Looking at a range of Surrealist painters – from Salvador Dali to Frida Kahlo, we will dive into their dreamlike worlds filled with symbols and meaning.
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Narrative as an Interactive Practice Across Visual and Digital Media
Drawing on examples of film, gaming, installation art, fonts and video essay work, this session will be an introduction to the significance of story and digital media as an interactive art form.
Iconography- reading the symbols in paintings
This talk gives a brief history of how art historians began to study ‘disguised symbols’ in art and explains how viewers can develop their skills of art interpretation.
Yokai: Supernatural Entities in Japanese Culture
Join us for a night of story-telling when Azumi Uchitani will take you on a journey into the intriguing world of yokai, the supernatural entities deeply ingrained in Japanese culture.
Vanitas: a matter of life and death
This talk will look at the theme of ‘vanitas’ (the emptiness of the material world and the presence of death) in the history of art to better understand how past cultures have thought about the impermanence of life and how this type of thinking leads to a greater understanding of a life worth living.
Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary Art
During this talk, looking at a selection of artists working across different mediums, we will explore how religion and spirituality have been addressed by contemporary artists between the 1950s and today.
What do we owe to future generations?
The choices and actions of the current generation will reverberate through the lives of future generations. Should we factor future generations into our decision-making?
Contemporary Artists Responding to a Changing World & New Technologies
In this session we will look at how artists since the 1960s until present day, have been exploring the changing world around them and specifically embracing or critiquing rising technologies.
Educating the Future: Black Mountain College
This talk introduces Black Mountain College, its educational philosophies and how it intended to shape the future of art and learning. We will look at the core of the school’s curriculum specifically focusing on the art and pedagogical work of the school’s first art teachers Anni and Josef Albers.
The future of work – is paid work inevitable?
The idea of a universal income has gained traction as a way to provide individuals with a financial safety net but not always to free them from the necessity of traditional employment.