Issue 2: Making Conversation ↓
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Women Of The NHS
These podcasts reflect my recent collaboration with Women of the NHS. This podcast is all about celebrating and collaborating with Women of the NHS, from a variety of backgrounds and roles within the NHS. I am excited to be interviewing and working with Women in various stages of their careers and across different sectors of…
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The Transfer of “Self-Consciousness”
This paper focuses on the flow of people’s selves into digital space as the times have moved on, and reflects on the implications of this for millennials’ self-understanding as well as suggesting new ways of thinking about it.
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Limitations and Possibilities in the Dialogue between Art and Gaming
This essay delves into the intricate relationship between art and games, critically examining their intersections, conflicts, and symbiosis in aesthetics, culture, and technology. It seeks to explore additional possibilities through a reflective approach.
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The Fundamentally Flawed Quality of a Painting
Tom is a neo-expressionist painter based in London studying an MA in painting at UAL: Camberwell. In Tom’s essay he will discuss the political economy of the modern art market.
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A Reflection on Industrialism in Photographic Image Production
This essay explores the production process of photographic images influenced by the technological and industrial mechanism, while reflecting on alternatives to deal with the redundancy in image viewing.
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The concept of family equality in modern society
This essay combines author articles, sociological research, and personal experiences with numerous sociological papers to investigate the author’s perspectives on their upbringing.
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Feme Covert
This essay explores the stories of wives eclipsed from history. Documenting how using feminist historiography and storytelling within my practice can make these absent lives visible and provide us with alternative histories.
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The Art of Imagery in Drawing: Landscape of Memory
This essay discusses my research on the art of imagery in the creation of drawings, which is combined with examples of artworks and my personal artistic practice to discuss the influence of landscape, imagery, and picturesque concepts on my creative thinking.
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There is an ocean between you and me
An essay discussing how artists and audiences rely on works of art to complete invisible conversations.
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Engaging, Bridging and Addressing
A wide range of discussion about what and how social documentary is being reflected through the practice of traditional and extended printmaking, which involves the aspects of concept development, critical reflection, technique employment and so on.
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On the Exploration and Development of Contemporary Artists in the Field of Cosmology
I hope that through this essay to let the readers and viewers feel the contemporary art in the field of cosmology shine.
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Unnatural Distinction
This essay explores the decline of ecosystems in the post-human era, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, accessing digital technology to create a series of scenic fragments about ecological crisis.
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We are the same, we are different.
Jing Pu and Meng Xu discuss their family relationships. We explore the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.
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We are the same, we are different.
Meng Xu and Jing Pu discuss their family relationships. We explored the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.
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Split Bodies: The Construction of Women’s Character in Otaku Culture
This paper describes contemporary subcultural traits and reflects on the impact of East Asian otaku culture’s stereotypical construction of the female figure in online animation on the virtual body and the real physical body.
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Self-expression: Revisit narrative landscape painting
The essay traces my artistic evolution from realistic painting under socialist realism to a quest for artistic freedom and primarily explores the possibility of transcending the constraints of national ideology in my personal landscape paintings, aiming for self-expression. It also critically analyzes and attempts to philosophically position my painting practice based on Adorno aesthetic theories.
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On Memory
Exploring the possibility of preserving memory and containing emotion in the face of loss and grief
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Kitkats and Cuppas
A reflection on points of connection in developing practices over the course of the MA and the collaborations that resulted.
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Harmony of Verse and Mind
The study explores into the collaboration between humans and machines, exploring how they creativity come together to make interactive art in the fields of poetry language and neuroscience. By connecting these different areas, the goal is to discover new ways of artistic expression.
Issue 1: Research Festival ↓
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Feminist Art in Digital Space
A talk and an essay about my research about re-architecting female‘s daily life in the digital space through performance, and using 3D cyborg to perform instead of live-action performance.
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The possibility of Software as life in Capitalist Ruins
Myths in digital practice: the art of self-presentation under digitalized society and the possibility of software as a kind of memory of human symbiosis.
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Depicting Impermanence
A discussion on the conceptual idea and various means of depicting time in contemporary art and the artist’s own practice
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Red Dots, Entropy, and Syntax
in the Textual Shoes of Sandor Krasna1 1 The name of the fictitious cameraman whose imaginary letters read by a female narrator constitute the narration of the film ‘Sans Soleil’ (1983) by Chris Marker. Part 1. Parting of Ways When we were animals, we existed in chaos of nature. The world surrounding us posed dangers…
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AROUND ABOUT
Multiplicity of bodies in the space between subject and object. Sphere as allegory for an existence between internal and external, in and out. The body as globe, ball, orb, bubble, foam, etc.
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Happy Death Day: Revisiting Feminism in Abortion in the Chinese Context
The artist seeks to explore a new perspective on abortion based on feminism. By making it possible for a wider audience to participate in the search for a new perspective on abortion, the patriarchy’s devaluation and natural stigmatisation of women who have had abortions can be dismantled.
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A conversation about reincarnation
Jingyu Niu and Yifei Sun discuss their research on personal secrets and the Buddhist realm. They explore confessions of past experiences, negative emotions, struggles with desires, reincarnation and future lives.
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The connection between people and objects
For some people, objects are always given some special meaning. These objects can be people’s friends, can be a container that hold people’s memories, or can be a symbol that represent someone.
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tbc
A record of immediate thoughts on the author’s own works, creative process and art from a first-person perspective; reflects on the art and artworks that the author has seen and heard with one’s consciousness which carries the author’s subjective recognition.
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How my paintings rebels the era of mass media and digital communication.
This essay, in the tone of a practice report, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, discussing how painting was used as a weapon to resist the late capitalist, consumer, image-infested era.
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Digital Religion Bible
For the research festival, I wrote a book based on my central topic — the Bible of Digital religion. I hope that by spreading this Digital Religion Bible, more people can learn about digital religion.
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Memories of the Motherland
Video essay discussing the development of my practice through research, with personal footage filmed in Iran and documentation of my painting practice.
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Spirituality and Poetry in Painting
An essay analysing the role of spirituality and poetry in my own painting practice and other artists’ works.
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Comfort home in games online: When play is not just about fun
An essay discussing about the game. When games are not only just screen activities for enjoyment. Point out new context that games can take. Connect people with a sense of home.
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Performance as gentle resistance
This article will analyse performance art as a gentle rebellion and messages of noncooperation from the artworks by artists and non-artists.
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Reconstructing witches in feminism
A self-interview about my research and practice in reconstructing witches under a feminist context. Here I will discuss artists, poetry, films, operas, dances and podcasts that influenced me.
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Analysis of the current situation of environmental artists
This essay proposes the idea of recycling creative consciousness, combined with the creation of personal environmental art works for analysis.
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A Conversation about Reincarnation
Yifei Sun and Jingyu Niu discuss their research on personal secrets and the Buddhist realm. They explore confessions of past experiences, negative emotions, struggles with desires, reincarnation and future lives.
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Yearning for the idealised past
An essay analysing the concept of the past, nostalgia and memory.
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TADO Art Center – London Short Film Festival
TLSFF is an online community platform for young creators to show their talents, advance their careers, find partners to share their lives and gather their ideas.