Reimagining Platforms is a new collaboration between The University of Edinburgh and University of Toronto. It is a one-day symposium taking place at the University of Edinburgh on October 31, 2022 that will bring academics and community and local partners together to develop methods and concepts to analyze the different futures and possibilities of platforms […]

Episode 2 of Taxi Drivers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00145lc The late painter Lucian Freud once referred to himself as the passenger who knows where he wants to go and his printmaker as the taxi driver who knows how to get him there. In this episode, the artist, performer and broadcaster, Scottee learns more about that important but sometimes […]

Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday 30 August, 11:30 – 12:30, at the New York Times Theatre (in Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Court). Tickets: Can artists still break the rules, revisiting Strategy Get Arts?   Fiona Bradley (Director of the Fruitmarket Gallery and Honorary Fellow in History of Art) will chair a discussion on […]

Header Image: RLab – Pivot Culture (2021) Creative Commons Licence. What is R-Lab? R-Lab is a contemporary art organisation led by postgraduate students in Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh. We aim to collect and present a multitude of ‘pivots’ that might enact societal and artistic change post-pandemic. We seek to explore how […]

This year’s Art & Open Learning Fair builds upon Georg Hardenberg/Novalis/Joseph Beuys’ 1978 provocation: JEDER MENSCH EIN KÜNSTLER. The Fair is a process that has emerged from the open educational resource (OER) produced by Neil Mulholland, Emma Balkind, Jake Watts and Beth Dynowski. The OER is accessible here via this blog: blogs.ed.ac.uk/artandlearning/courseware-contemporary-art-open-learning/ Monday 23rd November […]

Please join us in celebrating the talent of our graduating students.   After an introduction from ECA Heads of Subject Areas, this will be followed by well wishes from Programme Directors and a concert featuring the Reid School of Music PhD Music students. Professor Juan Cruz, ECA Principal, will then close the event. FRIDAY 4th SEPTEMBER […]

Alchemy Film & Arts Curator Rachael Disbury is our Annual Alumnus in Residency in the School of Art, ECA. www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Rachael was a Contemporary Art Theory postgraduate student in ECA 2013-15. The MA Contemporary Art Theory and MA Contemporary Art Practice Programmes have invited Rachael to return to ECA to research a project of her […]

www.squeezeit2020.co.uk The MA Contemporary Art Theory is a post-studio graduate programme that supports the practices of artists and contemporary art professionals. Students from the MA Contemporary Art Theory programme at Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh have curated a collection of resources and activities focusing on navigating the inconsistencies found in translating from one language to […]

Naomi Garriock – Mechanisms (2020) Click on this link for images of the workshop   Download PDF of Mechanisms Instructions (link)   This workshop will last 4 hours with a 1 hour break in the middle. Please wear comfortable warm clothing and bring a smartphone to record and listen and something to write on (phone, […]