Neu/Now is online!
9 November 2009
The Festival Is Opened. That is, the Virtual Festival site www.neunow.eu went live today. With nine days to go before the Live Festival itself opens in Vilnius, you can already find here 144 young artists and collectives, graduating or graduated this year, whose projects have been selected from all around Europe – a showcase of the new talent now emerging from art schools in every discipline.
On the evening of Wednesday 18 November, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė will officially open the festival. From 19 November on, there will be four days of performances and exhibitions throughout Vilnius. 29 Participants have been selected to perform or show their work.
Pictures from the TA
7 November 2009
ELIA Teachers’ Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1-4 July 2009
We got pictures from the Teachers’ Academy at last. In fact, we got 2GB worth of pictures – so we had to downsize a bit and make a selection. For some odd reason, I couldn’t make a gallery on WordPress, so they’re online at http://www.elia-artschools.org/meetings/TA.
If you’d like to have one in larger version, or know if you’re on a photo we didn’t put online, please drop a line.
An overview of artistic research meetings
2 November 2009
Researchers at the Institute for Applied Research in the Arts (Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten, IvOK) have been attending a fair share of conferences on artistic research in the past year. On the IvOK site, you can find reports of meetings in Göteborg, Solstrand, Helsinki, Utrecht, Glasgow, Dresden, Venice, Zurich, Exeter, Aberdeen, and London. Two of them have also been covered on this blog and we hope to do more in the future, but the IvOK reports give a fair overview of what’s been going on.
Patchmakers and handmade orchestras
30 October 2009
We can’t wait. 18 days to go until the Neu/Now Festival opens in Vilnius, Lithuania. In the Jotta Magazine, you can already read interviews with Marloeke van der Vlugt and Karen Skog, both of whom will be presenting their work there.
Claiming Creativity
28 October 2009
ELIA and Columbia College, Chicago are announcing a symposium in partnership:
Claiming Creativity
Art Education in Cultural Transition
Chicago, 21-24 April 2010.
Registration has opened today and so has the call for submissions. The site is one to watch too: from 18 January on, the abstracts for presentation will feature on a forum, and for each subject we have two moderators that will set the discussion going even before the conference begins. Read the rest of this entry »
Languages through Lenses – vote online!
19 October 2009
As you are reading this, the second edition of Languages through lenses is going through its first week of viewing at the Prix Europa Festival in Berlin, where votes will be cast for the Jury and the Public’s Choice Award. The winner will be presented on the evening of 24 October.
For this edition, we received 122 proposals from students studying at art schools located in 18 European Union member states as well as Norway and Turkey. An international jury has selected 15 scripts, from which now 15 short films of either 1 or 3 minutes have been made, each in its own way reflecting the theme of multilingualism.
On the Prix Europa site, you can view all 15 films and cast your vote.
http://www.prix-europa.de/prix_europa_2009/languages_through_lenses/
European Cultural Forum at LabforCulture
13 October 2009
Labforculture, the online cultural information source hosted by the European Cultural Foundation, is supplying extensive text & video documentation from the European Culture Forum, two weeks ago in Brussels. The coverage includes interviews with Odile Quentin (DG Education & Culture), Michael Wimmer (Educult), Isabelle Schwarz (ECF), Steve Green (EUNIC), and others. For a range of policy documents related to the Forum, also see the EC’s Education & Culture site.
http://www.labforculture.org/en/labforculture/blogs/%28limit%29/6/%28keyword%29/cultureforum09
Aalto University, with a capital A
10 October 2009
The University of Art and Design Helsinki is merging with Helsinki School of Economics and the Helsinki University of Technology to become Aalto University. To position itself, the new university chose a logo that rather powerfully asserts itself – assertion with a capital A, literally.
We’re moving! (2)
18 September 2009
“Wise words from a house-builder”
10 September 2009
Urban Knowledge at the Dutch Artistic Research Event, and something about EUFRAD too
EUFRAD
It’s been three days since the European Forum of Research Degrees in Art & Design closed off in an athmosphere of enthousiasm and community feeling. Even for the odd artistic research sceptic, it was the sort of moment that makes you proud and happy to be there. Dame Janet Ritterman reviewed the state of artistic research now, and Stuart Evans described with characteristic wit how he arrived there. Read the rest of this entry »
