We often like to point out that just because you’re not making a “digital” end-product doesn’t mean coding can’t be useful. This weekend I had a perfect example of that.
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Femi Adeleye: An Evolving Image
This term, some of our Central Saint Martins students produced digital artworks for an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery in London’s West End. Their work was shown on the media wall in the gallery’s lobby 10-13 May 2018. Here is Femi Adeleye’s description of her work: I’ve become fixated on the term ‘machine vision’ particularly […]
Ceri Wyn Jones: Frigid
This term, some of our Central Saint Martins students produced digital artworks for an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery in London’s West End. Their work was shown on the media wall in the gallery’s lobby 10-13 May 2018. The image above shows the piece installed in the gallery. Here is Ceri Wyn Jones’s description of […]
Harry Flynn: Untiltled
This term, some of our Central Saint Martins students produced digital artworks for an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery in London’s West End. Their work was shown on the media wall in the gallery’s lobby 10-13 May 2018. Here is Harry Flynn’s description of his work: In ‘Untitled’ Harry Flynn explores the space between online […]
Coding Identity at the Photographers’ Gallery
This term, some of our Central Saint Martins students have been working on digital projects for an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery in London’s West End. the show runs from 10-13 May and the artists will be there for the public opening at 4pm on the 10th. More details here and directions here. They’re second-year […]
Mathematics as a Creative Practice, Part 2
On Monday February 26, we’ll be presenting the results of last term’s Three Pillars of the Digital project as a Monday Evening Lecture (5:30pm in E002, KX). The last talk we gave in this programme, two years ago, outlined the goals and outlook of the Fine Art Maths Centre as a whole. Here’s Andrew with […]
Mathematics as a Creative Practice, Part 1
On Monday February 26, we’ll be presenting the results of last term’s Three Pillars of the Digital project as a Monday Evening Lecture (5:30pm in E002, KX). We’ll say a bit about what we did but, more importantly, raise some points for discussion about the place of maths and the digital in creative arts education.
Opening the Box
We’re halfway through the Three Pillars of the Digital programme, and yesterday we ran a workshop on hardware architecture emphasising the physicality and embodiedness of the digital world. Students began by dissecting some desktop PCs that were slated for recycling (kindly on loan from IT for the afternoon). The point was in part to simply […]
Meet Markov Duck
For our upcoming series of workshops, The Three Pillars of the Digital, we needed a quick introduction to writing Twitter bots. The result was Markov Duck, a sort of parody of Twitter bots that nevertheless embodies some useful tricks and techniques. Markov Duck combines three simple Twitter bot themes in a completely arbitrary way: Text […]
The Smith Review: An Initial Response
35 “Participation should be guided by the principle that all students should study the mathematics they need for the future.” The Smith Review, originally commissioned by George Osborne at the March Budget of 2016, was published on Thursday 20 July, the final day before parliamentary recess. Its headline remit was to review how to increase […]