This is the Fourth

MAMMO
It’s the end of the year and Mammo has
arrived at issue 4 with a few less letters,
feeling a bit lighter and much brighter. In
this issue articles by students and tutors
add to our pages. Justin (from SEA ) has
opened up a space for dialogue about
ecology, a dialogue we hope will continue
in our next issue! As we’re heading into
the summer, it’s fitting that this issue has a
warmer tone to it.

This year the SRC has largely supported

us with both funding to print this issue
and supporting our club night. Thank you.

We have ambitions. We are looking for

ways to create a permanent structure,
so that Mammo will continue when some
supporters, friends, and contributors have
left. (Over the summer) We will work hard
to secure a sponsor making it easier to
print more issues and providing us with a
stable funding source.

We have opened a new email account.

Please send all contributions and submis-
sions to

mammomagazine@gmail.com

Have a ravishing summer!

Mammo
 News
Ray Mckenzie will be filling our lectures with passion and vigour for one more
term!!! He will now stay on until Christmas.

SEA finally has a new technician. Russell worked days, nights and weekends to
ensure students had their work done in time for the degree show, all in remarkably
high spirits and with continuous jolly banter. Full of new ideas, it is clear he’s going
to make a really positive impact. THANKS RUSSELL

Photography will not be losing two of the tutors expected to be made redundant
this year, so Anne and Jim will be staying on.

Homemade universe presented the brilliant Glass Hammer exhibition, made up

drawings, paintings, film and installation. They created a rather sinister but playful
feel, enhanced with the new independent venue, and the whole thing ended with
a brilliant band night bash of celebration.

Complaints

In the last issue of Mammo there was a lot of criticism without any suggested action.
We need more articles that consider specific ways to take action in response to prob-
lems we have with senior management’s lack of transparency and unprecedented
behaviour over the past year.
 Action Action Action
We all know by now that this has been a difficult year and the budget has been tight.
It looks as though some problems will be resolved next year; the barns will be un-
dergoing maintenance over the summer meaning it will be a much more hospitable
environment over the winter.

But I think we can’t say too often that the savings made by the school have come at a
high cost for students. Not having a metal workshop has meant many students have
had to abandon projects, and will leave school lacking much needed skills. The wood
workshop, in turn, lacks basic tools such as hammers and screwdrivers.

Photography students currently have to print their work outside of school because
their printers are in need of repair. A student from ceramics told me this week that
they have done a fund-raiser to buy material for their course. This is unacceptable.
There are various possible ways we can continue to put pressure upon senior man-
agement: we could write to our Secretary of Education Fiona Hyslop (Fiona.Hyslop.
msp@scottish.parliament.uk) expressing concern that there has not been enough
money invested in our departments.

For this to work most effectively we would have to pass it through the SRC, mean-
ing the concern would be unionised rather than coming from individuals. Doing this
could be a step forward in dealing with the source of the problem of funding whilst
also putting further pressure upon senior management to be held accountable for the
current situation.
SRC Elections
This years SRC elections were hard fought and there was a really good turn
out at the polls, so Mammo would like to say a colossal well done to Michael
White who will be taking over from Colin McKean as SRC president. Colin’s
had an excellent two-year-run and we’re all excited to see Michael build on
his good work. For anyone who needs a little reminder or missed it at the elec-
tions, here is Michael’s manifesto for his time as president.

MICHAEL WHITE // Manifesto

My priority first and foremost if elected SRC president will be the demands of
students. I am fully prepared to use my experience of the schools communica-
tion channels to support the student body in any issues they feel compromise
a good experience at GSA.

It has come to my attention in my time spent at GSA that there has been a
decline in basic provision for students. Acting as a member of the Student
Representative Council, Board of Studies and class representative for Paint-
ing and Printmaking has made it apparent that this decline is the product of
central management’s commitment to a culture of putting public perception
before provision for students.

This year has been hard for the school. I have been closely involved with oth-
er class representatives in challenging the decisions that have impaired the
student experience. If elected as SRC president, I will continue to pressure
central management into widening their sphere of communication, making
them more accountable for their decisions that may further compromise your
student experience. It has been in their favor to keep students “in the dark”
as decisions are made to read well in media but have not actually benefited
students. If elected I hope to engineer a situation where students will be better
consulted and involved in such decision making processes.

As the plan to demolish part of the Renfrew Street campus draws closer we
are looking at a period of great change at GSA. Therefore, it is important that
change takes place on the terms of students. It is my intention, as the project
develops to express the views of students as comprehensibly as I possibly
can.

If elected I will put my full energy in to promoting the voices of students to en-
sure the continuation and improvement of your experience at GSA.
We would also like to give Claire Harrison a very big pat on the back indeed
for winning the election for vice president for the second time. Claire had this
to say about the matter,

“ I’m really pleased to have been elected for a second year. We had a re-
ally good turn out of just over 300 votes, so thank you to everyone who got
involved and voted. I hope that Michael and I can continue to run the Vic,
both as a place that the students are happy with and as a successful venue
in Glasgow’s competitive scene. Now that I am in for a second term, there
is a lot more I’d like to do with the current schedule and open it up for more
new and exciting nights.

I’d like to encourage anyone with any ideas or projects to get in touch. You
can either drop in to our office (in the basement of the Vic) or send me an
email at c.harrison@gsa.ac.uk.

I’d be happy to try and accommodate any ideas you might have - either
regarding events, gigs, or making use of the space. One of the most reward-
ing things is to see students using the building, whether it be for fundraisers,
as a practice space, or for installation. The space is there to be used by the
students, and should be thought of as a valuable resource.

I look forward to seeing you all at our degree show street party and I hope
you’ll all come and support the Vic this year at our after show event. We
have a predominantly student line up with Robbie Thompson bringing his
own sound system into the Assembly Hall, and both graduating and non-
graduating students playing a little bit of everything throughout the night.

And don’t miss the President’s set out on the street! ”

Claire Harison
Vice President / Ents Convenor

And for those who missed it here is Claire’s manifesto.

CLAIRE HARRISON // Manifesto

In order to build on the achievements of my curent year, I have decided to
run for Vice President a second time. With my experience as Ents Conve-
nor, I feel more
goals can be
achieved and the
events programme
will run smoothly.

My main priority last

year was to promote
student involvement
within the union and
this is still my main
objective. For ex-
ample, this year we
have started a stu-
dent run Saturday
club night ‘Gram,
which in addition to showcasing art school talent, serves as a fundraiser
for a student magazine. I have met so many enthusiastic and motivated
students, and through this dialogue I will continue to encourage and facili-
tate their ideas.

Part of my platform last year was to have more live music, and we have had
high profile guests, such as Animal Collective, back in the Vic this year. It is
important that as Vice President I continue to improve the Vic’s resources
and maintain this profile, in order to attract more big name shows. How-
ever, this will be met alongside promoting up and coming local bands, like
the Phantom Band and Findo Gask who have both played this year.

It is important that I maintain the Art School as an exciting venue in what

is a very competitive market, by running a programme that is diverse and
engaging. I have made some positive changes thus far, and have more I
would like to do in a second year. Most important however, is that students
continue to use your union; both in putting on events and attending our
nights. This involves further developing the programme and sustaining this
dialogue.

I have great affection for this place and I will continue to work closely with
the President, to represent the student body, in what is set to be another
challenging and rewarding year.
Caught Between the Dangerous Moral High
Ground and the Armpit of Apathy
Apparently, the laptop computer I’m using to write this article on generated waste matter
during manufacture almost four thousand times its own weight. A statistic like that can
leave you staring at the wall for longer than is good for you. For me it conjures up an im-
age of a mountain of raw materials and a miniature figure (me) stranded on top, feeling
rather awkward and wanting to get down. Needless to say, they didn’t use that statistic
or visual metaphor in the campaign for Macbook Air. Not that I’m using such a comput-
er. My iBook is close to celebrating it’s tenth birthday - an antique in the ever-changing
digital World. The fact it still even works owes much to ‘Singing Cat Jim’ – a man who
knows more about computers than I know about…well almost anything, especially com-
puters! I got his name from a colleague in a time of desperate need - my machine was
really struggling, close to breakdown and I simply didn’t have the money for a new one.
Jim gave it more RAM, memory, as well as its first DVD player, CD burner and airport
card - revolutionising my computer use in the process. All this for just £200! (inc. labour)

In an early conversation with Jim he reassured me that my computer was indeed worth
saving – apparently this early version of iBook suffers very few of the design faults for
which later versions are renown – keys falling off, paint wearing off the keys, screens
being marked by the keys…and that’s before you even explore the machines compli-
cated inner workings. (Serves you right I can hear the PC fraternity saying) But isn’t it
strange to hear that as a product moves from generation to generation, it actually de-
velops more faults, not fewer? Is this simply a result of the manufacturers frantic efforts
to push technology forward? Or is there something else at play here, something more
dubious? I’m talking about ‘designed in’ obsolescence. Now that my machine has
had its upgrade, perhaps it’s set to run for as long as I’m willing to tolerate its antique
appearance (ignoring, in the process, ad campaigns for the latest Mac generation).

For the sake of the environment I hope my iBook does run and run because the pro-
duction mountain I described earlier is even less attractive at the other end of the com-
puters life cycle. I’m sure most of us are quite familiar with images of people in China
or India, wading through piles of ewaste. These graveyards of technology are seething
with indestructible plastic, poisonous toxins and heavy metals - in addition to the more
precious metals that make them so attractive to those desperate enough to extract
them. This ‘recycling’ process is usually not given much consideration during design
and manufacture so the costs are told in health terms - human as well as environmental.

Before you think I’m taking the moral high ground here, let me come clean: Let me re-
mind you that the reason for upgrading rather than replacing my laptop was driven pri-
marily by financial necessity, not environmental concern. Such an admission – confes-
sion even, usually elicits a gasp of shock and surprise. “Aren’t you supposed to be the
bloke into the environment? Aren’t you supposed to be whiter that white – greener than
green”? Well no actually, why is the envi-
ronment any more my concern than yours?
The problem is that as soon as you men-
tion the holy trinity of sustainability, ecol-
ogy or environment, people expect an im-
possibly pious example to be set – simple,
clean, and pure. The reality is that life is
more messy, uncertain and confusing
than that. Even with the greatest will in the
World, to walk the ethical ‘high wire’ is a
difficult task with complex choices to be
made, some of them beyond your grasp.

The reason I try to avoid the moral

high ground is not down to the jeering
crowds willing me to lose my balance
or sense of direction – it’s due to the
grounded realisation that the moral high
ground is not a sustainable place to live
your life. It’s too riddled with the pitfalls of contradiction, disguised as truth. If there are
answers worth having then they surely must come from the messy quagmire of lived
experience where the choices are thought through - real, not imagined. That’s not to
say that you don’t need some kind of moral compass, but taking the moral high ground
risks isolation – a fatal condition in the context of ecology. The further up the moral
mountain you climb, the more isolated you become. A wonderful euphoria takes over as
you ascend the peak, but this is often followed by exhaustion, exposure, and hypother-
mia. Your chances aren’t looking good; the weather changes, you lose visibility... Even
if you did have the good sense to tell someone else your plans in advance (like a good
moral mountaineer) how can you guarantee they won’t just keep quiet, happy to see you
make your fatal blunder. If you do survive such an ordeal the lessons you might learn
are that a) in order to have any hope of reaching the peak you need to establish base
camp first, and b) if you do climb, have the humility to turn back on yourself if necessary.

Leo Hickman’s recent article in the Guardian stressed the need - now that environ-
mentalism has gone mainstream - for activists to embrace mature political debate
- “Environmentalism is being forced to grow up: move beyond the moody idealism of
its teenage years and towards the murky compromise and pragmatism that are the
hallmarks of so-called mature politics”. That’s all well and good, but with the political
and economic systems in widespread freefall we might still need to show some initia-
tive – some leadership. I’m not talking about the ‘I say, you do’ version of leadership,
or the ‘I lead, you follow’ version, or, come to think of it the all-too-familiar ‘I say I do
this, to make you do that, but I’m really doing this’ version that doesn’t fool anyone.
What I’m proposing is something Felix Guattari alludes to in his book
The Three Ecologies: “Individuals” he says, “must become more united and in-
creasingly different”. That’s a difficult concept to grasp and even harder to prac-
tice, surrounded as we are by the impendent bubble of homogeneity. In this
context the moral and ethical maze ahead of us looks like a trap built and
set by governments to erode liberties and difference. What will it take for us
to realise that the real ethical and moral maze is located in our own heads?

Last weekend the lights went out in our house. We suffered a power cut which lasted
almost four days. The problem wasn’t caused by lack of supply but by insufficient
maintenance to the sub-station at the end of our road (the inevitable impact of pri-
vatisation). During this period of imposed ‘off-grid’ living we were all reminded of our
dependence on electricity as small adjustments had to be made to our daily routine:
TVs and DVDs were ditched in favour of board games and books, Kettles shelved
in favour of saucepans, blankets replaced central heating. What I missed most of all
was the morning shower which has become such an essential ritual. Beyond these
more selfish losses however, an interesting phenomenon occurred on our street, a
kind of social compensation. People began to talk to one another! Initially this was
just to find out the latest news on the power cut - but later developed into concern
for households without basic heat, lighting and hot water. Were they coping and did
they need anything? I got to meet and chat to people I had never even seen before.

Now the lights are back on again this sense of community has sadly receded back into
the mechanised routine of everyday life. I’m now ‘free’ to doze off in front of the TV,
curl up in front of the fire or poke the promise of friendship on Facebook. But by reject-
ing these ‘freedoms’, will I avoid falling asleep again into the dream of reality? Earth-
day 2009 marked a mass collective awakening on a spectacular scale as hundreds
of thousands of people across the Globe switched off their lights in a co-ordinated
symbol of environmental solidarity. One of the biggest challenges we face today is in
moving such a powerful gesture beyond the language of symbol and spectacle, into
our everyday.

www.earthday.net

Thackra, John. Clean Growth – From mindless development, to design mindfulness.

(2008) White paper1/6 Grays School of Art.
Hickman, Leo. ‘Welcome to Planet Earth’ The Guardian (14/4/09)
Thatchergeddon
The true end of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy has been more and more apparent
over the past year. The current economic climate and general public dissent at
Gordon Brown’s government have been well publicised. All the negative press is
not what we need just now. Instead we need to take positive stance on the situa-
tion.

Thatcher’s proclamation that “there is no such thing as society: there are only in-
dividual men and women, and there are families” may have been true at the time.
The defeat of the unions in the early 1980s, highlighted by Thatcher’s “triumph”
over the National Union of Mineworkers during the Miner’s Strike (1984-5), has
left society in disarray up until now. Yet as the shackles of oppression are being
eroded away, due to the collapse of Thatcherist economic ideals, society is begin-
ning to reform. This new reformation will be a slow process, but is essential that
we all acknowledge and embrace these changing times.

Signs of these changes have been felt across the world. The “Pots and Pans”
Revolution in Iceland, which began in October 2008, grew out of the Icelandic
Government’s poor handling of the economy. They were calling for immediate
elections and the resignation of government officials. This rudimentary protest
came to its height on the 20th January this year with riots and violence, only 3
days later Prime Minister Geir Haarde had announced his resignation. These new
times are ones in which the individual is uniting with other individuals in order
to bring about change. Men and women are abandoning some of the apathy of
old and instead are adopting a new sense of community and society. The way in
which the people of Iceland have united to bring about positive change should
prove an inspiration to everyone. We as people can only bring about change when
we work together; it is this lack of interaction that has caused the collapse of so-
ciety in the past.

The scenes in London during the G20 protests in March, where 35,000 people
gathered to protest against the policies of world leader’s, were not just about pro-
test but about peace and harmony amongst people. It had a party atmosphere,
with speeches and live music. It was a celebration of what happens when we get
together and under a banner of change. Despite there not being one single issue
or one single main issue, it is the way in which we gathered that is important and
we need to learn more from these kinds of protests. The group of 200 or so an-
archists, who were just out to cause trouble, may have marred the G20 protests,
but the overall consensus was one of peace and unity. The tragic death of Ian
Tomlinson potentially due to police brutality put a sombre tone on the protests.
Yet since then both the public and the media have united to attempt to end such
things happening again has showed that the only way to bring about real change.
is unite together, whether it be with one voice, as in this tragic situation, or as a
group of people, the protests as a whole.We must take inspiration from these
events and question how we can bring about further change.

This change does not have to be on a global or national level, it could be local
issues that affect our everyday lives. The developments within the GSA this past
year are a microcosm of what has been happening across the world. We have
witnessed a management that has come under increasing external pressures, but
also internal pressure. This has come from the students themselves. Starting with
the protest over the ending of the Ceramics course at the end of the 2007/8 year
and leading to this year, with the establishment of Mammogram and the protest
on Open Day. We currently have the management on their back foot. If they don’t
change the way they operate then further protests may be necessary.

We have a new SRC President, Michael White, and we need to unite under his
leadership to bring about change in the GSA. The more people who come to-
gether, the stronger our voice will be, thus more likely to bring about real change,
not just reassurances from an untrustworthy management.

These are uncertain times across the world, but it is our duty to become human
doings. To gather together and get our voices heard. Change does not happen
over night or from one single protest, but if we keep up the pressure we can create
a new world, society or community that we want to live in and be part of. I issue an
open call for everybody to come together and unite. Only together can we really
end the period of Thatcherism that has oppressed us for so long!
Into the Hills with Socrates and a Penguin

“These penguins are all heading for the open water to the right, but one of them
caught our eye, the one in the centre. He would neither go towards the feeding
grounds at the edge of the ice nor return to the colony. Shortly afterwards, we saw
him heading straight towards the mountains some seventy kilometres away. Dr.
Ainley explained that even if he caught him and brought him back to the colony he
would immediately head right back for the mountains. But Why?”

Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World

What is common sense is outside of ambiguity. Mathematics offers a conceivable

solution in logic, however, philosophy serves to undermine all we can prove to our-
selves through the quantifiable science of logic. Common sense, as we know it is
what drives Herzog’s question in the film: but why?

We receive the information as a film about a Penguin and not from the Penguin
itself, thus we fall into a communicative trap, reminiscent of the pitfalls Socrates
identified within written language, specifically the likely misinterpretation on the part
of the reader of the silent written word. Using the Socratic method may help us
answer the ‘but why’ question, and so we must adopt the standpoint of the seem-
ingly irrational Penguin whose actions perplex us. The astonishment and inability to
fathom the Penguin’s actions are a result of being confined by an engrained notion
of common sense.

The disbelief, shock and confusion created through the spectacular representation
of the penguin in Herzog’s film is the resulting condition of previous cultural mis-
representations. We always attempt to find the human in animals whilst attempting
to conceal our own animality through restrictive notions of meaning. The Penguin
pauses and casts a look back as if contemplating its decision before continuing to
waddle confidently into the distance. The Penguin seems to operate in a human
manner when viewed through a lens and so we react, as if it were a human head-
ing into the mountains rather than a Penguin. We wrongly impose human notions
of logic onto a non-human animal that obeys its own instinctual commands, leading
us to think that the Penguin is making a mistake by heading inextricably into the
mountains of the subcontinent.

As the Penguin does not explain its actions to us, we have to avoid a purely seman-
tic notion of common sense and begin embracing an epistemological approach.
How can a two-word phrase begin to do justice to what is supposedly defined by it,
in this case a universal understanding of a shared external stimulus? It is not pos-
sible for common sense to exist outside of a pseudo-esotericism.
We are beginning to recognize the prevalent tradition of clinical psychiatry today
as a convenient but ultimately misguided way of evaluating the social meaning of
madness. The actual preoccupation of psychiatry, according to Michel Foucault’s
Madness and Civilisation is nothing less than the quasi-academic compartmental-
ization of certain states of experience into formally reduced types of ‘illness’ that are
then logically disposable in the field of curing. Curing we understand here as a sort
of anti-healing – a process not entirely dissimilar to the curing of bacon, and totally
opposed to healing in the sense of making people whole.

Unfortunately, the necessary lateral advances that may allow us to generate accep-
tance if not understanding of this flightless bird’s action are currently uncharted and
thus we are bound by our condition.

So far we have no cure for this condition and so we speculate endlessly, distanc-
ing ourselves further and further from non-human animals. These speculations are
manifest through how societies excuse and attempt to heal themselves through
such spurious cultural notions such as common sense and organised religion.

Through the annals of history there is little mention of a mutual aid between human
and non-human animals. Prince Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin viewed non-human
animal behaviour as a template that should be applied to our own species for the
sake of social progression. This is something we have yet to learn. In The Unbear-
able Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera describes a hypothetical scenario of a role
reversal when he asks what would happen if non-human animals began to mimic
our own behaviour? “Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on
a spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way”, writes Kundera, “will recall the veal cutlet he
used to slice on his dinner plate and apol-
ogise (belatedly) to the cow.”

Our current relationship with non-human

animals is in essence an inter-species
throwback to medieval serfdom. Perhaps
we should denounce the faux sophistica-
tion of imperialism and search for new
truths, locate a new definition for sense
that is extends beyond the human spe-
cies even if that means abandoning the
notion completely, ending not the repre-
sentation of animals but the system of
their misrepresentation. Perhaps then
we too can find sense in heading towards
the mountains.
The festival season is already upon us. The sun has already been shining on this
Fair Isle and if we believe the reports it will be a glorious summer. So what better way
to spend your free time than to relax, camp and rave it up at a festival in Britain this
summer.
There are so many out there to choose from whatever your own music tastes may be.
Everyone’s heard of Glastonbury and T in the Park and the other big commercial fes-
tivals. Yet here is a small selection of slightly more alternative festivals to make your
summer that extra bit special. Even if you don’t have the funds to buy a ticket, there
are always alternative ways to get there. Check out their websites and you might be
able to find some voluntary or paid work at these festivals, which will enable you to
experience them for free.

GLADE FESTIVAL July 16th – 20th £125

A new location for Glade, the Matterly Bowl near Winchester, will ban-
ish the noise problems of previous years to the past. With a capacity
of 10,000 it is the perfect place to chill with your mates or rave like a
lunatic. Britain’s best electronic festival caters for so many different
genres; from ambient to gabba, and house to breakcore, it’s all here.
A fantastic line-up this year, with Underworld and Squarepusher head-
lining. But aside from the music there is possibly one of the best vibes
imaginable, with stalls selling beautiful objects and clothes, amazing
food and art incorporated into the whole sight. This is definitely the
highlight of the summer festivals.

www.gladefestival.com

THE SECRET GARDEN PARTY July 23rd – 26th £137

This wonderful festival has the same chilled out vibe of Glade, but more focus
on the healing powers of nature. The Secret Garden Party is… conceived as a
moment in the year where you can explore your wildest fantasies and realise
your wildest dreams. It is radically expressive and radically inclusive.

www.secretgardenparty.com
THE WICKERMAN FESTIVAL July 24th – 24th £85
An excellent festival near Dumfries that ends with the burning of a
Wickerman, certainly a more fitting tribute to the cult fame than the
recent remake starring Nicolas Cage. A wide music policy that this year
sees The Human League, Candi Staton and Meat Katie providing the
summer beats.

www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk

BANGFEST August 29th £45 (plus £5 for camping)

Saint Acid brings us yet and another Neo-Rave Explosion
of Acid, Jungle, Rave Hardcore, Drum & Bass. He has run
the Bangface night in London and organised two amazing
Bangface Weekenders. A one-night festival with 3 stages,
this is sure to be a messy bank holiday. The premier of Ve-
netian Snares and John Frusciante’s Speed Dealer Moms
will surely be something special. Add a pinch of Luke Vibert,
DJ Producer and Bong-Ra and this will be epic.

www.bangfaceweekender.com/bangfest2009

BESTIVAL September 11th – 13th £140 (£125 students)

Rob da Bank’s festival on the Isle of Wight is a great way to end the
season, with a rare appearance by German electronic legends Kraft-
werk. The fancy dress theme this year is space, so dust off your space
boots and join in the fun before the summer ends and the nights start
getting darker.

www.bestival.net
 Designers are well known for rambling on about their work given the chance,
presenting sometimes yawn inducing chronicles of back work that do anything
but hold the attention of the audience in question. In 2003 Astrid Klein and
Mark Dytham of the architecture firm Klein-Dytham Architecture came together
and created a solution for stale lectures with the creation of Pecha Kucha.
Each Speaker is given 20 slides with 20 seconds for each slide to talk about a
subject/work/anything that inspires them. This method of delivery gives a fast
PECHA KUCHA (CHIT-CHAT)

paced whirlwind tour of images and thoughts that leave your mind spinning.

The Lighthouse is a regular host of the Pecha Kucha event inviting speakers
from far away, mixed with professional Designers from Scotland. The attend-
ees were mostly designers and architects working in scotland with spatterings
of marketing directors and other professionals. Each talker had a very different
delivery method, interpreting the 400 seconds available. Some tried to stick
to the time limit attached to each slide resulting in presentations that were
rushed and information that was hard to take in. Others took a more laid back
approach, using the images as a backdrop to a more general speech about
what inspires them.

What was refreshing in these talks was the focus around collaboration, which
in recent times has been one of the most successful ways to survive as a
buisness or design professional. In the interval, networkers busted out their
business cards, and friends discussed concepts excitedly over the free drink
provided. What you witness here is a thriving scene that was not very apparent
before attending the event. What was missing from the event was the students
that would of benifited most from the talks, networking and free drinks more
than most.
 ART GOES POP
The Glasgow School of Art Goes Pop is a collaborative project made by Glasgow-
based musicians, Glasgow-based artists and (bizarrely?) a record label from Leeds.

The Glasgow School of Art Goes Pop is a (selected) review of what great things are
happening in Glasgow today, told through the eyes of some people who have the
sufficient distance needed to edit out all the grim parts and leave us with something
exciting.

The Glasgow School of Art Goes Pop has previously been an exhibition, a set of
photographs, a set of songs, a live performance, a few 7” singles and a lot of CD
compilations.

The Glasgow School of Art Goes Pop is also the name of a compilation album featur-
ing 23 solid-gold pop classics that make you want them to bring back Top of the Pops
just so that Isosceles, The Low Miffs, Nacional and all the rest can feature on it, with
backing dancers and fireworks.

The Glasgow School of Art Goes Pop will keep going as long as all the people in-
volved keep making exciting and enduring things. KEEP LISTENING.

For more information, and to request a copy of the Glasgow School of Art Goes
Pop compilation, visit www.myspace.com/artgoespop or www.myspace.com/deep-
friedinpop
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12/13/14th June
Haltbar Hijack Festival @ Halt Bar
Putting on FREE gigs every Saturday at the Halt Bar, this time stretching this
DIY ethic across 3 days.
Highlights : Wounded Knee, Triple School, Black Sun, the Black Rat Death
Squad

16th June
Nuts and Seeds presents… @ 13th Note
T.I.T.S and Vars of Litchi
Expect tribal, animalistic drumming, repetitive lyrics and shrieking feedback
from all girl San Francisco based T.I.T.S. Support from Glasgow’s furiously
good Vars of Litchi.

19/20th June
2 days in Stereo @ Stereo
Highlights : Action Beat, Please!, Vom, Holy Mountain, Titus Gein

4th July
Divorce EP launch @ Captains Rest
With support from Vom and Teenage Ricky (formally Africa)

29th August
@ 13th Note
Charger, Black Sun and Vom
Sludge/ Doom/ Industrial Drone
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Contributions Thank You for all your work

Alex Dunst Justin Carter Richard Mead

Arron Sands Katy Wallwork Steph Blackie
Callum Bell Luke Neve Vickie McDonald
Claire Biddles Mary Wintour
Claire Harrison Michael White
Georgie Ralou O.K
Heather Purcell Peko

What We Want

We want Mammo to be a magazine that ignores the media hype and looks at
issues and events that affect us daily, but largely go ignored. We want to focus
on students in the GSA and develop a collective voice.

We need writers who can do journalistic pieces covering events in the GSA
and Glasgow to keep students up to date with what is going on. Reviews of
films, gigs and shows you’ve seen, books you’ve read, and records you’ve
listened to and want to share are more than welcome.

We want you to make Mammo your own through your contribution and col-
laboration. We want to produce a varied, readable magazine – full of art, life,
and debate.

We’re currently improving our editing and production process and have al-
ready come a long way since our first issue. We will respond to any articles
you send us with constructive feedback and invite you along to our writing
group (hopefully) to be hosted by Liz Lochhead. Along with your submission,
please indicate if you’re interested in doing on-demand articles or illustrations,
or would like to help with editing and layout.
Over the summer we will be putting together a hefty issue in celebration of
having been around for a whole year. This issue will considerably thicker and
take on a journal format. It will be sold at the price of printing (we will also
make it accessible online), meaning we can afford to have longer articles and
much more images. So send us your stuff now. You can reach us at our new
address mammomagazine@gmail.com

our new email

mammomagazine@gmail.com
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