Open Lectures

November 27, 11.00 – 17.00 (Estonia pst 7 room 426)
November 28, 11 – 15 (Estonia pst 7 room 440a)

By Aslaug Nyrnes and Nina Schjønsby

The seminar will focus on various forms of writing in the context of artistic research. Through text examples we aim to reflect on different options and challenges typical of texts in the genre.

We will give two short lectures (30 minutes each):

Professor Aslaug Nyrnes:

A topological perspective on writing in artistic research: Between personal notes and academic thesis

Assistant Professor Nina Schjønsby:

Developing a text as a social and critical act

With these lectures as a starting point and throughout the seminar we will discuss principal questions on writing. The focus will be on different genres, the structure of the text, criticality, references and the writer’s voice.

All participants are welcome to submit a text in progress. Notes, abstracts, articles, essays, catalogue texts, reflections, etc. are equally welcome, but the text should not exceed 5 pages. All submitted texts will be read by all participants, and everyone will receive feedback on their writings during the seminar. 

Send the text to elika.kiilo@artun.ee

Deadline: November 22, 2017 

Registration form.

Aslaug Nyrnes is professor at the University of Bergen. She defended her doctoral degree on the didactics of the author Ludvig Holberg in 2002, Det didaktiske rommet. Didaktisk topologi i Ludvig Holbergs Moralske Tanker (Universitetet i Bergen, 2002). Her current research focuses on didactics in arts. Her works include “Lighting from the side: rhetoric and artistic research” in Sensuous knowledge: focus on artistic research and development (KHiB, 2006) and a large number of articles.

Nina Schjønsby is an art historian working with text and publishing in the art field. She runs the independent publishing house Tekstbyrået, together with writer and translator Halvor Haugen, and she is also a freelance editor. She teaches at the Art Academy in Oslo, and at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design in Bergen. Schjønsby has contributed to art magazines such as Ekfrase, Rhizome: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Billedkunst and SITE.

This event is supported by the ASTRA project of the Estonian Academy of Arts – EKA LOOVKÄRG (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).

13 November at 4 pm,
graphic art department,
Lembitu 10B, room 144

On Monday, 13 November at 4 pm there will be an artist talk #postprintshop by Patrick Wagner from Stockholm. He will make an overview over works and collaborations in recent years, the possibilities of social media presence and how to deal (or not deal) with the loss of all artwork and printmaking workshop. Uplifting and hopefully inspiring despite the gloomy connotations, and involving lots of chine-collé. 

The artist talk will be in English.

Patrick Wagner (b 1980, Germany) is an artist and printmaking educator from Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014 he teaches stone lithography at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, having previously worked as a contract intaglio printer in the studio of Tuula Lehtinen in Tampere, Finland.

More info 
@blackheartpress on instagram / tumblr

Seminar series Non Aura in the autumn semester 2017/2018 consists of 10 lectures and talks from different fields, which take place mostly on Mondays from 4 pm. Seminar series is a free elective that gives 3 ECTS. Registration at the seminar place.

You are warmly welcome!

2nd of November, Thursday, will start bright and early at 9AM with the next Morning Coffee event, where students and graduates from our department will come and share their experiences from studying, working or doing an apprenticeship somewhere else in the world – through the spectrum of space and spatial design. On the stage this time: experiences and views of the world, learning and spatial design: Andrea Lilian Zuniga Lozano from COLOMBIA and Seyedeh Sarina Masoumi from IRAN!

Also: this Morning Coffee event will be in English, spread the news so it reaches every EKA Erasmus student!

This event is perfect for students and those wanting to become a student, but also tutors; our Nunne St door is also open to anyone from other EKA departments or other schools. The interior architecture department Morning Coffee events take place every first Thursday of the month. The event is worthy of its name: there will most definitely also be coffee – and upon occasion, there has been also delicious cake (for the cake, you might want to bring a tiny bit of cash)

Set your alarm clocks, join us!

​Mexico City projekt “Foundation Alumnos47” Didier Faustino // Mesarchitecture

On the 2nd of November, Architecture Open Lecture Series will host architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino. Starting at 6 pm, this lecture will take place at the Von Krahl Theatre (Rataskaevu 10).

This autumn, the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts is inviting a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world to Tallinn for the Open Lecture Series. The lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

Arriving to Tallinn on the 2nd of November is Paris-based architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino, who is focused on how people relate to space and creates human-scale spaces. Faustino’s spatial installations are especially well known: he’s designed striking temporary stages that invite people to perform and speak up, as well as created spatial installation projects for exhibitions, asking questions about the sense of a space. Faustino’s lecture titled “Unbuilt memories” is one that also sculpture, installation, spatial design and interior architecture students, lecturers and audience should definitely not miss. All open talks are free and in English.

Didier Fiuza Faustino is an architect and artist working on the relationship between body and space. He started his own practice at the crossroad of art and architecture just after graduating in architecture in 1995. He has been developing since then a multi-faceted approach, ranging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings. After teaching six years at the AA School in London and being two years editor in chief of the French architecture and design magazine CREE in 2015 and 2016, Didier Faustino is currently fully dedicating his time on architecture projects (Mexico, Costa Rica, Belgium, Portugal and France) and art installation and exhibitions (Vienna, Geneva, Lisbon, Los Angeles).

More about Didier Fiuza Faustino: http://www.didierfaustino.com/

The Faculty of architecture and urban design of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment
Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam

www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

Opening the architecture Open Lectures season on the 5th of October at 6 pm will be Enric Ruiz-Geli, Spanish architect whose innovative practices in the field of building energy efficiency, climate change led changes to construction and understanding of a building on a molecular level have inspired the world for nearly a quarter of a century.

Ruiz-Geli was designing bio-architecture already ten years ago, and has – unlike most – had his designs also built: his office building in Barcelona has an inflatable smart facade to regulate sunlight and temperature reaching the interior of the building. At present, Ruiz-Geli is co-operating with Ferran Adria and El Bulli, one of the most innovative restaurants in the world, currently being transformed into a scientific research institute for food – the goal being that the building to house the research for the future of food should also represent the future of architecture.

Enric Ruiz-Geli and his interdisciplinary architectural team Cloud 9 in Barcelona works at the interface between architecture and art, digital processes and technological material development. The architect’s multifaceted projects include stage designs and buildings, installations and patents, and are realized together with collaborative partners. Committed to the use of new technological developments for digital fabrication and the performative character of architecture, which creates intelligent structures in emulation of nature, its green agenda is to look at Pilot Projects in Global Warming Scenarios.

Enric Ruiz-Geli / Cloud 9 has been awarded nationally and internationally for the Research and Innovation applied to the design at, above other multiple times, the Research and Development Award of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Catalonian Award of Environment for the Sustainable Architecture.

Their most important projects include the Villa Nurbs in Empuriabrava, an organically formed, ecological and futuristic house; the Millennium Project in Valladolid, with an urban retrofitting and using for the first time 10 urban wind turbines; elBulli Foundation for the chief Ferran Adrà as a living laboratory in Cap de Creus; and the Media – ICT building in Barcelona that has been awarded as Best Building of the World by WAF 2011; a Net Zero Building with a very competitive cost of construction.

About Enric Ruiz-Geli: http://www.ruiz-geli.com/

The Open Lecture Series brings to Tallinn a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

The lecture is supported by the Spanish Embassy in Tallinn.
The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

On the 20th of September, artist Hana Miletić will hold a public talk about her practice at Estonian Academy of Arts. The talk takes place on the 20.09 at 18 o’clock at Estonia pst 7, room 440a. The talk is open for everyone.
Miletić comes to Tallinn at the invitation of the photography department of Estonian Academy of Arts. She will hold a workshop with the photography students on artist book making, drawing on the work of Mladen Stilinović, amongst other. For the production of the printed matter, the students are invited to use and appropriate the immediate surroundings of the school.
Hana Miletić was born in Zagreb (1982), she lives and works in Brussels and Zagreb. In her work she explores the residues and upheavals of political changes, whereby she focuses on the formation of subjectivity, on the level of both the individual and the community. She describes her artistic practice as street photography via which she documents objects and narratives in a continuous investigation into DIY cultures. Photography serves as a means of orientation in her ongoing exploration of social realities. She has a multiform practice that includes, among others, sculptures, textiles, performances, workshops, printed matter and writing.

Portrait photo by: Miles Fischler

Press release by:

Laura Kuusk
Associate professor and project manager
Department of Photography
Estonian Academy of Arts
+372 55 584 609
laura.kuusk@artun.ee

FROM 25TH THROUGH 27TH OF SEPTEMBER A MASTERCLASS AND OPEN LECTURE WILL BE HELD BY DONATELLA BARBIERI, A COSTUME DESIGNER AND RESEARCHER FROM LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION/ VICTORIA&ALBERT MUSEUM.
BARBIERI’S WORK FOCUSES ON THE EMBODIED EXPERIENCE CREATED THROUGH COSTUME IN PERFORMANCE.

25.09 – 01.10 Exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/events/853305954845876/

29.09 15.00 Talk: https://www.facebook.com/events/123706798363506/

The ways that materials and garments are created, are in a constant change. There are continuous dialogues between the appearance and functionality of the clothing. Sustainable design examples emerge as alternatives next to the mass production, and technology integrates into garment production means in different levels. Exploring alternative futures for textile and garment production, the exhibition presents examples from diverse interpretations of connecting textiles with technology. Textile Futures talk offers the opportunity to meet with the designers, artists and technologists behind the exhibition work to understand more their vision for the textile futures.

Anja Hertenberger (Holland) explores how technology can help us connect to our bodies and maximize our senses. Tara St James (USA) introduces sustainability in fashion. Oscar Tomico (Holland/Spain) offers insights into bringing technology close to the body. Kristi Kuusk (Estonia) wonders about the exhibition “Textile Futures” and talks to the Fashion & Textile MA students of Estonian Academy of Arts about their work at the exhibition.
Q&A with designers.

Event is free of charge, but please register:

RSVP kristi@spell.ee

More info: http://www.disainioo.ee/2017-program/textile-futures-talks

by Samson Shafran (Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art)

Mo 4th of September 2017. Estonia pst. 7 room 426 at 2.15 p.m.

An overview of 3D Modelling and Printing technologies and their impact on the industry both in terms of design process and creative development.

– 3D printing technologies, their use and implementation.
– Use of 3D modelling software as creative development tool.
– Use of 3D printing in a variety of design segments from industrial design to textiles.
– Recent developments and inventions in 3D printing technology.

– Work of prominent 3D artists who use 3D modelling and 3D printing technologies in their work.