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Express course: The Text, the Body, the Book, March 20th –23 rd, 2017

CIRRUS lecture and workshop “The Text, the Body, the Book“ in Klaipeda faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts with Roma Auškalnyte mixed media artist (University of Arts Helsinki)
1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 3 (BA)

Klaipeda, Lithuania
March 20th –23 rd, 2017 (arrive 19th of March and leave 24th of March)

Please send a motivation letter motivational letter a (200 words) and a link to your portoflio to the lecturer of the Graphic Design department, Klaipeda faculty, associate professor Lidija Kukliene (lidija.kukliene@vda.lt).

 

Application deadline: 1st of March
Decisions on selection are announced by March 6 th, 2017
Description


The workshop will be divided into the three groups: the Text, the Body and the Book. They will analyze the body and text in graphic art, as well as in contemporary art contexts: how the body influences the

object, which is created and how to use it to find new forms of expression.

Practical workshops will be organized during the performative tasks and we will try to look more into the line, the stain and the texture – the entire graphic arts trinity. Also discover the different and individual creative sources for each student.

The workshop aim will be to broaden the perception of what the graphics and text is, how they change and how to use digital media (video) by integrating it to graphics and performance art.

The final piece of the four day workshops will be – book, but its form, and the media will depend on each participant.

The workshops are focused on the history of Klaipeda, and Book smugglers day, which will be commemorated on 16 th of March in Lithuania.

 

About lecturer

Roma Auškalnytė has worked for several years in a direction that may be referred to as „auto-biography.“ Her works were usually derived from memory as well as from some mementos that she had in her possession since childhood.

From 2012 she started concentrating more on text based art in combination with printmaking or video, as well as various body/performance experiments. She is influenced by the printmaking processes, how it leads to new, ambiguous transformations of old ideas. Roma Auškalnytė is exploring body as material in printmaking, the importance of gesture and repetition which are always hidden behind the final print.

Roma Auškalnytė now lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

 You can find additional information about artist Roma Auškalnyte here:

roma-auskalnyte.eu
https://vimeo.com/user43266827

 

3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools and are entitled to CIRRUS scholarship (330 EUR travel/660 Iceland) + weekly allowance 70 EUR.

 

Timetable

 

Monday 20 th

9 – 12 pm Presentation lecture of the workshops – mixed media artist Roma Auškalnyte.
12-13 pm A break
13-17 pm An informal review of students works (students should bring USB, or have themselfs works on a web page), visit to studio, discussion (familiarity with the workshops participants-tea, bisquits, other suggestions?:)

 

Thursday 21st „THE TEXT“

09- 10 am A brief lecture and discussions showing artists works and samples; a talk on the tasks of the day.
10-12 pm Preparation of space and a small exercise.
12-13 pm A break.
13-17 pm Experimental Graphic Workshop.

Wednesday 22 nd „THE BODY“

9-10 ap A brief lecture and discussion are showing artists and works and samples; a talk on the tasks of the day.
10-12 pm A small warm-up exercise.
12-13 pm A break.
13-17 pm Experimental Graphic Workshop.

Thursday 23 rd „THE TEXT“

9-10.30 am Presentation of Klaipeda, and the history of writing and books. The lecture leads guide educator Agne Jonikaitytė (The History museum of Lithuania minor).
10-12 pm The ending of the session and discussion on the continuation of the works, a small warm-up exercise.
12-13 pm A break.
13-17 pm The continuation of the work; final talk and presentation on the final works. Closing of the workshop.

Garage 48 Hardware & Arts 2017

Garage 48 Hardware & Arts 2017

CIRRUS EXPRESS: GARAGE48 HARDWARE & ARTS 2017,
APPLY DUE JANUARY 16, 2017

Organisers: Estonian Academy of Arts, University of Tartu, Garage48 (the course will take place in Tartu)
Seats: 2
ECTS: 1
Deadline: January 16, 2017
Apply here

There is a registration fee 25 EUR to every student taking part in this event (not only CIRRUS students) that must be covered by the CIRRUS students as well.

Two seats have been reserved for CIRRUS students exclusively, so you don’t need to register at the web site of the event now, but after you have been granted a scholarship through  CIRRUS.

Everyone, who wants to join the event anyway (with or without grant) is welcome to register already now.
Grant available: 70 EUR for living costs + 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR)

The legendary Garage48 Hardware & Arts 2017 hackathon will be happening already on the 17-19th of February in Tartu, Estonia. The Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathons are one of the most popular events in the Baltic region to build physical working prototypes! UI/UX and product designers, electronics, mechatronics and software engineers, marketers and science professionals are all welcome to build innovations in just 48 hours!

All the mentors, organisers and volunteers of the event are all active members of the ICT sector and hardware industries, giving the teams the best know-how and motivation to deliver their prototypes.

http://garage48.org/events/hardwarearts2017

TOOLS TO WORK WITH

All available equipment and materials during the hackathon will be listed in our blog.

TRANSPORT

We will arrange buses leaving from Friday on route Tallinn-Tartu and back on Sunday evening straight after the event. The rest of the trip should be organized by the student him/herself.

Ways of Drawing III – Walk the Line. CIRRUS/Nordplus Intensive Course

WAYS OF DRAWING III – WALK THE LINE
CIRRUS/Nordplus Higher Education Intensive course
Period: 12.-18.3. 2017 (arrival day 12.3. and departure day 18.3.)
Location: Aalto University, Otaniemi Campus (Espoo)
Level: BA3 & MA

Target group: students in all fields of design, architecture, media and art
Teachers: Marja Nurminen (Aalto ARTS), André Alves (University of Gothenburg, Valand Academy), Andreas Berg (Oslo National Academy of the Arts)
How to apply: Send a motivation letter and five drawings to lecturer Marja Nurminen
marja.nurminen@aalto.fi by 18th of January, 2017. The selection is made in two weeks’ time and all students will get a notification by 1.2.2017.
ECTS: 2
How many places: 3 students from CIRRUS member schools will be selected.

Accommodation: students will be accommodated free-of-charge in a hotel or hostel in Helsinki with easy public transport connections to the workshop site.
Mobility support: We will buy the flight tickets.
Description: Drawing is generic activity cross all disciplines in art, design, film, media, applied arts and architecture. Designers and artists, due to differences between the disciplines, often see it very differently and it often functions in very particular and individual ways.
Overall objects of the workshop: Supporting educational innovations in drawing (art) education, where teachers become co-learners instead of authorities, hierarchies in knowledge are not accepted. Furthermore, supporting networking and collaboration of students over all kinds of borders is important for us.
Goals: Students learn to use drawing as a versatile tool in their own work, and how they can assess and evaluate their own and their peers work and place themselves in the contemporary context of cultural practice.

PROGRAMME OF THE WEEK

SUNDAY 12.3. Arrival day
MONDAY 13.3. Marja Nurminen
(working hours 9 am to 5 pm every day).
Journey or trip is a classical theme in many art works. I personally have tried to picture a trip in many ways and my latest but surely not last painting about a journey is made in 2010 and is called Where Ever I Travel I Only Find Myself. Picture a trip or a journey or an everyday walk using simple medium like charcoal or pencil on paper. Choose large paper format and concentrate on drawing content.

TUESDAY 14.3. Andreas Berg ”Taking the stairs.” The “Life and Ages of (Wo)Man” (-”ålderstrappan” was a popular motive in Swedish folk art from 1600s until the 1800s. It presents life like a pyramid, traditional and conventional, the motif reflects hopes and expectations. For a hundred and fifty years ago, it was almost unthinkable to become a hundred years old, but today it is possible. How do we picture a long life today? During one day we reinterpret the motive, the stairs of ages, and present updated versions.

WEDNESDAY 15.3. André Alves
Walking, as movement in space, finds a parallel in the movement of the eye (through the trace left) on the page. In this workshop, we will go back and forth between the page and the space. The aim is to discover both the body and the relation of body with space of the drawer and how that can be used as a tool to gather material that can either be preparatory or the end-result of a drawing practice. Your drawings will explore how rhythms of moving your body translate into a landscape image. At a later stage, you will intervene in that image as if it was a topological space or architectonical stage for other drawing interventions.

THURSDAY 16.3. by Sari Dhima
Head of One Campus project at Aalto University leads a walk in Otaniemi 9–11. Draw this walk or something inspired by it or work with those drawings that are not ready.

FRIDAY 17.3. Exhibition, critic day

SATURDAY 18.3. Departure day

New! CIRRUS express course in Bergen

Week 4-5 + 7-10, 2017 CIRRUS EXPRESS:

“CONSTRUCTION AND CONTEXT. DIGITAL WEAVING”
Teaching staff: Professor Kari Dyrdal and Associate Professor Jon Pettersen
Host: KHIB
Level: BA and MA
Credits: 9 ECTS (weeks 4-10); 6 ECTS (weeks 7-10)
Application deadline: 1 December, 2016 (more on it below)
Grant: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR)/ + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Professor Jon Pettersen would like to invite 2-4 CIRRUS students for either the whole period (weeks 4-10 + seminar 20 January) or the last 4 weeks (weeks 7-10).

“CONSTRUCTION AND CONTEXT. DIGITAL WEAVING”

  • a kick off seminar ‘Making is thinking’ 20 January
  • two weeks core course; guest students who prefer to join will be able to adjust the program according to their background (week 4-5, 2017)
  • week 6 includes no teaching, but the workshop will be open and the technician will be present to assist students
  • four weeks workshop in digital weaving (weeks 7-10); the programme will be adjusted to the group, followed by theory and group/individual tutorials

 

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Aim:

  • Give access to knowledge relevant for artistic development through theory, digital tools and practice in the studio for weaving.
  • To find new ways of building textiles in 2D and 3D by use of construction in combination with materials, textures and colours.

Content:

  • Basic and complex theory on weaves.
  • Construction of weaves and combinations in one or more layers / systems.
  • Methods for developing motives and patterns by using different software: WeavePoint, Photoshop and Nedgraphics (Texelle, Product Creator)
  • Individual tutoring in the process of transforming ideas into the medium of textile.
  • Experiments/ sampling in workshop by using: Digital dobby looms, TC-1, TC-2 and the old jacquard loom with a new digital system.
  • Preparing files for hand-weaving and/or industrial production.
  • Study trip to a weaving factory.

 

The program for week 4-5 will be organized as a core course for internal students with access to the same tools. The guest students who prefer to join will be able to adjust their program according to their background. Week 6 include no teaching, but the workshop will be open and the part time technician will be there.

The program for week 7-10 will be adjusted to the (partly new) group and followed by theory and tutoring in groups and individually.

Apply with a brief motivation letter and a few work samples to tale.vik@khib.no. Please state in the application which period you are applying for!
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Seminar Friday 20th of January 2017:

Making is Thinking

A seminar focusing on thinking and contextualizing through material; to give value to presence, insight and intimacy in experimenting, to investigate and develop a process where the making, the adjustments, the adding and subtracting are vital elements in developing visual and material art.

Location: Marken 37, Red Room, 2nd floor
Seminar leader: Kari Dyrdal: Textile Artist / professor at KHiB
Contributors (to be confirmed):

Per Inge Bjørlo: Painter, sculptor, installation artist
Gunvor Nervold Antonsen: Textile artist / Installation artist. Recipient of Nordic Textile Award 2015
Thomas Pihl: Painter/associate professor KHiB
Ingrid Aarset: Textile artist/associate professor KHiB
Hilde Hauan Johnsen: Textile artist/professor KHiB
Jorunn Veiteberg: Art Historian, Copenhagen

EXPRESS COURSE WITH LIGHTING DESIGNER MALCOLM INNES (EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY, MALCOLM INNES DESIGN, SCOTLAND)

EXPRESS COURSE WITH LIGHTING DESIGNER MALCOLM INNES (EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY, MALCOLM INNES DESIGN, SCOTLAND)

 

2016 November 16 – 20th
CIRRUS seats: 2
VAA Nida Art Colony, Taikos str. 43, Nida 93121, Lithuania
Level: 3rd, 4th year BA and MA students
1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS/Nordplus grant: Travel 330 (Iceland 660) EUR + 70 EUR weekly allowance

 

Please send a motivation letter to Elena Černiauskaitė elena.cerniauskaite@vda.lt by 13th of November

Interior Design Department at Vilnius faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts invites you to take a part at the creative workshop with the worldwide famous lighting designer Malcolm Innes (http://www.lightartist.co.uk)

Malcolm Innes specializes in architectural lighting, design education, interactive and kinetic art. He helped to earn IALD award (the highest recognition of the lighting design field) to the one of the strongest lighting companies in the world Speirs + Major for the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the interior of Barajas airport in Madrid, public spaces in Glasgow, Copenhagen Opera House lighting solutions.

The natural environment is a constantly shifting wonder of light, shade and colour; with cycles of days and cycles of seasons; subtleties of shifting patterns, colour and other intangible qualities of light allow us to locate ourselves in place and in time. Yet, too often, our man-made environment ignores these natural rhythms and provides the coolness, pattern and variation of a permanently overcast day. However, with skill, knowledge and creativity, practical and pragmatic solutions can be found to enhance the built environment, to tell a story or express a mood, even to enhance nature, but above all to reinsert the dynamic that bad lighting so often extinguishes.

The lighting technical capabilities and local modeling nuances will be presented, the lighting market and the theory of innovation, the use of different light sources, principles, simple and effective ways to simulate lighting will be introduced to you. Small group projects will be created and presented as the final works of the workshop.

The workshop is organized by the VAA VF Interior Design Department.

The event is supported by the lighting solutions company GAUDRĖ

2 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools

Express course “Cargo” with illustrator Christoph Feist (School of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany)

2016 October 24 – 28th
CIRRUS seats: 4
VAA Klaipeda faculty, Darzu 18, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Level: BA students
1,5 ECTS

Please send a motivation letter and 5 drawings to Lidija Kukliene lydyja1@gmail.com by 28th of September

Graphic Design department at Klaipeda faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on drawing/illustration and self-publish magazine.

The ISO container has become a symbol of the global trade. It has become a familiar sight at the edges of the inhabited areas in all countries of the world. During this hands-on workshop we will investigate where are containers in and around Klaipeda and what stories do they tell us. How can we convey these stories with drawing/illustrating.

Each participant will design a poster / double page for a self-published magazine.

The workshop consists of joint lectures and visits as well as of group work with final presentations. All participants will be briefly introduced to the history of Klaipeda and could also put hands on self-drawing, iliustration, self-published magazine making process.

The short and intensive format of these courses allows students to immerse themselves in the creative life of Klaipeda and collaborate with Klaipeda faculty students while building a network of contacts.

4 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools and are entitled to CIRRUS scholarship (330 EUR travel/660 Iceland) + weekly allowance 70 EUR.

Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University, Sweden, ranked best in the world

 

Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University, Sweden, ranked best in the world

Both the prestigious Red Dot and iF rank Umeå Institute of Design (UID) at Umeå University as the best design school in Europe and the world. The school’s premises, in-house and external staff, and its focus on relevant collaborations with companies and the design profession are some of the factors that the school’s students believe are the underlying reasons for their school’s success.

“When you leave Umeå, you not only leave with a wide palette of skills, but also with a great network”, says Rebecca Daum, an Austrian student who is taking her second year of the Master’s programme in Advanced Product Design. “You will find UID alumni in all relevant design agencies and departments all over the world.”

When asked why Umeå Institute of Design have received so many design awards and so much international attention over the years she says:

“The projects we carry out focus on problem areas that matter and are relevant for the people in our time. In addition to that, the university environment provides you with everything you need for a successful project, whether it is facilities or staff.”

This year, Rebecca received two iF student awards for two projects that she worked on during her first study year at the school.

“The school invites people from the industry as collaboration partners. From these people we get knowledge and relevant feedback on our work,” says Rebecca Daum.

Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University has been ranked highest in Europe and America by Red Dot for several years. But it is the first time for the school to grab the first place in the iF ranking that also includes design schools in Asia. The ranking is based upon the student achievements in the two design competitions the past five and three years.

Thomas Degn, programme director of the Master’s programme in Advanced Product Design:
“A closer look at the Red Dot and the iF rankings shows that Umeå Institute of Design is the only design school to have placed itself in the top ten of both rankings,” he says. “That is another proof that the school’s continuous focus on relevant user and societal problems and challenges is appreciated by the international designer community. We teach our students creative tools and work methods and the importance of having a responsible attitude to the trade, and both are considered highly relevant to the profession.”

“In my mind, one of several reasons behind the success of our institute is that we are trying to creatively challenge ourselves,” says Thomas Degn. “We trust our students and support them in their individual development. We are also striving towards being an inspiring collaborative partner to society at large, as well as Swedish and international companies. That encourages a positive development among teachers and to the school. That’s also what makes it so much fun to work here.”