UAL has today launched its first European city partnership, signing an MOU with Bilbao that will progress areas of common strategic interest in support of the development of the vibrant creative economy of the Basque Country.

Professor Claudia Rankine to become Visiting Professor for Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts The Fine Art department at Chelsea College of Arts has welcomed award-winning author, poet, artist and Yale Professor Claudia Rankine once again to UAL.

A diverse global cultural community will join UAL to debate the extended meanings of the archive as artistic practice at UAL’s Archives and Embodiment Conference, July 4 and 5 at Central Saint Martins.

The Feminist Internet collective has shared its experimentation in feminist conversation design, with a first look at eight alternatives to Alexa and Siri that have been prototyped by a group of UAL students.

A potential game-changer for the music industry, anyone can now remix and generate their own interesting sounds simply and in high definition using AI software available via the platform of the UK sound research project MIMIC (Musically Intelligent

Creative Lenses is a four-year (2015-2019) project that seeks to make arts and cultural organisations more resilient and sustainable by improving their business models and developing their long-term strategic and innovation capacities.

Last month some of the UAL Creative Lenses team travelled to Helsinki (11-12 October) to present at the inaugural SULA conference and to run a research workshop exploring sustainability.

Spencer’s earliest works included constructed abstract reliefs which employed mathematics as a means of generating formal relations and structures around simple geometric configurations.

Acclaimed artist and UAL Fine Art Professor Charlotte Hodes is exhibiting new work this summer, including an ambitious twelve-metre frieze commissioned specially by Wolverhampton Art Gallery.