af...

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Josh Woolford

For the last few months my feels are in a constant state of flux, minute to minute I feel a different energy or/and focus. I’ve also felt deeply the healing power of music to illustrate my moods and to give me clarity - I’m full with Blackness and always inspired by it. Listen to b...

IS LIVED EXPERIENCE A LOST ART?

Kelly Macbeth Mackay, Maya Gulieva

“Simply being present is not just productive – it is enough. Remember the value of memory.” – Ifeanyi Awachie On the 21st October, RCA Visual Communication online lecture series, Fugitive Voices, hosted its first speaker Ifeanyi (ee-FAH-nyee) Awachie (AH-wah-CHYAY), an Atlanta-raised Igbo (EE-boh) writer and curator based between New York and London. Author of Summer in Igboland, a book of ...

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.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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