CADRE Lecture Series

On the Production of Subjectivity Dr. Simon O’Sullivan
Goldsmiths, University of London

Out of the Ivory Tower: the Independent Group and Popular Culture, Professor Anne Massey
Research Student Director at the University of Middlesex

Mobility, Liminality and Digital Materiality, Professor Martin Rieser
Professor of Digital Creativity, De Montfort University

Mobility, Liminality and Digital Materiality, Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor is a British writer, critic, lecturer and curator, specialising in design, media and visual culture. He is Visiting Professor in Design Criticism and Research Methods at the postgraduate Royal College of Art in London. He was the founding editor of Eye magazine in London, which he edited from 1990 to 1997. In 2003, he was a co-founder of Design Observer. Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), the first survey to document the new digital typography, became an international bestseller. Poynor's books about design and the visual arts include Typographica (2001); No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism (2003). 

Following in the footsteps of Charles Dickens. William Raban

William Raban has been making films since 1970 and is currently reader in film at the University of the Arts London. He has made a number of films in London that are part documentary and part essay films. They include the feature length Thames Film (1986) and Under the Tower trilogy (1992-6). For his lecture, he will present his latest film The Houseless Shadow commissioned by The Museum of London and adapted from the essay Night Walks by Charles Dickens. William will talk about the problems of literary adaption and the challenge of filming on the streets of London after midnight.

Writing on craft and design in the 20th and 21st century, Tanya Harrod

This talk argues that the organised assessment and auditing of research in higher education and the emphasis on 'research' in general is producing a sub-culture of writing that is read by very few, that employs a limiting body of theory and which pays scant attention to periodicity. I shall attempt to explain why my two major books The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century and The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture were written outside the academy and are arguably of limited interest to those within the academy. I shall also discuss the ideas that led to the creation of the Journal of Modern Craft which I co-edit with Glenn Adamson and Edward S. Cooke. 

Andrew Hunt
Curator