Events, Lectures & Seminars Archive (Winter 2006)
Posted: 29/11/06
Art & its Boundaries - Pushing the Limits
Faculty of Fine Art Postgraduate Seminar Research Day
Monday 4th December, Sheridan Room, NCAD
Presentations
| 10.00am |
Barry Foley MA Art in the Digital World
Celebration of a Mundane Event |
| 10.25am |
Jonathan Mayhew MFA Painting
Influences and Distractions |
| 10.50am |
MA Art in the Contemporary World
Collaboration |
| 11.15am |
Coffee Break |
| 11.40am |
Luke Clancy PhD student Faculty of Fine Art Media
www.rte.ie/radio1/soundstories/ |
| 12.00pm |
Joan Fowler, lecturer and writer Faculty of Visual Culture
Art & its Boundaries |
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LUNCH 1– 2pm |
Visiting Speakers |
| 2.15pm |
Professor Kerstin Mey, Director of Art & Design, Research Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast will speak on her forthcoming book Art and Obscenity.
Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of obscenity remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is obscene shift with societies changing mores, and our responses to explicit and disturbing material can be highly subjective. Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of 20th century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and 'knee-jerk' responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating. |
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COFFEE BREAK 3.15 – 3.30pm |
| 3.30pm |
Timothy Hawkesworth, artist and writer,
Old Eye. Wide Eye. The possibility of painting.
One painter’s view on how it works and why it matters. |
ALL WELCOME |
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Posted: 23/11/06
OPEN DAY
will take place on THURSDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2006
from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm
Secondary school students are invited to come to the College and visit the areas of their choice. There is no restriction on numbers, neither is there any need to book in advance.
The Open Day is run with an Airport theme. On arrival at the College you will be given a wallet and advised to proceed to the main Check In in Terminal 1.
There you will collect boarding cards for the areas you want to visit with specific flight times.
After check-in you will proceed to the Departure Lounge which is on Level 3 in Terminal 1. From there you will proceed to the boarding gates.
There will be lots of staff on hand to answer your questions.
Please come along on the day - presentations will be running in all areas of the College throughout the day, and there will be a seminar for career guidance counsellors and art teachers at lunchtime.
PLEASE COME EARLY AS SOME PROGRAMMES FINISH AT 2.15pm |
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Posted: 09/03/06
Critical Voices 3: Henry Giroux
Cultural Studies and Education in Dark Times
As part of the Critical Voices 3 programme NCAD, in conjunction with ESAI will host a public lecture by Henry Giroux on Thursday 30th of March at 7:00pm in the School of Design for Industry at NCAD. This event is free but booking is recommended.
The talk both examines the importance of cultural studies' long standing concern with matters of power and culture and the importance of rethinking what the author calls public pedagogy. By connecting these two concerns, the author argues for the importance of the educational force of the culture and public pedagogy as central components of any viable notion of cultural politics.
Henry Giroux is Global Television Network Chair Professor English and Cultural Studies Department, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University.
Critical Voices is The Arts Council's biennial programme of public debate about culture and ideas. This event is also part of the 2006 ESAI Conference (see below).
Booking can be made by e-mailing esai@ncad.ie citing “GirouxLecture” in the message title or by contacting Helen Fagan, ESAI Conference Secretary 01 636 4301 or faxing 01 636 4307. Booking is recommended.
Critical Voices 3: Stephanie Springgay
A/r/tography as living inquiry:
Arts-based research in educational contexts
Continuing our collaboration with Critical Voices 3 programme NCAD, in conjunction with ESAI will host a public lecture by Stephanie Springay on Friday 31st of March at 11:00 am in the School of Design for Industry at NCAD. This event is free but booking is recommended.
A/r/tography is a form of arts-based educational research that is engaged in living inquiry. Immersed in action research, hermeneutics, and phenomenology, a/r/tographical research insists on embodied understandings of meaning making. Embedded in the practices of art making, researching, and teaching a/r/tographical research unsettles perception and points towards that which has yet to be named. Therefore, how we perceive ourselves and our world sensuously and creatively impacts how we examine educational phenomena.
Stephanie Springgay, PhD is Assistant Professor Art Education and Women's Studies Penn State University
Critical Voices is The Arts Council's biennial programme of public debate about culture and ideas. This event is also part of the 2006 ESAI Conference (see below).
Booking can be made by e-mailing esai@ncad.ie citing “Springgay Lecture” in the message title or by contacting Helen Fagan, ESAI Conference Secretary 01 636 4301 or faxing 01 636 4307. Booking is recommended. |
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Posted: 09/03/06
 Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference
at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin
March 30th – April 1st 2006
Rethinking Educational Policies and Practices in an Era of Globalisation: Challenges and Opportunities
Globalisation, over the last few years, has become one of the defining issues in international discourse across a range of professional fields and disciplines. For some globalisation is a solution to many problems, for others globalisation itself is the problem. In the current wave of globalisation, one of the major educational features is a restructuring of the school–society relationship in terms of attention to subject matter content, approaches to teaching, and accountability regarding the outcomes of schooling at school and systemic levels. This year’s annual conference theme focuses on how globalisation presents both challenges and opportunities for all sectors of education (pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, adult and further education…etc.).
The Educational Studies Association of Ireland is a voluntary, non-political body, dedicated to the advancement of educational research in Ireland. NCAD is pleased to host the 31st annual conference of the ESAI.
For further information go to the ESAI website.
To register for the conference download the registration from here
and send to:
Helen Fagan
Faculty of Education
National College of Art and Design
Thomas St.
Dublin 8
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POSTGRADUATE OPEN EVENING
The National College of Art & Design is holding a POSTGRADUATE OPEN EVENING on
Thursday 2 February 2006 in the School of Design for Industry, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
No booking is required. You should arrive between 4:30pm and 6:00pm.
The evening provides an opportunity to meet staff and learn about the wide range of innovative practical and theoretical options for advanced study at Masters and Doctoral level. Study opportunities cover the spectrum of art and design activity, including practice, education, history, criticism and theory.
Staff from all Faculties will be available to answer your questions and to show you around the College. There will be a special presentation on PhD study opportunities at NCAD.
Seminars on the Higher Diploma in Art & Design Education and the Higher Diploma in Community Arts Education will be running on the evening. If you wish to participate in these seminars you should arrive at 5:00pm and go directly to the Faculty of Education desk to arrange attendance.
Refreshments served.
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