International
Week
13.05 –17.05

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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.

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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…

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‘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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Portfolio Reviews take 20 minutes with individual slots, rest of the group can observe.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.