Annual poster competition for the Postgraduate Symposium, extended to 29 April
£50 Amazon voucher prize
Annual postgraduate poster competition in association with Goldsmiths postgraduate symposium 2012.
Entries by midday 20th April to lbs01le@gold.ac.uk
Goldsmiths postgraduates, you are invited to send a poster about your research to Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO).Your poster will act as an introduction to you and your research in GRO, the public web showcase for research from Goldsmiths. You are eligible to enter whether you are presenting a paper at the symposium or not. A £50 Amazon voucher will be awarded for the winning poster.
Academic posters can be a powerful way of getting information across and are often shown at conferences, and to document the presentation of research projects. Posters summarise information or research concisely and attractively, to help publicise it and generate discussion.
The judges, Mira Vogel from GLEU and Jacqueline Cooke the Acting Librarian will be looking for an effective design and will consider the content, structure, visual impact and clarity of your poster. We suggest that you use about 300 words and some images to design a poster which will work on screen or at A3 size. There is no need to send a printed poster, we are asking for digital versions for GRO.
To enter your poster into the competiton, please send it as an e-mail attachment to James Bulley, GRO coordinator, on lbs01le@gold.ac.uk by mid-night on Sunday 29 April. You are welcome to contact James for more information.
Posters will be available in GRO, http://eprints.gold.ac.uk and also be on show in the Library during the Postgraduate Symposium. The winner of the £50 Amazon voucher will be announced on 4th May.
Clare Gasson, Living with Make: Art in the Archive, exhibition in Special Collections 28th November 2011 – 4th May 2012
As the recipient of The Women's Art Library/Make and Feminist Review research bursary 2011 Clare Gasson produced a performance and exhibition based on her exploration of the Women's Art Library archive. Her research focused on manifestos and activating the archive and has resulted in a sound piece in which the materials are vocalized, 'The River', presented at the South London Gallery on 30th November.
For the exhibition at Women's Art Library Gasson has made a series of posters and sculptures. The posters employ the rough cut and paste feel of the original Women's Art Library newsletters. The sculptures entitled 'The Performers (2008 - ongoing)' – a series started in 2008, embody here the energy around performing manifestos – the passion that exudes from that point where a manifesto is the only way forward – to change the status quo.
Aindreas Scholz installation in the Library foyer, 6 December 2011 - 6 January 2012
'THINK'
Title: DO NOT THINK, 2011Dimensions: 16.5X17.7in each
Material: acrylic, tape, spray paint
'THINK' is a work in progress and has been inspired by artists who focus on filling entire spaces by various means, creating - for example - hybrid forms which are located somewhere between art object and its wider semiological meaning. As art writer Susanna Davies-Crook puts it: 'Each [sign] holds a statement which in the fleeting moment of comprehension removes or distracts the reader from the environment'.