Expo Bart Geerts “The Space in Between”
On January, 26 2012 Bart Geerts (artist, lecturer MAD-fac and research coordinator Image & Word) obtainted his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Arts, KULeuven. This is the first artistic Phd for the MAD-faculty. His research project is called: “The Painterly Painting Revisited”, an artistic research on the relevance and possibilities of contemporary painting. You can visit his work untill March, 11 at the expo “The Space in Between” in CC Genk, next to the MAD-faculty.
His board of examiners:
Prof. dr. Hilde Van Gelder (promotor), Faculteit Letteren, KULeuven (Belgium)
Prof. dr. Volkmar Mühleis (co-promotor) , Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst (Belgium)
Peter De Graeve (chairman), Faculty of Arts, KULeuven (Belgium)
Jan De Vuyst (secretary), Faculty of Arts, KULeuven (Belgium)
Prof. dr. Philippe Van Snick , Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussel (Belgium)
Gertrud Sandqvist , Malmö Art Academy (Sweden)
Prof. dr. Victor Burgin , Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
>> more information about Bart Geerts
>> Phd seminar of Bart Geerts (source: Faculty of Arts newsletter)
>> pictures of Phd defence presentation of Bart Geerts
PuntKom 8/12/2011
puntKom is a mix of crispy lectures, tasty workshops, bite-sized performances and yummy demos. In short, it should become a meeting place for you (yes, You!), passionate about media, culture, design and technology.
puntKom is organised by the students and docents of the Media, Arts & Design faculty campus C-mine Genk
Program 8/12/2011
CreativeClass wants to encourage and stimulate the creativity in our region. Nick Derock will talk about creativity being one of the driving forces behind economic development in the Euregion. CreativeClass wants to encourage more entrepreneurial creativity and encourages more creative entrepreneurship.
Materialsource offers a multi-layer platform that provides support to whoever wants to make conscious material choices. Material Source offers a 360° view on a material’s entire life cycle; from the raw materials it is made of, through its various applications, to its possible re-use as a raw material in manufacturing other materials.
Information and registration: www.puntkom.nu
God is in the roots
A new film by Image&Word researcher Peter Snowdon will have its avant-premiere at the Théâtre Océan Nord in Brussels at 5.30pm on Saturday 12 November. The screening is part of a journée-rencontre devoted to the work of the young French playwright and actress Aurélie Namur.
Dieu est dans les racines (God is in the roots) brings together fragments of the story of a hazardous journey through the Ecuadorian Amazon which Namur made several years ago, with Super 8 footage of her rehearsing the play which she subsequently wrote about her experience. The film explores the encounter with the anthropological Other as a metaphor for the creative processes of the theatre itself, and for the antagonistic relationship between actor and audience. This collision of words and closely connected yet apparently unrelated images is complemented and complicated by an original soundtrack by French sound artist Olivier Touche.
This film is the third of four parts that together make up the larger project Lost Persons Area.
Admission to the event, which includes a reading from Namur’s play Le Voyage égaré, and a book launch for the text, is free, but space is limited and seats should be reserved in advance. For more information:
David Bordwell on the Screenwriting Conference
On his blog David Bordwell published an extensive article on the Screenwriting Research Conference in Brussels in which Pascal Lefèvre and Silvia Van Aken took part. He referred to the presentation by Pascal Lefèvre as follows:
“Pascal Lefèvre, one of Europe’s leading experts on comic art, provided a brisk, packed account of the history and practices of scriptwriting for Eurocomics. He described patterns of collaboration, format, and creative choice, placing special emphasis on comics as a spatial art different from cinema. His example was a page from Regis Franc’s ulta-widescreen album Le Café de la plage.”
The full article can be found here: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2011/09/18/scriptography/
Integrated2011
Integrated2011!
Thursday 13 & Friday 14 October 2011, deSingel, Antwerp, 09:30-19:30h
Integrated2011 –third edition already!– is more determined than ever to establish connections between graphic design and other artistic fields and disciplines. Integrated2011 is ambitious, inquisitive, eager to make use of a refreshing mix of images, ideas and words, with a view to uncovering the complexity of design and all processes of any kind which may occur in any creative discipline – such is the scope of Integrated.
With a lecture by Geoffrey Brusatto
more information: http://integrated2011.org/