IT’S NOW 2009! Time for a recap
Posted on October 15, 2009
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After an unintended gap of almost a year when we have been involved in other web activities - things move fast round here - we are returning with some snippets of news from last year and something new for 2009 - 2010.
The 2009 Communication Art & Design Degree Show, pictures are here
If you have a RCA logon, take a look at our departmental pages at http://carbon.rca.ac.uk for up to date news and more…
Serpentine Gallery: Cao Fei RMB City
Posted on June 28, 2008
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Coming soon!
Beijing-based artist Cao Fei is creating RMB City, an online art community in the virtual world of Second Life. Institutions and collectors are invited to buy buildings in RMB City and programme events and activities in them. The project is an experiment exploring the creative relationship between real and virtual space, and is a reflection of China’s urban and cultural explosion.
The Serpentine Gallery commissioned Cao Fei to develop this project, and it will be presented via the Serpentine website and in the Gallery’s lobby for one year. Cao Fei’s work was included in the Serpentine’s 2006 exhibition, China Power Station: Part I, held at Battersea Power Station.
Cao Fei: RMB City opens to public Saturday 26 July at The Serpentine Gallery
Cao Fei website
Serpentine Gallery website
Endgame: World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years
Posted on May 13, 2008
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· Rise in chief greenhouse gas worse than feared
· Earth may be losing ability to absorb CO2, say scientists
* David Adam, environment correspondent, The Guardian, Tuesday May 13 2008
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to the latest figures, renewing fears that climate change could begin to slide out of control.
Scientists at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii say that CO2 levels in the atmosphere now stand at 387 parts per million (ppm), up almost 40% since the industrial revolution and the highest for at least the last 650,000 years
This article appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday May 13 2008 on p16 of the UK news section. (read the full article online)
RCA: Oberon Books Illustration Award 2008
Posted on May 12, 2008
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The Oberon Books Illustration Award is open to all departments at the RCA. The illustrations submitted must be for one of the books on the list supplied. Each student entering the competition should produce a minimum of 8 or a maximum of 12 illustrations and the cover (including typography) for one of the following books:
1. BORIS GODUNOV by A. S. Pushkin
2. ICE by Anna Kavan
3. NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU by Miranda July (short stories)
4. NORTHERN LIGHTS (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
5. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer
6. DISGRACE by J.M. Coetzee
7. NOCTURNE IN CHROME & SUNSET YELLOW by Tobias Hill
8. A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS by Julian Barnes
The competition (Sponsored by OBERON BOOKS) offers a generous cash prize for book illustration
Oberon Winners 2008 (click on images to enlarge)
Equal First Prize
• Yoo Jae Chung • Ju Hyun Lee • Hugo Timm
Equal Second Prize
• Zoe Taylor • Emma Wright
Equal Third Prize
• Hannah Barton • Annabel Fraser
Best Cover Design
• Elizabeth Manus
Mentions
• Sion Ap Tomas (Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow)
• Georgia Harrison (No One Belongs Here More Than You)
Good Mention –
• Argyro Tsvala (Disgrace)
• Mireille Fauchon (Boris Godunov)
• Liam Jefferies (Ice) Textile student
RCA: Man Drawing Prize 2008
Posted on May 12, 2008
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Communication Art & Design students won 1st and 2nd prizes in the Man Drawing Prize 2008.
Exhibited in Seminar Rooms One and Two from 30 April to 7 May.
1st prize - Page Tsou; backs of heads and hair
2nd prize - Mohammad Namazi; drawing of many figures
Endgame: Global warming ‘rescue’ plan may backfire
Posted on April 29, 2008
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Polar Stratospheric Clouds
A proposal to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into the stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers say. Injecting sulfur into the stratosphere would react with chlorine gases at the poles, triggering chemical reactions that would speed up ozone depletion, scientists predict.
They say trying to cool the planet by creating a kind of artificial sun block would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by 30-70 years and create a new loss of protective ozone layer over the Arctic.
“What our study shows is if you actually put a lot of sulfur into the atmosphere we get a larger ozone depletion than we had before,” says Dr Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, whose research appears online today in the journal Science.
A number of climate scientists have proposed sulfur injection as a potential solution to global warming.
See the full article here.
(ABC News and AFP/Reuters)
Untold Stories: Approaches to Visual Narrative
Posted on April 27, 2008
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Exhibition of Visual Editor work shown in the Hockney Gallery 21 -27 April
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Drawn, Hung & Quartered
Posted on April 21, 2008
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The Drawing Elective 2008; an exhibition held in the Hockney Gallery 15 to 19|04|08
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Endgame: Planning for Climate Adaptation
Posted on April 6, 2008
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Monday May 19 2008
Guardian Conference at the RIBA, London
Keynote speakers include:
Professor Robert Maynard, chairman of expert panel, Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK
Martin Parry, co-chair working group ll (impacts, adaptation and vulnerability), IPCC
Joan Ruddock MP, parliamentary under secretary of state (climate change, biodiversity and waste)
Chris West, director, UKCIP
Barbara Young, chief executive, The Environment Agency
Adaptation has been the Cinderella subject of climate change for too long, but we are starting to see changes in our weather and quickly realising the challenges facing the UK. From flooding to drought, extreme heat to health implications we need to act now to prepare our people, buildings and services for a changing climate.
In the first major national conference of its kind, the Guardian has brought together key thinkers, policy makers and politicians, to debate what guidance is needed to prepare the UK for the challenges ahead. Leading case studies from the City of London, Seeda and Leeds City Council will further provide you with a unique insight into the significance of climate adaptation.
Earth Hour: what happened?
Posted on April 2, 2008
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See some of the results of the global ‘lights off’ hour. YouTube videos from around the world.
Sydney, Australia was the first place to turn off it’s lights for an hour on 29 March, but was lit up by a spectaular electrical storm!
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