2025 | itinerant space

Itinerant space workshop, UKCGE conference

I really enjoyed the discussion on our academic research journal itinerant-space.co.uk during the UKCGE Conference at RCA, Battersea Campus, London. We were Option 3 (below). The link to the conference is here. For this event, I co-led a workshop along with the other editors. We used material shapes, to open out debate, and avoid ‘siloing’ ideas, by bringing keywords together to show related concepts.

Take another look at our journal available here

itinerant space: Issue 2 launched at Royal College of Art in July 2024. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/

itinerant space is a journal of art, design and communication research practices is an experimental online platform for doctoral researchers. Issue 2 builds on the learning of the pilot issue to iteratively develop an expanded network of the RCA’s wider doctoral research community, and to stretch beyond the academy. As an experimental platform, the journal offers a unique opportunity to inform interdisciplinary conversations and modes of research dissemination. The editors are working towards opening calls to other institutions.

Founding editors: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kirsty Smith.

Editor: Professor Teal Triggs
Editors, Issue 1: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy. Editors, Issue 2: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kam Rehal.

Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk

Papers launched at Royal College of Art in July 2024. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/

I recently successfully completed my final PhD exam in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. RCA PhD Research Biennale 2025 screened my installation the sky is taught by falling. This work includes a series of videos, medium format and 35 mm photographs and graphite frottage drawing. The iteration shown in the biennale included a digital video in the Hangar space and a large scale medium format photograph in the Mezzanine Gallery (image at top)

A series of performative readings by contributors to itinerant space: Issue 2. Private View, February 20, 18:00 to 21:30. Readings by contributers to Issue 2 brought a material experience of our journal into the exhibition space. A symposium peer review workshop on February 27 launched a new open call to PhD students in all the schools at RCA.

Our biennale exhibition and symposium is over now, until next time. It was so nice to catch up with friends and experience where their research has taken them.

News | K M Bosy | 2024

Guest Curator for Society for Animation Studies on Animationstudies2.0

Many thanks to Animationstudies2.0 co-editors Carmen Hannibal and Anastasiia Gushchina for inviting me to guest curate and edit a call, the invitation to contribute some writing, and for their skilful support and copy editing.

During February and March 2024 I guest curated and co-editing a call for the Society for Animation Studies. My writing on my video practice, drawing on my video home is where the heart is, is included in the collection

Below from the School of Communication at Royal College of Art:

Nicky Hamlyn, PGR Tutor in the School, features in a new collection of writings for animationstudies 2.0, the blog of the Society of Animation Studies. Guest curated by RCA PhD candidate Karen Bosy, contributors also include RCA alumna Sharon Young and current RCA students Despina Papadopoulos and Karen Bosy. The Society for Animation Studies promotes academic writing in the field. The theme for this call, Implying the Surface in Animation, presents the spatial environment as grounded, without representing it as ‘the ground’ in films, animations, or other works using animation strategies or technologies. The contributions were published weekly throughout February and March: Table of Contents HERE

Exhibition in the Forest Iterative collaboration with @sharonyoung_studio and Boston University students in The Forest Exhibition, Epping Forest, London, September 2024. Video and performance.

Peckham 24, Book launch in May 2024 Launch for murmurings, murmurings, She Speaks Up book publication. Image contribution.

News | K M Bosy | 2023

Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, screened the sky is taught by falling series video installation September 2023.

EVA London 2023, the sky is taught by falling, digital video (2023) was screened in a pop-up exhibition of works by artist researchers during this conference in July.  It was great to be back at this conference. I served on the Peer Review team of the Program Committee for EVA London Conference (2020 -2024) after my initial presentations of Seminar Project at this conference. An introduction to Seminar Project can be found on this website. It is a video project that started with a worldwide call to practitioners for short videos exploring concepts about water and privacy. Co-authored papers on Seminar Project were presented at EVA London 2019 and EVA London 2020 conference and at CIDI conference on Communication Design in Brazil. Discussion towards an exhibition in Rio De Janeiro had begun in 2020. More information on the Seminar Project page of this site.

Hopscotch, RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023 screened my installation the sky is taught by falling video, 35mm photographs and frottage drawing.

News | 2020 -2022

Without Boundaries screened my video series private (2022) and included my graphite works on mylar of studio tools, White City, RCA, 2022. 

PROVA, Sick Love, Journal 5, RCA Arts and Humanities research journal online, vault, written and image contribution, p. 188-189, RCA, online in 2020, book form in 2022.

A founding editor of itinerant-space.co.uk an academic research journal for PhD research at the Royal College of Art. I worked with other research students to design and test a new website and to develop peer review and open-call guidelines, initiating drafts and testing procedures. Issue 1, the pilot for this online experimental platform, was soft launched in February 2021. As an issue editor for Issue 1 & Issue 2, I led and co-led workshops online and in person for in school meetings and doctoral training weeks open to all the PhD students in all the schools of RCA. My video vault is published on the pilot, first as a test image in 2020, and then as a contribution to Issue 1. Issue 2 was published July 2024 and carries my iterative video home is where the heart is (2024). Papers, a book version for PhD students in the School of Communication at RCA, was also launched in 2024.

Workshops about peer review, copyright, editing, forms of writing and style, and to develop and disseminate a call for contributions were held online and in person during the development of the pilot issue and repeated for issue 2, RCA.

Itinerant space screens my video vault online. Issue 1, the pilot for this online experimental platform, was soft launched in 2021. Link to this video here

What is Public Space? Trajectories II exhibition & events, video workshop using a zine format, Waterman’s Art Centre, London, 2019.

Leading workshops and presenting to incoming RCA MA Students: Cybernetics and over-trust, webinar and panel discussion, 2020; The ad hoc and the organized in public space, workshop, RCA, 2019; The Commemorative Document and the Image Bank, workshop, RCA, 2019; Curatorial, Inspirations and Influences, workshop, RCA, 2019; Movements and Trends, workshop, RCA, 2019; Public Space & Exchange, workshop, RCA, 2018; Public Space & The Manifesto, workshop, RCA, 2018.