Before we start: The ready-made has propelled modern art into a new trajectory, opening a fresh door for contemporary artistic experiences, where concepts prevail and interchange in today’s artistic landscape. While once limited to color, texture, and positioning, contemporary art appreciation extends beyond these elements to encompass deeper concepts and nuanced interpretations. In this evolving […]
“We still recognise that much of what gives one’s life meaning stems from accidents, interruptions, and serendipitous encounters: the ‘off time’ that a mechanistic view of the experience seeks to eliminate.” – Jenny Odell.[1] This workshop was conceived as a way of enacting themes within Jenny Odell’s ‘How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy’ (2019) and Tricia Hersey’s ‘Rest […]
Open Learning BarCamp ’23 29th November (J05) and 11th December (J05) 2023 Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh A BarCamp is a stucture for presenting and playtesting a UX; in this case, an Open Toolkit. BarCamp ’23 runs prior to the open publication of this year’s Open Toolkits. Below is a mod […]
Open Toolkits are free, open resources created by artists and arts organisations for the purpose of sharing their practices 2023’s cohort of MA Contemporary Art Theory students have each created an Open Toolkit to share with you. Each Toolkit enables an open way of inhabiting a practice by taking part in it. This year’s […]
