Adam Sloan wins accolade for work created using real-world meteorological and ecological data from observation sites on Orkney
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| Adam Sloan, winner of the 2019 Foulis Medal |
Adam Sloan, a Sound for the Moving Image graduate, has been awarded 2019 Foulis Medal it was announced today, Wednesday 6 November 2019. The medal, which is awarded to the top student graduating from a taught postgraduate programme at the GSA, was presented at Winter Graduation at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
“We are delighted that Adam Sloan has been chosen as the recipient of the Foulis medal this year,” says Ronan Breslin,” Programme Tutor MDes in Sound for the Moving Image. “We nominated Adam for this prestigious award knowing that his outputs throughout his two years as a part-time student have been consistent in their excellence,and have shown unique and innovative use of advanced audio-visual techniques.”
The outcomes of Adam’s work, which used real-world meteorological and ecological data from observation sites on Orkney to create unique evolving soundscapes. The work was presented as an immersive sonic sculpture at the 2019 Graduate Degree Show earlier in the year. He designed and built all active elements of the sculpture which included bespoke speaker horns and acoustic panels. The unique aspect of his project is that the bespoke speaker system and accompanying software can be adapted to respond to multiple variations of incoming data – including live data streams. Adam plans to continue developing this work for public exhibition and touring.
Chairman’s Medals were awarded to:
Derek Vilim, MSc Product Design Engineering (School of Design),
Lindsay Leboyer, MLitt Curatorial Practice (School of Fine Art)
Serena Nüsing, MDes Design Innovation and Service Design (Innovation School),
Sevela Kamala, MArch Urban Building and Design (Mackintosh School of Architecture)
Lisa Ferrie,MSc Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy (School of Simulation and Visualisation).
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The Foulis Medal
The Foulis Medal is named in honour of Robert Foulis the printer who together with his brother Andrew established the Academy which has been described as ‘the single most influential factor in the development of eighteenth-century Scottish Art’. The GSA’s lineage can be traced back to the Foulis Academy.
The Foulis Medal was designed by Helen Marriott, Head of Silversmithing and Jewellery at the GSA and made in the Silversmithing and Jewellery department.
The design is two sided. On the front face is one of the square designs found in the stairwell of the Mackintosh Building, which harks back to printing blocks and is an homage to Foulis the printer. The name Foulis is on some of the squares with the letters being in the style of the font used by the Foulis press when printing in the late 18thCentury. On the reverse of the medal is a silhouette of the weathervane found on the top of the Mackintosh Building, appropriately the highest point of the GSA estate. Meanwhile the text round the edge of the medal is also similar to the font used by Foulis.