2017
F(r)iction
RCA Forum program of talks, workshops, activities
F(r)iction
RCA Forum program of talks, workshops, activities
F[r]iction started in 2017 as an RCA Visual Communication student-led program forum, in collaboration with Laura Copsey, Samantha Kitchener, Angelo Stitz, Chan Shin Park. It explores narrative and the grey area between reality and fiction. By interrogating the gaps, challenges, and opportunities that arise, F[r]iction aims to consider how our imaginations and our innate narrative drive can enable innovation and engagement.
Science fiction is not fantasy and historical fiction is not history; news whether or not it is called out as fake ultimately remains a story. In an era widely viewed as accelerating with the political and economic landscape in flux, addressing narrative is central to all human communication. Considering the implications for creative practitioners in an uncertain world where collaboration and dialogue between disciplines is a necessity.
F[r]iction held the following events and workshops in 2017/2018:
Hauntology: In Search of Ghosts, 12/12/2017, at Shakespeare Pub, LondonA discussion with Luke Pendrell an artist whose work explores the interstices of science, technology and the supernatural. He studied at the Royal College of Art and his current work investigates the emergent field of Speculative Aesthetics.
Liquid History//Lost Meaning, 23/03/2018, at The Mayflower Pub and the river ThamesF[r]iction and artist Marie-Louise Plum held a discussion and walk exploring the river Thamesas liquid history. Marie is a multi-disciplinary artist who’s practice encompasses collecting, preservation, memory, mortality, sense of self and identity exploring themes of social alienation, personal boundaries, ambiguity and subversion of the ‘common sense’ attitude towards linear time. An aspect of her practice relates to mudlarking and collecting keep sakes and ephemera of lost histories from the river foreshore she then recontextualises into narrative collections.
Glaze, 22/12/2017, at 44 Ashdown Crescent in Kentish TownThe Icing room in association with F(r)iction. Glaze comprised a fictional solo ceramic exhibition, an exclusive gift shop and extortionately priced tea room.
Barry Sykes, 23/01/2018, RCA Garden HouseFalse Impressions, Forgery and The Apocalypse, and Constructed Reality as an Artistic Practice. Barry Sykes (born 1976) is an artist based in London. His varied output incorporates sculpture, installation, photography and public speaking, using them to examine authenticity, interaction and intangible experience. Recent projects have involved counterfeits, copying, fake laughter, imaginary events and outright lies. For this talk, Sykes discusses his reliance on narrative in a number of projects that seamlessly combine candid fact with hypothetical fiction.
FontFiction, 30/04/2018, RCA, Garden HouseThis workshop held by Angelo Stitz scrutinized in a playful manner what it means to set and to design type as its tiniest visual part of a font. A font is a digital “collection of shapes” that can be typed through a keyboard with the aid of a word processor. Exploring what means to set type and how to manipulate it in an experimental way, to generate the nature of the text and how text “feels”. Creating and re-understand the colour and “image” of types as an interesting composed interplay between shapes and its whitespace to reveal un-expected narratives.
Science fiction is not fantasy and historical fiction is not history; news whether or not it is called out as fake ultimately remains a story. In an era widely viewed as accelerating with the political and economic landscape in flux, addressing narrative is central to all human communication. Considering the implications for creative practitioners in an uncertain world where collaboration and dialogue between disciplines is a necessity.
F[r]iction held the following events and workshops in 2017/2018:
Hauntology: In Search of Ghosts, 12/12/2017, at Shakespeare Pub, LondonA discussion with Luke Pendrell an artist whose work explores the interstices of science, technology and the supernatural. He studied at the Royal College of Art and his current work investigates the emergent field of Speculative Aesthetics.
Liquid History//Lost Meaning, 23/03/2018, at The Mayflower Pub and the river ThamesF[r]iction and artist Marie-Louise Plum held a discussion and walk exploring the river Thamesas liquid history. Marie is a multi-disciplinary artist who’s practice encompasses collecting, preservation, memory, mortality, sense of self and identity exploring themes of social alienation, personal boundaries, ambiguity and subversion of the ‘common sense’ attitude towards linear time. An aspect of her practice relates to mudlarking and collecting keep sakes and ephemera of lost histories from the river foreshore she then recontextualises into narrative collections.
Glaze, 22/12/2017, at 44 Ashdown Crescent in Kentish TownThe Icing room in association with F(r)iction. Glaze comprised a fictional solo ceramic exhibition, an exclusive gift shop and extortionately priced tea room.
Barry Sykes, 23/01/2018, RCA Garden HouseFalse Impressions, Forgery and The Apocalypse, and Constructed Reality as an Artistic Practice. Barry Sykes (born 1976) is an artist based in London. His varied output incorporates sculpture, installation, photography and public speaking, using them to examine authenticity, interaction and intangible experience. Recent projects have involved counterfeits, copying, fake laughter, imaginary events and outright lies. For this talk, Sykes discusses his reliance on narrative in a number of projects that seamlessly combine candid fact with hypothetical fiction.
FontFiction, 30/04/2018, RCA, Garden HouseThis workshop held by Angelo Stitz scrutinized in a playful manner what it means to set and to design type as its tiniest visual part of a font. A font is a digital “collection of shapes” that can be typed through a keyboard with the aid of a word processor. Exploring what means to set type and how to manipulate it in an experimental way, to generate the nature of the text and how text “feels”. Creating and re-understand the colour and “image” of types as an interesting composed interplay between shapes and its whitespace to reveal un-expected narratives.