[spectre] (fwd) Jan van Eyck Academie: Call for applications

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Subject: Jan van Eyck Academie: Call for applications
From: Jan van Eyck Academie <recruitment at janvaneyck.nl>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:52:57 +0100

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Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-academic Institute for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory

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Call for applications
Deadline: 15 April 2005

Our apologies for cross-listing.


The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production 
in the fields of Fine Art, Design and Theory, based in Maastricht, in 
the south of the Netherlands. The academy invites artists, designers 
and theoreticians to submit research or production proposals. In 
order to realise these projects, the academy offers the necessary 
made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions and 
develops contacts with external partners.

Research, production, presentation, discussion
The Jan van Eyck Academie offers space and time to let go of 
predetermined processes and to explore new inroads which may lead to 
unexpected results: unconventional productions, such as temporary 
projects in the public arena, fictional designs or speculative 
thought experiments. This experimental attitude towards research and 
production implies that the academy is not led by predetermined 
leitmotivs. The subject matters of the various research projects of 
its international artists, designers and theoreticians are 
heterogeneous (see examples below).
These miscellaneous projects form the basis for several events which 
are organized each week: presentations, discussions, lectures, 
seminars, screenings, exhibitions,Š External interested parties are 
welcome to attend these activities. The result is a dynamic and 
critical exchange between the different agents from within and 
outside of the Jan van Eyck.

Facilities
Artists, designers and theoreticians who submitted a project proposal 
and were subsequently selected become researchers at the Jan van 
Eyck. In order to realise their projects researchers have their own 
studios, receive a grant and can make use of the facilities: the 
library, the documentation centre, various workshops (wood and other 
materials; graphic techniques; photography; digital text and image 
processing and editing; time-based media) and the production bureau 
(assistance with print work, editing and all other productions). They 
can also appeal to the institute for pr assistance relating to their 
projects or for the distribution of their productions.
The researchers can furthermore call upon the support of artistic 
advisors: the advising researchers. The following advising 
researchers are active in the Jan van Eyck Academie: Orla Barry, 
Norman Bryson, Sabeth Buchmann, Wim Cuyvers, Helmut Draxler, Stephan 
Geene, Marc De Kesel, Jouke Kleerebezem, Aglaia Konrad, Eva Meyer, 
John Murphy, Hinrich Sachs, Filiep Tacq, Daniël van der Velden and 
Annelys de Vet.

Application
Artists, designers and theoreticians who wish to apply for a one or 
two year research period, starting in January 2006, can send in their 
research proposal before 15 April 2005. See for application details 
www.janvaneyck.nl.

More information
More information on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general or about 
research projects and productions is available at www.janvaneyck.nl.
For practical questions concerning the application procedure, please 
contact: Leon Westenberg (leon.westenberg at janvaneyck.nl).
For content-related questions please contact: Kim Thehu 
(kim.thehu at janvaneyck.nl)

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Current research projects and productions (selection)

Collective projects
Research proposals can also be submitted within the framework of the 
following projects.
-	 'Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique' - Research platform 
that does not consider Lacanian theory as a dogmatic closed system, 
but as an open set of tools helping to form a critical look on 
current (post-)modern culture. More info: www.janvaneyck.nl/~clic
-	'Film and bio-politic' - The impact of the avant-garde notion 
of life on 20th century art and film is being researched along the 
lines of bio-political categories. Does film participate in the 
'paradigm of production of life'? And is film, then, reproductive, 
even simulative, or rather productive? More info: www.bbooks.de/jve/
-	'On the television work of Jef Cornelis' - Research on the 
television films on fine art, architecture and literature of Flemish 
film maker Jef Cornelis. Attention will be paid to the special 
stylistic properties of his works, the unique documentary value of 
his films, the exceptional production conditions and the problems of 
representation of art on television in general. More info: 
www.janvaneyck.nl/0_3_3_research_info/cornelis.html
-	'The tomorrow book. Navigating to, within and beyond the 
book' - The future of the book will be researched from a 
multi-disciplinary standpoint: editing, typography, book design, 
publishing and distribution. More info: www.charlesnypels.nl
-	'UbiScribe' - The research project and on-line publication 
platform investigates authoring and publishing in the age of 
personalization. Its aim is to build a research catalogue and body of 
publications. More info: www.ubiscribe.net

Fine art
-	Nikolaus Gansterer (AT) - Research and reconstruction of 
processes within cultural communication and social networks. Or how 
is the diagrammatic view developed and used in contemporary science 
and theory?
-	Will Kwan (CA) - Research on the matrix of social assistance 
agencies, community associations and public institutions that 
structure the lives of individuals living in Maastricht and tracking 
its connections to the global infrastructure of contemporary 
bio-politics.
-	Stefanie Seibold (DE) - By exploring the means and 
possibilities of performance, alternative spaces are created which 
allow for a narration of different (sexual and gender) identities.
-	Inga Zimprich (DK) - Think tank. Research into the parallels 
between open-source programming and social and artistic collaborative 
practices.

Design
-	Min Choi & Sulki Choi (KR) - Compiling an anthology of 
writings, which investigates the complex aspects of 'information 
design' - the design of charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps.
-	Tina Clausmeyer (DE) - Mapping conspiratorial spaces. A 
network analysis of surveillance patterns and visualization of 
Stasi's secret meeting places from 1980-89 in the former GDR.
-	Vinca Kruk (NL) - Developing a historical approach to 
identity design by, among other things, designing a visual identity 
for companies or organizations which no longer exist.
-	Ingrid Stojnic (HR) - Development of a web dictionary for 
Chinese language. Research deals with organizing and classifying 
data, visualizing words in their context and developing an adequate, 
intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Theory
-	Stéphanie Benzaquen (FR): Documenting, visualizing and 
contextualizing mass murders by investigating its representations in 
culture, realms of memory, news media, academic essays and official 
actions.
-	Gideon Boie & Matthias Pauwels (BE) - The open city, or the 
urban logic of post-capitalism. The contradictions of the ideological 
construct of the 'open city' are revealed by analysing several 
concrete 'third-way' solutions for the outcasts of the European 
metropolis.
-	Jonathan Dronsfield (GB) - How, if at all, has contemporary 
art taken an 'ethical turn'? What is at stake when contemporary 
artists, theoreticians and curators appeal to the ethical as a 
justification or rationale or premise or aim of their work?
-	Ils Huygens (BE) - By critically analyzing contemporary 
theories on haptic vision, tactility and Deleuzian sensation, a 
creative film-philosophical model will be established for analyzing 
emotional and sensational aspects of cinematic experience.


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