GMD Alumni Residency

The Graphic and Media Design residency is a paid opportunity to work within the course and develop your own project during the month of March. This year we are excited to be partnering with the Creative Technology Hub (CTH) to support the residency.

We are interested in alumni working alongside students, demonstrating their practice by creating new work, and exploring the opportunities that the CTH offers. You should consider how you will use the CTH as part of the project, and how your project would communicate one or more of the specialist areas the CTH supports to GMD students. See below for more details on the CTH.

This year’s residency looks at the theme of Synchronicity. This term, linked to the psychiatrist Carl Jung, describes events that coincide in time and appear meaningfully related. We would like you to consider how you might interpret and explore this concept through your proposed residency project.

The Creative Technology Hub supports emerging technology projects that involve programming, electronics and the experimental use of AV equipment; through one-to- one support, sign-up workshops and a large store of equipment.

The CTH area is project-led, which means that students learn through hands-on practice, supported by a team of expert technicians working across each of their specialist areas:

• Creative coding
• Physical computing
• Projection mapping
• Extended Reality (XR)
• Machine learning

During this residency, the CTH will grant you negotiated access to their technical facilities and equipment. You are expected to demonstrate technical proficiency for the project you are planning to develop.

• 13 January 2025. Deadline for submitting proposal
• 29 January 2025. Interviews
• 30 January 2025. Alumni resident/s contacted and residency confirmed
• Week commencing 10th March 2025. Start of residency
• Friday 21st March 2025. End of residency

A brief proposal for a 2-week residency outlining:

• How you might utilise the opportunity to work with the Creative Technology Hub, students and workshops.
• How you might explore the concept of synchronicity. Include potential outcomes and images and/or sketches if possible.
• An outline of technical support and equipment needed.
• A personal statement and brief statement about your practice.
• The benefit to you from this residency at this point in your practice.
• Portfolio with examples of up to 5 previous projects.

Submit your proposal to Ian Carr, our GMD Course Leader: i.carrlcc.arts.ac.uk