deadline: 15 April 2008

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

01.08

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

Thursday 21 February

14:30 – 17:00

Jillian Saint Jacques (chair)

College Art Association. Cute

— panel session

— Adam's Mark Hotel, Dallas, US

Saturday 23 February

14:30 – 17:00

Anthony Auerbach, Sönke Hallmann, Jan Hein Hoogstad, Karolin Meunier

College Art Association annual conference

Video needs art history like a TV set needs a plinth

— panel session

— Houston Ballroom A, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Dallas, US

Sunday 24 February

Anthony Auerbach

Aerial Reconnaissance

— lecture

— New York, US

Euregional Forum. Towards a Euregion without borders

The Euregional Forum (EF) is organising a tour of debates in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. The Forum will tour Heerlen, Genk, Liège, Aachen, Eupen and Maastricht. According to the EF, people from the Euregion have more in common than what divides them, in a cultural, linguistic, material, political or national sense. The Euregional Forum answers Euregio sceptics loud and clear: the Euregio is a reality which can be beneficial to everyone. more info

Infrastructure for a stranger

This communal research project deals with the area around the large Sphinx building in Maastricht and the urban development which is starting to be developed around there (the Belvédère project). Five researchers of the Jan van Eyck Academie, united in the Traces of autism team, carry out the research. more info

Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique

The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers researchers interested in Lacanian theory who do not consider it as a dogmatic closed system, but as an open set of tools helping us to form a critical look at/on current (post)modern culture. more info

Legal/illegal frameworks of artistic production

Closed gatherings aiming to develop and refine the terminology on artistic practises and its positioning towards copyright issues. more info

research

On the television work of Jef Cornelis

The Jan van Eyck Academie has started a research project, in cooperation with Argos, Brussels BE, on the television work of Flemish film maker Jef Cornelis. The special stylistic properties of his works, the unique documentary value of his films on fine art, architecture and literature as well as the – exceptional – production conditions are in fact virgin territories. more info