BABEWORLD READING GROUP: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

The_Carrier_Bag_Theory_of_Fiction_-_Ursu The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K Le Guin, lead by Elena the human aspect- not sure if we agree that heroes are the driver of a story, necessarily- people in the modern day enjoy watching people do mundane everyday activities- i.e. ASMR videos, or the TV show Gogglebox the container as […]

READING GROUP PLAN AND NOTES FROM GROUP: The Blob by Dr Charlotte Cooper

I am leading next week’s Babeworld3000 reading group, and have chosen to examine a zine made by Dr. Charlotte Cooper, The Blob. This post is essentially my notes covering what I want to discuss during the group so that I have something prepped! I have chosen this text as it is something very close to […]

READING GROUP WITH BABEWORLD3000: The Problem With Imposter Syndrome

EXCERPT 3 IMPOSTER SYNDROME (there are a few pages missing) Notes made during the 3rd reading group The Problem With Impostor Syndrome is a chapter from a book called Steal As Much As You Can by Nathalie Olah: the writing style uses a lot of academic language to make it more palatable to academia the way […]

BABEWORLD3000 Reading Group: Intro to “Taking Up Space”

TAKING UP SPACE EXCERPT Notes made during the second BABEWORLD3000 reading group, reading the introduction to Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi the expectations placed on minorities- remembering where you come from, but not allowing yourself to be tokenised the pressure to succeed that others who are […]

Reading Group With Babeworld3000: “The Pleasure Button: Low Income Food Inequality”

FIRST READING – THE PLEASURE BUTTON- LOW INCOME FOOD INEQUALITY- EXCERPT FROM KNOW YOUR PLACE PDF of scans of the text above Notes made during the reading group: Fish and chips on a Friday night with my Granddad sharing of working class experiences via the reading group “aftertaste of regret” – this hit me because […]

DRAW- Yu Chen Wang

“Drawing can be a very simple and effective method of communication” – Yu Chen Wang As part of the DRAW reading group led by the Post-Grad Community we had the pleasure to welcome artist Yu-Chen Wang, a London based artist from Taichung, Taiwan. Her practice primarily focuses on drawing, where her work treads a delicate […]

Surviving and Thriving as an Artist- Rosalind Davis, Notes

Notes made during the talk by artist, curator, teacher, writer and consultant Rosalind David Managed and curated CORE gallery in Deptford Zeitgeist Arts Projects- ZAP- artist run organisation co-founded and ran with Annabell Tilley “What They Didn’t Teach You at Art School”- her book what other values do you have? “Making it” looks different to […]

Touch workshop with Professor Kojiro Hirose

notes made during the workshop: accessibility of art/museums/galleries how to engage multiple senses for those with different impairments and those without impairments tactile works- 3D? How can we make 2D works (i.e. pictures/books) more accessible? watch that speaks- tells you the time, watch that is tactile- you can tell the time by feeling it paperless […]

Christian Heath- Anthropology of the Object

Notes made during Christian Heaths’ lecture: the use of objects and how people use relatively simple objects everyday lift up the object (not physically) to see the complexity behind the object and its use treat the mundane as highly complex- use it to discover new things about humanity get a feel for the intelligence required […]

Vectors: 60 Years of Digital Art Practice, Dr. Nick Lambert 06/12/19

“Art of the Electronic Age“- book started back in the late 90’s researching digital art and its origins Frank Popper Cold war period and how types of computer developed during this period CACHE Project Archive Computer Art Society John Lansdown using computers for architecture, performance, animation, ect the transference from computers being large and only […]