Research
The NCAD is committed to collaborative coordination of research seminars, symposia and conferences in order to facilitate critical debate and the sharing of insights gained from student and staff research activity.
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Research events throughout 2006 and 2007
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2020 Visions: Imagining the art & design college of the future. (G05)Thursday 22nd March 2007 This was the third annual Irish Art & Design Research Network symposium and it examined visions of the future of art and design education in the 21st century. Presenters included Kevin Atherton (NCAD), Dr. Siun Hanrahan (DIT), Brian Hand (IT Carlow), Dr. Helen McAllister (NCAD), Russell Mills (Guest Speaker), Prof. Marie Redmond (TCD), Dr. Ed Carroll (CityArts), Dr. Aislinn O’Donnell (UCD), Nuala Hunt (NCAD) and Sinead Hogan (IADT). The symposium was followed by the opening of the MA Art in the Contemporary World work-in-progress show at thisisnotashop. Which future? In recent years there has been a significant growth of debate about the future role and nature of teaching, learning and research in art and design education at third level. Debate has ranged over operational and procedural issues & modularisation, assessment, tenure, departmental divisions, management hierarchies, institutional organisation, external relationships, technology change, access, inclusion, quality assessment, harmonisation across Europe & but it has necessarily also turned upon basic issues of purpose and philosophy. Questions such as - What for? Who for? Wherefore? & have also been raised. This symposium invited participants to put forward what the future should be, could be or would be in their own creative imagining and thinking of all possible futures. The day was constructed around a series of panel sessions with question and answer and discussion threaded throughout the day. Expressions of interest are requested for “2020 + 1” a follow-on event to be held in March 2008. Contact postgraduate@ncad.ie |
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Learning Labs 3This was the third in a series of three seminars that took place over 2006/7. The sessions are targeted at emerging practitioners and address longer-term cultural acts located in practice and context. Organised by CityArts in partnership with NCAD. Seminar # 3: A research agenda for participation in the culture of the city.Friday 2nd March 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Having looked at two specific examples of participatory practice & seminar 1: Jay Koh’s Myanmar Project Nov. 17th 2006 and seminar 2: collaboration in a time of change: Tower Songs Jan. 26th 2007 & this final seminar in the series sought to establish a sense of the specific issues at stake in themes of “participation” and the future possible directions for research in this area. In the discussions of the first two seminars it has emerged that there are a number of critical impasses: (i) in the exchange between established “avant-gardist” models of art practice and various forms of “participatory culture” and (ii) in the dialogue between art criticism/theory and various forms of embedded socially-engaged practices. Central to these difficulties in dialogue are the uncertainties presented by the various vocabularies in play - “participation” “inclusion” “access” “cultural democracy” “the social” “community” “engagement” “authorship” “expression” “ownership” “class” “location” “site” “audience” “dialogue/dialogical” “collaboration” “relational” “sustainable” etc. A further difficulty identified was the complexity of organisational initiatives at work in the broad area of participation in the culture of the city at present. These initiatives include those of CityArts, CREATE, % for-art-schemes (e.g. Breaking Ground), City Council Arts Office, “cultural quarter” and “cultural corridor” initiatives, regeneration boards, art college projects (e.g. NCAD’s Cork Street projects, DIT’s Arts-in-Context projects), museum education and outreach programmes and a great deal more. This seminar attempted to clarify the field by addressing the specific vocabularies in play and identifying the significant conceptual and practical differences at work across this broad spectrum of activity.
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Cross-College Postgraduate Seminar Day (Noel Sheridan Room)Thursday 15th February 2007 A one-day event where postgraduate students exchanged information and ideas about their various research interests. The day-long seminar was followed by the launch of “Screen-Show,” an exhibition of MA Art in the Digital World work in Film-Base and Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. Presenters included Philip Napier (fine art), Susan MacWilliam (fine art), Patricia Baker (visual culture), Seoidin O’Sullivan (fine art), Annie Dibble (design), Dr. Helen McAllister (education), Michael O'Hara (fine art) and John Buckley (design).
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Beyond the Studio Conference (G04/5/6)Thursday 8th and Friday 9th February 2007 In conjunction with Dublin City, Hugh Lane Gallery, and the National Sculpture Factory, a major international conference on the studio (coinciding with the exhibition "The Studio" at the Dublin City, Hugh Lane Gallery.) Participants included Daniel Buren, Jens Hoffmann, Iwona Blazwick, Thomas Demand, Karen Wright, John Miller, Jaki Irvine, Ronan McCrea, Christina Kennedy, Jon Wood, Hen Slager, Coaimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Tara Byrne, Tessa Giblin and Lonnie van Brummelen. Over 270 people attended the conference with participants coming from North America, Europe, the UK and from all over Ireland. The concept of the studio has long captivated audiences with its associations of unbridled creativity, freedom from convention, bohemian lifestyle and struggle for success. BEYOND THE STUDIO sought to examine the relevance, role and function of the studio today:
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Postgraduate Open EveningThe National College of Art & Design is holding a POSTGRADUATE OPEN EVENING on Thursday 1 February 2007 in the School of Design for Industry, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8. You should arrive between 4:00pm 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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“Hauntology”: The Annual CAR-NIVAL Research Seminar.Friday 8th December 11.00 am & 6:00 pm Contemporary Art Research & National Irish Visual Arts Library collaborative seminar. Invited keynote speaker: Brian Dillon (Writer and Critic) Brian Dillon is a columnist for frieze. His writing has appeared in Cabinet, The London Review of Books, The New Statesman, Modern Painters, Art Review and The Wire. His first book, In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Awards non-fiction prize, 2006. He is currently working on Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives, to be published in 2008. Speakers include: Dr. Francis Halsall and Tim Stott as well as a range of invited artists whose work is informed by the themes of haunting, the spectral and the ghostly. “A spectre is haunting Europe…” (Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848) “Repetition and first time: this is perhaps the question of the event as the question of the ghost. What is a ghost? What is the effectivity or the presence of a spectre, that is, of what seems to remain as ineffective, virtual, insubstantial as a simulacrum? […] Let us call it a hauntology. This logic of haunting would not be merely larger and more powerful than an ontology or a thinking of Being…” (Jaques Derrida, Spectres of Marx, 1993) Strictly speaking, there is never a better or worse time for speaking of ghosts & they have always (not quite) been there, and they are untimely to the very core of their non-being. But as spectres grow in abundance, then we must gather together to figure out just why spectrality persists as a cultural trope. What use can be made of this untidy and shifty figure that resonates so intensely (and in many cases undetected) through concepts, logics, and technologies? How can we rethink the unstable architectures of the political, social and cultural in ways that do not disavow, but are enabled by the ghostly manner in which they function? The schedule and programme of this seminar will be available here shortly. If you would like to book a space at this event e-mail postgraduate@ncad.ie with the word “hauntology” in the message title. This event is organised by the Contemporary Art Research group in conjunction with the National Irish Visual Arts Library. |
Learning LabsThis is a series of three seminars in 2006/7 for emerging practitioners about longer-term cultural acts located in practice and context. Organised by CityArts in partnership with NCAD. Seminar # 1: The Art of ListeningFriday 17th November 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Led by artists Jay Koh & Chu Yuan from Malaysia, in Dublin as part of CityArts ongoing international residency programme. This seminar examines their practice over the last decade which involves collaborations in Thailand, Myanmar, Finland, Poland and Sweden. Followed by the launch of Learning Labs 01 - Visual Arts in Youth Work, Research and discourse about practice in context. A joint publication between the National College of Art and Design and CityArts, based on a two day seminar exchange between arts and youth practitioners in 2004. Published by the Irish Youth Work Press Admission free, booking recommended: email postgraduate@ncad.ie with the words “art of listening” in the title of your message. |
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Prof. David Hopkins “Dada’s Boys: Duchamp; Warhol; Gordon.”Friday 3rd November 2006 2:00 pm & 4:00 pm NCAD (Art in Contemporary World) @ IMMA (Education Department) The lecture explored the theme of identity, projection and masculinity in modern and contemporary art. The lecture drew upon material that Professor Hopkins investigates in his forthcoming book for Yale University Press on male identity in and after Dada and which was also the theme of his recent exhibition Dada’s Boys in Edinburgh. David Hopkins is Professor of Art History (Modern and Contemporary) at the University of Glasgow. Among his publications are:
He recently curated the exhibition Dada’s Boys: Play and Identity in Contemporary Art for the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2006) |
![]() Prof. Hopkins and Dr. Francis Halsall chatting after Prof. Hopkins lecture at IMMA (3/11/06) |
Rethinking the Everyday: (Material Culture)Thursday 2nd November 2006 10:00 am & 5:30 pm On Thursday November 2nd a special one-day conference event to examine the diversity of approaches in the study of design, material culture and the everyday will take place in the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. The dominant themes proposed for speakers to address are those of (i) diverse methods and (ii) cross-disciplinary dialogues. Presenters are drawn from across disciplines including design history, visual arts, design practice, archaeology, cultural studies, sociology, technology development and philosophy. Design Research Group Keynote speaker: The internationally acclaimed designer and design commentator Ken Garland, currently Visiting Professor in Graphic Design, Brighton University. Admission free, booking recommended: email postgraduate@ncad.ie with the word “everyday” in the title of your message. Speakers to include:
Papers will include: Ageing in Place: Rethinking the Everyday Boring Types: Why some things don't 'go without saying'. Novel Evidence and Everyday Interiors. Archive: Lisburn Road. The material culture of a Belfast suburb. Past lives from materials: an archaeology of the everyday. Reflections in the Necro-Zoo: The Natural History Museum, Dublin as Material Culture. The Everyday and The Academy: A New Generation of Cultural Studies? Designing Bodies for Unstable Spaces: Design and Military Culture Click here to view the conference timetable... Download: Rethinking the Everyday Conference Brochure (PDF 1Mb)
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new constellations of practice, enquiry and research C R O S S O V E R
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"What Does It Take? Design, Research, Economy, Society."
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Critical Voices 3: Henry Giroux
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Critical Voices 3: Stephanie Springgay
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Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference
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From Experience: PhD through practice in art and design.
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NCAD Postgraduate Research SymposiumThursday February 9th 10:00-18:00 This was the first College-wide postgraduate research symposium and provided an opportunity for staff and student researchers in art, design, education, history and theory to critically interact and exchange ideas. This is an annual event and will take place again ion 2007. If you would like to receive information, or if you would like to participate on the day, please e-mail research@ncad.ie with the words “ Postgrad Symposium” in the message title. The day included contributions from invited guests art critic Barry Schwabsky and designer Martin Gaffney, as well as presentations by Paul Carter, Philip Napier, Helen McAllister, Brian Maguire, Katharina Pfuetzner, Margaret Lonergan,John Mulloy and Mick Wilson. |
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“Research Questions” Symposium:
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