Hi

We’d like to tell you about undergraduate art courses we’re teaching just outside London, UK.

The we being Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org, Michael Szpakowski, artist, filmmaker & composer, Dr Charlotte Frost, digital critic and Sue Jacobs, artist and designer; and the just-outside-London being a design school in the beautiful grounds of an agricultural college in the countryside a couple of miles from the Essex county town of Chelmsford. We are 30 mins from London by train - Tate Modern, for example, is doable in about 50 mins.

These are nominally Digital Art and Design courses but students are not confined to one discipline or the other and are encouraged to freely mix and match the digital and the concrete.

These courses integrate theory and practice and are largely studio-based with initial guided work based on key themes such as identity, appropriation and remix, chance and formal systems, landscape and the environment &c. As students progress they increasingly determine for themselves the direction and content of their studies according to their interests and ambitions.

If you would like to see some of the current student work it’s all collected (originals or documentation) here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/inspiwrit/

If you know anyone who is contemplating undergraduate study in art/design we’d be grateful if you’d point us out to them.

Foundation Degree (FdA) Digital Art and Design:

http://www.writtle.ac.uk/design/course.cfm?id=387&Level=2

BA(Hons) Art and Design Practice:

http://www.writtle.ac.uk/design/course.cfm?id=1116&level=2

Furthermore we actively encourage mature students and students with non-standard work/study histories but with curiosity, energy and enthusiasm to apply.
Ruth and Michael are quite happy to answer any questions you might have or to forward them for reply to our current students.

Please feel free to forward this message

Best wishes

Ruth Catlow ruth.catlow@furtherfield.org

Michael Szpakowski michael@dvblog.org

Writtle School of Design sits within the top ten Art and Design institutions nationally - Guardian University Guide 2010