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ETHO Technical Community Conference
Pick & Mix
22 - 24 February 2023 London, United Kingdom Hosted by the Royal College of Art (RCA) ThemeELIA is excited to announce that the ETHO Technical Community Conference will be held from 22 - 24 February 2023 in London, UK. Hosted by the Royal College of Art (RCA) in collaboration with local ETHO partners across London and the South of England. The ETHO Core Group invites ELIA member colleagues from all artistic disciplines to explore technical teaching and to contribute to what promises to be an experiential, and memorable programme. ETHO Technical Community Conference 2023: Pick & Mix, addresses the emerging role of technical teaching in Art, Design and Performing Arts. With this conference, the aim is to question and share knowledge, experiences and best practices of how technical and practical skills can be implemented in the teaching of future artists. Gather together with your international colleagues, make valuable connections and learn new ways to make your working life better. Photo AlbumBrowse below and look back at the ETHO Technical Community Conference 2023 
RegistrationIn-person participation is now closed! We invite technical managers, technical heads, technicians and educators involved in technical services or technical teaching from ELIA member institutions to join us online.
Online participation
ProgrammeFollowing the theme of Pick & Mix, the three-day programme will offer a series of keynotes, lectures, workshops, group discussions and mobile visits. The programme on Wednesday 22 February will be held at the Royal College of Art, Battersea Campus. On 23 and 24 February, participants will pick their preferred mobile visits which will be hosted at several schools in London and surrounding areas. These sessions will offer a mix of technical visits of workshop spaces and facilities, and presentations on various topics related to technical teaching. Here’s the list of schools that will be offering mobile visits:
More local hosts to be announced. Further details on the mobile visits will be shared in January 2023. Registered participants will be asked to Pick & Mix their preferred sessions from January onwards. A detailed programme will be published in January 2023. Panel SpeakersKieran Brown and Richard FalleUniversity of the West of England (UWE), College of Art, Technology and Environment, United Kingdom Kieran Brown is the Director of Resources and Technical Learning at UWE, College of Art, Technology and Environment. Kieran trained as a Fine Artist and has exhibited internationally. Galleries that Kieran has exhibited include Spike Island Bristol, the Barbican London, Galleria Pack Milan and others. Kieran has also supported art and design projects as a fabrication specialist and consultant. Richard Falle is a 360 Project Coordinator at UWE, College of Art, Technology and Environment. Currently, he is leading and coordinating projects advancing technical learning and teaching at UWE. Richard studied fine art printmaking to the postgraduate level at UWIC (Cardiff) Emily Carr (Vancouver) and the RCA (London). He has worked in the commercial print industry in pre-press and graphic design. Richard continues his design and print practice and exhibits his work nationally and internationally. He has worked as a technical instructor at UWE since 2005 delivering teaching and learning for all post and undergraduate students and staff studying subjects within the art, design and media subjects. Aymeric MansouxWillem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), Willem de Kooning Academy Research Centre (WdKA KC), Lectoraat Commercial Practices, Netherlands Aymeric Mansoux is a reader and professor of practice-oriented research. He founded and was running the Experimental Publishing master at the Piet Zwart Institute (WdKA) until 2022. Research interests revolve around cultural practices that engage with ecology, computer network infrastructures, permacomputing, shadow IT, repair culture, post-free culture, collapsology and post-growth economics. Past and recent collaborations include: Naked on Pluto, a Facebook critique in the form of a Facebook game; The SKOR Codex, an archive about the impossibility of archiving; What Remains, an 8-bit Nintendo game about whistleblowing and the manipulation of public opinion in relation to the climate crisis; and LURK, a server infrastructure to host discussions around net/computational art, culture, and politics. Aymeric received his PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London for his investigation of the techno-legal forms of social organisation within free and open source-based cultural practices. More info: https://monoskop.org/Aymeric_Mansoux Verity ClearyCentral Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), United Kingdom Verity is Specialist Costume Technician in Performance, Design and Practice. She’s an experienced and qualified educator, tutor, maker and designer. Award winner of a UAL Teaching Award and a White Square Teaching award. In 2001 she graduated in Costume, from Wimbledon School of Art. Working in Theatre, Opera, Television and Film, including companies such as Wexford Festival Opera and the National Theatre, and for Directors such as Stephen Polikoff and Kenneth Brannagh. In 2006 she won an award at the Phoenix Film Festival for Best Costume Design for the short film 'Devilwood'. Verity went on to design her first feature film in 2007, 'Tuesday'. During her 3 years at Ballet Central, she designed and made costumes for over 35 pieces, including 'Fur Alina' choreographed by Christopher Bruce. Since December 2011 Verity has worked at Central Saint Martin's, obtaining two teaching awards, written papers on teaching practical subjects online - recognised as best practice developed in 2021-, and wrote a guide for 'Inclusion for all within the Technical Workshop'. Verity completed a PGCert in 2014 and is currently studying for her MA in Academic Practice for Art, Design and Communication. Tim SavageUniversity of the Creative Arts (UCA), United Kingdom Tim Savage is the Director of Technical Learning at the University of the Creative Arts (winner of the Papin Prize for Technical Team performance), overseeing 130 technicians and tutors. He is an author within his discipline of photography and researcher/writer in his research field, notably ‘Creative Arts technicians in academia: To transition or not to transition? (2018) and Challenging HEA Fellowship: Why should creative arts technicians be drawn into teaching? (2019). Tim was a commissioner for the recent Research England UKRI TALENT National Policy Commission (Technical Skills, Roles, and Careers in UK HE and research), providing insights from the creative arts. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Senior Tutor at West Dean College, where his courses received notable mention in the Global Adobe Educators Awards. He is also a current PhD candidate exploring how creative arts technicians conceive of their pedagogies. Practical Info
Venues Mobile visits on 23 and 24 February will take place at various locations. See the list of schools offering mobile visits above.
Travel The Royal College’s Battersea Campus is not located near a train or tube station, so we advise you to bring some comfortable shoes to walk to the venue.
Closest Tube Station: Battersea Power Station (20min walk)
Hotels Note: We are aware that strike actions are planned for parts of the higher education sector across the United Kingdom between 1 February and 22 March. Negotiations are ongoing. All programmes are subject to change. The ELIA team is monitoring the situation and will update participants in a timely fashion, should this affect the ETHO Community Conference. HostThe Royal College of Art (RCA) started life in 1837 as the Government School of Design. Granted a Royal Charter and university status in 1967, today the RCA remains the world’s most influential postgraduate institution of art and design. The Royal College of Art aims to achieve international standards of excellence in the postgraduate and pre- /mid-professional education of artists and designers and related practitioners. It aims to achieve these through the quality of its teaching, research and practice and through its relationship with the institutions, industries and technologies associated with the disciplines of art and design.
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