Design Investigations

…some more impressions from our Venice field trip ✨
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Our next guest tutor who is going to run a workshop at our studio is going to be Matthew Plummer-Fernández! ✨💥

Matthew Plummer-Fernández, an artist of Colombian and European heritage, works across physical and digital media to critically and playfully interrogate how algorithmic systems encroach on popular culture and everyday life. Their practice is informed by Software and Internet Art as well as Critical Design.

Plummer-Fernández’s work has been widely exhibited and commissioned by institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), AND Festival (Manchester), and ZKM (Karlsruhe). Their artworks are held in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and in 2014 they received an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica.

They hold an MA from the Royal College of Art (London, 2009) and a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London (2019). In 2021, Plummer-Fernández founded the BA Fine Art: Computational Arts course at Camberwell College of Arts in London.



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We are delighted to welcome Saeed Taji Farouky for a three-day film workshop this week! 🎥💫

Saeed Taji Farouky is a Palestinian/British filmmaker who has been making films around themes of conflict, human rights, and anti-colonialism since 2005.

His latest feature documentary, A Thousand Fires premiered as the opening film in Directors Fortnight of Locarno 2021 where it won the Marco Zucchi award for most innovative documentary. His previous documentary Tell Spring Not to Come This Year premiered at the Berlinale 2015 where it won the Audience Choice Panorama award, the Amnesty Human Rights Award, and sold to Netflix.

Farouky is also a radical film educator, regularly teaching, leading workshops, and lecturing about alternative forms of cinematic storytelling. He is designer and lead tutor of the Radical Film School, a free film course based in London dedicated to political filmmakers from marginalised backgrounds.



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