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10.09.2018
Animations by directors who took part in the project Vivaldi Four Seasons – Anna Budanova, Olga&Priit Pärn, Atsushi Wada and Theodor Ushev
Animation
The delegation from Geidai Art University (Japan) will visit Estonian Academy of Arts at the beginning of Octobre. There are altogether 9 people: teachers and students from two departments of Geidai. The Department of New Media will be presented by professor Takashi Kiriyama and four former students. The Department of Animation will be presented by professor Koji Yamamura, dean and professor Mitsuko Okamoto, assistant professor Ilan Nguyen and a former student Atsushi Wada, who is also an animation teacher at Kobe Design University.
The main reason for the visit of Geidai Art University delegation is the project Vivaldi Four Seasons. The idea and realization of this rare multimedia project belong to Geidai Art University. It is a concert with chamber orchestra, wherein live synchronization with music will be screened four animations by Anna Budanova (RU) for ”Spring”, Olga&Priit Pärn (EE) for ”Summer”, Atsushi Wada (JP) for ”Autumn” and Theodor Ushev (CA) for ”Winter”. The Four Seasons refers to the four concerts composed by Antonio Vivaldi and performed in 1725 as part of “The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.” Bearing the names “Spring”, “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter,” the works call forth rich imagery in the mind of the listener. In this project, five leading animation directors give visual form to Vivaldi’s musical world. It is very enjoyable and ideal combination of animation and music! The dream of genius composer Antonio Vivaldi finally come alive in animation three centuries later after the very first interpretation of Four Seasons.
The Tallinn concert will be performed by legendary Covent Garden Soloists orchestra from London in Vene Teater 8th of October. Soloists are Sergey Levitin and Vladimir Pogoretsky.
Manipulation with the live stream during the performance will be done by Takashi Kiriyama and his 4 talented students: Noriko Koshida (Autumn), Ryoya Usuha (Spring), Teru Uehira (Summer), Kuwabara Toshiyuki(Winter). The artistic director of the project is Koji Yamamura. The exclusive producer is Mitsuko Okamoto. The idea of this live performance belongs to the President of Geidai Art University, Mr. Kazuki Sawa. Tallinn event is organized by Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
After the performance, there will be the opening of Priit Pärn’s exhibition Vivaldi’s Summer in Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
TIME SCHEDULE
October 9 at 15:30 -17:30
animations by Koji Yamamura and Q&A
auditorium A101
October 9 at 19:30-21:30
animations by directors who took part in the project Vivaldi Four Seasons – Anna Budanova, Olga&Priit Pärn, Atsushi Wada and Theodor Ushev and Q&A
auditorium A101
Read more:
The Four Seasons trailer /// password: geidai_shiki
See you,
EKA Department of Animation
Posted by Mari Kivi — Permalink
Animations by directors who took part in the project Vivaldi Four Seasons – Anna Budanova, Olga&Priit Pärn, Atsushi Wada and Theodor Ushev
Monday 10 September, 2018
Animation
The delegation from Geidai Art University (Japan) will visit Estonian Academy of Arts at the beginning of Octobre. There are altogether 9 people: teachers and students from two departments of Geidai. The Department of New Media will be presented by professor Takashi Kiriyama and four former students. The Department of Animation will be presented by professor Koji Yamamura, dean and professor Mitsuko Okamoto, assistant professor Ilan Nguyen and a former student Atsushi Wada, who is also an animation teacher at Kobe Design University.
The main reason for the visit of Geidai Art University delegation is the project Vivaldi Four Seasons. The idea and realization of this rare multimedia project belong to Geidai Art University. It is a concert with chamber orchestra, wherein live synchronization with music will be screened four animations by Anna Budanova (RU) for ”Spring”, Olga&Priit Pärn (EE) for ”Summer”, Atsushi Wada (JP) for ”Autumn” and Theodor Ushev (CA) for ”Winter”. The Four Seasons refers to the four concerts composed by Antonio Vivaldi and performed in 1725 as part of “The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.” Bearing the names “Spring”, “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter,” the works call forth rich imagery in the mind of the listener. In this project, five leading animation directors give visual form to Vivaldi’s musical world. It is very enjoyable and ideal combination of animation and music! The dream of genius composer Antonio Vivaldi finally come alive in animation three centuries later after the very first interpretation of Four Seasons.
The Tallinn concert will be performed by legendary Covent Garden Soloists orchestra from London in Vene Teater 8th of October. Soloists are Sergey Levitin and Vladimir Pogoretsky.
Manipulation with the live stream during the performance will be done by Takashi Kiriyama and his 4 talented students: Noriko Koshida (Autumn), Ryoya Usuha (Spring), Teru Uehira (Summer), Kuwabara Toshiyuki(Winter). The artistic director of the project is Koji Yamamura. The exclusive producer is Mitsuko Okamoto. The idea of this live performance belongs to the President of Geidai Art University, Mr. Kazuki Sawa. Tallinn event is organized by Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
After the performance, there will be the opening of Priit Pärn’s exhibition Vivaldi’s Summer in Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
TIME SCHEDULE
October 9 at 15:30 -17:30
animations by Koji Yamamura and Q&A
auditorium A101
October 9 at 19:30-21:30
animations by directors who took part in the project Vivaldi Four Seasons – Anna Budanova, Olga&Priit Pärn, Atsushi Wada and Theodor Ushev and Q&A
auditorium A101
Read more:
The Four Seasons trailer /// password: geidai_shiki
See you,
EKA Department of Animation
Posted by Mari Kivi — Permalink
10.09.2018
Animations by Koji Yamamura
Animation
The delegation from Geidai Art University (Japan) will visit Estonian Academy of Arts at the beginning of Octobre. There are altogether 9 people: teachers and students from two departments of Geidai. The Department of New Media will be presented by professor Takashi Kiriyama and four former students. The Department of Animation will be presented by professor Koji Yamamura, dean and professor Mitsuko Okamoto, assistant professor Ilan Nguyen and a former student Atsushi Wada, who is also an animation teacher at Kobe Design University.
The main reason for the visit of Geidai Art University delegation is the project Vivaldi Four Seasons. The idea and realization of this rare multimedia project belong to Geidai Art University. It is a concert with chamber orchestra, wherein live synchronization with music will be screened four animations by Anna Budanova (RU) for ”Spring”, Olga&Priit Pärn (EE) for ”Summer”, Atsushi Wada (JP) for ”Autumn” and Theodor Ushev (CA) for ”Winter”. The Four Seasons refers to the four concerts composed by Antonio Vivaldi and performed in 1725 as part of “The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.” Bearing the names “Spring”, “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter,” the works call forth rich imagery in the mind of the listener. In this project, five leading animation directors give visual form to Vivaldi’s musical world. It is very enjoyable and ideal combination of animation and music! The dream of genius composer Antonio Vivaldi finally come alive in animation three centuries later after the very first interpretation of Four Seasons.
The Tallinn concert will be performed by legendary Covent Garden Soloists orchestra from London in Vene Teater 8th of October. Soloists are Sergey Levitin and Vladimir Pogoretsky.
Manipulation with the live stream during the performance will be done by Takashi Kiriyama and his 4 talented students: Noriko Koshida (Autumn), Ryoya Usuha (Spring), Teru Uehira (Summer), Kuwabara Toshiyuki(Winter). The artistic director of the project is Koji Yamamura. The exclusive producer is Mitsuko Okamoto. The idea of this live performance belongs to the President of Geidai Art University, Mr. Kazuki Sawa. Tallinn event is organized by Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
After the performance, there will be the opening of Priit Pärn’s exhibition Vivaldi’s Summer in Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
TIME SCHEDULE
October 9 at 15:30 -17:30
animations by Koji Yamamura and Q&A
auditorium A101
October 9 at 19:30-21:30
animations by directors who took part in the project Vivaldi Four Seasons – Anna Budanova, Olga&Priit Pärn, Atsushi Wada and Theodor Ushev and Q&A
auditorium A101
Read more:
The Four Seasons trailer /// password: geidai_shiki
See you,
EKA Department of Animation
Posted by Mari Kivi — Permalink
Animations by Koji Yamamura
Monday 10 September, 2018
Animation
The delegation from Geidai Art University (Japan) will visit Estonian Academy of Arts at the beginning of Octobre. There are altogether 9 people: teachers and students from two departments of Geidai. The Department of New Media will be presented by professor Takashi Kiriyama and four former students. The Department of Animation will be presented by professor Koji Yamamura, dean and professor Mitsuko Okamoto, assistant professor Ilan Nguyen and a former student Atsushi Wada, who is also an animation teacher at Kobe Design University.
The main reason for the visit of Geidai Art University delegation is the project Vivaldi Four Seasons. The idea and realization of this rare multimedia project belong to Geidai Art University. It is a concert with chamber orchestra, wherein live synchronization with music will be screened four animations by Anna Budanova (RU) for ”Spring”, Olga&Priit Pärn (EE) for ”Summer”, Atsushi Wada (JP) for ”Autumn” and Theodor Ushev (CA) for ”Winter”. The Four Seasons refers to the four concerts composed by Antonio Vivaldi and performed in 1725 as part of “The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.” Bearing the names “Spring”, “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter,” the works call forth rich imagery in the mind of the listener. In this project, five leading animation directors give visual form to Vivaldi’s musical world. It is very enjoyable and ideal combination of animation and music! The dream of genius composer Antonio Vivaldi finally come alive in animation three centuries later after the very first interpretation of Four Seasons.
The Tallinn concert will be performed by legendary Covent Garden Soloists orchestra from London in Vene Teater 8th of October. Soloists are Sergey Levitin and Vladimir Pogoretsky.
Manipulation with the live stream during the performance will be done by Takashi Kiriyama and his 4 talented students: Noriko Koshida (Autumn), Ryoya Usuha (Spring), Teru Uehira (Summer), Kuwabara Toshiyuki(Winter). The artistic director of the project is Koji Yamamura. The exclusive producer is Mitsuko Okamoto. The idea of this live performance belongs to the President of Geidai Art University, Mr. Kazuki Sawa. Tallinn event is organized by Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
After the performance, there will be the opening of Priit Pärn’s exhibition Vivaldi’s Summer in Tallinn Portrait Gallery.
TIME SCHEDULE
October 9 at 15:30 -17:30
animations by Koji Yamamura and Q&A
auditorium A101
October 9 at 19:30-21:30
animations by directors who took part in the project Vivaldi Four Seasons – Anna Budanova, Olga&Priit Pärn, Atsushi Wada and Theodor Ushev and Q&A
auditorium A101
Read more:
The Four Seasons trailer /// password: geidai_shiki
See you,
EKA Department of Animation
Posted by Mari Kivi — Permalink
Open Lecture Series, Architecture: Jason Hilgefort
Academic Affairs Office
The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Jason Hilgefort, stepping on the stage of the large hall of the new EKA building on 4th of October at 6 pm to talk about the disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure.
Jason’s lecture is titled “Dispersed Infrastructures for New Collective Urban Constellations”. Cities began as a simple collection of individuals sharing common elements. They have slowly evolved to include megageopolitical networks. These systems have been manifested by large, far reaching governmental and corporate built forms. With the emergence of dispersed infrastructural realities (mobiles, drones, etc), we stand at a disruptive moment – where the assumed reliance of human habitat upon top down forms is in question. A new form of interdependent individuality is possible.
Jason studied urban planning and design at The University of Cincinnati and architecture at The University of British Columbia – Vancouver. His work experience ranges from New York (Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn), to Los Angeles (Behnisch Architekten) to Mumbai (Rahul Mehrotra). From 2000 to 2004 he worked with Sustainable Urbanist and innovator Peter Calthorpe. After joining Maxwan A+U in 2007, he was involved in the ongoing projects Moscow A101, Central District Rotterdam, and Barking Riverside in London. Also, Jason lead a series of Maxwan’s competition victories – in Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Hannover, Ostrava, Magdeburg, and Kaunas. During that time won Europan 11 in Vienna. Since then he formed Land+Civilization Compositions for investigating issues ranging from daily objects, to infrastructures, to cultural research. He is also a contributor to uncube magazine with writing on ‘architecture and beyond’.
Land+Civilization Compositions is a Randstad (Netherlands) and Istanbul (Turkey) based office that works and collaborates on issues related to built form, with a portfolio scope from research to design. According to LCC we are living at a time when the connections between the professions, which are engaged in the shaping of built form, are getting stronger and the differences amongst them are blurring. Glocal economic context, and emerging social and environmental issues are leading the way to a new set of priorities. A new generation of ‘urban thinkers’ is emerging and ‘process’ is becoming more prominent than the ‘product’.
The architecture and urban planning department 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. Jason Hilgefort’s lecture is part of the Future Architecture program which introduces and celebrates innovation, experimentation and the ideas of a generation that will design the architecture and build Europe’s cities in the years to come. See: http://futurearchitectureplatform.org.
Curators: Sille Pihlak, Johan Tali
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
More info:
Pille Epner
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071
Posted by Triin Männik — Permalink
Open Lecture Series, Architecture: Jason Hilgefort
Academic Affairs Office
The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Jason Hilgefort, stepping on the stage of the large hall of the new EKA building on 4th of October at 6 pm to talk about the disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure.
Jason’s lecture is titled “Dispersed Infrastructures for New Collective Urban Constellations”. Cities began as a simple collection of individuals sharing common elements. They have slowly evolved to include megageopolitical networks. These systems have been manifested by large, far reaching governmental and corporate built forms. With the emergence of dispersed infrastructural realities (mobiles, drones, etc), we stand at a disruptive moment – where the assumed reliance of human habitat upon top down forms is in question. A new form of interdependent individuality is possible.
Jason studied urban planning and design at The University of Cincinnati and architecture at The University of British Columbia – Vancouver. His work experience ranges from New York (Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn), to Los Angeles (Behnisch Architekten) to Mumbai (Rahul Mehrotra). From 2000 to 2004 he worked with Sustainable Urbanist and innovator Peter Calthorpe. After joining Maxwan A+U in 2007, he was involved in the ongoing projects Moscow A101, Central District Rotterdam, and Barking Riverside in London. Also, Jason lead a series of Maxwan’s competition victories – in Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Hannover, Ostrava, Magdeburg, and Kaunas. During that time won Europan 11 in Vienna. Since then he formed Land+Civilization Compositions for investigating issues ranging from daily objects, to infrastructures, to cultural research. He is also a contributor to uncube magazine with writing on ‘architecture and beyond’.
Land+Civilization Compositions is a Randstad (Netherlands) and Istanbul (Turkey) based office that works and collaborates on issues related to built form, with a portfolio scope from research to design. According to LCC we are living at a time when the connections between the professions, which are engaged in the shaping of built form, are getting stronger and the differences amongst them are blurring. Glocal economic context, and emerging social and environmental issues are leading the way to a new set of priorities. A new generation of ‘urban thinkers’ is emerging and ‘process’ is becoming more prominent than the ‘product’.
The architecture and urban planning department 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. Jason Hilgefort’s lecture is part of the Future Architecture program which introduces and celebrates innovation, experimentation and the ideas of a generation that will design the architecture and build Europe’s cities in the years to come. See: http://futurearchitectureplatform.org.
Curators: Sille Pihlak, Johan Tali
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
More info:
Pille Epner
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071
Posted by Triin Männik — Permalink
Workshop: Smart information systems for cultural heritage
Academic Affairs Office
Date and time: October: 15-19, at 9.00 – 15.45
Venue: Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7, Tallinn, room D306 (15.-17.10), D412 (18.-19.10)
Theme
The theme of the workshop focuses on the informative systems and applications developed for documentation, management and enhancement of Cultural Heritage, including an overview on advanced methods and technologies for 3D surveying and modelling of architecture and works of art.
The lectures include an overview on tools for heritage cataloguing and dissemination through information systems, with some of the latest implementation by the scientific community. The participants will learn the basics in 3D surveying with photogrammetry, data acquisition with digital cameras, models processing and practice for the construction of a Cultural Heritage 3D digital model. Some practical exercises will be arranged to complement theoretical lectures.
Lectures will be delivered by Ph.D. Arch. Fabrizio I. Apollonio, Full Professor at the Department of Architecture University of Bologna, and Ph.D. Arch. Silvia Bertacchi, Adjunct Professor at University of Bologna.
Registration
The final registration deadline is October 11 (max 20 participants).
Students participating will have to bring along:
Material:
• Digital camera (Reflex)
• PC/Laptop (high performances)
Software:
• Agisoft PhotoScan Professional Edition (30-day trial at www.agisoft.ru)
Contact:
CULTHERIS2018@gmail.com
This event is organised by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts, supported by the ASTRA project of the Estonian Academy of Arts – EKA LOOVKÄRG (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).
Posted by Elika Kiilo — Permalink
Workshop: Smart information systems for cultural heritage
Academic Affairs Office
Date and time: October: 15-19, at 9.00 – 15.45
Venue: Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7, Tallinn, room D306 (15.-17.10), D412 (18.-19.10)
Theme
The theme of the workshop focuses on the informative systems and applications developed for documentation, management and enhancement of Cultural Heritage, including an overview on advanced methods and technologies for 3D surveying and modelling of architecture and works of art.
The lectures include an overview on tools for heritage cataloguing and dissemination through information systems, with some of the latest implementation by the scientific community. The participants will learn the basics in 3D surveying with photogrammetry, data acquisition with digital cameras, models processing and practice for the construction of a Cultural Heritage 3D digital model. Some practical exercises will be arranged to complement theoretical lectures.
Lectures will be delivered by Ph.D. Arch. Fabrizio I. Apollonio, Full Professor at the Department of Architecture University of Bologna, and Ph.D. Arch. Silvia Bertacchi, Adjunct Professor at University of Bologna.
Registration
The final registration deadline is October 11 (max 20 participants).
Students participating will have to bring along:
Material:
• Digital camera (Reflex)
• PC/Laptop (high performances)
Software:
• Agisoft PhotoScan Professional Edition (30-day trial at www.agisoft.ru)
Contact:
CULTHERIS2018@gmail.com
This event is organised by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts, supported by the ASTRA project of the Estonian Academy of Arts – EKA LOOVKÄRG (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).
Posted by Elika Kiilo — Permalink
HANNA HANSEL in HOP Gallery
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
The co-exhibition of two young jewellery artists – Hanna-Maria Vanaküla and Hansel Tai– will be opened in Hop Gallery at 6pm on Friday, September 28th, 2018.
Hanna-Maria (1987) is an Estonian jewellery artist and optometrist. She is currently finishing her MA studies in the department of jewellery and blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Hansel (1994) is a Chinese artist and designer currently residing in Estonia. He has obtained BA degree at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2016.
Hanna-Maria was awarded the Young Estonian Jewellery Grant 2017 and Hansel was nominated as the finalist to Amberif Design Award competition in 2018.
Jewellery artist Tanel Veenre comments on the current exhibition:
„Is Hansel’s and Hanna’s world flat or round?
These worlds are both flat and round. Once you feel that you have reached the edge from where there is nothing else to do than fall – aaaah! – into the galactic abyss. Yet, then you will see the strength and tension of the core, the navel is nicely in its place, everything seems to be whirling around its axis. There is POP at the intersection of Hansa’s and Hanna’s navels – the desire to disburden one’s heart with cleansed imagery.
Hansel’s navel is in its extreme cultivation. In his work, naturalness has been shadowed by body cult, deformation, subcultural signs and high gloss metal. At the same time, instead of the artist’s hand the rolled traces of eruptions tell us about physical laws and the rolling mill. However, complicated constructions and nipple rings have pulled the image again back to the (sub)cultural space. Hansel is rationally irrational – the natural tones he has used have been tuned to the most estranging futuristic bitter green. When to think about it, nature has actually other colours than mellow green – for instance, some beetles are wearing strikingly super metallic green shells. So the Hansel’s Prince Albert is simultaneously a fairy-tale prince and a genital exhibitionist.
Hanna’s navel is in focus. While having moved towards simplicity and precision, she has reached the minimal compositions made of eyeglasses’ lens. Even if engraving and especially polishing acrylic glass is the test of outmost patience, the result of the artist’s work is digitally light. Cool consideration replaces the strains of being human. Steel wire rope as a guillotine unifying roundness. Scarce and strikingly precise. The words are unnecessary.
Posted by Liina Lelov — Permalink
HANNA HANSEL in HOP Gallery
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
The co-exhibition of two young jewellery artists – Hanna-Maria Vanaküla and Hansel Tai– will be opened in Hop Gallery at 6pm on Friday, September 28th, 2018.
Hanna-Maria (1987) is an Estonian jewellery artist and optometrist. She is currently finishing her MA studies in the department of jewellery and blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Hansel (1994) is a Chinese artist and designer currently residing in Estonia. He has obtained BA degree at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2016.
Hanna-Maria was awarded the Young Estonian Jewellery Grant 2017 and Hansel was nominated as the finalist to Amberif Design Award competition in 2018.
Jewellery artist Tanel Veenre comments on the current exhibition:
„Is Hansel’s and Hanna’s world flat or round?
These worlds are both flat and round. Once you feel that you have reached the edge from where there is nothing else to do than fall – aaaah! – into the galactic abyss. Yet, then you will see the strength and tension of the core, the navel is nicely in its place, everything seems to be whirling around its axis. There is POP at the intersection of Hansa’s and Hanna’s navels – the desire to disburden one’s heart with cleansed imagery.
Hansel’s navel is in its extreme cultivation. In his work, naturalness has been shadowed by body cult, deformation, subcultural signs and high gloss metal. At the same time, instead of the artist’s hand the rolled traces of eruptions tell us about physical laws and the rolling mill. However, complicated constructions and nipple rings have pulled the image again back to the (sub)cultural space. Hansel is rationally irrational – the natural tones he has used have been tuned to the most estranging futuristic bitter green. When to think about it, nature has actually other colours than mellow green – for instance, some beetles are wearing strikingly super metallic green shells. So the Hansel’s Prince Albert is simultaneously a fairy-tale prince and a genital exhibitionist.
Hanna’s navel is in focus. While having moved towards simplicity and precision, she has reached the minimal compositions made of eyeglasses’ lens. Even if engraving and especially polishing acrylic glass is the test of outmost patience, the result of the artist’s work is digitally light. Cool consideration replaces the strains of being human. Steel wire rope as a guillotine unifying roundness. Scarce and strikingly precise. The words are unnecessary.
Posted by Liina Lelov — Permalink
SUVA Type Foundry exhibition at EKA
Photography
SUVA Type Foundry exhibition that opened last week at XIII Disainiöö on the occasion of a new web platform launch, moved today to the third floor at EKA, and will be open until October 1st.
SUVA Type Foundry web platform (https://www.suvatypefoundry.ee), specimen as well as the exhibition present fonts designed 2010–2018, typographical experiments and archival materials created by EKA GD students, alumni and faculty. Fonts, available to download, will be added to the Type Foundry continuously.
Project team: Kersti Heile, Ott Kagovere, Elis Kitt, Anneli Kripsaar, Laura Merendi, Sandra Nuut, Anselm Oja, Johanna Ruukholm, and Indrek Sirkel.
Posted by Mart Vainre — Permalink
SUVA Type Foundry exhibition at EKA
Photography
SUVA Type Foundry exhibition that opened last week at XIII Disainiöö on the occasion of a new web platform launch, moved today to the third floor at EKA, and will be open until October 1st.
SUVA Type Foundry web platform (https://www.suvatypefoundry.ee), specimen as well as the exhibition present fonts designed 2010–2018, typographical experiments and archival materials created by EKA GD students, alumni and faculty. Fonts, available to download, will be added to the Type Foundry continuously.
Project team: Kersti Heile, Ott Kagovere, Elis Kitt, Anneli Kripsaar, Laura Merendi, Sandra Nuut, Anselm Oja, Johanna Ruukholm, and Indrek Sirkel.
Posted by Mart Vainre — Permalink
Paul Kuimet “Five Volumes” exhibition at Narva Art Residency
Photography
EVENT IN FACEBOOK
PROGRAMME 29.09:
3pm Preview and curator’s tour with Nico Anklam and Paul Kuimet
4pm Film programme Night – Is it Time or Space? Curated by Ingel Vaikla
6pm Exhibition opening of Five Volumes
Music by DJ Endamisi Salamisi and Siim Karro
Registration for Tallinn – Narva – Tallinn bus
Registration for Tartu – Narva – Tartu bus
Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Five Volumes uses the entire 250 m2 ground floor of the Narva Art Residency main building. Three 16 mm film projections, one slide show, objects and photographs with three newly produced works make it the most extensive show of his yet.
In collaboration with Berlin based curator Nico Anklam, Five Volumes wants to underscore and expand Kuimet’s long relationship with the moving image and discourses around architectural modernisms found in and around Pärnu KEK Construction Company’s Housing unit “Kuldne Kodu” (Golden Home).
As a spatial experience, Five Volumes not only tries to think about transformations of the photographic and cinematographic image. But Kuimet’s camera eye also gently pierces into architectural formations of modernism reflected through the context of a border city in industrial decay between Estonia and Russia. As such, Five Volumes is also about utopian promises and its aesthetic manifestations as artistic material.
Paul Kuimet (b. 1984) is an artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. His work has recently been exhibited and screened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; European Central Bank, Frankfurt; KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn; WNTRP, Berlin and BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels. In 2018 he participated in the residency programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels and will take part in the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City.
Night – Is it Time or Space? is a film programme curated by Ingel Vaikla that serves as a substantive extension to Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Five Volumes. Programme will take place two times – first screening is on September 29th at 4pm at the cinema hall of Narva Art Residency. The main keywords among the artists’ films are: modernism, utopia, architecture and sculpturality. Chosen filmmakers’ focus is primarily on a close dialogue between form, space and camera. Five internationally recognized audiovisual works will be screened from the artists originally from Canada, Mexico, Estonia, Italy and The United Kingdom.
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonia 100 art program, The Gambling Tax Council (HMN), Estonian Contemporary Art Development Centre (ECADC), Photography Department of Estonian Academy of Arts, Goethe Institute in Estonia, High Voltage, GoBus, Muddis Brewery
Organizer: Narva Art Residency
Contact: ann.vaikla@artun.ee
Posted by Mart Vainre — Permalink
Paul Kuimet “Five Volumes” exhibition at Narva Art Residency
Photography
EVENT IN FACEBOOK
PROGRAMME 29.09:
3pm Preview and curator’s tour with Nico Anklam and Paul Kuimet
4pm Film programme Night – Is it Time or Space? Curated by Ingel Vaikla
6pm Exhibition opening of Five Volumes
Music by DJ Endamisi Salamisi and Siim Karro
Registration for Tallinn – Narva – Tallinn bus
Registration for Tartu – Narva – Tartu bus
Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Five Volumes uses the entire 250 m2 ground floor of the Narva Art Residency main building. Three 16 mm film projections, one slide show, objects and photographs with three newly produced works make it the most extensive show of his yet.
In collaboration with Berlin based curator Nico Anklam, Five Volumes wants to underscore and expand Kuimet’s long relationship with the moving image and discourses around architectural modernisms found in and around Pärnu KEK Construction Company’s Housing unit “Kuldne Kodu” (Golden Home).
As a spatial experience, Five Volumes not only tries to think about transformations of the photographic and cinematographic image. But Kuimet’s camera eye also gently pierces into architectural formations of modernism reflected through the context of a border city in industrial decay between Estonia and Russia. As such, Five Volumes is also about utopian promises and its aesthetic manifestations as artistic material.
Paul Kuimet (b. 1984) is an artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. His work has recently been exhibited and screened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; European Central Bank, Frankfurt; KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn; WNTRP, Berlin and BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels. In 2018 he participated in the residency programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels and will take part in the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City.
Night – Is it Time or Space? is a film programme curated by Ingel Vaikla that serves as a substantive extension to Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Five Volumes. Programme will take place two times – first screening is on September 29th at 4pm at the cinema hall of Narva Art Residency. The main keywords among the artists’ films are: modernism, utopia, architecture and sculpturality. Chosen filmmakers’ focus is primarily on a close dialogue between form, space and camera. Five internationally recognized audiovisual works will be screened from the artists originally from Canada, Mexico, Estonia, Italy and The United Kingdom.
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonia 100 art program, The Gambling Tax Council (HMN), Estonian Contemporary Art Development Centre (ECADC), Photography Department of Estonian Academy of Arts, Goethe Institute in Estonia, High Voltage, GoBus, Muddis Brewery
Organizer: Narva Art Residency
Contact: ann.vaikla@artun.ee
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22.09.2018
Open lecture by Charon Kransen “Has contemporary jewelry matured?”
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
Charon Kransen established Charon Kransen Arts in New York City in 1993, in order to promote exciting jewelry from around the world in North America. The work is presented annually at various American art fairs, such as SOFA New York, SOFA Chicago, SOFA Santa Fe and Art Palm Beach and the Int. Art and Design Fair in New York and at select galleries specializing in contemporary crafts and design. As a private dealer, Charon Kransen Arts welcomes individuals, collectors, and museums to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The collection consists of jewelry, hollowware and accessories by both renowned and emerging artists, whose work may be found in museum and private collections around the world. The focus is on the artists’ personal vision and on an innovative approach, characterized by the use of a wide spectrum of materials from paper to precious. The educational branch of Charon Kransen Arts includes lectures and seminars throughout the USA, Europe, Australia and South America and the distribution of books and exhibition catalogs on all aspects of jewelry, metal, and design.
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Open lecture by Charon Kransen “Has contemporary jewelry matured?”
Saturday 22 September, 2018
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
Charon Kransen established Charon Kransen Arts in New York City in 1993, in order to promote exciting jewelry from around the world in North America. The work is presented annually at various American art fairs, such as SOFA New York, SOFA Chicago, SOFA Santa Fe and Art Palm Beach and the Int. Art and Design Fair in New York and at select galleries specializing in contemporary crafts and design. As a private dealer, Charon Kransen Arts welcomes individuals, collectors, and museums to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The collection consists of jewelry, hollowware and accessories by both renowned and emerging artists, whose work may be found in museum and private collections around the world. The focus is on the artists’ personal vision and on an innovative approach, characterized by the use of a wide spectrum of materials from paper to precious. The educational branch of Charon Kransen Arts includes lectures and seminars throughout the USA, Europe, Australia and South America and the distribution of books and exhibition catalogs on all aspects of jewelry, metal, and design.
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25.10.2018
Open Lecture: ENRIQUE SOBEJANO on 20th September
Architecture and Urban Design
Enrique Sobejano, architect of Arvo Pärt Centre’s soon to be opened new building, to give a public lecture in Tallinn
Opening the architecture Open Lectures season on the 20th of September at 6 pm will be Enrique Sobejano. Sobejano is the founder and partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, that won the architecture competition of the new building of Arvo Pärt Centre to be opened in October.
The Spanish architecture bureau received the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal and became an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects in 2015. The Madinat al-Zahra Museum by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Spain received the European Museum of the Year award in 2012 and the Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba was shortlisted for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos can be characterised by a subtle sense of material and detail and a skilful use of natural light. Equally important is the context and the experiential quality of each project. In his lecture, Enrique Sobejano will introduce the new building of Arvo Pärt Centre, to be opened in October 2018. He will describe what the intentions of the architects were and what kind of space they wanted to create.
From Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos website: “The Arvo Pärt Centre has been designed as a place for concentration and study, a space conceived in order to keep the creative legacy of the great Estonian composer alive. Set in a landscape of great beauty, in the middle of a dense forest of tall pines, the design originates from a geometric pattern formed by pentagonal patios. Variations of the size and position of the same generate spatial sequences that configure the different areas of the plan. The interior space is structured around a wall—a boundary within whose thickness are housed much of the facilities, in addition to serving as a dividing element between the public and private areas of the building. In the exterior, a single element highlights the architectural proposal: a large roof conceived as a folded platform to adapt to the different heights required in the interior. The facades are treated as a filter defined by a series of thin circular columns that make up the supporting structure of the roof. The greater or lesser density in the arrangement of the pillars allows for alternate areas of great transparency with others more protected from the natural light. A slender helical observation tower and a small chapel inserted in one of the patios, complete a project in which music, landscape and architecture come into resonance.”
Enrique Sobejano (Madrid, Spain, 1957) has graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York. He is professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various international universities worldwide. From 1986 to 1991 he was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA. He is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. The bureau has offices in Madrid and Berlin.
The Architecture and Urban Design department 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, Johan Tali
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
More info:
Pille Epner
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Open Lecture: ENRIQUE SOBEJANO on 20th September
Thursday 25 October, 2018
Architecture and Urban Design
Enrique Sobejano, architect of Arvo Pärt Centre’s soon to be opened new building, to give a public lecture in Tallinn
Opening the architecture Open Lectures season on the 20th of September at 6 pm will be Enrique Sobejano. Sobejano is the founder and partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, that won the architecture competition of the new building of Arvo Pärt Centre to be opened in October.
The Spanish architecture bureau received the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal and became an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects in 2015. The Madinat al-Zahra Museum by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Spain received the European Museum of the Year award in 2012 and the Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba was shortlisted for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos can be characterised by a subtle sense of material and detail and a skilful use of natural light. Equally important is the context and the experiential quality of each project. In his lecture, Enrique Sobejano will introduce the new building of Arvo Pärt Centre, to be opened in October 2018. He will describe what the intentions of the architects were and what kind of space they wanted to create.
From Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos website: “The Arvo Pärt Centre has been designed as a place for concentration and study, a space conceived in order to keep the creative legacy of the great Estonian composer alive. Set in a landscape of great beauty, in the middle of a dense forest of tall pines, the design originates from a geometric pattern formed by pentagonal patios. Variations of the size and position of the same generate spatial sequences that configure the different areas of the plan. The interior space is structured around a wall—a boundary within whose thickness are housed much of the facilities, in addition to serving as a dividing element between the public and private areas of the building. In the exterior, a single element highlights the architectural proposal: a large roof conceived as a folded platform to adapt to the different heights required in the interior. The facades are treated as a filter defined by a series of thin circular columns that make up the supporting structure of the roof. The greater or lesser density in the arrangement of the pillars allows for alternate areas of great transparency with others more protected from the natural light. A slender helical observation tower and a small chapel inserted in one of the patios, complete a project in which music, landscape and architecture come into resonance.”
Enrique Sobejano (Madrid, Spain, 1957) has graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York. He is professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various international universities worldwide. From 1986 to 1991 he was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA. He is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. The bureau has offices in Madrid and Berlin.
The Architecture and Urban Design department 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, Johan Tali
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
More info:
Pille Epner
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13.09.2018
Screening of the animation department
Animation
Newest and some oldest BA and MA animations from the EKA animation department will be screened.
Kuldrenett | rež Liis Kokk | 03’22” | 2018
Luul | rež Mari-Leen Üksküla-Eomois | 04’00” | 2017
La Dolce Vita | rež Henri Veermäe | 05’53” | 2018
Eluvaim | Anne Mirjam Kraav | 04’10” | 2017
Clown Follies | Aili Allas | 03’33” | 2017
Kontakt | rež Mari Kivi | 04’51” | 2018
5th Round | rež Leander Meresaar | 05’05” | 2017
Axis Deer | rež Rauno Raat | 04’16” | 2018
Toiduahel | rež Mari Kivi, Liis Kokk | 08’30” | 2018
300g/2m | rež Kamila Kučíková | 05’33” | 2018
Procrastination | rež Nata Metlukh | 01’00” | 2018
In Between the Walls of Perception | rež Pablo M. Ballarín | 03’50” | 2018
Pearfall | rež Leonid Shmelkov | 03’00” | 2017
Shuma | rež Lucija Mrzljak | 06’05” | 2016
Penelope | rež Heta Jäälinoja | 04’08” | 2016
Frank | rež Red, Hung Huei Jen | 02’03” | 2018
Sweet Sweat | rež Jung Hyun Kim | 06’13” | 2018
Pura Vida | rež Nata Metlukh | 09’35” | 2018
Sounds Good | rež Sander Joon | 09’50” | 2018
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Screening of the animation department
Thursday 13 September, 2018
Animation
Newest and some oldest BA and MA animations from the EKA animation department will be screened.
Kuldrenett | rež Liis Kokk | 03’22” | 2018
Luul | rež Mari-Leen Üksküla-Eomois | 04’00” | 2017
La Dolce Vita | rež Henri Veermäe | 05’53” | 2018
Eluvaim | Anne Mirjam Kraav | 04’10” | 2017
Clown Follies | Aili Allas | 03’33” | 2017
Kontakt | rež Mari Kivi | 04’51” | 2018
5th Round | rež Leander Meresaar | 05’05” | 2017
Axis Deer | rež Rauno Raat | 04’16” | 2018
Toiduahel | rež Mari Kivi, Liis Kokk | 08’30” | 2018
300g/2m | rež Kamila Kučíková | 05’33” | 2018
Procrastination | rež Nata Metlukh | 01’00” | 2018
In Between the Walls of Perception | rež Pablo M. Ballarín | 03’50” | 2018
Pearfall | rež Leonid Shmelkov | 03’00” | 2017
Shuma | rež Lucija Mrzljak | 06’05” | 2016
Penelope | rež Heta Jäälinoja | 04’08” | 2016
Frank | rež Red, Hung Huei Jen | 02’03” | 2018
Sweet Sweat | rež Jung Hyun Kim | 06’13” | 2018
Pura Vida | rež Nata Metlukh | 09’35” | 2018
Sounds Good | rež Sander Joon | 09’50” | 2018
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