[Oberlist] FW: Jan van Eyck: Call for applications

Mar Feb 27 22:52:47 CET 2007

>From: Jan van Eyck Academie <recruitment la janvaneyck.nl>
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>Subject: Jan van Eyck: Call for applications
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:42:37 +0100
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>Jan van Eyck Academie
>Post-academic Institute for Research and Production
>Fine Art, Design, Theory
>
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>Call for applications
>Deadline: Friday 13 April 2007
>
>Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and 
>production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. 
>Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project 
>formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects, the 
>Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and 
>auxiliary preconditions.
>
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>Profile
>The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in 
>the fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48 international 
>researchers realise their individual or collective projects in the artistic 
>and challenging environment that is the Jan van Eyck. The institute is not 
>led by predetermined leitmotivs. Artists, designers and theoreticians can 
>submit independently formulated proposals for research and/or production in 
>the Fine Art, Design and Theory department or candidates can apply for 
>collective research projects formulated by the Jan van Eyck (see below). 
>The miscellaneous nature of these research projects and productions makes 
>the Jan van Eyck into a multi-disciplinary institute. This also shows in 
>the programme of the institute. Researchers, departments and the institute 
>organise various weekly activities, to which special speakers are invited: 
>lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, discussions  
>External interested parties are welcome to attend these activities. The 
>result is a dynamic and critical exchange between the different agents from 
>within and outside of the Jan van Eyck.
>
>Facilities
>Researchers are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians 
>who have won their spurs globally. They receive their own studio and a 
>stipend. Furthermore, researchers can make use of all kinds of facilities 
>which support their projects, from first concept to public presentation: 
>the library, the documentation centre and various workshops (wood and other 
>materials; graphic productions and photography; digital text & image 
>processing and editing; time-based media). They can also get assistance 
>with their print work, the editing and distribution of publications and the 
>publicity of events.
>
>Application
>Candidates can apply to a department or a collective research project (see 
>below). The academic year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Research 
>candidates can apply for a one-year or two-year research period starting 
>annually on 1 January. It is also possible to apply to do research for a 
>different period and with a different starting date.
>More information about the application procedure can be found at 
>http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html
>
>Contact
>For practical questions concerning the application procedure or to request 
>an information brochure, please contact Leon Westenberg 
>(leon.westenberg la janvaneyck.nl).
>For content-related questions on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general, its 
>departments or on the collective research projects, please contact Kim 
>Thehu (kim.thehu la janvaneyck.nl).
>
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>Departments
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>Fine Art department
>The Fine Art department encourages both personal and discursive exchange 
>amongst its researchers. It thus wants to establish a context of 
>practice-oriented discussion - a context that considers issue-orientation 
>alongside other artistic approaches, as well as being driven by processing, 
>producing, organizing and going public.
>Advising researchers: Orla Barry, Aglaia Konrad, Hinrich Sachs, Imogen 
>Stidworthy
>More information: 
>http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/fineart_statement.html
>
>Design department
>The Design department focuses on design as research, design as discourse, 
>design as publishing. It initiates and supports research projects in the 
>areas of cultural and corporate identity, mapping, print and new media 
>publishing, urban and regional identity, and book design. While the 
>department formerly focused mainly on graphic and communication design, it 
>has been widening its scope to include spatial, product and service design.
>Advising researchers: Wim Cuyvers, Will Holder, Daniel van der Velden
>More information: 
>http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/design_statement.html
>
>Theory department
>The Theory department offers a stimulating environment for critical inquiry 
>and intense debate to explore alternative ways of shaping intellectual 
>horizons. The department welcomes researchers who pursue their artistic 
>and/or intellectual vision anywhere on the interface of critical theory, 
>philosophy, aesthetics and psychoanalysis with the visual arts.
>Advising researchers: Norman Bryson, Katja Diefenbach, Hanneke Grootenboer, 
>Dominiek Hoens
>More information: 
>http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/theory_statement.html
>
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>Collective research projects
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>
>Logo Parc. Challenging the aesthetics of economy
>Logo Parc is a design research project for public space. Its main focus of 
>interest is the Zuidas (South Axis) in Amsterdam: a prestigious area of 
>high-rise office blocks, residential and cultural facilities on both sides 
>of the A10 motorway. The Zuidas is considered a new typology of the city, 
>dedicated to the symbolic representation of economy, information, knowledge 
>and mobility. Logo Parc is driven by a critical interest in the 
>representation of power and economy  both to deconstruct it, and to create 
>it. As a machine for comments, ideas and visions for the Zuidas, the 
>project aims to fuel discussion as well as trigger actual design issues, 
>operating freely in an area in-between architectural, spatial and 
>communication design.
>Logo Parc is a joint project of Jan van Eyck Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en 
>Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academy / Amsterdam University and 
>Premsela Dutch Design Foundation.
>Advising researcher: Daniel van der Velden
>More information: http://logoparc.janvaneyck.nl/
>
>Tomorrow book studio
>The project 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. Convinced that the 
>book will never cease to exist, the Tomorrow book studio focuses on the 
>specific qualities of the book as a medium. After all, the book has a 
>physical reality which is part of a complex and process-like entity, 
>involving acts such as conceptualizing, making, distributing, reading, 
>using, reusing and keeping.
>The Tomorrow book studio is a joint research project of the Jan van Eyck 
>Academie and the Charles Nypels Foundation.
>Advising researcher: Will Holder
>More information: http://tomorrowbookstudio.janvaneyck.nl
>
>Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine
>This research project concerns the search for public space in the Euregion 
>Meuse-Rhine. Walks (on foot, by bike, car, bus, train) through the region 
>are essential part of the research. These walks and the ensuing inventories 
>are determined by strict protocols: for instance, during the research, 
>the inner borders of the Euregion function as a reference line and a kind 
>of reading axis. As was evident from earlier research, the vulnerable 
>(gypsies, refugees, migrants, drug addicts) can function as indicators. 
>Another indicator is provided by the patterns which appear after 
>observation of the opposite: leisure activities that assail public space. 
>Maps are constantly used and developed, but the project is not at all about 
>cognitive mapping. During the entire research period, the French pedagogue 
>Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is considered a supporter, someone who walks in 
>the footsteps of the researchers, as he did for thirty years: following 
>autistic patients, without intervention, only registering, not even wanting 
>to learn anything.
>Advising researcher: Wim Cuyvers
>More information: http://tracesofautism.janvaneyck.nl
>
>After 1968. What is the political?
>The project After 1968 debates the notion of the political in Post-Marxist 
>theory, reflecting how an entire wave of minoritarian militancy, which 
>emerged during the 60s and 70s, has failed and led to a controversy about 
>the mode of political struggle. In Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, 
>Feminism and Marxism, this theoretical conflict is shaped along the 
>following lines: Butler's Levinasian ethics of the vulnerability and 
>passivity of a precarious life-form; Badious event of truth; Derrida's 
>messianic expectation of an event which evades any expectation; Zizeks 
>idea of a neo-Leninist decision; Agamben's notion of a potentiality that is 
>in any relation to the act; the  concept of an empty universality in 
>hegemony theory; the post-operaist ontological belief in the autonomy of 
>the multitude and a coming communism of creative doing; Rancičre's 
>suggestion that the political conflict resides in the tension between the 
>structured social body and the part with no-part, etc. After 1968 
>negotiates these enormous differences concerning the question of a 
>constituent moment or an ontological founding of the political, of its 
>organisational form, of activity and passivity, doing and event.
>Advising researcher: Katja Diefenbach
>More information: http://after1968.janvaneyck.nl
>
>Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique
>The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers 
>researchers who are interested in Lacanian theory and consider it an open 
>set of tools for critically considering contemporary (post-) modern 
>culture. CLiC intends to activate the psychoanalytical  and especially 
>Lacanian  background of many current philosophers and critics, such as 
>Agamben, Badiou, Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Derrida, Nancy, Rancičre, 
>iek and Zupancic. Insight into the Lacanian background of these theories 
>is indispensable in order to discover the very core of their critical 
>potentialities, which is why a confrontation with and a reading of the 
>Lacanian text is one of CLiCs objectives.
>Advising researcher: Dominiek Hoens
>More information: http://clic.janvaneyck.nl
>
>The pensive image
>The pensive image is a research project on thinking images. This project 
>studies the extent to which images (painting, photography, cinema etc.) are 
>able to philosophize on the status of their own representation, and on the 
>nature of vision. The project is based on the hypothesis that monocular 
>models of vision such as perspective and the camera have shaped our 
>binocular perception of the world. Following Hubert Damisch and Roland 
>Barthes, among others, The pensive image aims at formulating a theory as to 
>how images think about vision through a study of images that look back 
>at us, viewers.
>Advising researcher: Hanneke Grootenboer
>More information: http://thepensiveimage.janvaneyck.nl
>
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>Call for applications: deadline 15 April 2007
>Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and 
>production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. 
>Candidates can apply with a topic of their own for the Fine Art, Design or 
>Theory department or they can apply to one of the collective research 
>projects: Logo Parc, Tomorrow book studio, Traces of autism, After 1968. 
>What is the political?, Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique and The 
>pensive image.
>More info: www.janvaneyck.nl
>

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