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Applications closed 2022/23

We are no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry to this class.

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On BA Art at Primal Saint Martins, we recognise the breadth of possibilities in gimmicky art, and will claiming you to develop an experimental practice. You lot will work in 1 of four pathways – second, 3D, 4D or XD – which encompass studio practice, theoretical studies and personal and professional development. This form is function of the Art plan.

Why choose this course at Cardinal Saint Martins

• Pathway structure: The pathway structure on BA Fine Art creates a focus for sustained critical engagement. Information technology allows you to both specialise and develop an interdisciplinary working exercise.
• Exhibitions: The course offers experimental forms of exhibition-making. This occurs both within the College and in public venues outside the establishment. Previous external partners have included Entrance Belfry, the British Library, Camden Arts Centre, Camden Commonage and the Tate.
• Location: BA Fine Art is situated in the College'southward Granary Building. This location in Male monarch'south Cross is primal, enabling students to engage in the changing dynamics of the expanse and build links with the local customs as well as neighbouring institutions such as Wellcome Collection and the British Library.
• Acquaintance Studio Program: Adult in 2011 out of a partnership betwixt Pinnacle and Double Agents – a enquiry projection based at Central Saint Martins – the Associate Studio Programme provides subsidised, low-price, high-quality studio infinite for 20 graduates of BA Fine Fine art for ii years. The scheme too provides a programme of studio visits past artists, curators, writers and peers. Students are selected through an application process open to them in the yr they graduate and again i year later.

Former Form Leader Mick Finch talks about BA Fine Art

Degree Show 2019: Matty Mancey

Degree Show 2018: Carianne Annan

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  Manyi Takor, BA Fine Art (Photo: Peter Cattrell)

  The annual Big Walls and Windows project brings large-calibration piece of work by one BA Fine Art student into our public window galleries. We speak to starting time-year student Manyi Takor, and her arroyo to the committee.

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  NOVA X exhibition (photo: Andrea Capello)

  On testify in the Lethaby Gallery and online, NOVA X explores the fragments of life that influence and inform artistic practice. From a microscope to the humble Mail-It, here we share the tools at the eye of our graduates' making.

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  Farida Eltigi, BA Graphic Communication Design

  For the past two decades, the CSM Museum & Study Collection has actively purchased works from graduating students. This yr, the Deans' Awards supports the purchase of more piece of work than ever before as the Museum welcomes 28 new pieces into its

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  NOVA X exhibition, Lethaby Gallery (photograph: Andrea Capello)

  Celebrating a decade of award-winning creative practice, NOVA Ten shares the stories past winners of the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent.

Grade overview

Welcome to the Fine Fine art BA where y'all volition develop the artistic and critical skills to claiming prevailing artistic conventions. You and your contemporaries are the creative practitioners of the future and together we can question and remake the cultural landscape of today.

BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins asks two core questions in relation to art; what is the site of production and what is the site of meet?

At CSM we continually challenge what nosotros think art is. We recognise the broad diversity of social, political, cultural, economic and technological contexts in which contemporary fine art is made and exhibited. Working together, staff and students interrogate the multiple and varied ways in which artists make piece of work and make piece of work public.

The class is organised into four studios; 2D, 3D, 4D and XD. Each studio engages students with specific disquisitional perspectives and technical inductions. You are encouraged to develop your piece of work in relation to different forms of practice across any range of media. The studios embody an inter-disciplinary approach and this is reflected in the cantankerous-studio events that are structured throughout the course. We make in ways that reflect the full range of materials, technologies and discourses exploited by artists today.

Your studio will provide you with an experimental space where discoveries can occur. For this to proceed happening the studio has to exist perpetually reinvented, functioning as laboratory, performative site, social space and discursive environs. The notion of studio refers to any space for making and exploration. Artists always find new ways to brand work with different resources, finding new places to make work that utilise innovative and established product processes. At CSM, the studios reflect these trends. Y'all volition work with staff to develop and model the studio advisable to the needs of the group.

Experimental forms of exhibition-making take place within each stage of the course. Exhibitions happen both in the University and in public venues, in conventional and non-conventional physical and non-physical spaces. Recent examples include, Camden Commonage, Archway Tower, British Library, Camden Arts Eye, performances within the Tate Turbine Hall and Tate Commutation, Arts Media Islington School and Crumbles Activity Playground.

Students can besides opt to take the twelvemonth-long Diploma in Professional Studies between Stages 2 and 3, offering highly focused and personalised piece of work placements which help them develop enhanced communication, networking, and organisational skills. In recent years, students take had placements at Tate Modern, The Royal Festival Hall, professional person artist studios and the National Theatre.

Nosotros embrace the rapidly changing and broad contexts of the fine art-wold. Our intention is to radically question, claiming, disrupt and provoke to create answers to fine art futures and future art practices.

Course units

BA Fine Art integrates studio practise, Critical Studies and Professional Development through teaching both within the Studio structure and across the year group at cardinal moments. Students are allocated to a Studio through a diagnostic process at the start of the course however pathway transfer is possible.

Each Studio has a distinct culture that is orientated around particular discussions, themes and resource. Every bit the student progresses through the course, the relationship between the Studios is progressively porous. Nosotros encourage students to take a fluid and flexible approach to their use of media and understanding of artistic field of study.

The Studios

The mode we work and create starts with exploration speculation and enquiry and this takes place through materials, processes of making, dialogue and criticality. Theory and practise are understood in relation to 1 another, integrating both studio and contextual studies contexts.

2d explores how making is informed by gimmicky civilization, politics and social forms as much as by questions of the image and abstraction. It considers the screen, the picture airplane and surface equally key aspects of visual production. Technical inductions are positioned in terms of these questions. In the studio, we hash out how diverse disciplines, practices and forms of thought can exist mixed.

3D explores matter, scale, product, textile and immaterial form in relation to place and audience. Students are inducted into a range of traditional and new 3D technologies, and to the debates surrounding hybrid production processes. The studio is a place where the reading, writing and creation of spaces can accept place and be questioned. 3D challenges a conventional understanding of the studio, the exhibition and institutional spaces.

4D explores fourth dimension-based, durational performative and interdisciplinary practices. Critical and philosophical positions are explored in relation to practice and current ideas such equally the mail- medium condition, the apparatus of technology and temporality are considered. The Studio is experimental in approach and explores how this might challenge conventions of practice. In this context, the 'open up work' is engaged equally a site where collaboration and production have identify.

XD explores the possibilities of not but 'what does art hateful?' but also 'what tin art do?' and 'where tin art be?' The implications of working beyond different sites and placing art in particular situations and communities questions the rights and responsibilities of the artist in relation to audiences and the environment. The studio is considered every bit a laboratory where ideas for interventions in the exercise of everyday life can be generated.

Stage 1

Unit 1: What and Where is an Art Schoolhouse? (Introduction to Study in Higher Instruction)
Unit of measurement ii: What is a Studio?
Unit of measurement 3: What is Practise?
Unit of measurement iv: What is an Exhibition?

Phase one asks you to consider; Where practise we make work and what is practice?

Starting with an introduction to Art Schoolhouse in which yous volition exist guided through the various teaching methods and events deployed on the grade. You will experience learning through each other, staff practice, staff networks, tutorials, lectures, critical give-and-take, seminars and self-directed study. Through this, you lot will actively shape and inform the didactics environment of the grade.

The nature of the studio shifts in relation to what the studio community choose to do with information technology. Y'all will be inducted to a wide range of workshops. Studio and Critical Studies staff will back up you in showtime to identify interests and concerns that will nourish your do every bit an artist.

Past the end of Stage one yous will take established means of making in the studio advisable to your interests. With the support of tutors, yous will be able to confidently self-straight the development of your own work.

Stage ii

Unit 5: How Practise We Brand?
Unit six: How Exercise Nosotros Think?
Unit vii: How Tin Nosotros Write?
Unit 8: How is Work Encountered?
Unit of measurement ix: Artistic Unions: Socially Engaged Practices for an Ethical World

Phase ii is about how we brand work public.

Yous will proceed to plant and develop your practice with an added emphasis on how and where to exhibit your piece of work.

The year-group will have the opportunity to present work within the academy in a number of cross programme curated exhibitions and in two open up studios where the fine art programme opens its doors to the general public. You volition also select from a range of external projects designed to farther question the many ways in which you might brand elements of your practice public.

In Disquisitional Studies you volition begin to focus on concerns specific to your practice and start to establish a habit of research that directly supports your studio work, forms a part of it, and generates new ideas or thinking.

By the end of Phase two, y'all will take identified a range of strategies for making your work public and begun to contextualise your exercise exploring how your work might be publicly encountered.

Stage 3

Unit of measurement 10: Are At that place Whatever Questions? (Dissertation)
Unit 11: What is Fine art?

Phase 3 is about how you extend your practise beyond CSM.

Stage 3 will give you lot the tools to theoretically, culturally, politically and socially contextualise your work. Yous will be supported to place strategies for establishing a sustainable practice across the course and empowered to plan your own career trajectory within the cultural industries.

There are but ii units in this twelvemonth, culminating in your dissertation and a series of cease of twelvemonth events. These events are adult by students with the support of your staff and can have place both within the university and external locations.

The dissertation and end of year events are strategically placed next to each other to give you both the agency and resources to address relevant public and professional person realms.

The working week

The building and studios are vibrant and decorated working environments where students acquire together by existence agile and giving fourth dimension to their studies. The course team will offering structured pedagogy and breezy learning through events and projects. Students learn the best and are most productive when they are fully committed to their practice and to each other.

You should expect to spend 40 hours per week on independent and collaborative practise and in teaching events such equally workshops and discussions.

Critical studies

Critical Studies tutors are central in the delivery of theory within the course. Writing and presentation skills and the ability to articulate exercise are a key focus and are essential for the practicing creative person.

Critical Studies supports a student's theoretical exploration and provides the methodologies and a conceptual framework for developing exercise. This takes the form of; lectures, seminars, tutorials and presentations.

Through Stages 1 and ii at that place are a number of different forms of written submission leading upwardly to the dissertation in Stage three. Teams of disquisitional studies and studio tutors jointly supervise this.

Diploma in Professional Studies

Between Stage 2 and Stage 3 of the grade there is an option to accept a year out and complete a Diploma in Professional Studies. This split qualification (rated at 120 credits) involves researching, undertaking and reflecting on a 20-week (minimum) placement related to your professional interests and aspirations. The Diploma provides a valuable opportunity to make professional person contacts and to develop your personal employability skills. In contempo years BA Fine Art students have had placements at Tate Mod, the Purple Festival Hall, Anthony Gormley's studio and the National Theatre.

Commutation opportunities

Students enrolled on BA Fine Art have the opportunity to spend fourth dimension studying exterior of the UK at a partner institution. Studying overseas allows you to feel a new culture, an culling perspective on the course's subject subject field, and different learning and teaching methods. The application process for these opportunities is competitive. Alongside this, BA Fine Fine art is actively engaged in the University's Study Abroad scheme, with the incoming international students bringing an important additional dynamic to the class.

Style of study

BA Fine Art runs for xc weeks in full-time mode. Information technology is divided into iii stages over three bookish years. Each phase lasts 30 weeks. You volition exist expected to commit 40 hours per calendar week to study, inclusive of teaching time and contained study.

Credit and laurels requirements

The grade is credit-rated at 360 credits, with 120 credits at each phase (level).

On successfully completing the form, you will gain a Available of Arts with Honours (BA Hons degree).

Under the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications the stages for a BA are: Stage 1 (Level 4), Stage 2 (Level 5) and Phase 3 (Level half dozen). In guild to progress to the next stage, all units of the preceding stage must normally exist passed: 120 credits must exist achieved in each stage. The classification of the award will be derived from the marks of units in Stages 2 and 3, or only Stage 3, using a dual algorithm.

If you are unable to continue on the class, a Certificate of College Education (CertHE) will ordinarily exist offered post-obit the successful completion of Level 4 (or 120 credits), or a Diploma in Higher Education (DipHE) following the successful completion of Level five (or 240 credits).

Should you choose to extend your written report through the Diploma in Professional Studies, between Stage 2 and Phase 3 of the degree, your success volition proceeds you an additional Diploma accolade.

Learning and teaching methods

During your course you volition engage with learning and teaching that includes both online and face-to-face modes.

Your primary means of learning will be through studio practice. This is supported by:

• Unit briefing: guidance around what each unit involves and the purpose of the activity for the student
• Inductions and workshops: specialist pedagogy that is necessary so that you lot tin can understand the range of possibilities in technical workshops and the limitations that have to exist imposed to ensure safe practice.
• Teaching events: taught projects with academic staff both within the studio grouping and in cross programme activities.
• Off-site piece of work: Specific projects with publicly facing outputs or working with external organisations
• Exchange opportunities: Opportunities for students to study away in semester2 of their stage ii
• Personal and grouping tutorials: both one to one and group activities in which students talk over their work, ideas and receive effective feedback
• Seminars: led by a member of staff at that place is a focus upon particular themes or questions in this group activity.
• Critical reviews and presentations: students present a trunk of work to their peers and a member of academic staff.
• Lectures and invitee speakers: Artists and fundamental figures from the art earth introduce and discuss their do in a lecture theatre
• Recommended reading, viewing and visits: a range of references available to students from which to select those well-nigh appropriate to your work.
• Independent report: Outside of taught event you will develop your work in the context of your studio with the back up of your peers.
• Peer and cocky-evaluation: y'all will develop the skills to critically reverberate on your own work and that of your peers
• Cess feedback: too as the feedback you are given throughout each unit of study you will receive formal written feedback at the stop of every unit of measurement in relation to your class.

Assessment methods

• Studio work: a body of piece of work presented within the studio or as documentation
• Research and preparatory work: the evolution of your ideas and the contexts of work (theoretical, technical, political)
• Documentation of piece of work: a body of work digitally presented and submitted online
• Verbal and visual presentations of the piece of work produced for the unit with staff and students present
• Written work: Essays, statements, dissertations that explore your ideas and the context of your work.
• Participation in argue: grouping discussion with beau students and staff in which work and are discussed and debated
• Peer and self-critical evaluation: verbal and written feedback on your own work and that of your peers.

How to apply

Information for disabled applicants

UAL is committed to achieving inclusion and equality for disabled students. This includes students who take:

• Dyslexia or another Specific Learning Difference
• A sensory impairment
• A physical impairment
• A long-term health or mental health status
• Autism
• Another long-term condition which has an bear on on your day-to-day life

Our Disability Service arranges adjustments and back up for disabled applicants and students. Read our Disability and dyslexia: applying for a form and joining UAL information.

Entry requirements

The standard entry requirements for this class are as follows:

Ane or a combination of the post-obit accepted full Level iii qualifications:

• Laissez passer at Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Level three or 4)
• Merit, Pass, Pass (MPP) at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects include Art, Art and Design or Design and Technology)
• Pass at UAL Extended Diploma
• Access to Higher Education Diploma equivalent to 64 UCAS tariff points (preferred subjects include Fine art, Art and Design or Blueprint and Engineering)
• Equivalent Eu/international qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Diploma (24 points)

And three GCSE passes at grade four or above (form A*–C).

Entry to this form will also be determined by assessment of your portfolio.

AP(East)L – Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Uncommonly applicants who do non meet these form entry requirements may even so exist considered. The form team will consider each awarding that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

• Related bookish or work feel
• The quality of the personal argument
• A potent bookish or other professional reference

Or a combination of these factors.

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

English language requirements

IELTS score of half-dozen.0 or above, with at least 5.five in reading, writing, listening and speaking (please check our principal English language requirements webpage).

Pick criteria

Applicants are selected co-ordinate to their demonstration of potential and current ability to:

Work imaginatively and creatively in visual media:

• Engage with experimentation and invention
• Prove imagination and ambition in their visual work

Demonstrate a range of skills and technical abilities that:

• Testify personal commitment to skills evolution
• Engage with materials and processes.

Provide evidence of intellectual inquiry inside your piece of work:

• Demonstrate marvel and a willingness to research effectually themes and practices relevant to your interests
• Reflect critically on your learning.

Demonstrate cultural awareness and/or contextual framework of your work by:

• Identifying a range of historical and contemporary art practices
• Identifying social and/or cultural influences on your work.

Demonstrate an ability to articulate and communicate your intentions with clarity:

• Make apply of appropriate and effective communication and presentation skills

Point the relevance of this course to your personal development through give-and-take effectually:

• Your own ideas across set project briefs
• Your willingness to work both collaboratively and independently
• Your knowledge of this course.

What we are looking for

We are interested in students who are prepared to question and to take a critical perspective and who show potential to develop as innovative artists.

Making your application

Applications closed 2022/23

We are no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry to this course. Applications for 2023/24 entry will open in Fall 2022.

You should use through Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and you volition demand the post-obit information:

University code:          U65
UCAS Lawmaking:                 W100

Transfers

If you are currently studying somewhere else on a class in an equivalent subject and would like to transfer to this course, y'all can transfer to:

Year ii, if you've completed 120 credits in Year 1
Year 3, if you've completely 240 credits in Years ane and 2

Utilize via UCAS and cull Year 2 or 3 for your POE (Point of Entry).  Please cheque our Educatee Transfer Policy for more of import information and be ready to provide us with your electric current course handbook and Year one/Year 2 unit transcripts.

Please be ready to provide an official document (translated into English language) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you have completed.

Deferred entry

Central Saint Martins does not accept applications for deferred entry. Y'all should therefore apply in the year you lot wish to written report.

Application borderline

Nosotros recommend you utilize by 26January 2022 for equal consideration.  However this course will consider applications afterwards that date, subject to places being bachelor.

Communicating with you

After you have successfully submitted your awarding, you will receive an electronic mail confirming we take successfully received your application and providing y'all with your login details for the UAL Portal.  We will request any boosted data from you, including inviting you to upload documents / portfolio / book an interview, through the portal.  Y'all should check your UAL Portal regularly for whatsoever of import updates and requests.

Please add together csm.ukeu@arts.ac.united kingdom to your contacts to ensure that you exercise not miss any important updates re: your application to UAL.  Also consider altering your spam or junk mail filter to ensure that emails from @arts.ac.great britain go through to yous.

Applications closed 2022/23

We are no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry to this course. Applications for 2023/24 entry will open in Fall 2022.

In that location are two ways international students can employ to an undergraduate class at Central Saint Martins:

• Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) online awarding system
• Through one of our official representatives in your country who tin support y'all with your UCAS application

You can only apply to the aforementioned course once per year.

When applying via UCAS you volition demand the post-obit information:

University code:          U65
UCAS Code:                 W100

Transfers

If you are currently studying somewhere else on a course in an equivalent subject area and would like to transfer to this course, you can transfer to:

Year 2, if you lot've completed 120 credits in Yr 1
Yr 3, if you've completely 240 credits in Years 1 and 2

Apply via UCAS and cull Year 2 or three for your POE (Point of Entry).  Please check our Pupil Transfer Policy for more important information and exist ready to provide the states with your electric current grade handbook and Twelvemonth one/Year 2 unit transcripts.

Delight be ready to provide an official document (translated into English) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you have completed.

Visas

Read our visit our immigration and visa advice folio to notice out whether you demand a visa to study.

Deferred entry

Central Saint Martins does not accept applications for deferred entry. You lot should therefore apply in the year you wish to study.

Application deadline

We recommend you apply past 26 January 2022 for equal consideration. However this course will consider applications after that date, subject to places being available.

Clearing history check

You will be asked to consummate an immigration history cheque to establish whether you are eligible to study at UAL.  We will not be able to keep with your application until you take submitted your completed Immigration History Course.

Communicating with you lot

After yous have successfully submitted your application, y'all will receive an e-mail confirming we accept successfully received your application and providing y'all with your login details for the UAL Portal.  We will request whatsoever additional information from you lot, including inviting you to upload documents / portfolio / book an interview, through the portal.  Yous should check your UAL Portal regularly for any important updates and requests.

Please add csm.international@arts.ac.uk to your contacts to ensure that you do not miss any important updates re: your awarding to UAL.  Also consider altering your spam or junk mail filter to ensure that emails from @arts.ac.u.k. become through to yous.

After you apply

What happens next

Initial application check

We cheque your application to see if you meet the standard entry requirements for the grade.  If yous do, you will be invited to submit a digital portfolio through UAL's online portfolio review organisation.

Digital portfolio

Your portfolio should be no more 15 pages comprising your best work showing your skills and thinking. You tin can create the pages in any layout (For instance: presentation boards) but they should be uploaded as jpeg images. It should include:

• a range of work – finished works or works in progress
• how yous take engaged with experimentation and how well y'all may have pushed appetite through proposals and mayhap through making
• how well y'all accept developed your skills with materials and processes
• how you lot may have practical whatsoever relevant research to your ideas and making – perhaps through the apply of sketch books and study books
• briefly outline – in 1 sentence - the ideas and interests behind the works every bit a title to each page.

Pathway choices are considered during the admissions process. We therefore advise applicants to describe any specific interest they have in their personal statement, taking into business relationship the descriptions of the program pathways we offering. These interests or preferences will also inform the selection and presentation of their work.

For more portfolio advice delight visit our portfolio communication page .

Interview

Following the review of the portfolio we select a modest number of applicants to move on to the side by side stage of the procedure.  These applicants will be invited to an online interview lasting xv to twenty minutes.

How nosotros notify you lot of the outcome of your application

You volition receive the terminal result of your application through UCAS track.

Feedback

This form receives a high number of applications, and unfortunately nosotros cannot provide feedback to everyone who is unsuccessful. Nosotros tin can simply provide feedback subsequently y'all take had an interview.

Fees and funding

Dwelling house fee

£9,250 per year

This fee is correct for 2022/23 entry and is subject to change for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees may increase in hereafter years for new and standing students.

Dwelling house fees are currently charged to UK nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more well-nigh our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£23,610 per year

This fee is correct for 2022/23 entry and is subject field to alter for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees for international students may increase by up to five% in each futurity year of your course.

Students from countries outside of the UK volition generally be charged international fees. The rules are complex so read more nearly tuition fees and determining your fee status.

Careers and alumni

BA Fine Fine art students leave with a wide and valuable understanding of fine art do. Skills acquired enable graduates to get versatile practitioners in exciting and diverse contexts.

Many BA Fine Art graduates piece of work as artists, or pursue art-related careers as curators, critics or teachers. Others work in graphics, IT, media, film, fashion and advertising.

BA Fine Fine art graduates often become on to postgraduate written report, progressing to a wide range of Masters subjects that include fine fine art, philosophy, film, advice, landscape architecture, fine art history, gallery and museum studies, literature and circulate journalism.

BA Fine Fine art alumni activity demonstrates the breadth of pupil action within the subject field:

• Contempo graduates chosen for New Contemporaries: 2020: Rene Matić, 2019: Maria Mahfooz, 2014: Nicole Coson
• Morisha Moodley joined PEER Gallery as their new Gallery Trainee
• Alex Ball: Winner of Catlin Art Prize
• Joshua Alexander & Siobhan Wanklyn: Film screenings, Camden Arts Centre, London
• Tamarin Norward: MFA Art Writing, Goldsmiths
• David Stearn: Bloomberg New Contemporaries
• Rosanna Manfredi: Installation banana to Anselm Kiefer
• Richard Milward: published novel 'Apples'.

For details of the wide range of careers support provided for students, please visit our Careers support page.

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Source: https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/fine-art/undergraduate/ba-hons-fine-art-csm

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