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ENROLLMENT

UIK online enrollment is the same dates as the Next To Nothing enrollment: 15th September – 1st October 2011.

Download the enrollment form:

.doc bit.ly/UIKdoc
.pdf bit.ly/UIKpdf

and send a completed copy to: [email protected]

Or copy & paste the following into an email to us:

Personal Details (not published)
Name:
Postal Address:
Email Address:
Nationality:
Date of Birth:
Previous Education:
Current Employment:

University Website Profile Details
Name/Pseudonym:
About You (200 words maximum):
Representative Image (Please email as an attachment no bigger than 1MB)
Website/Blog:

Course Enrollment (studying multiple courses simultaneously is permitted. For combined courses please consult the respective Course Leaders)
Please select:
Diploma in Artwank
BA (Hons) Avant Garde
BA (Hons) Comedy
BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste
BA (Hons) Film
BA (Hons) Foreign Language
MPhil Mistakes
NVQ Pedantics
Bsc Social Media


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FAQ

I don’t live near anywhere near Leeds/Wakefield/Huddersfield/Manchester/Birmingham – can I do a course via distance learning?
Yes. All 2011/12 courses are available via distance learning.

I can’t make it to the enrollment exhibition – can I apply online?
Yes. Email us [email protected] for an application form. Online enrollment is also 15th September – 1st October 2011.

Do you have a course in “art bollocks”?
Yes. We have the Diploma in Artwank.

How many seminars/lectures can I expect per term?
UIK is very much about self-directed and incidental learning. Course tutors will expect you to find your own incidental opportunities for incidental learning.

Is it a piss-take?
No, we take incidental learning seriously. However there are many courses on offer where piss-taking can be incidental learning, our BA (Hons) Comedy for example.

Is there a limit to course capacity?
On some courses yes. This is down to each Course Leader’s discretion.

Is rejection from a course I apply for a possibility?
Entry requirements are outlined for each course and enrollment on each course must be approved by the respective course leader. We will offer alternative courses matched with your interests if the course you apply for is already at full capacity.

Can collectives/groups/organisations apply?
Yes.

Can I combine courses?
Yes, with the agreement of the respective Course Leaders.

What happens if I fail my course?
You can resit the year. However, considering failure is important to learning it will be difficult to fail your course if you properly evidence your failure.

Can I run a course?
Yes. We will run courses from January 2012 in addition to the full year courses on offer. You might also want to consider offering additional modules or seminars on an existing course.

What happens to my work that I produce on the course?
All work that you produce on the course remains your intellectual property. By submitting work to your Course Leader for assessment, you grant permission to the University to exhibit, publish and promote your work.

Are collaborative works accepted?
Yes, if the work meets the course criteria.

If I learn knowledge from another student’s work on my course, can I submit it for assessment?
No. You can incidentally learn from other students’ work but if it is incidental knowledge from already submitted work it cannot be assessed.

What happens if I incidentally learn the same knowledge as another student and we both submit the same work?
If your Course Leader is satisfied you have independently learned the same knowledge, your work will be accepted for assessment.

Is it expensive?
No. Courses are free.

I missed Enrollment, can I still take a course?
Yes. You can enroll late providing there is room on the course(s) you apply for.

I already have several degrees, 2 masters and 3 PHDs. Why would I want another degree?
Unlike your regular degrees, UIK’s courses are a unique opportunity to take part in a large scale collaboration centred on incidental knowledge. They are not necessarily useful for academic progression or gainful employment.

I have more qualifications/experience than the leader of the course I want to take. Shouldn’t I be running the course?
At UIK, the traditional tutor-student relationship is inverted as it is the student who imparts knowledge to the tutor. As a peer-to-peer learning model you might also like to run seminars for your peers. Speak to you course leader.

If I run or teach on a course do I get paid?
No.

Can I have an honorary degree?
No. Unless you have an existing archive of incidentally learned knowledge applicable to one of our courses that you would like to send us for exhibition/publication.


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University of Incidental Knowledge Staff Profiles (part 2):

Debi Holbrook
After a less than conventional life Debi ran away from home, domesticity and sheep herding to continue her Art education and in the process (quote) ”I lost everything, but gained so much more – except an oven, I still don’t own one”. Now a Leeds based exhibiting visual artist Debi uses a various media and sometimes diverse materials to create works mainly (but not exclusively) concerning absence, evidence + memory. A penchant for collecting discarded items, she uses her gut instinct to rework them with often uneasy results. Debi is currently a workshop assistant in the Learning department at Hepworth Wakefield.

[email protected]
http://twitter.com/debi_holbrook

Courses: BA (Hons) Avant Garde

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Duncan Lister

Duncan left school with 3 GCE O Level’s (the original and far harder to get type) and little idea what he wanted to do. After many years doing shit jobs Duncan went to art school. He still has no idea what he wants to do when leaves school. He does however have this to say about his artist practice:

“My chief concerns relate to the concepts of balance and imbala…”(the rest of this artist’s statement has been removed by order of the Department of Artwank)
[email protected]
duncanlister.wordpress.com
twitter.com/duncan_lister

Courses: NVQ Pedantics

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Bob Milner

Bob Milner was born in a different decade to most people reading this. His early life was marred by tragedy; the carpet and the curtains didn’t match. For anyone else, this would have been an opportunity to struggle through and prove to the world that nothing can stop them. For Bob, it was a sign that nothing was ever going to be right. A natural sceptic about the innate decency of people, misanthropy and a profound inability for empathy has contributed to the making of very little. His approach to art and living was shaped gradually over many tedious hours. Art is an itch, the kind you get in the middle of your back, the one you can’t reach. If he could reach, he would scratch it.

www.twitter.com/peepart
www.wordpress.com/bobmilner
www.milktwosugars.org

Courses: BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste & Diploma in Artwank

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Sparrow+Castice

Collaborative behemoth Sparrow+Castice are a Birmingham based creative duo thrust into art in an attempt to impress the other gender, owing to musical incompetence. Our interests lie primarily in doing as little work whilst pretending to do as much work as possible, puns, funs, and devoting a disproportionate amount of energy to hating artists with the initials A G. We’ve exhibited/screened at The Hepworth Wakefield, on a Henry Moore sculpture, at Flatpack Festival 2011 and in our garage. In 2012 Sparrow+Castice are set to replace Vic and Bob as the hosts of Shooting Stars on BBC2. The previous sentence was a lie.

sparrowandcastice.tumblr.com

Courses: MPhil Mistakes


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University of Incidental Knowledge Staff Profiles (part 1):

Alice Bradshaw

Alice Bradshaw is an artist and curator based in West Yorkshire, UK. Her practice involves a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility and blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane. Alice curates collaboratively and is co-founding director of Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish, co-curator in residence at Westgate Studios, Wakefield and co-curator for Holmfirth Arts Festival.

http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk

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Louise Atkinson

Louise Atkinson is a Leeds-based artist, curator and gallery educator. She works in a variety of media, relating the process to the concept. Her interests lie in the relationship between art, language and ritual, and particularly in the impact of social media on communication. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and worked on projects organised by Tate Britain, Leeds University, LAB Gallery, New York and Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others.

Currently, she curates for Shine Leeds and is founder of the online international group Artist Book Collective, from which she produces exhibitions alongside Leeds International Artist Book Fair.

http://louiseatkinsonblog.blogspot.com

Courses: BA (Hons) Comedy & Bsc Social Media

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Fundada

Fundada is an artist collective of Alice Bradshaw, Nancy Porter and Wolfie. Wolfie is really the mastermind behind the operation. He was rescued from a brewery in North Yorkshire and has since been championing the humourous and surreal with Alice and Nancy doing all the hard work. Alice and Nancy met whilst working at Temporary Art Space in Halifax in 2009 where cheap cava sealed their collaborative fate. Fundada is best known for Fundada Artists’ Film Festival (FAFF) which inaugurated at Halifax Festival 2010 and has shown some of the best artists’ short films from across the world. In 2011 FAFF moved to Wakefield and will tour in 2012. Fundada has always been interested the foreign and exotic, with the collective name found on a Havana Club rum bottle.

fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com

vimeo.com/fundada

Courses: BA (Hons) Foreign Language

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Vanessa Haley

Vanessa Haley is a person with a somewhat varied art practice. The biggest piece of which is her ongoing diaries that began in 1983 with the immortal words; this diary belongs to Vanessa Haley. This tomb of the emotional and professional rollercoaster which records her life, is intended to be her legacy to her son, because for damned sure she won’t be leaving him any money, chattels or property.

You can find examples of her work in many places, but feels that for the purposes of this it would be better if she didn’t tell you where they were, but that it might be quite nice if you just happened, by chance to find some of it.

Courses: BA (Hons) Film


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Bsc Social Media

1 year part time

Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops incidental knowledge at the highest level.

Unlike other courses, the title doesn’t refer to the subject to be studied, but the means of acquiring incidental knowledge. All information must be collected from facebook posts and/or twitter status updates and can be on any subject.

Students can choose to collate knowledge on particular themes or produce extended written works for extra credits.

Entry Requirements: Students must have a valid email account.

Application Process: Completion of the enrollment form.

Assessment Process: Students are required to evidence Incidental Knowledge in a digital format at least 3 times each term, with the source cited, to be published on the University website. Evidence may be provided in the form of text, drawing, photographs or any other appropriate format.

Course Leader: Louise Atkinson

Fee: None

See also UIK’s social media profiles:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-Incide…

http://twitter.com/incidentalknow


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