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
Authoring the city
The Charles Nypels Foundation and the Jan van Eyck Academie have set up the research project Authoring the city to stimulate design research into the city as a communication platform and a communication device. more info
This lecture series draws attention to the involvement of art and architecture in use and debates about the most taken for granted element of our environment that is air. more info
The Department of reading is designed to promote new ways of reading and to create new textures for already-existing texts. It allows for interventions in and on texts in the form of comments, questions, drawings, diagrams and images. more info
Draw a map
Exhibition of drawings, prints and books by Kasper Andreasen following his research on the authorship of spatial and ‘placial’ representation. more info
Film and biopolitics
Does film participate in the ‘paradigm of production of life’? Which ‘life’? And is film, then, reproductive, even simulative, or rather productive? more info
This research project investigates the French search engine Quaero. The project aims to merge design research with a discussion on Internet, politics, public domain, and cultural heritage; it will attempt to outline some possible features for Quaero’s identity from an emphasis on it being a distinctly public medium that simultaneously transgresses the culture of the grand projet into the digital realm. more info
This conference on Deleuze considers a certain 'passage from noise to voice' in 'The twenty-sixth series of language' of The logic of sense. more info
Innovative game design
Symposium featuring research into the design of computer game as it is being conducted in different areas (academic, artistic, commercial). more info
Logo Parc
A research project concerned with communication design, corporate identity and public space. The project’s main focus is the South Axis (Zuidas) in Amsterdam, a prestigious mix of high-rise offices, cultural facilities and mobility hubs located near the ring road. more info
Meta haven. Sealand identity project
The Meta haven project is to conceive a national visual identity for the Principality of Sealand, a mini-state and so-called data haven situated on a military fortress off the British coast. The project concerns itself with stamps, money, passports and flags as much as with netowork society, identity encryption, espionage and intelligence, the fictionalisation of history and the notion of the data haven. more info
Micropolis
September 2003 – April 2004
Research project on the cultural identity and communication of the City of Leuven, Belgium. more info
Politics and Jouissance
A series of workshops on politics and jouissance in philosophy and psychoanalytical theory. more info
Workshop. more info
Publications and resonances
Over a period of more than 35 years a rich resource of publications has been accumulated at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Among these, a relatively large number of publications could be regarded as independent works of artists in book form. The makers of these artists’ books have been interviewed. An alternative history of the Jan van Eyck has been revealed. more info
Public relations
This lecture series on 'Proportional representation' concerns identity design, history, ideas on oblivion and the concept of defunct symbolism. more info
The matching link
Symposium reflecting on and presenting projects which enhance public space by means of communication media. more info
Research project on art as political strategy in post-communist Europe. How does the international museum reflect ways in which contemporaray art is used as a representation of political change? Can art take over the location of power, being 'a symbol of openness and democracy'? more info
This project firmly claims that if cultural production wants to regain its impact on society, the Denkverbot on the possibility of an avant-garde praxis has to be broken. more info
The tomorrow book
This research project intends to query the future of the book from a multi-disciplinary standpoint: editing, typography, book design, publishing and distribution. more info
This two day symposium focused on body, affect, emotion and moving images. more info
The tomorrow book studio aims at carrying out research into the future of the book, taking a multi-disciplinary approach. At the same time, the project concerns itself with commission-based book design where research can be directly tested and applied in practice. more info
2004 – 2005
Advising researcher: Hinrich Sachs
The theme of the project Trichtlinnburg is the balance of tensions between city preservation/restoration and city development: a balance that is strained because of such phenomena as mass tourism and mass migration. By means of this project, three partners – Jan van Eyck Academie, Salzburger Kustverein and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tallinn – researching these world-wide developments, and their impact on local communities such as Maastricht, Tallinn and Salzburg. more info
UbiScribe
UbiScribe is a platform for Internet publications. This project investigates the conditions of publishing in network media. It looks both at how content is informed, produced and edited by the use of text, image and sound capturing and processing devices, Content Management System software and a wide range of authoring and publishing tools for primarily the web, and how it is distributed: its formats, audiences and economy. more info
Reading, writing and mapping the environment of the river Congo at Brazzaville-Kinshasa. more info