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Over the past 3 months Camberwell College of Arts BA Graphic Design and Illustration students have been working together to produce Channel – a series of pre-recorded and live television programmes dealing with the medium of television.

Channel will air on 10 May, broadcast live from The Sassoon Gallery. Broadcasting will begin at 9am and finish at 9am the following day.

The 24 hours will consist of a series of screenings of YouTube tutorials. Throughout the day students and public will have the opportunity to master skills such as Double Dutching, Waltzing, Club Dancing, and Meditation.

This live TV marathon will also feature a number of pre-recorded documentaries, short films, music videos, game shows and news programmes made by the students. The Channel will be available to view on www.secondchannel.co.uk

You are more than welcome to come down on 10 May and get involved in a workshop or just watch the event live online.

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Camberwell College of Arts BA Graphic Design alumnus Daniel Swan’s animation “Planet Drift V” debuted last night on Channel 4 as part of their Random Acts series.

Soundtracked by music composed by fellow Camberwell BA Graphic Design alumnus Jack Latham (aka Jam City) the animation tells the story of “a dying parallel world’s fate, which is decided through the wielding of one appointed saviour corporation’s unrivaled wealth, technology and force.”

You can see the full animation on the Channel 4 Random Acts website.

www.danielswan.co.uk

Images: Stills from “Planet Drift V” – Daniel Swan

On Monday morning Labour’s London Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone and Val Shawcross AM (Assembly Member), prospective Deputy Mayor and Chair of Transport for London made an impromptu visit to Camberwell College of Arts. The visit was organised via the GMB Union and formed part of Labour’s last few days of canvassing for votes.

Mr Livingstone and his party met students and staff and visited the Printmaking workshops and Illustration studios. The party convened in the canteen and answered questions from students and staff, ranging from building and environmental policies as well as transport concerns.

The London Mayoral elections took place on Thursday 3 May 2012.

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On 14 – 15 May artist Max Dovey will be doing a 2-day residency at Camberwell.

Max Dovey is producing a digital project with Camberwell students and needs any many people to drop by and take part as possible.

He will be conducting live green screen video interviews of students talking about where they are from. All the videos are becoming part an online archive for Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon (CCW) that will be viewed on Google maps.

If you have something to say about where you’re from please come and talk to Max. The interview will only take 5 minutes!

WHEN? WHERE?

Monday 14 May and Tuesday 15 May / 10.00 – 16.30

Room WPN G04F, Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UF

WHO?

Max Dovey is an alumnus of the BA Print and Time-based Media course at Wimbledon College of Art. His work is about people, communication and technology.

He works within the areas of live art, event based, social intervention and new media. Online content is important to his work and many projects have their own websites. He has recently been nominated for the Catlin Art Prize.

www.maxdovey.co.uk

INTERESTED?

If you are interested in being a part of this project please come and be interviewed on 14 or 15 May!

If you would like more information contact: Matt Tillett – m.tillett@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Camberwell BA Illustration students have launched their website for their ‘Mixed Special’ external show, which takes place from 5 – 11 July at the Red Gallery in Shoreditch.

Browse their work and keep up to date with news in the run up to the show via their blog, Twitter feed and Facebook page.

Don’t forget prior to this from 16 – 23 June BA Illustration along with all our other Undergraduate courses will be exhibiting at Camberwell College of Arts for the Degree Show! Full details on our BA Show 2012 page.

www.mixedspecial.com

Private Views:

First Thursday 3 May, 18.00 – 21.00

Friday 4 May, 18.00 – 21.00

Dates: Friday 4 May – Tuesday 8 May, 11:00-17:00

Venue: Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9T

Exhibition featuring 150 second year students from Camberwell College of Arts BA Fine Art courses – BA Drawing, BA Photography, BA Painting, BA Sculpture.

www.ba-se.tumblr.com

Date: 16 May 2012, 18.00 – 19.15

Venue: Royal Academy Restaurant, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

The Royal Academy of Arts presents a series of salons to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Inspired by the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition The Queen: Art and Image, curator Paul Moorhouse and artists Thomas Struth, Chris Levine, and Hew Locke (Camberwell College of Arts BA Painting lecturer) explore how images of The Queen both reflect and influence fresh perspectives of royalty.

Tickets: £24 / students – £12. Includes refreshments.

Only 35 places available. To find out more, and to book a place visit -

www.royalacademy.org.uk

Image: ‘Medusa’, Hew Locke, 2008.

Artists: Neal Tait, Claude Temin-Vergez, Miho Sato, Ana Prada, Paula Kane, Robert Holyhead, Nick Fox, Julian Brown.

Venue: Angus-Hughes Gallery, 26 Lower Clapton Road, London E5 OP

Private View: Friday 11 May 18.00 – 21.00

Show opens to the public: 12 May – 3 June 2012

Gallery opening times: Friday – Sunday 12.00 – 18.00

According to the art critic Jan Verwoert, artists in their studio are like Joan of Arc hearing voices and drawn to higher callings. This show is looking at the work of a group of artists whose practice is inhabited and fed by history, the presence of their heroes, peers and other monuments of the Art Pantheon. These ‘phantoms’ are particularly present within a painting context where the weight of tradition is overbearing.

Sometimes consciously invited, sometimes fortuitous or accidental these presences in the studio provide fruitful discussions that reflect a problematic at work. The work exhibited here is not the expression of a movement or genre but rather a selection by a common sensitivity.

Curated by artists Julian Brown and Camberwell College of Arts BA Painting lecturer Claude Temin-Vergez.

www.claudeteminvergez.co.uk /  www.angus-hughes.com

Ten students from MA Fine Arts (Visual Arts), Camberwell College of Arts, have just completed a very successful Joya Residency at the creative retreat and eco-guest house Cortijada de Los Gazquez in Andalucia, Spain.

The Residency (organised by alumni Anna Baker and Lois Farningham and supported by course leader Rebecca Fortnum) encouraged them to explore and test ideas including site-specific, sustainable and collaborative practices, and the ethics and responsibility of collective endeavour at the beautiful off-grid location. This is the third time students from the course have enjoyed the Joya award.

For further details of Cortijada de Los Gazquez and the Joya Residency programme see: www.losgazquez.com

Event Date: Thursday 10th May 2012, 18.00 – 21.00

Venue: Kingsland Road Studio, The Basement, 284-288 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DN

Camberwell College of Arts BA (Hons) Drawing alumna Lucie Pardue is participating in a new group exhibition Art Grab Exhibition II at Kingsland Road Studio.

Art Grab website