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“The challenge is to reconcile the prosperous economy with the good society”, David Lammy, September 2009.

Next month sees the return of one of the UK’s largest international festivals of electronic arts.

Artists embracing a do-it-yourself approach to the promotion of their practice using new technologies, open source software and online communities, was the idea behind two seminars organised in partnership with Chapter Arts Centre and WARP at g39.

Twelve commissions have been selected for the

This month’s prizes, awards and commissions

‘The Ceramic City – Design for Public Space’ conference, held on 9 and 10 October 2009 at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and organised by Art&Architecture Journal Conferences in partnership with the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), coincided with the BCB Festival held throughout the city of Stoke-on-Trent from 3 October – 13 December 2009.

Responding to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially engaged art practice, ‘Craftivism’ (12 December 2009 – 14 February 2010) is a contemporary art project that involves thirteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of ‘craftivism’ (combining crafting and activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.