RAFLOST-PIKSLAVERK IN ICELAND
The Iceland Academy of the Arts workshop in cooperation with Nordic schools
All events are free of charge.
Here are websites to the workshop:
14.5, 10:00-17:00, SUM workshop, Útgerðin
14.5, 20:00-22:30, Concert – Lars Graugaard & Tímahrak, Útgerðin
15.5, 14:00-17:00, Arduino workshop – Hakkavélin, Útgerðin
15.5, 20:00-21:00, Dance, Music and Electronics – Hnoð, Kópavogur Computer Music Studio and others, Útgerðin
17.5, 12:30-13:30, Radical Computer Music – Goodiepal, IAA Visual Art Building
17.5, 16:00-16:45, Interactive Cinema – Chris Hales, IAA Visual Art Building
17.5, 17:00-18:00, Max, Arduino, Maxuino – IAA Students, IAA Visual Art Building
19.5, 20:00-21:30, Píanóraftónlist – Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir, Sölvhóll
19.5, 20:00-21:30, Pikslaverk Opening – Páll Thayer and Servando Barreiro, Hafnarhúsið
20.5, 13:00-16:00, Pikslaverk Lectures – Linda Hilfling, Marco Donnarumma, Martin Howse, Servando Barreiro, Juan Parra og Rafael Hidalgo Múgica, Hafnarhúsið
21.5, 20:00-21:30, RAFLOSTi Workshop Performances, RAFLOSTi participants, IAA Visual Art Building
22.5, 21:00-23:00, Grand Finale – Haraldur Karlsson, Juan Parra, S.L.Á.T.U.R., Monika Frycova, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen and more, Útgerðin
May 12, 2010
Tags: iceland, music Posted in: COURSE REPORTS, NEWS
VISUAL COMMUNICATION IN NUUK, GREENLAND
By the invitation of NAPA – The Nordic Institute in Greenland – and funded by Cirrus, KHiO in Oslo, LHÍ in Reykjavik will run an intensive course in visual communication in Nuuk during the first week of September.
ONLY STUDENTS IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION/GRAPHIC DESIGN CAN APPLY
ONLY STUDENTS THAT HAVE FINISHED 2ND YEAR IN BA CAN APPLY
The course will concentrate on the Inuit visual language and cultural development in graphic design. Students are to participate in seminars and research in Nuuk, looking through anthrophological material and develop as a group (not individually) a reflection in visual language that will be displayed in the end and to the Cirrus community at large. There are 6 student places available.
Course leaders are Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon, professor of graphic design in the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Halldór Gíslason, project leader in design strategy in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
The details of the course are the following:
- Arrival in Reykjavik 29th August.
- Transit in Reykjavik.
- Leaving Reykjavik 30th August to Nuuk.
- Returning from Nuuk to Reykjavik 6th of September.
- Departure from Iceland 7th of September.
The course is 1 ECTS credit.
Included in the course is (covered expenses for students):
- Mobility grant for a return flight to Reykjavik 400 Euro.
- Flight Reykjavik Nuuk Reykjavik
- Accommodation in Nuuk.
Not included is food, and transit accommodation in Reykjavik, tools or materials. In a way, nothing is included that is not counted here above as included!
Applicants are to write directly to Alma Ragnarsdóttir at the Iceland Academy of the Arts (alma@lhi.is). Selection process is the following: First to apply and confirm and is eligible gets place, but only one student from each Cirrus school!
There is no time for delaying decision, students are to send in names and application and will get confirmation early after. Students are to communicate with the Cirrus coordinator in their schools and to refer to their academic leader for permission to participate in the course.
May 7, 2010
Tags: art, design, graphic, greenland, nordic, nuuk Posted in: COURSE REPORTS, NEWS
MASTER SHOW IN BERGEN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE ARTS
Invitation to the Degree Show in Design 2010 at Bergen National Academy of the Arts
“Designing the Social World”
Opening: Wednesday 28 April at 6pm Exhibition period: 28 April – 9 May 2010-Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday at 12 - 4pm
How do spatial surroundings influence welfare in a reception centre for asylum seekers? What could a public space for ceremonies like baptisms, weddings and funerals in Bergen be developed? How can concert halls for rhythmical music best be organised to contribute to a better concert experience for the audience? How can the uniqueness, the nature, history and culture – the identity – of a town, region or district be communicated in modern communicational design? More information HERE
April 22, 2010
Tags: academy, art, design Posted in: NEWS
Lera på Nääs – Amazing anagam, Sommarkurs på HDK Göteborg
I år inviterar Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk till vedbrännings-workshop vid skolans fältlaboratorium beläget på Nääs, ca 3.5 mil utanför Göteborg. Förutom en unik ugnspark med ett antal vedugnar finns där också en fin verkstad i en mycket vacker omgivning med bl.a. ekskog och badsjö.
Kursen kommer att ledas av keramiker Morten Löbner Espersen, från Danmark, professor i keramikkonst på HDK. Han har bjudit in två av sina välrenommerade kollegor – keramikerna Kennet Williamsson, Sverige och
Michael Geertsen, Danmark.
Läs mer om hur man ansöker HER
March 1, 2010
Posted in: NEWS
MEETING OF TEACHERS IN ICELAND, JANUARY 2010
The conference plenum, all participants on a rolling chair so they could socialize. Jóhannes Þórðarsson goes through proceedings.
In January was held a very stimulating meeting in the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Cirrus thanks the Icelanders for a very smooth and entertaining program.
This report will only note the main points. The most important part of these meetings is that teachers meet and compare notes about all kind of issues, often quite outside the themes of the meeting. Therefore the program is deviced for many opportunities of informal encounters.
There were many themes touched upon in the plenum sessions, but the main parallell sessions concentrated on:
1. Design Innovation for Gender Equality. This session was chaired by Sóley Stefánsdóttir, research project leader with Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir from the Gender Equality Training Programme at the University of Iceland.
The session did actually create a blog website for cumulating material about the issues. It was also decided to continue with this as a development project for the coming year and run a working group meeting in Stockholm.
Here is a link to the website and the project description is also there.
2. Post Crisis, How does it affect the Design Schools? Chaired by Dóra Ísleifsdóttir lecturer in graphic design, Iceland Academy of the Arts with Jonathan Romm, dean, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Here is a short report from the session
3. A Common Master Program in Design, chaired by Tine Kjølsen, head of the graphic design department in Danmark Designskole with Jóhannes Þórðarson, dean of the design and architecture department in the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
Tine Kjølsen has written a draft for a common MA that can be downloaded here. It was decided to continue the work in a smaller working group and report in the next general assembly in September.
The programme, other than the parallel sessions included the following:
First morning:
Jóhannes Þórðarson, dean of the department of design and architecture welcomed all to the conference.
Hjálmar H Ragnarsson, rector of the Iceland Academy of the Arts opened the meeting with short info about the history of the institute and the outlook for the coming years in view of the financial situation in Iceland.
Halldór Gíslason, leader of Cirrus thanked the Iceland Academy for the invitation on behalf of the network and spoke briefly about the philosophy of the Meeting of Teachers as a place for people dealing with especially development of MA education to compare notes and experiences.
Tine Kjølsen, head of graphic design in Danmark Design Skole spoke about the work done in the session in Copenhagen last September to develop a common MA program in some form.
Teo Enlund, professor at Konstfack in Stockholm went through the experiences that he has had in a Common Europen Master Program. Here is his presentation.
After the sessions the respective groups gave their findings.
Morning of second day had the following:
Jóhannes Þórðarson gave an outline of the proposed MA program in the Iceland Academy of the Arts
Lorraine Farrelly, associate head of the Portsmouth School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth in England gave an outline of the UK system and the MA program that she has been involved in consolidating.
The social program is a fundamental part of such a meeting and was very well planned by the organizers, evenings and a trip in the crazy Icelandic storm on Saturday.
February 5, 2010
Tags: design, nordic, nordic-baltic Posted in: Reports and Proceedings
A NEW BOOK ON FINNISH DESIGN
FINNISH DESIGN – A Concise History by Pekka Korvenmaa
Pekka Korvenmaa Ph.D. is Professor of Design and Culture at Aalto University’s School of Art and Design. He has published books and articles on the history of Finnish architecture and design both in Finland and abroad.
336 pages, richly illustrated - ISBN 978-951-558-295-9 - 48 €
February 5, 2010
Tags: design, finland, history Posted in: NEWS
Call for applications: The Master’s Program at Konstfack
Konstfack, the largest university college of arts, crafts and design in Sweden, was established in 1844. Konstfack’s two-year graduate program unites design, art, crafts, history, theory and criticism in a dialogue with studio and practice-based work. The program leads to a Master of Fine Arts.
The Master’s program offers eight different disciplines called Master’s Groups:
• Art in the Public Realm
• Ceramics and Glass
• Experience Design
• Formgiving Intelligence
• InSpace
• Jewellery + Corpus
• Storytelling
• Textile in the Expanded Field
The Master’s program at Konstfack functions as an exploratory experimental workshop. Our goal is to lead development in the respective disciplines of arts, crafts and design. This is a program that prepares you for both research and professional careers, and provides you with the prerequisites for critical thinking, enabling you to evaluate your own creative work and place it in a meaningful context.
Final date for applications: March 1, 2010
Final date for portfolios: March 10, 2010
For further information please go here.
February 5, 2010
Posted in: NEWS
SOCIAL STREET
The 7th Urban and Landscape Days, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
April 22-24, 2010
We warmly invite research papers and project presentations to the forthcoming Urban and Landscape Days, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia April 22-24, 2010.
This year theme is ‘social street’. The notion of ‘social street’ is to be interpreted in an open and innovative way.
Questions and sub-themes include:
Participatory and self-building approaches in vitalising streets Urban media, links between virtual and real space Urban design, projects for 21st century street Street and sustainable urban life New uses of urban space Urban conflicts Dérive History of streets Invisible street of infrastructures Spatial configuration and urban morphology Representations of street life in art and literature Methodological developments in urban and spatial analysis Technological and material innovation in street and public space construction
Organising team: Katrin Koov, Panu Lehtovuori, Lilia del Rio, Jüri Soolep
December 28, 2009
Posted in: Research Meetings
Meeting of Teachers in Iceland, January 2010
4TH CIRRUS CONFERENCE 2010 – MEETING OF TEACHERS
ICELAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS
Thursday January 21st and Friday January 22nd
Reykjavík will host the 4th Meeting of Teachers in January 2010. These meetings have become a regular feature in the activities of Cirrus and are considered valuable contributions to the development of teaching in general and the development of the MA in particular. What is considered of great value with these meetings is the general openness and participation of teachers in the proceedings as opposed to the many organizational meetings that have to be held in networks.
The purpose of the Cirrus Network is to continue a very successful network of higher educational institutions within art and design and architecture initiated in 1990.
The main purpose is to sustain a global powerhouse in design through education and research in the Nordic-Baltic region.
Cirrus runs various intensive programs every year
- A conference on curriculum development within master education.
- Workshops or smaller meetings about specific areas within design, for example service design, social design and research.
- Intensive projects where students and teachers exchange ideas and cooperate on predefined tasks.
- Express mobility for common courses.
Curriculum development conference.
Cirrus runs a curriculum development conference every year. These are described separately in the applications for IP’s, but the objective of these is to stimulate new developments within design such as emerging fields where innovation, social responsibility and new pedagogic methodologies are discussed and tested. These can be conferences, workshops, courses or group exchanges.
It is considered of primary importance to include students in all the meeting points created by the Cirrus Network.
Workshops or smaller meetings.
Many partners in Cirrus run small working group meetings for development of common courses and common timetables. This will take place in the intermittent periods between the larger assemblies and conference and will focus more on master education, research and social responsivity.
Intensive and Development projects.
Partners are creating development projects and intensive courses. These are described in Apenndix and included in budget plan.
Express mobility for common courses.
In the last curriculum development conference it was decided to aim for common courses on the master level where many of the partners adhere to the same week in the semester for opening up opportunities for students to select courses in partner institutions. This model has been run successfully in our partner network KUNO and from that experience Cirrus wants to do the same. The first such express activity is to take place in the spring semester of 2009.
Results
- Closer collaboration within the ‘old’ Nordic countries and the Baltic countries.
- Curriculum development and benchmarking changing the studies in all the partner institutions.
- Establishment of common courses within design, both on BA and MA level.
- Express mobility. Develop short term student exchange in connection with common courses run simultaneously in the partner institutions.
- Establishment of closer collaboration of the design innovation centers that the partner institutes run.
- A development of research into one common design innovation policy for the Nordic-Baltic region.
November 26, 2009
Posted in: Call for meetings, TEACHERS CONFERENCES
Intensive Course, Helsinki, Stockholm and Bergen
The schools in Helsinki, Bergen and Stockholm have run a successive intensive course (IC) in drawing. The aims of the course were: ” To concentrate on drawing as tool for visual thinking. Special focus on graphic designers and photographers and how praxis of drawing changes their working methods and processes as well as their visual thinking. The course was a continuation of an earlier course when in spring 2007, 15 students from Konstfack, from Graphic Design and Illustration program and Fine Art program were in Helsinki 8th – 10th of May. Junior lecturers Anita Malmquist and Chunlee WanGurt from Fine Art and Professor in Illustration Andreas Berg were with them.
The objectives were stipulated as follows:
- Can you have drawing as a method in your artistic process?
- Can you travel in your memory by help of drawing?
- Can you think by drawing or do you have to think !rst before drawing or afterwards when you have !nished your drawing?
The program for the Intensive Course was as follows:
1. Tuesday 14th of April
Draw an important place ( drawing by memory) Try to show the place to
people who haven’t been there. Use different projections, not only central
perspective.
2. Wednesday 15th of April
Draw an important happening in your life.
3. Thursday 16th of April
Draw a dream! A dream you have dreamt or a dream you would like to come
true
4. Friday 17th of April
Continue one of those you started earlier ( Masters students from Stockholm
have another course)
5. Saturday 18th of April
Excursion
And here is a report from the organizer about what happened:
The Second Day Easter we Finns met at the Railway Station in Helsinki at quarter to three in the afternoon. We were seven with two bicycles. We arrived to Turku at 17 where we looked at Marja Nurminen’s solo exhibition at Galleria Nefret. After that we ate our first dinner together in Nepalese Restaurant Sikhar. We took a train to Turku harbour and started our journey to Stockholm.
At 6. 30 we arrived to my former hometown and we waited for the boys with bikes and finally I called them. The first accident has happened to Antti, who fell over. He could take himself to the hospital after we had checked us in the hotel.
After first hour Elisabet Sagefors came and she bought material and showed a very simple ways to draw with graphite and use white paint as eraser. This was a concrete way for the students to get started: draw an important place (drawing from memory) – try to show the place to people who haven’t been there; use different projections, not just central perspective, was the task for the first day. At four o’clock we all went to Museum of Modern Art to see Japanese artist Tabaimo’s exhibition. Her animations are built on drawing and they show places and personal experiences the way our workshop was planned to do, too. We saw also Andreas Gursky’s works from 1980-2008 in a big exhibition. After these exhibitions we also looked at the marvelous permanent collections at Museum of Modern Art.
On Wednesday we started at 9 am with the David Hockney at the Tate video where he showed his exhibition and specially one painting of his friends house and a way to this house, too. This painting was also a map at the same time. After that we started a new task: draw an important event in your life!
On Thursday, I showed slides by Jockum Nordström, Helene Billgren, Carin Ellberg, Julie Roberts, Ann Wåhlander, Johan Zetterqvist, Jens Fänge, Klara Kristallova, Roger Andersson, Lars Arrhenius, Gunilla Klingberg, Niklas Eneblom and some of my own work relevant to the workshop assignments. On Friday at four o’clock, some brave students took on the possibility to go and see Nationalmuseum and the exhibition The Pre-Raphaelites. In that exhibition students were especially interested in photographer Tom Hunter’s work.
On Friday Kate Madsen had a lecture on street art and drawing from the digital point of view. Before lunch, students could continue their work and then we hung all drawings on the walls. We drew lots on who would give constructive feedback to whom. At the lunch we teachers decided that we shouldn´t talk so much and we really didn´t need to do that because students gave very good feedback to each other.
On Saturday we made a walk around galleries in Stockholm. We started at Gallery Magnus Karlsson and saw Roger Anderssons and Lars Arrhenius exhibition, at Olsson Gallery we saw Lars Olof Loelds exhibition. We went also to The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and saw exhibition of Suzanne Nessim, Karin Granqvist and Martin Åhlund. Afterwards, we took underground to Östermalm and went Gallery Niklas Belenius to see Monica Hölls Exhibition called Crazy Drawing Room. We continued to Gallery Roger Björkholmen to see Thomas Elofssons exhibition. At Gallery Lars Bohman we saw Jussi Niva’s paintings. Helene Billgrens drawings we could see at Angelika Knäpper Gallery, at Crystal Palace we could take part of Catti Brandelius feministic silk-screens. At Alp gallery Peter Bergman we saw fantastic pumpkin made by Roland Persson and some paintings by Martin Åhlund. And because this wasn´t enough we took one gallery house and could see more exhibitions. At Gallery Andersson Sandström we saw Allison Gildersleeves painting. At Flach and Thulin we were fascinated by Kristina Bengths watercolours. At Andréhn-Sciptjenko we saw Jacob Dahlgren´s works. At Nordenhake we didn´t like Scott Olson´s exhibition at all. At Brändström we saw Thomas Sandells and Jakob Ojanen`s exhibitions. This was guite a heavy package of Art but the weather was nice and we saw one magnolia in full flower.
October 28, 2009
Posted in: COURSE REPORTS
