Radical Notations *All forthcoming POSTPONED*

Please note that, in the interests of audience and speaker wellbeing during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, we have postponed this event until further notice.

Radical Notations is a public forum that brings together national and international scholars, curators, designers and thinkers to explore the relationship between literature, technology and design, and to question how these interactions shape cultural change. It extends conversations between the School of Literature, Language and Culture (LLC), Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and other interested individuals/organisations.   

Looking to research in related fields, such as the history of art & architecture, anthropology, the history of science & technology, media studies, and the medical humanities, the series will ask: what creative and critical approaches to test, sign, sound, structure and self, have arisen in answer to ethical, social and political pressures of the age? How have developments in contemporary culture transformed the ways in which designers and writers contemplate past moments in the history of invention and communication? What is at stake for new forms of expression?

Programme

*All forthcoming POSTPONED*

31 Jan 2020 | To See and Know More 

Speakers: Maria Fusco, Joyce Dixon, Nami Pearce

Channelling proto-feminist mystics, writing in-situ, writing colour and theopoetics this event will create a space for thinking about translation in its widest sense, sending crossing signals between languages, cultures, concepts, registers.

5:30pm, Pig Rock Bothy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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27 Feb 2020 | Typography as Resistance

Speakers: Colin Herd, Vaibhav Singh

5:30pm, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, 77 Brunswick Street

26 March 2020 | Sonic Study 

Speakers: Ella Finer, Sarah Neely, Rebecca Collins

5:30pm, Cinema Space, Hunter Building, Edinburgh College of Art 

29 April 2020 | TBC

Speaker: Sarah Hayden 

5:30pm, Project Room, 50 George Square, School of Literatures, Language and Culture

28 May 2020 | The Long Form

Speaker: Kate Briggs

5:30pm, Project Room, 50 George Square, School of Literatures, Language and Culture

25 June 2020 | The Future(s) of the Essay 

Speakers: Amanda Thomson, Elizabeth Reeder, Emily LaBarge

5:30pm, Project Room, 50 George Square, School of Literatures, Language and Culture