“Draw to Perform” is an international community for drawing performance headed by artist Ram Samocha (https:drawtoperform.com). Performance drawing explores the correlation between live action and mark-making, with a certain amount of spontaneity or improvisation woven into an intended pathway of performance. Recently, Samocha headed a series of performances and workshops in Brighton, following a fascinating …
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Care(less), Lindsay Seers at Fabrica, Brighton 18 October 2019.
Care(less) is a VR experience, presented in Brighton as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Being a little non-committal about digital art, and also never having experienced VR, I thought I’d better go along to see what all the fuss was about. At the risk of sounding a little bit like an over-enthusiastic 8 year …
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CCTV Culture: What seems and what is.
Laid up with a heavy cold for a couple of days, I took to the BBC iPlayer to find something to relieve the ennui of Lemsip and tissues. I found a drama called The Capture, which concerns the use of CCTV images for evidence in criminal cases. The plot revolves around the corruption of this …
Reflection on Part One
Today I had my first tutorial. Here are the main points I took from it: UVC (Part One) Tutorial with Michele Whiting 20 September 2019 General points How to reflect: going forward, reflection will become more critical, and my way of reflecting hopefully will become a “real surefire underpinning” for studio practice. It’s important …
Life Drawing
I’ve been going to life-drawing classes for about 18 months now. So far, Understanding Visual Culture is more about reading and understanding than it is about practical work, so these classes are very useful for keeping my observational skills sharp while I learn. I intend to weave practical work into the theoretical, and while these …
Understanding Visual Culture with the Open College of the Arts 