BA Contemporary Visual Culture

This week’s guest lecturer in the Real World Engagement series run by BA Contemporary Visual Culture is Simon O’Connor, Director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) . Simon O'Connor is a composer, curator and founding Director of MoLI, whose career in the creative industries has ranged from screaming punk rock in dive bars to classical composition, editorial design and publishing, branding and marketing, and co-founding the Little Museum of Dublin. We are delighted to welcome Simon back to speak about his new role. Date/Time: Tuesday, 24th April from 1.30pm to 2.30pm Location: Room NA003, North House Annex, Dublin Institute of Technology, Grangegorman, Dublin 7. All welcome.

Each year, CVC students join their studio-based colleagues in a "discipline history" module. Students can choose either art history, history of interior design, or graphic design history. In third year, these modules deal with recent and contemporary art and and design. This week, for example, the Design Now: graphics module had a lecture on contemporary image-making in China. The talk was given by our visiting colleague, Lulu Zhang, from Gen Dang Institute at the Beijing Institute of Technology in China.

Wendy Williams's talk today dealt with how her experience as a design historian has influenced her work as a graphic and exhibition designer. She focused on two case studies, Conserving The Dream at St Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork and the  Eileen Gray exhibition  at the National Museum of Ireland -- Collins Barracks. The lecture was also well attended by colleagues from the BA Visual Merchandising  at DIT.

Today, the BA Contemporary Visual Culture students welcome Wendy Williams, a design historian and graphic designer who specialises in exhibition design. Wendy has designed exhibitions for the National Museum of Ireland, the Pearse Museum and many others. Her latest role was as a curator of the Jacobs exhibition in City Hall. Wendy will be speaking about her career in visual culture, pointing to the essential interweaving of theory and practice within it.   Date/Time: Tuesday, 17th April from 1.30pm to 2.30pm  Room NA003, North House Annex, DIT Grangegorman Lecturers and students from across all disciplines are very welcome to attend. Wendy with her treasured Pat Scott designed map (image courtesy National Treasures https://twitter.com/NatTreasuresIRL/status/940563361837780992)

This week’s guest lecturer in the Real World Engagement series run by BA Contemporary Visual Culture  is  Mary   Doherty , CEO and founder Red Dog Design Consultants,  Dublin & New York, a multi-award-winning design and creative communications agency.  Mary  will speak about the role of research and writing in the creative design process and reflect on the development of Red Dog over the past 25 years.  Date/Time:  Tuesday, 10th April  from 1.30pm to 2.30pm  Location: Room NA003, North House Annex Lecturers and students from acros s all disciplines are very welcome to attend.

Before the Easter break, RTÉ culture and arts producer Clíodhna Ní Anluain addressed CVC students as part of the Real World Engagement Guest Lecture series. Clíodhna emphasised the importance of storytelling in communication and proved her point by telling some great stories of her own! She gave excellent advice about how to pitch writing for radio and encouraged students to submit pieces to various RTÉ programmes. We hope to invite Clíodha back to work with us on incorporating writing for radio into CVC module assessments in the future. http://ivaro.ie/cliodhna-ni-anluain/