graduate school of creative arts and media

 

THIS WEEK! new associate and international visiting fellows announced [30/1/2012]

THIS WEEK! the second re : public project -"publiCities" call for expressions of interest will close [1/2/2012]

THIS WEEK! gradcam cookbook event - first recipe salon "the flatbread earth" [4/2/2012]

THIS WEEK! share announces nida summer school lithuania - funding available: call open [february/2012]

THIS WEEK! second finnish international summer school artistic research: call open [february/2012]

COMING SOON! culture and philosophy workshop: on civil society [17/2/2012]

COMING SOON! in|discussion public lecture - luke gibbons, "the memory of forms" dit [22/2/2012]

COMING SOON! 'the book': history and practice - a knowledge exchange workshop with hii, ucd [12/3/2012]

RECENT! share meeting, on building new doctoral programmes, brno, czech republic [22-21/1/2012]

RECENT! new epistemic practices for spring 2012 programme announced [9/1/2012]

RECENT! new gradcam calendar for spring semester 2012 online [9/1/2012]

RECENT! the cookbook papers 01 and 02 now online [9/1/2012]

RECENT! european art research network working meeting in kassel, germany [17-18/12/2011]

RECENT! "curatorial pathologies / exhibiting symptoms" international symposium [16/11/2011]

RECENT! first annual share.eu conference in helsinki: phd level studies in the arts [4-5/11/2011]

RECENT! peer-review journal of audio-culture, issue no. 1 now online [autumn 2011]

 

doctoral research - cultural practice

 

The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) is Ireland's leading centre for doctoral research across design, visual and performing arts, media practice and their associated critical, historical and theoretical discourses. The School provides structured doctoral studies and research development for the creative arts and media sector. It is a collaboration initiated between the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), the National College of Art & Design (NCAD), the University of Ulster (Ulster), and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire (IADT).

 

The School is funded through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI). Find out more about the specific mission and institutional remit of the School here. See also our five questions answered sheet which provides a succinct introduction to the work of the School. For additional information on the collaborating institutions consult www.dit.ie, www.ncad.ie, www.iadt.ie and www.ulster.ac.uk.

 

Image showing the preparation of food for the "Radical Love" closing event meal entitled En soirée Culinaire par Georges Bataille. This event was created by Edia Connole & Scott Wilson as part of the "food thing" [19/11/2011]

Speaking via internet link at "collaborative change: on sharing, the commons,
and open source" Michel Bauwens of p2pfoundation.net [13-14/6/2011]

As The Academy Turns European Art Research Network at Manifesta 8, Murcia. [2-4/12/10].

Prof. Kojin Karatani in conversation with the Praxis + Pedagogy seminar
group at Project [26/10/10].

 

Participants in the Phenomenology Workshop faciliated by Dr. Noel
Fitzpatrick (DIT) and Dr. Francis Halsall (NCAD) [22/10/10].

 

RTE's national evening news profiled GradCAM DIT Research Scholar,
Conor McGarrigle's newly launched NAMAland. [See more below.]

 

GradCAM DIT Research Scholar, Conor McGarrigle has launched NAMAland - an augmented reality app which lets you see properties in Dublin owned by the controversial National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). NAMA was established by the state to attempt to address and manage the worst ever boom/bust crisis in the national property development and banking systems. . The NAMAland app is available as a free download for the iphone & Android devices. More information and downloads from www.walkspace.org/namaland. Also see the article by Frank McDonald, 'Get the lay of Nama-land with an "app"' in the Irish Times on (9/10/2010).

 

Paul Kearns and Motti Ruimy discussing their recent collaboration
"Redrawing Dublin" as part of a joint UCD HII and GradCAm event
on interdisicplinarity in urbanism. Other speakers included
Prof. Hugh Campbell (UCD), Dr. Daniel Jewesbury (GradCAM Assoc. Fellow), Pat Cooke (UCD), Alan Mee (UCD)
and Sarah Tuck (CREATE) [14/3/2011]

 

Prof. Esther Leslie speaking at "What Matters?" in DIT the
closing public seminar that marked the end of the Autumn
School, "The Practical Matter of Cultural History." [18/9/2010]

 

Nothing Is Impossible an exhibition co-curated by Georgina Jackson
(with Mark Garry) at the Mattress Factory , Pittsburgh, US. Nothing Is Impossible
is the first in a series of exhibitions and performances Georgina Jackson and
Mark Garry will produce during their two-year curatorial residency at the
Mattress Factory. [20/3/10-8/8/10].

 

The praxis seminar's 'associate' bench, first produced for the 're : public'
exhibition and now placed in a community garden project in Dublin 8.

 

At the opening of the "re: public" exhibition in the Temple Bar Gallery,
Daniel Jewesbury, the curator, talks with Fintan O’Toole, journalist
and author who opened the show. [4/2/10]

 

Vaari Claffey, associate resaercher at GradCAM, with Anton Vidokle
at Arts Research: Purposes and Publics, a major five day international
conference in Dublin. [15-19/2/10]

 

Eames Demetrios speaking at the first day of the conference,
Arts Research: Publics and Purposes, before screening the Eames' work. [15/2/10]

 

Opening at "re: public" exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery. [4/5/10]

 

Conor McGarrigle presenting his paper - 'The construction of locative
situations : locative media and the Situationist International,
recuperation or redux?' - at DAC'09 (Digital Art and Culture 2009).
DAC'09 took place at the Arts Plaza of the University of California
Irvine and addressed the specificities of embodiment and cultural,
social and physical location with respect to digital technologies
and networked communications. [14/12/09]

 

GradCAM researchers, Martin Tourish and Drazen Derek on a recent
visit to the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
Here seen experimenting with some examples of the kantele,
a traditional plucked string instrument, native to Finland, Estonia,
and Karelia. [3/12/09]

 

Participants at Glenn Loughran's Prekariat Academy at the Kaunas
Biennial [Oct/Nov/09]

 

Nollaig Ó Fiongháile presenting on GradCAM research projects at the
European Culture Forum in Brussels Sept 29-30. The Forum was attended
by over 1,000 EU stakeholders and policy makers.

 

Participants in a breakout group as part of 'the question of culture'
summer school at imma co-organsied with ucd architecture and gradcam
[21-25/9/09]

 

'space is the place' exhibition (part of ISEA 2009) organised
by gradcam researchers john buckley and conor mcgarrigle [august 2009]

 

Participants in the event 'mystical anarchism' organised by gradcam
research scholar, Clodagh Emoe, with special guest lecture from Prof.
Simon Critchley at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. [2/8/09]

 

‘Cultural Capital’ – Culture Campus Liverpool Symposium, University
of Liverpool. [25/6/09] Nollaig Ó Fiongáile presented on GradCAM
as a model for inter-institutional collaboration.

 

Participants in 'Becoming Bologna' conference,
european art research network @ venice. [6/6/09]

 

Participants in a seminar on the turn to pedagogical models in contemporary
art, at the Irish Pavilion Venice co-organised with the MA ACW NCAD. [5/6/09]

 

Participants in 'earful @ project: a day of interactivities around listening',
audio-culture seminar organised event at Project Arts Centre [1/5/09]

 

Cary Bazalgette, BFI, Keynote Speaker, 'filmsense' conference
GradCAM/National Film School, IADT. [24/4/09]

 

Eric Kluitenberg presenting as part of a joint DATA /GradCAM event
on digital commons networks and social software. [22/4/09]

 

Dr. Mick Wilson, presenting the closing summation at the 'One Day Sculpture'
conference at Te Papa, National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand. [28/3/09]

 

Simon Sheikh presents recent work on the social imaginary,
exhibition-making and contested constructions of 'the public.' [19/3/09]

 

Prof. Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research speaking on
'mystical anarchism' as part of the symposium on
'politics of resistance in the contemporary world'.
Other speakers included Dr. Aislinn O'Donnell, Shane Cullen and
Declan Clarke. [26/2/09]

 

Part of the audience for the symposium 'politics of resistance in
the contemporary world'. [26/2/09]

 

Open day to mark the first birthday. [6/2/09]

 

Drazan and Martin - two of the four performers from the
'tradfutures' research seminar who performed at the open day.
[6/2/09]

 

Martin and Pat - two of the four performers from the
'tradfutures' research seminar who performed at the open day.
[6/2/09]

 

At a recent European Art Research Network meeting in Vienna,
representatives from the Graduate School participated in a closed
workshop on doctoral programmes in fine art. This was followed by
a public seminar as part of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts' hugely
popular annual 'open studio' day. The European Art Research Network
comprises art academies providing doctoral programmes in Dublin,
Malmo, Helsinki, London (Slade), Utrecht and Vienna. The next meeting
of the group will take place in Venice in June 2009 to co-incide with the
Venice Biennale. The group will hold a public event in Dublin in February
2010, which will follow up on the success of the 2008 Conference
'State of Play' also co-organised with the EARN group.

 

Emerging from the seminar on 'future sounds of traditional music in europe'
the group 'TradFutures@W2.O' perform at 'COALESCE: HAPPENSTANCE'
major international curatorial project at Smart Project Space, Amsterdam,
Netherlands. [10/1/09]

 

Batt O'Keeffe TD, Minister for Education and Science, at the launch
of 'Transformations - What Research Is Doing For Ireland' [Dec 2008] at the
Science Gallery, TCD, Dublin is pictured here meeting Conor McGarrigle,
DIT Research Scholar. The Minister's speech is online here.

 

Georgina Jackson, DIT Research Scholar, has curated an exhibition
of work by artist Giles Round at 'four' gallery, Capel Street, Dublin.
Exhibition title is 'XLOMFCNHNGNCINUDCWGENMMNCH' [Nov/Dec 2008]

 

Conor McGarrigle's international participatory artwork plays with
the interpenetration of 'real' and 'networked' spaces. Realised in
conjunction with laboratorio de situaciones [Summer 2008]

 

Some of the Irish delegates at the European League of Institutes of
the Arts (ELIA) conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, [Oct/Nov 2008].
Ireland, north and south, was strongly represented at this
major international conference with colleagues from Limerick, Cork,
Dublin and Belfast. Pictured above are (left-to-right) Katrina Maguire
(Limerick) Prof. Kerstin Mey (Ulster) Martin McCabe(DIT-GradCAM Fellow)
Kieran Corcoran (ELIA Treasurer/DIT) and Christine Pybus (Cork).
Other colleagues particpating included Declan McGonigal (NCAD)
Sean Larkin (IADT) Dr. Siun Hanrahan (NCAD) Kevin Atherton
(NCAD-GradCAM Fellow) Philip Napier (NCAD) and Mike Fox (Limerick)

 

The Graduate School Dean. Dr. Mick Wilson, presenting a keynote
'On Quality: Instrumental Reason or Critical Pedagogies' at the
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of the symposium on
'standards not standardisation' a strand of the ELIA biennial conference.
Prof. Kerstin Mey (Ulster) also presented on aspects of good practice in
doctoral supervison providing examples of recent and current doctoral
research at Ulster University. [31/10/08]

 

image: Clodagh Emoe, DIT GradCAM research scholar solo exhibition
in Amsterdam at marthouse gallery. [Oct 18 - Nov 29 2008]

 

 

image: Dr. Andrea Phillips (Goldsmiths Univ. London) speaking at a
roundtable on art education, chaired by Declan Long
(NCAD, MA Art in the Contemporary World) [26/9/08]

 

State of Play Conference, Prof. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Prof. Chris Rust,
Prof. Colm Ó Briain & Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, Development Manager at
the Graduate School. [May 2008]