<videovortex> Applications for projects in OPEN VIDEO - Jan van Eyck Academie

[Rachel Somers Miles]

Hi everyone,
the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL has a new project stream  
in OPEN VIDEO for which projects can be proposed:

Application is open now.
Deadline October 1st, 2010

scroll down for a description of the OPEN VIDEO project category,  
amongst other interesting topics.

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Jan van Eyck Academie

Application deadline
1 October 2010
Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory

Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands

www.janvaneyck.nl

The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production  
where artists, designers and theoreticians work alongside each other.

The JVE has positions available in the Fine Art and Design Departments  
for the next academic year, starting on 1 January 2011. Artists are  
invited to submit proposals for individual research projects;  
designers to propose projects for one of the new initiatives started  
by the department.

On 17 and 18 September, all Design projects will be presented at  
BETWEEN #1: BORDERS
More info: www.janvaneyck.nl


FINE ART
The Fine Art department offers a unique space for experimentation,  
production, reflection and debate. Researchers conduct their artistic  
research in an environment that encourages questioning of the  
assumptions, forms, meanings and contexts that are tied to the  
practice of making art today. The Fine Art department welcome artists,  
individuals and groups, without stipulating conditions regarding form,  
content and media.

Artistic practice is supported by a programme of events and sustained  
conversations organised by the (advising) researchers. The academy  
offers expertise in all media and production areas, in-house or in  
cooperation with partner organisations, and encourages publishing  
through the Jan van Eyck publication series.

The Fine Art Department is headed by advising researchers Hans- 
Christian Dany, Imogen Stidworthy and Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak  
Afrassiabi.

DESIGN
The Design Department is planning to start the following new research  
initiatives:

FORBIDDEN CITY
Strijp-S is an urban development plan that tries to turn the 66-acres  
of the former Philips factory in Eindhoven from a 'Forbidden City'  
into a ' Creative City with an unequalled character'. The project is a  
visual research into new divisions of labour that emerge when heavy  
industries and mass-production are replaced by what is coined as  
cognitive, immaterial or affective labour.

The project calls for designers, urbanists, video- and filmmakers.
Advising researcher: Florian Schneider

*LATENT STARE*
Exploring the practice, methods and messages of type-design, *Latent  
stare* proposes a gathering and study of selected typefaces and  
stories, from the 1900s onwards – when technology had accelerated, and  
begun to affect, the production and distribution of new types. The  
selected material is affiliated to a political, social or spiritual  
set of beliefs, which feed back into the typefaces creation, design  
and/or use.

Advising researcher: David Bennewith

NEUTRALITY_Polity and Space in the Post-Eurocentric City
Researches the modalities and substances that contemporary practices  
of neutrality give rise to and contribute in sustaining. The project  
will outline innovative paths towards design agency and creativity and  
analyses forms of transformation and control of contemporary space.

Advising researcher: John Palmesino

OPEN VIDEO
HTML5 is supposed to open a new chapter in web design and web-based  
publishing. Open Video will research into past and present open-source  
video implementations to develop an independent platform that explores  
the specific potentials of self-authored and self-managed, open-source  
video publishing initiatives against the backdrop of the overwhelming  
dominance of mass-media like content providers.

The project calls for code developers, web designers and digital  
content producers.
Advising researcher: Florian Schneider

REMOTE SENSING_Biopolitical Imagery
Investigates how new remote-sensing technologies are shaping and  
carving contemporary spaces of operation and sovereignty, and focuses  
on the agency that these new technologies elicit and entail. The  
project singles out a series of contemporary situations and traces the  
complex links and exchanges between the production of new images  
through remote sensing and the outline of new legal and governmental  
issues.

The project calls for data visualisation designers, interaction  
designers, urbanists, architects, photographers, video and filmmakers.
Advising researchers: John Palmesino and Florian Schneider

The Design Department is currently headed by advising researchers John  
Palmesino, Florian Schneider and Daniel van der Velden.

MORE INFO
Please visit our website at www.janvaneyck.nl for more information on  
facilities, applications, and the Jan van Eyck Academie in general. 
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