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Gonny van Hulst, 'Son of a Gun', glass & mixed media, 2009. This piece is about the willingness of youngsters to use guns and how it spreads like a disease through urban neighbourhoods, causing youngsters to view guns as essential to survival. Guns becoming a status symbol. I expressed my idea in glass because it is a material that is typically fragile and can be dangerous. So are the lives of our youngster and their deadly guns.

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Gonny van Hulst, 'Son of a Gun', glass & mixed media, 2009. This piece is about the willingness of youngsters to use guns and how it spreads like a disease through urban neighbourhoods, causing youngsters to view guns as essential to survival. Guns becoming a status symbol. I expressed my idea in glass because it is a material that is typically fragile and can be dangerous. So are the lives of our youngster and their deadly guns.

Sheree Angela Matthews, 'Skirt', Photography, 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.

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Sheree Angela Matthews, 'Skirt', Photography, 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.

caitlin howard, 'Art School', 8mm film and projector, june 2010. Photo: Adam Mead.

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caitlin howard, 'Art School', 8mm film and projector, june 2010. Photo: Adam Mead.

Nathalie Bouleau Chabot, 'The Logic of Language'.

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Nathalie Bouleau Chabot, 'The Logic of Language'.

How to use Degrees unedited as your window in to the professional world

Look through the window and see who's gazing back

By using Degrees unedited your work is reflected in to a-n's other unedited features, where professional artists and writers get to see your ideas and formulation of criticality, with respect to theirs. This constructs a traversable virtual path of artistic production and reflection, establishing new ways of working.

All you need to do is register as a free user at the homepage and start utilising Degrees unedited as your window in to the professional world. So whilst a-n deals with double the workload, its time to get your ideas out there, increasing your self-promotion and critical applause.

 

Where ideas will permeate and promotion prevails

As a student user of Degrees unedited the professional activity of a-n's unedited environment is something you get access to and in turn people get increased access to you. By registering and contributing you're delivering your focussed ideas, criticality and projects to the wider artist community through Artists talking and Interface.

Artists talking is an exciting aspect of a-n's online service, allowing artists and professionals to negotiate ideas, from personal to technical concerns through to periods of thought provoking residency and part time practice.

Any blog that you start on Degrees unedited gets replicated in Artists talking's 'Project blogs'. By filtering your valuable ideas in the run up to degree show season into the professional realm, blogging through Degrees unedited readily delivers fresh student perspective to places beyond any Fine Art department. Therein your ideas are permeated across the UK, surpassing the limitations of your institution, towards actual working practitioners. Go to Artists talking

Interface relates to a tool, allowing two or more separate functioning bodies to communicate and confront at ease; generating space for perspective and the capacity for learned experiences to be gained. You instantly become a part of this by contributing ideas through critical review on Degrees unedited as any review for a show that you upload will be included in Interface's 'Reviews unedited'.

The reviews are chronological and searchable by city. So if someone is looking for art criticism in a certain place or at a particular time, your degree show or contributed review, will appear just as valid and as exciting. Your content is published next to that of professional artists and organisers, promoting the degree show season and your criticism with equal importance as to any other on the art world calendar.

Interface works as a two-way mirror: by searching for reviewers in you area through the 'Reviewer index', you can approach writers and invite them to give your show critical applause. Go to Interface

 

A blind, some curtains or to be an exhibitionist

A 'window' then, as either an engaged or passive viewing platform, is multifaceted just like the possibilities in your practice beyond the limitations of a two-way tutorial.

But what happens this time next year, when your window has changed its form and the view has distorted itself? Perhaps it will be smaller with less space, larger and expansive, less rectangular (more spherical, multi-dimensional), or equal to the dimensions of your computer screen.

Artists talking and Interface will have their place, being ever more relevant in offering and extending lucent observations and diversifying perspectives. So you could be on to a good thing already, port-holing your workload into more definite forms of longevity.

A selection of 2010 graduates using Artists talking:

Links

  • From 2008 to now - a small history on "The art of blogging"
    Why professional artists need a blog - and why students do just as well to permeate their ideas in writing, along with video and image. Read on »

  • Critical writing and Interface as its platform
    Online editor Rosemary Shirley promotes engagement with students on how to siphon fresh critical response for the right audience, from theory into practice. Read on »

  • A 2010 graduate? Up to September 2010, get your free Student subscription, more acces to the a-n.co.uk site (Knowledge bank, Publication dowloads and Jobs & opps) plus supportive monthly e-bulletins and relevant editorial. Read on »

First published: a-n.co.uk April 2009

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