Open lecture: Kaupo Kikkas

Photo as a unavoidable reality of the product. Expected and unexpected image. How to influence viewers through the photo?

Kaupo Kikkas has strong experience in different areas of photography – from product to portrait, from travelling to free artistic expression.

www.kaupokikkas.com

The centennial anniversary exhibition “From the School of Arts and Crafts to the Academy of Arts. 100 Years of Art Education in Tallinn” will remain open till February 22, 2015. Don’t miss it in Kumu Art Museum!

Faculty of Design has this Wednesday’s open lecture by Alari Orav from AKU design agency.
Take a look: http://aku.co/
Alari Orav will open up multiple facets of his work – with clients, ideas, trends, people, machines, hands…

Lecture will be in English.

Tradition sale of mugs, cups etc of the Department of Ceramics will take place on February 13 from 11-18 at Kloostri Ait on Vene street.

Croquis drawing is quick and sketchy drawing of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose.

The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) is pleased to announce the 7th ELIA NEU/NOW Festival 2015 and is inviting proposals for projects.
Nominations of projects can be submitted via the NEU/NOW Nomination Tool at www.elia-artschools.org/neunow.
The deadline for nominations is 15 March 2015.
The ELIA NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative international platform and showcase for talented graduating students and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) – of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wide international audience.
From the nominated projects, a maximum of 150 projects across all categories will be presented online at www.neunow.com, which is widely accessible to arts professionals and the public.

A selection of projects will be presented in the ELIA NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2015 that will take place 09-13 September 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The ELIA NEU/NOW online Festival is open to arts students in their final year of study and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) of Higher Arts Education Institutions across Europe and beyond, which are ELIA members, ELIA associate members or ELIA non-European members.

The call for entry to this competition is also open to members of the following partner networks:
+ AEC-European Association of Conservatories
+ CILECT-International Association of Film and Television Schools
+ Cumulus

For more information, please visit the NEU/NOW Activity Pageon the ELIA Website

Want to know more about NEU/NOW?
Watch the trailer of the 2013 LIVE edition in Amsterdam:

Semiosalong launches its fifth season. The seminar series takes place both in Tartu, where the general theme is to make natural sciences meet humanities, and in Tallinn, where we are searching for the common ground of Semiotics and Anthropology through the theme of participant observation.
In Tallinn, Semiosalong is a part of the bachelor curriculum of Anthropology in Estonian Institute of Humanities, which is referred to in the name of the cycle: course code HIA6107.
The seminars take place in a new location – wine lounge Paar Veini (Sauna 1). In the opening seminar, EHI Anthropology professor Carlo Cubero screens the film “Mangrove Music” (60 mins).
This documentary follows music groups from the island of Culebra, one of the Virgin Islands in the northeastern Caribbean. This documentary was produced within a larger project that examined the processes and relationships that constitute a unique Caribbean island identities. The screening will be accompanied by a talk that reflects on the the different methodological issues of using audiovisual media as an intrinsic part of anthropological research.
Carlo Cubero is a full-time Associate Professor of Social & Cultural Anthropology at Tallinn University where he lectures and coordinates the post-graduate program.
Cubero holds a PhD in Social Anthropology using Visual Media from the University of Manchester, where he specialized in the contemporary Caribbean and Visual Anthropology. Some of the core themes of his research are island identities, transnationalism, tourism development, Atlantic studies, Caribbean music and the application of the audiovisual medium in
social science research.
The event is free admission.
See you in Semiosalong!

This Wednesday, 4.02.15 we are going to meet renown fashion designer and researcher REET AUS, who is internationally acclaimed expert of ecological design.

For several years already, the upcycling designer Reet Aus and her team have been involved in a innovative research project together with Beximco, the largest vertically integrated fabric and garment producer in Bangladesh. The unity between the two companies aims for upcycling to be implemented into the regular production processes of Beximco in order to save resources, grow efficiency and significantly reduce environmental impacts. Upcycling could potentially reduce at least 65% of waste created by the giant production of 56 million garments a year.
Reet Aus team in cooperation with Beximco are leaders in designing, mass-producing and selling 100% upcycled, unique and high-fashion garments, enabling to save on average 70% of water and create 88% less CO2 emission compared to non upcycled mass-production.