Today's idea - 'Beyond Practice' Degree Show

We're always banging on with praise about the latest Brighton Photography/Art/Digital production, but today we recommend Sussex's Media Practice and Theory Degree show which finishes Wednesday. It encompasses all the practical media courses (long list) and having seen some of the work, they're all really fantastic and I can't recommend them enough.



Made up of photography, screen drama, radio, digital media, and video documentary; I've had a peek at the trailer for one of the films, which acts as an indicator better than I can say.



I've had the pleasure this year of watching a couple of the projects come together and grow, and it's been a challenging sort of 'journey' and everyone's done fantastically. I've been in classes with a couple of the guys behind the excellent work, and it's sounded harrowing, rewarding and they've got no end of excitement for their projects. Especially Bob who shoots some of our gig photos and whose project sounds fantastically odd and wonderful. (Short plug over)

You can find the Facebook event here. I urge you to go. Sussex's main focus of academia is rooted mostly in books but when they do go practical, they do it brilliantly.

It's running until Wednesday June the 2nd, so I'm popping up to Falmer today before the week properly starts. It's open between 10am-5pm, and it's right by Stamner park which a gorgeous place for a walk.

Map: here

If you're hungering for more art after this, then perhaps check out Brighton's latest offering that we'll be featuring tomorrow (probably).

Today's idea - The Transmission Exhibition at the Grey Area

Today, and every day that is a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday sees Transmission, a lovely exhibition run until January the 31st.

In clever and artsier words than I have to hand (normal service will resume next week) The Grey Area, where it's hosted says the below about Transmission. If you want an abbreviation, this is it: "experimental contemporary art events in an idiosyncratic non-sterile project space." Yes, well. It's free, and good for a nose around to expand one's feeling of atryness. Open 1-5pm, add yourself to the Facebook event and you can find it here on Google Maps.

"TRANSMISSION brings together four artists using different media and approaches, who each share a particular interest in communication as dialogue and interpretation.

Whether it is the interpretation of one’s words, the translation of a text, or a reading and understanding of the world; the dynamics between intention and result and between transmission and reception are significant in the artists’ investigations of communication.

The artists’ common ground is an interest in what’s hidden behind the immediacy of signs. What is beyond our grasp and understanding: meaning. To be universally understood meaning has to be common and uniformed; it requires a conventional acceptance.

The critique of this common meaning that we could call “truth” is carried out by the artists in different ways. Their differences are as important as their similarities.

Their differences show the rhizomatic nature of the truth - of each truth.TRANSMISSION means then a creative process of interpretation rather than an assimilation of unified information. It is the capability to create personal meanings and understandings.

By playing with the visibility of the sign and the invisibility of significance, art can expose our fragile being and the tragicomic failure of the search for a higher and universal truth."