UAL: Digital Edge

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UAL: Digital Edge
Programme 13:15 Lunch
10:00 Introduction: what puts UAL at the CREATING
Digital Edge?, David White
14:15 Introduction, Frances Corner OBE
CRITIQUING 14:30 What does our digital future look like?,
Professor Fred Deakin
10:15 Introducing The Feminist Internet, 14:45 Art and design in advancing internet
Charlotte Webb equalities, Feminist Internet
10:30 Feeling Digital, Daniel Caulfield-Srikkad 15:00 Death Masks for a Digital Era,
10:45 Technoparticipation, Lee Campbell Kirk Rutter & Ninja Evangelista
11:00 UAL Futures, Luke Whitehead 15:15 Sound and Vision, Dimitrios Coumados
11:15 Designing the Future, Introduced by
Fred Deakin 15:30 Break

11:30 Break 16:00 HoloLens, Peter Hill

16:15 Art Works, Digital Maker Collective
CONNECTING 16:30 The GDC Makerspace
16:45 CSM Surface Design Lab and
12:00 Digital Maker Collective Photogrammetry Capture Lab
12:15 Feminist Alexa, Feminist Internet
12:30 New Realities, Damien Borowik
12:45 Talent Works, Matt Guy 17:00 Demos, Drinks, Networking
13:00 Future Collaborators, Introduced by
Fred Deakin 19:00 Event Close

Demo Stands
UAL Degree Show Projects / Maria Than, Fruit Piano / Digital Maker Collective, Virtual Reality /
Zara Burton, Re-mapping Project / Digital Learning Lab / CSM Surface Design Lab /
LCF Digital Learning Lab / The GCD Makerspace & more TBC
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Hosts
Frances Corner OBE
Head of College at London College of Fashion and Professor of Art and Design Education
Frances has been Head of College at London College of Fashion since October 2005. She was
previously Head of the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at London Metropolitan
University and has over 20 years experience within the Higher Education sector on both a national
and international level. http://francescorner.com

Fred Deakin, Professor of Digital Arts

Fred was previously co-founder and director of ground breaking London digital design agency
Airside. As half of the band Lemon Jelly, he has sold over half a million albums and is a Mercury and
Brit Award nominated artist. His work at UAL focuses on seeding agile collaborative practice and he
has a new science-fiction concept album out this autumn. http://freddeak.in

David White, Head of Digital Learning

David researches online learning practices in both informal and formal contexts. He has led and
been an expert consultant on numerous studies on the use of technology for learning in the UK
higher education sector and is the originator of the ‘Visitors and Residents’ paradigm which
describes how individuals engage online. http://daveowhite.com

Curation & Production

Lucy Barber Molly Gavriel Abbie Freeman Swann El Mokkeddem
Producer & Event Manager Curation & Communications Graphic Design Filming & Photography
http://cargocollective.com/lucybarber http://mollygavriel.co.uk http://imabbie.com http://swannlucas.com
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Speakers
Damien Borowik
Damien is a French artist based in London, UK. In his
work, he explores the use of technology in the art of
making and subsequent creative processes.
http://dborowik.com
Lee Campbell
Lee is an artist and academic. His practice plays with
the parameters of contemporary art and seeks to
theorise, articulate and demonstrate how we may
construct meaning between politics of space and the
politics of artist/performer/protagonist articulated
through visual and verbal languages.
lee.campbell@arts.ac.uk
Georgina Capdevila
Georgina is a London-based Creative Producer from
Barcelona, working at the intersection of creativity,
society, education, and technology. Georgia’s work
focuses on empowering young people and inspiring
women. Georgia has produced cultural and learning
projects such as UAL Futures, Feminist Internet and
FIU Barcelona.
https://www.georginacapdevila.com
Daniel Caulfield-Srikkad
Daniel is a London-based practitioner and lecturer
with multidisciplinary experience in physical and digital
communication design within the cultural and creative
industries. Daniel presents Feeling Digital, a project
which explores future digital experience and realities
through knowledge exchange between students,
industry experts and academics.
http://www.danielc-s.com
Dimitrios Coumados
Digital Designer and London College of Fashion
Technician Dimitrios presents a showcase of
innovative digital technologies used to create
responsive media experiences.
d.coumados@fashion.arts.ac.uk
CSM Surface Design Lab and Photogrammetry
Capture Lab
CSM Surface Design Lab and Photogrammetry
Capture Lab work across a range of digital
design practices, including digital textiles, 3D
photogrammetry digitization and Virtual Reality.
At Digital Edge, The Labs will bring together a small
group of artists, digital technicians, and alumni to
showcase how advanced digital media and emerging
computational systems inform innovation.
j.wollaston@csm.arts.ac.uk
Digital Maker Collective
The Digital Maker Collective are an open group of
University of the Arts staff, students and alumni who
share common goals of exploring digital & emerging
technologies in the context of arts, education, society
and the creative industries.
http://digitalmakercollective.org
Ninja Evangelista & Kirk Rutter
Ninja & Kirk’s project, Death Masks for a Digital Era,
explores the history and tradition around death masks
using Autodesk CAD software and digital fabrication
to create living death masks designs for jewellery.
k.rutter@fashion.arts.ac.uk
n.evangelista0820171@arts.ac.uk
The GDC Makerspace
Students from the Graphic Communication Design
Makerspace present emerging projects from the
makerspace, a new collaborative workspace within
Graphic Communication Design Studies for making,
learning, exploring and sharing that uses high-tech
to no-tech tools.
j.demaat@arts.ac.uk
Matt Guy
Matt is a Partnership Manager leading social and
commercial innovation projects at London College
of Communication. At LCC, Matt creates and pilots
externally funded social innovation projects to solve
problems for LCC's local community and students.
matt.guy@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Peter Hill
Technical Manager 3D Digital and Material Science
at London College of Fashion, Peter presents the
activities of the Digital Learning Lab at LCF. His talk
will have a focus on LCF’s recent collaboration with
Microsoft and the Fashion Innovation Agency.
p.hill@fashion.arts.ac.uk
Conor Rigby
Conor is a visual designer based in London.
He is interested in how queer politics, spaces and
performance are expressed aesthetically and how
they intersect with technologies. Conor has created
and managed the visual identity and outputs of the
Feminist Internet, exploring multiple modes of
communicating the group's intentions and research.
http://conorrigby.com
UAL Futures
UAL Futures mission is to inspire and support digital
creativity at UAL. The Futures' Studio challenges
students to push the boundaries of digital innovation,
and connects students to the digital capabilities they
need to thrive in a connected future.
http://ualfutures.studio
Elvia Vasconcelos
Elvia is a design researcher whose work critically
engages with the impact of technology in real life.
Elvia's work uses speculative and fiction design tools
to tell alternative stories about technologies through
the lenses of communities that sit outside tech
narratives. By doing so, she wishes to creating
narratives that challenge present structures of
power and call for alternative and fairer futures.
www.elviavasconcelos.com
Charlotte Webb
Charlotte is Chief Leopard of the Feminist Internet.
Her work focuses on advancing internet equalities and
feminisms for women and other marginalised groups.
Charlotte has 11 years' experience working in art and
design higher education, including curriculum design
and delivery, institutional research and educational
development.
http://www.feministinternet.com