Research Exchanges are currently organized by Dr Mary Anne Francis and Dr Tim O’Riley

Research exchanges are termly events where research active artists, theorists, designers and students at Chelsea College of Art and Design present their research to peers. Its an informal and supportive event - with wine!

Here is the invitation for the new format Research Exchanges 07 - 08. Invitation open to all Chelsea academic, technical staff and research students.

Unless noted otherwise, all events take place in room AG07 - at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank London. All are welcome...

Current Exchanges

This year our programme kicks off with a talk by visiting Research Fellow at UAL, Noam Austerliz, and then continues with events ‘hosted’ by Chelsea staff, who are taking over from Tim and Mary Anne as ‘chairs’ for one evening in order to offer themed presentations.

Monday 4th June 2007 5.15 - 7ish
Jo Melvin on Telling Stories: the Archive as Documentafiction

Monday 19th March 2007 5.30 - 7ish
The Lecture Theatre
Guest Speaker McKenzie Wark of the Eugene Lang College and New School for Social Research, New York.

Author of the acclaimed A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, 2005) will present ongoing work for his forthcoming book on Gamer Theory.

Gamer Theory is a novel set of proposals for a critical theory of games, an exploration of games as allegories for the world, and also a new way of thinking the relationship between authorship and text.
See: http://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/
With thanks to the Institute of Digital Art and Technology http://www.i-dat.org/
Free and all welcome.

Monday 19th February 2007 5.30 - 7ish
Ken Wilder presenting a cross disciplinary session on 'situated' moving image practices

Monday 15th January 2007 5.30 - 7ish
Visiting Research Fellow Noam Austerlitz will talk on his work

Past Exchanges

All events chaired by Dr Mary Anne Francis and Dr Tim O’Riley

Monday 19th June 2006 5.15 - 7ish
Professor Stephen Farthing and Ken Wilder

Dr Farthing's presentation is titled: Using an integrationalist approach to work towards a definition of drawing

Ken will be speaking about the forthcoming Spaces and Narrations exhibition and conference Angles of Projection. This deals with 'situated' video and film practices - practices which make a relationship between screen space, and the space in which the works are exhibited. Ken will be discussing ways of developing this project on a long-term basis.

Monday 8th May 2006 5.15 - 7ish
Claire Rose and Gwendolyn Leick

Monday 30th January 2006 5.15 - 7ish
Ken Wilder, Bernice Donzleman and Mary Claire Foa

Monday 31st October 20005 5.15 - 7ish
Professor Stephen Scrivener, the new Head of Research at Chelsea introduced his work, and vision for research at Chelsea.