A Line Which Forms A Volume Symposium & Publication Launch

A Line Which Forms a Volume

MA Graphic Media Design [<A HREF="http://magmd.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MAGMD</A>] invite you to join us at LCC for A Line Which Forms a Volume* on December 6, 2017. The symposium will launch the first edition of a critical reader of graphic design-led research that is edited, written, designed and published by course participants.
We are excited to welcome guest speakers Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Eleanor Vonne Brown, and Jack Self, whose work has informed participants' lines of inquiry. MAGMD graduates Cate Rickards and Aldo Caprini will present a vignette of their contributions to the reader. A series of interludes from MAGMD tutor Sophie Demay will punctuate the evening.
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey co-founded <A HREF="http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dot Dot Dot</A> with Peter Bilak, works together with David Reinfurt as <A HREF="http://www.dextersinister.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dexter Sinister</A>, is co-operator of <A HREF="http://www.servinglibrary.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Serving Library</A>, co-editor of its constituent 'Bulletins', and recently became Head of Design at the <A HREF="https://www.ica.art/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ICA</A>. 
Jack Self is the director of the <A HREF="http://real.foundation/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">REAL Foundation</A> and editor-in-chief of the <A HREF="https://real-review.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Real Review</A>. Previously, he edited <A HREF="http://fulcrum.aaschool.ac.uk/about/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fulcrum</A>, authored <A HREF="http://www.jackself.com/real" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Real Estates: Life Without Debt</A> and curated <A HREF="http://www.jackself.com/home" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Home Economics</A> at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Eleanor Vonne Brown founded <A HREF="http://bokship.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">X Marks the Bokship</A>, which introduced the collaborative projects: <A HREF="http://bokship.org/xoperative.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">X-Operative</A> at <A HREF="http://www.wysingartscentre.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wysing Arts Centre</A>, Translation and Verbal Mutation with <A HREF="http://formcontent.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">FormContent</A> and the <A HREF="http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Whitechapel Gallery</A> as well as <A HREF="http://bokship.org/pap.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Publication as Practice</A> seminar series.
Sophie Demay is an <A HREF="http://www.sophiedemay.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">independent design and curatorial practitioner</A>. She writes regularly for <A HREF="http://etapes.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Étapes</A> and is an Associate Lecturer for MAGMD. Previously, she co-edited <A HREF="https://shop.hatopress.net/collections/books/products/open-books-volumes-a-e" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Openbooks Volume A—E</A>, and co-organised <A HREF="http://cargocollective.com/AccessThroughTools" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Access Through Tools</A>.
In his MA research The Green Book, The Red Book and The Blue Book, Aldo Caprini uses The Green Book – political primer of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi – to analyse and visualise how objects become rhetorical instruments to manifest ideology.
In her MA research The Shadow for the Thing, Cate Rickards studies a dummy hand grenade from the Stanley Kubrick Archive to consider how the perception of an object might be problematised through graphic design. 
 
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A Line Which Forms a Volume takes its name from a subheading in the 1996 essay ‘The Book as Object’, written by Michel Butor. In this text, Butor writes that threads of thought and speech must be set into lines, lines divided into columns, and columns stacked along a third axis of depth to form a volume. The notion of ‘volume’ as a publication, as well as the space that something occupies and as a quality of something audible, lends itself to the endeavour of A Line Which Forms a Volume to make graphic design research public.
A Line Which Forms a Volume is just one strand in a larger graphic design research narrative that has been drawn from the MAGMD course. A Line Which Forms a Volume is curious, evolving and current, and aims to thread the research of participants into the wider contexts of design criticism and publishing. *Title borrowed from Michel Butor (1996), ‘The Book as Object’, Inventory: Essays by Michel Butor, New York: George Braziller.
 
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The symposium is part of LCC Postgraduate Shows 2017: Show 2, exhibiting 6-8 December. For more information see the <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcc-postgraduate-shows-2018-show-2-launch-night-tickets-51192224321">LCC events page</A>. 
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