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DIT Graduate Exhibition 2010
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"Tipping / Point" launched by Dutch Ambassador
"The idea of a tipping point underlies my recent work. It is an idea that inheres almost all social behaviour. It defines the moment of critical mass, an uncertain threshold in a secular society. It is the point at which an object or mood is knocked out of a state of balance into a different state."
Writing in "Tipping / Point" Anita Groener, the artist and lecturer in Fine Art, explores the influences on her recent work. There are also incisive texts by Arno Kramer, artist and curator of the Drawing Centre Diepenheim The Netherlands; Seán Kissane, Head of Exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art; and Robert Harrison, Professor in Italian Literature and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. This elegant monograph, designed by Brian O'Connor/Greenstudio, gives a insight into the artist's approach to her work and methodology. It includes images from her research and photographs of the paintings in galleries in addition to the usual colour plates.
Guide to Cork City's architectural heritage
Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe
County House Hotel launched "A Guide to Cork’s 20th
Century Architecture" by Tom Spalding,
lecturer in Product Design on 26th
May. Myrtle’s family has a
rich background in Architecture – she is the daughter of Henry Hill, the
Architect of well-known Cork landmarks including the College of Commerce and
the AIB Bank on South Mall. The photograph shows Myrtle and Tom outside the Bank building.
Featuring nearly 100 full colour photographs as well as a detailed fold-out map of the City centre and accompanied by a lively text the user friendly guide will appeal to those with an interest in Architecture, citizens and visitors to the City alike. It is sponsored by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government as well as Cork Civic Trust and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Southern Region. This publication follows on Tom's earlier "Cork City: A Field Guide to its Street Furniture" of 2009.
The Letter Lounge in Paris
To celebrate the annual conference of the Association Typographique Internationale in Dublin students form l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratiif and the Dublin Institute of Technology have collaborated to develop two spaces: a "Letter Lounge" in Dublin Castle and another in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. The exhibition at the "Letter Lounge" in Paris will invite visitors to explore the history, forms and significance of ogham, runes and Irish types.
The conference, The Word, will take place in Dublin Castle from 8 to 12 September 2010.
Second Life module wins award
The elective module Virtual Environments: Is one life enough? won the national award for innovation in teaching and learning. The Jennifer Burke Award for 2010 was presented to John O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Design and Head of School, at the EdTech 2010 Conference in Athlone Institute of Technology on 20 May.
The award was established by Dublin City University and the Irish Learning Technology Association
(ILTA) to recognise and reward innovative practice in Irish teaching and
learning. Designed and delivered by John O'Connor and Claudia Igbrude (eLearning Development
Officer at the Learning, Teaching & Technology Centre) the module
was piloted in 2009 and has been offered to third year students since
then. The module had been among five projects that were shortlisted for
the award in April.
For more information see the pilot module blog and the current module blog.
President Mary McAleese at Sherkin Island conferring
President of Ireland Mary McAleese, accompanied by her husband Dr Martin McAleese attended the Conferring Ceremony for the BA in Visual Art which took place in Sherkin Island, West Cork on 21st April. The photograph, by Donagh Carey, shows (from left) President Mary McAleese; Dr McAleese; Prof Tommy Cooke, Head of Community Links, DIT; Dr Frank McMahon, Director of Academic Affairs, DIT; John O'Connor, Head of School).
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Back: Rebecca Keyser, Catherine Ryan, Alison Trim, Dr Frank McMahon, Lorraine Bacchus, John O'Connor, Prof Tommy Cooke. Front: Peggy Townend, President Mary McAleese, Dr Martin McAleese, Veronika O'Driscoll, Monica Boyle. Photograph by Donagh Carey.
The seven graduates started on a pilot programme of Art & Culture, a joint initiative between the School of Art, Design & Printing with the Sherkin Island Development Society and the West Cork Arts Centre that ran from 2001 to 2003. They joined the honours degree programme last year to become the second cohort of graduates. The programme takes on 20 new students (drawn largely from the West Cork region) every second year, with a new intake due to commence in September. The programme is delivered entirely in Sherkin Island using a range of distance learning strategies in conjunction with the more usual face-to-face classes. The initiative is supported by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.