Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-Academic Institute
for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory
Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-Academic Institute
for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory
Call for applications Fine Art, Design and Theory
Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year, two-year or variable research period in the departments of Fine Art, Design and Theory. application details application form
New research project: Design negation
Daniël van der Velden, advising researcher in the Design department, initiated a new research project: Design negation. Design, political engagement and populist politics. This project is about finding new vocabularies and aesthetic possibilities for design to formulate a political negation. It aims to respond to the current wave of populist public opinion and politics in the Netherlands. Candidates interested in this project can apply with a research proposal. more info
New researchers
This month 20 researchers started their residence at the Jan van Eyck. Their research projects are described at this website.
Fine Artists: Donatella Bernardi, Ruth Buchanan, Theo Cowley, Andjeas Ejiksson, Simon Hempel, Eleni Kamma, Kristin Posehn, Kristin Posehn
Designers: Ferenc Gróf, Andreas Müller, Jean Baptiste Naudy, Indrek Sirkel
Theoreticians: Emiliano Battista, Saara Hacklin, Gal Kirn, Georgios Papadopoulos, Daria Pyrkina, Adair Rounthwaite, Lukasz Jan Stanek, Michaela Wünsch
New advising researchers
As of this January the Fine Art department welcomes three new advising researchers: Glen Rubsamen and Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi.
Glen Rubsamen is working primarily as a painter but also with drawing and printmaking. In his pictorial investigations he is attempting to isolate the idea of a ‘post-nature’ defined as a place were space is shrinking, were objects in the landscape play no part in any synthesis; they have no memory, they simply bear witness during a journey. Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi are the inititators of Pages, an ongoing project with critical views on art, culture, urbanism and social issues.
Voiceoverhead
Achim Lengerer (researcher Fine Art 2006–2007) and Dani Gal curated the exhibition Voiceoverhead to be seen in SMART Project Space till 1 March. The exhibition is a co-production of the Jan van Eyck Academie and SMART. more info
Forms of inquiry. The architecture of critical graphic design
Several current and former Jan van Eyck design (advising) researchers are participating in the exhibition and lecture series Forms of inquiry (Casco, Utrecht, up to 17 February 2008): Julia Born, Sara De Bondt, Paul Elliman, Will Holder, David Bennewith, Metahaven, Mevis en van Deursen, Manuel Räder and Sulki & Min Choi. Forms of inquiry presents architecture as seen through the practice of graphic design. The exhibition features works that have originated as self-propelled inquiry, either professional or personal, and have been developed into a myriad of media and forms. The works exhibited share a common desire to reframe the circumstances surrounding graphic design practice at the start of the 21st century. On Thursday 24 January Manuel Räder will give a lecture; Metahaven will do so on Wednesday 30 January. more info
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