myblog | Benjamin Cain | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/benjamincain/activity/ Activity feed for Benjamin Cain. Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:54:30 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 3103385807bde2c44e7907fa078d0018 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1878 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:40:32 +0000 AIDOL by Lawrence Lek, 2019 “What, then, is the role of the fully-automated artist of today? When society no longer needs us, even the brightest stars will s […]

]]> 0 7864dd442368b65051829b43efba62a4 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1878 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:40:32 +0000 AIDOL by Lawrence Lek, 2019 “What, then, is the role of the fully-automated artist of today? When society no longer needs us, even the brightest stars will s […]

]]> 0 1dcc7bcce01707bc8950b9690706292a Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1873 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:28:19 +0000 Citizens Time Capsule by Ant Farm 1975 – 2000 Documents the burial of the Citizens Time Capsule at ArtPark, Lewiston, N.Y. – Sept. 7, 1975. The Time Capsule is a 1968 […]

]]> 0 f5e3b46bbc3c4912c7ec8319a9ffc46c Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1873 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:28:19 +0000 Citizens Time Capsule by Ant Farm 1975 – 2000 Documents the burial of the Citizens Time Capsule at ArtPark, Lewiston, N.Y. – Sept. 7, 1975. The Time Capsule is a 1968 […]

]]> 0 451e448d049b31cecd422d1aa562ff73 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1872 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:21:40 +0000 Decoding images from the Golden Record By Cory Zapatka, Oct 30, 2018, 2:00 PM GMT More than 11 billion miles away from Earth, two small discs are rocketing through space at speeds in excess of 37,200 miles per […]

]]> 0 a325f1b264e738d00afa5c0576fb7bd6 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1872 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:21:40 +0000 Decoding images from the Golden Record By Cory Zapatka, Oct 30, 2018, 2:00 PM GMTMore than 11 billion miles away from Earth, two small discs are rocketing through space at speeds in excess of 37,200 miles per […]

]]> 0 1b3060967395505ba697539bb6e90594 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1842 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:51:26 +0000 Worldbuilding for 2065 by Lawrence Lek 2020 Interlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative fiction, Lawrence Lek’s CGI films and virtual worlds explore the g […]

]]> 0 7992e0b65e9bcccd2779f474858c7dc2 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1828 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:51:26 +0000 Interlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative fiction, Lawrence Lek’s CGI films and virtual worlds explore the geopolitical impact of automation and simulation. His universe is populated with dreamers – i […]

]]> 0 1cdcd2fe6fb3e5fc49f1bc8292f9386e Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1841 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:36:13 +0000 Dolphin Embassy by Ant Farm 1974 Artist Talk on the project here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29y1NB6ELao The Dolphin Embassy was a research project […]

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The Dolphin Embassy was a research project that never was built and that attempted to study the communication between the human […]

]]> 0 47a4def60ccee356405b3dbebb25b480 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1840 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:28:52 +0000 Ways of Being by James Bridle 2023 ‘Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing’ New York Times’Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow […]

]]> 0 10ad50b784f5dfc7efbd5c9b14c0579b Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1819 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:28:52 +0000 ‘Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing’ New York Times’Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful … worth reading and rereading’ Brian Eno

‘Be prepared to […]

]]> 0 6312760d6a7f96aa234486490410effc Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1839 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:20:14 +0000 Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 1992 A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space An ever- […]

]]> 0 7bd0373305d5f4e036daa4ff42a0c0fd Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1818 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:20:14 +0000 A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotel […]

]]> 0 fee041c80caef453ef5ae9603bdb6f1e Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1372 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:47:11 +0000 Post-Digital Print. The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, Ludovico Alessandro, 2012 Discussing the ways in which publishing has mutated alongside a shifting media landscape…

]]> 0 edafa649cf20cdacddf23ef6ac499384 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1372 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:47:11 +0000 Discussing the ways in which publishing has mutated alongside a shifting media landscape…

]]> 0 72ecffd92a0930c9e60aea59e52254ca Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1371 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:40:56 +0000 Haroon Mirza – Studio Visit | TateShots, 2013 Haroon Mirza combines legacy media in playful and exciting ways to create immersive installations… Additional Interview:

]]> 0 02b29369d52b5b997da1e7088345895f Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1371 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:40:56 +0000 Haroon Mirza combines legacy media in playful and exciting ways to create immersive installations…

Additional Interview:

]]> 0 5013a0bdb85c93b344a2ef1f75ac2301 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1370 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:30:19 +0000 Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan? 2018 Writer (and CSM lecturer) Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of 1960s public intellectual and mass media guru Marshall McLuhan, examining his relevance in today’s digital world.

]]> 0 ddbb94779144b47bb2ec01877a0ddbd5 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1370 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:30:19 +0000 Writer (and CSM lecturer) Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of 1960s public intellectual and mass media guru Marshall McLuhan, examining his relevance in today’s digital world.

]]> 0 cbf12143bc2e2f93d163ca5b2dc84b01 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1116 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:09:46 +0000 Re-understanding media : feminist extensions of Marshall McLuhan by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, 2022 The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Medi […]

]]> 0 914f64d83b17c0ea269473ada19f717d Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1116 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:09:46 +0000 The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the messag […]

]]> 0 0812b5282a0c5b0d51d6abd839521ac1 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=165 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:37:31 +0000 Re-understanding media: feminist extensions of Marshall McLuhan by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, 2022 The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The E […]

]]> 0 3a0f4f91d1d46118a68b944cbe357983 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=165 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:37:31 +0000 The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for femin […]

]]> 1 f2ba88cd98a3362e282f16536ce7d316 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=123 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:57:22 +0000 On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972 A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris […]

]]> 0 a1511987f7b89f271886133ebbf233bf Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=123 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:57:22 +0000 A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris student uprising, and graffiti and slogans based on the ideas of Guy Debord (one […]

]]> 0 ecfca14185654f6af05db87b0ff67b79 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site BA GCD Community Resources List https://gcdcommunityresourceslist.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=118 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:50:40 +0000 Ways of Seeing by John Berger 1972 John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in […]

]]> 0 ad36970df56044f0cf8e3eb71ee1f090 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site GCD Community Resources List (OLD) https://gcdcommunityresources.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=118 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:50:40 +0000 John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times […]

]]> 0 9700efcb4f951493aa8b6d0b3bc5bd77 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=71 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:55:28 +0000 IntroductionThroughout this reflective report I aim to critically analyse my experiences of attempting to incorporate an anti-racist agenda within my teaching practice. More specifically, I will discuss a key […]

]]> 0 b3a395277815beae0c86fc2f683f4ea3 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=67 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:59:48 +0000 Leftovers, a leftist archive: https://archive.leftove.rs/

Shades of Noir Website

There are many parts of the SoN site which could be integrated within my teaching. Content that resonates with me include:The […]

]]> 0 1b0847d1dcb2e088dcc707a52c1b0c21 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=61 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:34:30 +0000 Religion in Britain: Challenges for Higher Education

‘We don’t do God’? the changing nature of public religion,Professor Tariq Modood, University of Bristol

Secular states and public religions – Wes […]

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Christine Sun Kim

Right from the start of the clip I could tell that the artists’ work was going to be relevant to my practice and pedagogy. I often incorporate f […]

]]> 0 8b6d990e42d71a63914263f49b69507b Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=33 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:25:55 +0000 3 Objcts Presentation Slides

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Session Plan

I started with brainstorming ideas for objects. intentions & activities that I found […]

]]> 0 1849b6c7b92569a070d526ad0a558069 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=31 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:57:13 +0000 The Descriptions Exercise

Rapid-Reflection:

This was a fascinating session, very explorative and experimental. I feel that Object Based Learning could really enhance my teaching through creating memorable, […]

]]> 0 1096532a7c8a5491d5a516f966c7b9e8 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=29 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:23:28 +0000 The free PDF http://joaap.org/press/trainingforexploitation.htm

This workbook by Precarious Workers Brigade, with a Foreword by Silvia Federici, is a critical resource pack for educators teaching […]

]]> 0 b87f870734ae675ff0aac22e3c0f8b30 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=26 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:05:00 +0000 This session pushed me to finally start reading Training for Exploitation?

Reflections on Preparing Students for Employability

Students are seemingly increasingly anxious about employability… Perhaps this […]

]]> 0 5fabe03e8e18c200aa7c414cddb5dfaa Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=24 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:11:15 +0000 A double page spread from a publication I worked on with the Architectural Workers Union – UVW–SAW (Reearching your institution can be empowering)

The before & After Poll

At the beginning and end of the ses […]

]]> 0 cbcd1b80659231e2941076f6edd1da99 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=22 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:38:43 +0000 Critical Pedagogy (image sourced via https://eflmagazine.com/oppressive-pedagogy/)

Paolo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed  is a key text in critical pedagogy, a term which I have only just learned! As so […]

]]> 0 34af927d2641ae7c994f27472016329a Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=20 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:27:45 +0000 The Class slide from my Introductory Presentation

Class was one of the words in my introductory presentation. In the introductory workshop I found myself confronted with the duality of being from a working […]

]]> 0 612f1bd4623f06c6d29a4af0487e0224 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=16 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:06:27 +0000 My 10 Words Presentation for the Introductory Workshop

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My presentation

I presented a 10 Words presentation which includes 10 key words from my teaching and […]

]]> 0 432c717a0e29a2fe0eb6c649ada11228 Benjamin Cain wrote a new post on the site PgCert Reflections: Ben Cain https://bencain.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:51:24 +0000 About Me/My Approach to Teaching:

I am a London based Graphic Designer and Lecturer born in 1993. In 2015 I completed a BA at Central Saint Martins, going on to complete an MA at the Royal College of Art […]

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