Talks and Workshops at Faculty of Design, Lampingstrasse 3, 33615 Bielefeld
Description
Personal documentation helps to find approaches to individual self–definition. This 5 day workshop will enable students to create a personal piece of work in a structured and process–oriented environment. While the nuclear family, the home, ethnicity, gender and religion may lay the foundations upon which the self is built, our lived experience shapes us through memories and upheavals that put–on and remove masks, change our face and teach us to speak in different voices. Building up inside of us; layer by layer. This workshop aims to expose episodes from our personal life that permeate and influence the subject–matter and language of each respective creator. Although the self–portrait can only hint at its meaning – based on fragments of memory and feelings that have left a mark – it is always an ‘essence’ of past, present and future. The workshop will set in motion a process of searching for personal / autobiographical motivations, to uncover a personal story best suited to describe a moment that crystallizes an idea. Through researching, producing raw materials and editing, students will complete a creative work. The course will support work in a range of media and processes.
Lecturer
Yulie Cohen
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Jerusalem, Israel
A filmmaker and a lecturer. Her films include the acclaimed trilogy ‘My Terrorist’ (2002), ‘My Land Zion’ (2004) and ‘My Brother’ (2007), which were shown at international film festivals, broadcast worldwide by many television channels, purchased by many academic libraries and discussed at conferences internationally. Awarded the Art of Film prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2005. ‘My Israel’ (2008) was commissioned by BBC and was based on the trilogy. ‘A Minor Shrine For Our Love’ (2014) was curated for Dani Karavan’s exhibition 50 years of the Negev Monument in the Negev Museum of Art. Since 2008, she has been teaching at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and over the last three years, has been developing ‘Who Killed Jessica?’ – a full–length animated film. For more information visit her website.
Audience
Communication Design, Photography, Fashion, Digital Media and Experiment
Requirements
Please bring a notebook, pencil and eraser!
Description
What if someone told you that the final exhibition of your graduation work will take place tomorrow? Let me be the person to tell you. In this workshop time will fly fast. There will be no space for doubt, nuance or reconsidering your thoughts. You will need to take decisions and get working! Luckily there is a pay–off: by the end of this workshop you will not only have a project statement, but you will also have a finished project! Sort of…
Lecturer
Thijs groot Wassink
artist duo WassinkLundgren
Netherlands
Thijs groot Wassink has worked for over a decade with Ruben Lundgren as artist duo WassinkLundgren. Their work shifts mundane, often unnoticeable, everyday occurrences into visually compelling and gently amusing observations of the world around us. They have published numerous publications, won awards and exhibited internationally (seriously, Google it). Thijs groot Wassink currently teaches at the Royal Academy in The Hague.
Audience
Photography
Requirements
Please bring your laptop and images on your computer!
Description
‘Multi–lingual’ or ‘multi–script’ typography is a hot topic these days. Type designers are not only creating superfamilies of typefaces, these typefaces also need to cover as many scripts as possible. At the same time, graphic designers are asked to find solutions for multi–lingual and multi–scriptural layout solutions that do not compromise the reading experience of the languages involved. While these are truly important tasks, they mainly focus on visually alining style and appearance of the respective languages. The beauty of knowing more than one language lies in the possibility of discovering unique characteristics of a language, even in one’s own mother tongue. In this workshop, we will focus on ‘one characteristic’ of a language, visualize it by typographic means and introduce this concept into a small booklet of which each participating student will create one section. This ‘characteristic’ can be anything you happen upon, for instance homophones, homonymes, odd spellings, loanwords, etc. While you are free to choose any language for this study, the descriptive or narrative texts (captions) need to be in English.
Lecturer
Mariko Takagi
Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Kyoto (Japan)
Mariko Takagi is a German-Japanese typographer, author, book designer and educator. She acts as an intermediary between Western and Japanese cultures – specifically between Latin letters and Japanese/Chinese characters. Mariko Takagi spent 6 years in Hong Kong (2010-16), where she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. This move from a Roman alphabet to a bilingual environment with Latin letters and Chinese characters gave her new inspirations and insights into culture, language and script. In 2016, she published the book ‘Kanji Graphy’, in which she explores the Japanese writing system, looking at visual and semantic expressiveness in typography. In April 2017, Takagi moved to Kyoto to continue working as an Associate Professor and Researcher at Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto.
Audience
Communication Design
Requirements
Please prepare: Select a topic or peculiar phenomenon on the basis of the ‘characteristics’ described above, either in German or in another language that you want to explore in a booklet to create a minimum of 8 double spreads each.
Description
Those of you who have always wanted to design a Serif or Sans Serif reading text font, but didn’t because: 1. You have no idea how and where to begin. 2. You think it is much too difficult and therefore you never tried. 3. You believe that only experts and Type Design nerds can design a good font. 4. You are afraid it will take months, maybe years to design a fairly meaningful text font. 5. You think you need to learn a highly sophisticated Type Design software. 6. You are a font lover. 7. You are still fucking motivated to learn this Type Design shit. Well, don't be intimidated anymore! In this 3 day workshop, you will learn to create your first editable text font. You will start with your own design of your Type Face, through the digital craftsmanship of glyphs in Adobe Illustrator, and finally make the font production of your first editable OFT font.
Lecturer
Prof. Antonino Benincasa
Free University of Bozen
Italy
Antonino Benincasa graduated in Communication Design in 1993, before he opened his own design office in Milan in 1996. From 1997 to 2005 he taught Visual Communication at the Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Design. In 2000, he designed the Logo and Corporate Identity of the Olympic Winter Games in Turino 2006. In 2005, he was appointed as Professor and Dean at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art. His research focus is in Typography, Type Design and Editorial Design. Since 2006 Antonino Benincasa lives and works in Bozen-Bolzano.
Audience
Communication Design
Requirements
Please bring your laptop!
Description
The seminar introduces key themes within the study of clothes in film in order to introduce you to a theoretical and critical framework of the field. The aim is to explore how clothes are represented in film, and how fashion and costume design influence and distinguish each other. Particular attention will be given to the analysis of female visual representations that will be explored within the historical, political and social context in which they are produced.
Lecturer
Giulia Bonali
University La Sapienza, Institute Polimoda Florence
Italy
Audience
Fashion
Description
Chinese characters originate from pictograms and ideograms, and many remain in their original form today. In this workshop, you will research these characters, trying to construct and compose characters with found objects, materials, imagery, footage, etc., using photography, collage, and digital composition. Obviously, the choice of materials should to some degree reflect the meaning of the respective character. Together you will then design a booklet using the outcomes from the workshop.
Lecturer
Prof. Du Qin
College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
Shanghai, China
Du Qin, graphic designer and Assistant Professor at College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai. He completed his PhD on the foundations of Chinese typography at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2014. His teaching, research and practical work at Tongji University are centred around his expertise in typography, based on an interest in how old crafts and fundamental design language evolved in digital systems.
Audience
Communication Design
Requirements
Please bring: laptop and camera.
Description
As a 20th century poet writes: ‘The real is not enough; through its disguise / Tell us the truth which fills the mind with light / Because, without each other, all is night.’ During this workshop, we will deal with the difficulty of discovering and expressing any ‘truth’ through photography. We are going to question common consensus. Students will take photographs in a community they are familiar with, in which they are insiders. The group will experiment with finding visual and narrative tools to express things hidden, unspoken or simply gone unnoticed.
Lecturer
Gábor Arion Kudász
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Hungary
Audience
Photography
Requirements
Please bring your portfolio for the first meeting, as well as cameras, computers and mobile phones.
Description
IF you are happy AND IF you know it THEN clap your hands ELSE DO NOTHING ENDIF Pseudocode is programming without a computer and Karaoke is singing without the orchestra. During this assignment we will ask participants to deploy a self-invented routine on an everyday object they brought to the workshop and document its evolution. Please bring: Your bike OR a drilling machine OR a beautiful dress OR a chair OR a blender OR a camera OR a book OR something similar OR something completely different. The only requirements are that: You own the object AND disassembly of the object should be possible.
Lecturer
Catalogtree Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha
Netherlands
Audience
Communication Design, Photography, Digital Media and Experiment
Requirements
Please bring: laptop, camera, pen and paper.
Description
The Portfolio Reviews take 20 minutes with individual slots, rest of the group can observe.
Lecturer
Prof. Mariko Takeuchi
Kyoto University of Art and Design
Japan
Audience
Photography, Fashion
Description
Die Studierenden werden eingeladen, eine Kartografie ihrer Erfahrungen eines spezifischen Ortes (FH–Gebäude) herzustellen. Anhand von mehreren festgelegten Protokollen soll das Erlebnis von Raum/Räumlichkeit (im architektonischen, materiellen, körperlichen und sozialen Sinne) ausgelotet und visualisiert werden. Mit zeichnerischen Materialien, aber auch mit Foto und Video werden performative Mittel der Interaktionen mit dem Raum einzeln, zu zweit oder in Gruppen ausgearbeitet und die Resultate zu einer kollektiven Karte zusammengefügt.
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Katrin Gattinger
University Strasbourg
France
Audience
Communication Design, Photography, Fashion, Digital Media and Experiment
Requirements
Please bring: Drawing Material, Camera, Videocamera or Smartphone
Description
Lard Buurman will start his workshop with a lecture about his visual urban research of the African city in relation to street photography and the decisive moment. After this introduction, the group will start their own visual research of Bielefeld. We will forget the stereotypes of Bielefeld and ask ourselves: ‘What makes Bielefeld a generic city?’ The workshop will focus on people and their relation to the built environment. We will do this by the medium of street photography. This means that the daily street life is a starting point to represent this city as if it is any other German city. In three days, we will capture the Generic City of Bielefeld and perhaps add some evidence to the myth of the Bielefeld conspiracy.
Lecturer
Lard Burmann
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Audience
Photography
Description
Starting from a talk focusing on the theory of fashion practice in the expanded field to practical experimentation, this workshop promotes the exploration of notions of memory and fashion: A practical laboratory of interdisciplinary nature that engages with the development of processes of experimental composition of garments. Introduction to innovative materials to the fashion discipline, with the use of materials such as latex and plaster in the production of experimental clothing. Through the use of the age–old tradition of plaster moulds and the use of natural latex reproducing ‘found items’ from their original form into a memory – as a disruptive voice regarding productivity and functionality in design methods.
Lecturer
Dr. Lara Torres
University of Portsmouth
UK
Audience
Fashion
Description
This workshop aims to introduce Indonesian Batik with traditional tools and way. Batik is listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2009. In Indonesia, the techniques, symbolism and culture surrounding hand–dyed cotton and silk garments known as Indonesian Batik permeate the lives of Indonesians from beginning to end: infants are carried in batik slings decorated with symbols designed to bring the child luck, and the dead are shrouded in funerary batik. Batik even plays the central role in certain rituals, such as the ceremonial casting of royal batik into a volcano. Batik is dyed by proud craftspeople who draw designs on fabric using dots and lines of hot wax, which resists vegetable and other dyes and therefore allows the artisan to colour selectively by soaking the cloth in one colour, removing the wax with boiling water and repeating the process if multiple colours are desired. At the end of the workshop, students will be able to create batik with a traditional pattern on scarfs and simple jewelry from coconut shell with batik on it.
Lecturer
Yulriawan Dafri
Indonesia Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta
Indonesia
Audience
Fashion
Description
This workshop gives participants the opportunity to transform existing garments into something new in a creative way or to use predetermined surfaces creatively for draping clothes. A strategic approach and consideration of upcycling and zero waste.
Lecturer
Ana Schmidt
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
UK
Audience
Fashion
Description
There are all kinds of structures and forms of power that are very much a part of our everyday lives, which we rarely notice, hidden in plain sight. This workshop asks you to look at the institution you find yourself in right now, the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, and create ‘photographs beyond photographs’. That is, how can you visualize the power of the very institution you study in, and use photography as a way to turn the invisible, visible?
Lecturer
Donald Weber
Academy of Art, The Hague
Netherlands
Audience
Photography
Description
Following Derrida’s remarks on Plato’s division, in the ‘Fable of Writing’ (Phaedros), between false memory (hypomnesis) and true memory (mneme), the talk aims at differentiating between two functions of memory: on the one hand, memory as an archive of data and facts, as done in digital media for example. On the other hand, memory of real, significant, often traumatic events, which shape our lives, and, as such, elude the archive while resurfacing in a spectral fashion.
Lecturer
Dr. Dror Pimentel
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
Israel
Audience
Communication Design, Photography, Fashion, Digital Media and Experiment
Requirements
Reading group before the talk: Please preparare: Plato ‘Fable of Writing’ and Derrida ‘Plato’s Pharmacy’. Pre–reading: Derrida’s ‘Plato’s Pharmacy’ (Deutsch: ‘Platons Pharmazie’ – in: Jacques Derrida: Dissemination, Wien, 1995, S. 69–192)
Description
How do I understand an interdisciplinary art project, practice based artistic research at a higher education institution. The lecture will be based on self-analysis of creative practice. The lecture will take 1.5 hours (little workshop) and a further 0.5 hours of discussion.
Lecturer
Assoc. Prof. Česlovas Lukenskas
Dean of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Lithuania
Audience
Interdisciplinary