Friday Salons

This session brings together Aaron Cesar, Bobby Niven and Laura Simpson to talk about the art residency programmes they manage.

This Friday Salon considers artists’ use of writing and the dramatic form as part of their practice.

This Friday Salon provides a platform to rethink the relationship photographers have with their commercial and creative practices.

This Friday Salon explores ethical questions related to working with notions of the other in art and design research and practice. It is hosted by doctoral researchers from the Royal College of Art.

This Friday Salon aims to investigate feminist media art practices through documentation of pre-Internet, early net art and media art, examining the ways in which new media, technology and mass digital culture interact with the human body and its expressions of identity.

Coinciding with the exhibition of Lives on Wire by Eloise Hawser, this Friday Salon will be a discussion on Skeuomorphism, the art of replicating an artefact in a form which is appropriate to another medium

Open to Fine Art and other students, this discussion will look at the role and value of artists in contemporary practice.

A discussion on artists’ visibility in the current increased transmissibility of information enabled by the internet. Chaired by Cadence Kinsey with speakers Holly White, Tom Clark, Leslie Kulesh and Beatrice Loft Schulz.

Chaired by writer and curator Jo Melvin, this discussion explores the legacy of the seminal 1974 ICA exhibition Art Into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists and looks at current curatorial practices and pedagogical models that attempt to democratise beyond the established structure of exhibition making.

Creatives from China and the UK discuss the Maker movement, which combines influences from craft, DIY, design and hacker culture to develop new models of education and expressions of creativity.

A roundtable discussion on the case for the creation of a new publishing house

An exploration of the voice and speech-making as a tool for feminist activism.

Is there such a thing as a black voice? The panel will explore how voice is racialised and marketed through music, film, culture and politics.